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> I live in South Africa in a gated community with 24/7 guard patrols and 12 ft high barbed wire fences. > I've never stepped foot in the continent of Africa
by ComradePhil 5y ago
> I live in South Africa in a gated community with 24/7 guard patrols and 12 ft high barbed wire fences.
> I've never stepped foot in the continent of Africa
Wow, you have a problem.
And meanwhile, dang has rate-limited me when I try to only post things I am willing to say in person.
Maybe LinkedIn (where everyone knows who everyone is) is the only place for honest discussion. HN clone with "sign up with LinkedIn" exclusively anyone? But then, maybe some people will hold back their true opinions or lie about things to appease their employers/employees/governments/public etc. Having to change jobs over one of these comments would be no fun.
Maybe like ClubHouse (where you have to be invited by someone else on your real phone number) but where you don't necessarily reveal your full identity to the public... but since some people would know, you can't blatantly lie either... i.e. gives you plausable deniability when you need it but some people still know who you are to prevent you from lying... and then it works kinda like twitter where you can write posts or share links, which has a feed based on upvotes like HN... And you can write arbitarily long posts. Elon Musk should make that maybe?
- sgt 5y agoThis thread also made South Africa look really bad. I can tell you that although South Africa has huge problems, it is also one of the most pleasant places to live. And no, we don't all live behind barbed wire fences or in gated communities.
- rl1987 5y ago> Maybe LinkedIn (where everyone knows who everyone is) is the only place for honest discussion. How honest do the too-good-to-be-true LinkedIN broetry stories look to you?