Global outage on fetching posts. Funny enough, some features are still working as evidenced by the fact #TwitterDown is trending.
Two HN threads about this now, looking forward to some excellent takes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326
When I was a kid (Nat Nanny)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Nanny] was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up to adore content moderation. A strange authoritarian impulse.
Me when the mods unfairly ban me from my favorite video game forum circa 2009
(source: first HN thread)
When I was a kid my mom told me not to drink from the garden hose and that was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up not wanting to be blasted in the face with a pressure washer. A strange authoritarian impulse.
When I was a kid Power Rangers was totally and completely awesome, but the whole millennial generation grew up to despise dressing in colorful spandex. A strange Rita Repulsan impulse.
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no, it is 💦 on a hot summer day
Coming in this week’s nyt specials: 🏖️🩳 🪈so 💦 it’s 🔥
NYT Opinion: It’s time to Drink from the Hose of Hard Questions about America’s Kids
A memory of sipping from a garden hose prompts our columnist to ask: have we been going too soft on millennials?
By Some Rich White Loser
Someday I should go through the 6.5K comments on the threads where the Twitter acquisition was discussed and sum up the sentiment then vs now
HN has a split view of Xhitter, every thread about it moans about how you have to have an account to view replies, but it’s also the great White anti-woke hope
also the domain at HN is still twitter.com not x.com, which I feel is dang or PG giving Husk the finger. Fuck they even say “tweets” instead of “posts”
White anti-woke hope
Before twitter went down Musk was agreeing with people saying that the left is letting in illegals so they get more left wing votes (illegals can vote or something). So yeah going well.
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Recently, a sign showed up in El Paso advertising San Francisco as a sanctuary city, as a great “own the libs,” I suppose because SF would receive of applicants overwhelming their social service programs?
It didn’t work.
conservatives are absolutely convinced that secretly, everyone views outgroups as filthy rats, like they do. there’s a kernel of truth in that a lot more people think that way than will admit it, but conservatives usually aren’t referring to that as an observed tendency. they’re referring to a universal law they’ve made up, that anyone who claims to hold liberal or leftist democratic values is lying
apologies for overexplaining something you already know. point is I doubt they even considered whether it would actually get people to go to SF. they just wanted to fantasize about Liberals MELTING DOWN upon hearing about the sign (because of course libs secretly think people in El Paso are like rats)
