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World in a Box
- blueyes 2y ago[flagged]
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- dang 2y ago"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- Danjoe4 2y agoThere's no dismissal here, merely the quotation of a ridiculous statement, which dismisses itself.
- BenFranklin100 2y agoAgreed, quoting something the author wrote is not a dismissal. It’s unfortunate HN banned the OP’s comment.
- dang 2y agoQuoting a ridiculous statement is so common a form of dismissal that it has long been a dismissal trope on internet forums.
- gradientsrneat 2y agoReminds me of the Mastodon accounts that admonish people about the environmental impact of saving family photos to your hard drive.
- darkwater 2y agoWould you mind sharing?
- gradientsrneat 2y agoCan't find the posts, but the gists were that they were admonishing people against saving an excessive number of photos to their phones/computers. To be charitable to their arguments, the digital storage is not free ecologically; there are costs to producing the storage hardware, as well as electricity needed to transport and store them, as well as cloud storage and web interactivity. But I think their argument focused purely on the electricity aspect on the act of saving the file. Several Mastodon users in the same social sphere, who had a tech background, later posted their own takes, enumerating the actual electricity cost of committing a photo to a hard drive, which was quite miniscule (I don't recall, but it was orders of magnitude below the base functions of a computer). It is, I would say, a general trend of people who do not critically inspect the ideas they choose to promote, even though their intentions may be good.
- jl6 2y agoA variant of this idea is circulating in the corporate world: the CO2 emissions of an email. A lot of people now seem to think that hitting send in Outlook causes a little puff of gas to be emitted somewhere. Their solution is to send their message via Teams instead. Have they analyzed the CO2 emissions of a Teams message? Of course not.
- BenFranklin100 2y agoClicked through to read the story and was hit with a popup supporting Palestinian campus activists. Closed tab immediately.
- BenFranklin100 2y agoNo votes on my comment in over 1 hr, and then when I agreed with a commenter below who was critical of the author’s world view, four downvotes within five minutes. Hmmmm.
- baegi 2y agoTo be fair, your comment was in no way interesting. You announced that you closed the tab without reading the article, providing no value to anyone. I don't see why you're surprised about a lack of votes on your comment.
- adhamsalama 2y agoWhat's wrong with that?
- BenFranklin100 2y agoI’m sure you don’t see a problem. From your comment history, you use the term ‘Satanyahu’, and nearly every comment is about Israel and Palestine.
- adhamsalama 2y agoAh yes, I use that term to describe the war-crime committing criminal. So, why did you close the page because they showed a banner about people that are being actively murdered, ethnically cleansed, and starved to death?
- jschveibinz 2y agoWarning: political message is the first thing you will see.
- croes 2y agoWhy is a warning needed? Read it or ignore it.
- op00to 2y agoIndeed why is the warning necessary in the first place? I flipped away as soon as my eye saw “Palestine”. I specifically compartmentalize my consumption of political and world events as overexposure to stuff like that melts my brain. Maybe it was a good article, but I’ll never know.
- asadalt 2y ago> world events as overexposure to stuff like that melts my brain ie. shoving my head in the sand will protect me.
- asadalt 2y agogenocide trigger warning. interesting…
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]