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Have you ever seen a glacier before? In real life?
by morkalork 2y ago
Have you ever seen a glacier before? In real life?
- jfengel 2y agoYes, many. In case it wasn't clear, my post was sarcasm. I realize that sarcasm plays badly in text forums and on HN in particular, but it's the best way to express how angry I am that the US government is so utterly deranged when it comes to science.
- sachinjoseph 2y agoPoe's Law :-)
- climb_stealth 2y agoI think it's a sign of the times that it is not as obviously recognisable as sarcasm anymore :/
- milesrout 2y agoIt was very obviously sarcasm. It only takes one clueless person to generate a thread of comments like this.
- mrguyorama 2y agoHN has always had people crazy/shitty enough to genuinely espouse beliefs similar to the one presented here. They rarely even get flagged or downvoted, so apparently it's not that offensive to the HN audience, which means you can only assume it to be within the community's overton window. So no, you cannot assume these things are sarcasm unless you are perfectly willing to just mis-categorize all crazies as "just sarcastic".
- morkalork 2y agoSorry, I'm seriously afraid I'll live long enough to see a generation of polar ice cap and glacier contrarians come up, like the flat earthers.
- irrational 2y agoYes. Quite a few. But I'm old enough that I've seen them go from quite large to almost gone.