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Half-jokingly: let's give them some scary sounding, hellish names. Hurricane Benedict sounds like a friendly neighbour. Heatwave Astaroth - that's some serious

Half-jokingly: let's give them some scary sounding, hellish names. Hurricane Benedict sounds like a friendly neighbour. Heatwave Astaroth - that's some serious stuff right here.

bryanrasmussen 6y ago
As long as we're half-joking: future headline prompting mass-murder if your suggestion taken up - Local Church announces NOAA aligned with Satan, heatwave caused by federal government trying to hasten onset of the antichrist!
throwanem 6y ago
That's practically slander. Honestly, I don't think Christians even deserve to complain about climate disasters, not with all the effort they put into worshiping an incredibly priggish and unbelievably prudish deity for which weather-powered slaughterfests have always been such a go-to. And I mean say what you like about Ishtar, at least she gets that people are gonna fuck.
- Waterfall 6y ago
  Are you suggesting that in Christianity they don't have sex? Sex is important in all religions, or their populations would die.
  - throwanem 6y ago
    Of course they do. They'd just rather they didn't and no one else did either, thanks to their god's hangups as codified by a Roman with some pretty fierce hangups of his own. Hence all the interest in cloning and brain uploading and so forth.
- zez61 6y ago
  What is the purpose of this comment? Keying off a random deity figure you’re replying to, you decided 9am on a Monday morning on Hacker News seems like a pretty good time to spout off hateful and discriminatory feelings about “they” the religious group? They don’t deserve to talk about climate change because they’re prudish in your interpretation of things? Seriously, what the shit are you talking about? Christians live on this planet too and have a stake in its future. I’m completely nonreligious and have my own gripes with religion in the broad, by the way, so if I’m checking you, you’re way off the deep end. I can see why HN is resistant to humour, because there are a remarkable number of people who can operate Vim but can’t for the life of them figure out a joke without punching down people who aren’t them (or making light of mass shooting events and conspiratorial delusions right upthread). Suggested HN guideline: Humour is best avoided and left to those with enough empathy to understand when their “sense of humour” is really a catastrophic case of toxic, unpleasant person who thinks their take is hilarious and has enough people around them enabling them to not know any better.
  - throwanem 6y ago
    It's the massively dominant religion of one of the world's most dangerous nations, and I'm "punching down" by calling out the part of its propaganda that can't give up on making a fertility goddess out to be a demon despite having won that particular war literal millennia ago? I'm "punching down" by questioning whether a cult of the ideal death can fairly be considered to have a stake in the condition of the world they seem only too anxious to leave behind for the "life of the world to come"? Okay. It's weird to me that you think I'm making a joke here.
    - zez61 6y ago
      I noticed you didn’t answer the question and simply continued airing your grievances with Christianity with the faintest shred of relevancy, as if you were waiting for the opportunity, for HN to finally talk about something in the Christian orbit so you can roll in and put those people in their place. It says way more about you than you think that a random reference to a deity in that religion in the context of naming heat waves made you completely fly off the hateful handle and spend your morning dunking on Christians and their beliefs as if you’re scoring points with anyone instead of revealing yourself to be a deeply unsavoury person to know. Christians feed the homeless. What work are you putting off on a Monday morning to be here, doing this, right now?
      - throwanem 6y ago
        I dunno, man. I'm like ten minutes into this total, and I'm not the one who felt the need to make a throwaway and go full persecuted hegemon [1]. I can respect your very evident need to unload some stuff, but I think you might be arguing with your own imagination here. I don't even know how to use Vim! [1] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2010/12/11/the-indignation-of-the-persecuted-hegemon-an-illustration/ https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2010/12/11/the-ind...
        zez61 6y ago
        I hire engineers in Baltimore and you’ve conveniently even put your phone number on your Web site, so I figured I’d see if you were a redeemable teammate who I wouldn’t be nervous about in terms of religious diversity in my organization, before jotting down some notes in case you cross my desk. I got my answer. I make a new throwaway every time I interact with HN. It’s way more fun that way, because it chaps everyone’s ass and I’ve no interest in a reputation here. I’m also banned regularly, and my latest batch of throwaways has matched a regex for about six months now, waiting to see if the people who operate this site know how to employ a regular expression in Lisp.
- dang 6y ago
  Religious flamewar is not welcome on HN. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
pornel 6y ago
Name them after oil and coal companies. "Death toll of Heatwave Exxon rises".

Half-jokingly: let's give them some scary sounding, hellish names. Hurricane Benedict sounds like a friendly neighbour. Heatwave Astaroth - that's some serious stuff right here.

bryanrasmussen 6y ago

As long as we're half-joking: future headline prompting mass-murder if your suggestion taken up - Local Church announces NOAA aligned with Satan, heatwave caused by federal government trying to hasten onset of the antichrist!

throwanem 6y ago

That's practically slander. Honestly, I don't think Christians even deserve to complain about climate disasters, not with all the effort they put into worshiping an incredibly priggish and unbelievably prudish deity for which weather-powered slaughterfests have always been such a go-to. And I mean say what you like about Ishtar, at least she gets that people are gonna fuck.

Waterfall 6y ago
Are you suggesting that in Christianity they don't have sex? Sex is important in all religions, or their populations would die.
- throwanem 6y ago
  Of course they do. They'd just rather they didn't and no one else did either, thanks to their god's hangups as codified by a Roman with some pretty fierce hangups of his own. Hence all the interest in cloning and brain uploading and so forth.
zez61 6y ago
What is the purpose of this comment? Keying off a random deity figure you’re replying to, you decided 9am on a Monday morning on Hacker News seems like a pretty good time to spout off hateful and discriminatory feelings about “they” the religious group? They don’t deserve to talk about climate change because they’re prudish in your interpretation of things? Seriously, what the shit are you talking about? Christians live on this planet too and have a stake in its future. I’m completely nonreligious and have my own gripes with religion in the broad, by the way, so if I’m checking you, you’re way off the deep end. I can see why HN is resistant to humour, because there are a remarkable number of people who can operate Vim but can’t for the life of them figure out a joke without punching down people who aren’t them (or making light of mass shooting events and conspiratorial delusions right upthread). Suggested HN guideline: Humour is best avoided and left to those with enough empathy to understand when their “sense of humour” is really a catastrophic case of toxic, unpleasant person who thinks their take is hilarious and has enough people around them enabling them to not know any better.
- throwanem 6y ago
  It's the massively dominant religion of one of the world's most dangerous nations, and I'm "punching down" by calling out the part of its propaganda that can't give up on making a fertility goddess out to be a demon despite having won that particular war literal millennia ago? I'm "punching down" by questioning whether a cult of the ideal death can fairly be considered to have a stake in the condition of the world they seem only too anxious to leave behind for the "life of the world to come"? Okay. It's weird to me that you think I'm making a joke here.
  - zez61 6y ago
    I noticed you didn’t answer the question and simply continued airing your grievances with Christianity with the faintest shred of relevancy, as if you were waiting for the opportunity, for HN to finally talk about something in the Christian orbit so you can roll in and put those people in their place. It says way more about you than you think that a random reference to a deity in that religion in the context of naming heat waves made you completely fly off the hateful handle and spend your morning dunking on Christians and their beliefs as if you’re scoring points with anyone instead of revealing yourself to be a deeply unsavoury person to know. Christians feed the homeless. What work are you putting off on a Monday morning to be here, doing this, right now?
    - throwanem 6y ago
      I dunno, man. I'm like ten minutes into this total, and I'm not the one who felt the need to make a throwaway and go full persecuted hegemon [1]. I can respect your very evident need to unload some stuff, but I think you might be arguing with your own imagination here. I don't even know how to use Vim! [1] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2010/12/11/the-indignation-of-the-persecuted-hegemon-an-illustration/ https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2010/12/11/the-ind...
      - zez61 6y ago
        I hire engineers in Baltimore and you’ve conveniently even put your phone number on your Web site, so I figured I’d see if you were a redeemable teammate who I wouldn’t be nervous about in terms of religious diversity in my organization, before jotting down some notes in case you cross my desk. I got my answer. I make a new throwaway every time I interact with HN. It’s way more fun that way, because it chaps everyone’s ass and I’ve no interest in a reputation here. I’m also banned regularly, and my latest batch of throwaways has matched a regex for about six months now, waiting to see if the people who operate this site know how to employ a regular expression in Lisp.
dang 6y ago
Religious flamewar is not welcome on HN. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

pornel 6y ago

Name them after oil and coal companies. "Death toll of Heatwave Exxon rises".