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You make HN interesting. Reminds me of slashdot 20 years ago.

Simpsons did it first. Homer had an illegal bar set up in the tree house and when it started burning he told the patrons “By leaving the premises you agree not to sue!”

> IIRC, the famous "Good Friday" psilocybin experiment had some people from the control group believe they were not in the control group.

I can find a few people right now that believe that Lord of the Rings is a historical account of medieval Europe.

> Part of it is due to monetary incentives of businesses that now own the media outlets. Part of it is due to what the general public has interest in and will pay for.

This should be an entire discussion thread. Even scrupulous journalistic outlets have to stay competitive on the business side. And people don’t want facts, they want a story; something to spawn feeling instead of thought.

Books sales are sales of anything with an ISBN. This includes adult colouring books, which I’ve heard is responsible for possibly all the sales increases in the past few years.

Well you don’t have to listen to me, the X maintainers have said Wayland is the way forward and they’ve stopped developing X as of several years ago. It’s silly this is still an issue.

The problem is that X was created over decades for very different eras of computers and it doesn’t really make sense to keep modifying it — there are design limitations to it, and the accumulated complexity has made it unmaintainable. X maintainers have abandoned it and told people to migrate to Wayland. Sometimes you just need a clean slate.

X is like trying to fly modern rockets with Apollo-era computers. The computers will work, until they don’t. In which case the only people able to fix them are retired and you have to salvage parts from aerospace museums. Over the years the cruft of replacement parts has accumulated and no one person can really understand the whole thing anymore, and entire sections are not understood and nobody remembers why they’re there or really what they do (but if you get too close to it the lights go off in certain important corner cases).

Wayland is the shiny new SpaceX module that brings a lot of improvements but needs to have its toilet fixed.

Yeah but watching Bezos turn into a household joke is worth it.

We’re seeing a comparable decline in birds that depend on them for food, so probably not.

That said, it’s fun to imagine that we just selected against insects that hang out by the highway.

If you can find a link to that Captain Planet story I’d like to read it. It sounds totally plausible.

I once donated a few Bitcoin to a free software project. At the time 1BTC cost about one tank of gas. I sold the remainder when I doubled my investment and thought I walked away lucky. Now 1BTC costs more than the car I’m putting the gas in. Oh well.

> x-raying people

mmWave or X-ray?