bluepod4

> In the US, the trend leaders when it comes to having kids out of wedlock are the poorest parts of the population, mostly blacks, where "unmarried" and "unpartnered" tend to go hand-in-hand.

I know you’re talking about “trend leaders”. But you must have forgotten about Native Americans and Latinos. Native Americans and black people tend to have children out of wedlock at about the same rate. Latinos have children out of wedlock at a high but lower rate. But there are more Latinos in the United States than there are black people, so there’s actually more Latino children born out of wedlock. And Latinos have the highest birth rate too.

Same goes for white people in the United States. If the rate for black people is about 70% and the rate for white people is about 30%, there are still hundreds of thousands more white children born out of wedlock than black children each year in the United States.

(Sorry, the whole “trend leader” thing rubs me the wrong. It’s like when people talk about welfare recipients based on race. Someone always says “X percentage of black people are on welfare, tsk.” But then when you look at the numbers, Native Americans have the higher percentage within their own race. But again, most welfare recipients are white so there are literally hundreds of thousands more white people on welfare than black people lol. Why doesn’t that fact get a “tsk”?)

Someone replied to you saying/asking “aren’t black people religious”. Your “mostly black” comment limited the discussion. Imagine if you had said “mostly Latinos” instead. There could have been a discussion about Catholicism. There could have been something more, something else at least.

It’s like that in Boston too, according to my CVS manager friend from years ago.

> and cracking down on them would be considered racist (well, most of them are white, the argument is confusing).

Most of the shoplifters are too lol!

That didn’t acknowledge anything that I said and was no different than the grandfather comment lol. You just pretty much reworded your original comment.

(Although, I do slightly agree less with this wording. It’s too absolute and doesn’t apply to all situations. But you know this.)

True, but people tend to act like similar programs don’t exist in red states also when they make statements such as yours…

(Also, Maryland had a republican governor up until recently)

Good thing you can’t do anything about it lol

(Also, please don’t forget all of the degenerate white people who were also the cause of “Stop Asian Hate” (i.e. the ones who voted for Trump and complained about Chinese people eating bats.) Speaking of CEOs, there was a viral video of a SF CEO who was fired for harassing an Asian person which was at the start of that movement lol.)

What are the effects? What’s the science? What are the calculations you’re speaking of lol? If they’re so basic and can be done on the back of an envelope, can you provide them right now?

Are you saying that fetanyl is no more deadly than heroin?

Or are you just saying that the “wind blows substance in face” is only a thing seen in movies?

Uhh sure. What are the actual effects? Have you tried it?

I’m all for calling a pig a pig. Let me know.

Are you saying that fetanyl is no more deadly than heroin?

(Also, if anything, the whole “illegal substance flying in a person’s face” thing comes from comedy movies… Is this what you’re saying is untrue?)

There are plenty of stories of the wind accidentally blowing illegal substances into people’s faces…

Based on the death rates, it seems like no one really has a higher “tolerance”. Even fetanyl users can’t handle fetanyl…

Remember that HN’s guidelines say that “if a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.”

This is neither spam nor off-topic. Flagging this means that you’re triggered.

Let’s have a civilized discussion. I know you guys can do it! Can’t you?

@gnicholas @dang

See what I was talking about 4 days ago! Just the name Gebru is triggering to (some) HN users.

My comment from 4 days ago:

“”” Sidenote: HN isn’t all fun and games. Please don’t paint it as that. When I (and peers that I’ve spoken with) talk about HN, it’s usually characterized as a forum where really smart people like to bump heads. A place where people like to outsmart each other. A place where people nitpick article titles. You get the idea.

Your behavior-correcting skills were needed during plenty of more appropriate times. For example, when someone with a username like “koreanguy” said that he wanted to personally kill Timnit Gebru if he could. No downvotes or flag after many refreshes. Want to know why? Because plenty of other men were leaving similar disgusting comments in that post. This is just one example out of many of “weird” behavior on this forum. How many times has the mod here left that “be nice and follow the guidelines” comment on charged articles? (Some) HN users love a good dogwhistle! “””

Not to say that this recent comment is absolutely negative in any way. But the floodgates are about to open lol

(Context: I left a very innocuous comment about SAT scores on that TI-83 calculator post and someone was trying to reprimand me for it lol. They called it strange behavior. I’m like “wait… huh… but isn’t this Hacker News? These people start acting like apes whenever Timnit Gebru is mentioned!”)

That’s good to hear!

Yeah, I can definitely believe that TikTok is changing the way that books are being recommended. But I’m not sold (haha) that TikTok is changing the way books are being sold.

There are quite a few stories of books going viral through BookTok, Bookstagram, and BookTube. But it does feel like slightly different. On TikTok, a random user can make an unknown book go viral. But on Instagram, it’s usually an already established influencer that makes a book go viral and often it’s their own book lol. YouTube is more for longform discussion and the level of virality has changed. But some influencers do still sell books similar to what the influencers on Instagram do.

Related to books being sold in Britain, I wonder how the demographics of these communities affect the stats. Most of the members are white teenage girls and women that live in the United States.

Also, related to books being sold in general, many of the members of the various book communities have similar opinions to HN’s users. They don’t like ads or affiliate links. They’d prefer to go to the library or buy from a local/indie bookstore. They’re anti-Amazon. They discuss overconsumption. On YouTube, they really dive into the ethics of it all.

I do believe that TikTok has gotten people to read more. But that’s different than recommendations and selling.

(I’ll admit that I started reading Cain’s Jawbone due to TikTok. I had heard of it before for years but never bothered to try it out.)