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In which country are you living ?

• coldtea 3y ago
  Yeah, had to LOL at "War, crimes, poverty, hunger, even diseases: all banished into history textbooks". That's with several major wars going on, including talks of nuclear escalation, worsening crime stats (in the US, but also elsewhere in the west), poverty on the rise (and thus hunger), and after the COVID pandemic toll (regarding diseases)...
  • pprotas 3y ago
    It’s sarcasm
  • vjjsejj 3y ago
    It really can’t be this hard to understand such basic sarcasm? Or I’m actually the one doing that here (and your comment is sarcastic as well)?
    • Arnt 3y ago
      In this case, the sarcasm is intended to confuse, and with some readers it achieves a little more confusion than intended. kamma could have written something like "the EU should solve <really difficult problems> before concerning itself with <simpler problenm>" but that would have made clear that the really difficult problems are really difficult. The sarcasm is rhetorical device to distract the readers so they won't pay attention to the different levels of difficulty. Handwaving, basically, and the handwaving was a little too strong and distracted some readers too much.
      • throwaway11460 3y ago
        Do you really think so? We know the problems are difficult and won't be fixed as quickly as censored DNS could be deployed. That's why we want attention on the hard problems instead of million small insignificant non-problems.
        • Arnt 3y ago
          Bit of a bummer for those of use whose daily work attaining world peace, ending hunger or one of those other big problems. That includes me. You?
          • throwaway11460 3y ago
            Not my daily work, but try to help where I can
    • coldtea 3y ago
      Ever heard of Poe's law? If you've been long enough on internet forums, you'll see every inanity you can think of as "of course it's sarcasm" being presented sincerely. Also, I've read too many posts/comments of the "the world has never been better" variety (usually citing Hans Rosling or some tech-bro favorite like Pinker), that sincerely push similar ideas of the state of the world in 2024.
      • rvnx 3y ago
        According to HN, San Francisco is a dreamland, and according to Reddit, it's full of crackheads and inequality. It's really possible to not be exposed to war, crime, poverty, hunger if you are living in a closed tech-bubble (which is more likely on Hackernews). I think about Googlers in Zurich for example, or a VP @ Apple, they can really be disconnected from the other parts of the world.
• stavros 3y ago
  It's sarcasm.
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