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> After a 2022 mass shooting, Adams opined that society leaves parents of troubled teenage boys with only two options: to either watch people die or murder their own son.

That's something.


Both things can be true. Dilbert was a great comic strip and Scott Adams was a piece of shit.

Regardless of the truthiness of that statement, that sentence at most makes him say something wrong. How on earth is that sentence making him a "PoS"??? At worst, he sees a tragic binary option where others see better and more. Some of his other public statements, sure, but this one?

It's typical right wing "boys will be boys" mentality. Under no circumstance should boys or men be held accountable for their actions. The only options for boys with issues is to let them kill people or kill them. It's simply not possible the parents are doing something wrong or that we hold young men accountable. It contributes to how extremely fragile a scary percentage of young men are these days. Everything must revolve around them or violence is expected and understood. It's all this and much more from him.

You are absolutely missing the point of what he is saying. Once your kid gets to a certain age, you are no longer able to control them. Regardless of the reason (nature vs nurture), if your kid starts going down a bad path, you the parent are unable to rein them in.

The context was that he watched his stepson get into drugs, and was unable to force him into rehab. If the son left, the parents could not coerce him into staying.

And so his son died of a drug overdose. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604020)

So if you are in that position, and your kid gets into drugs, and there is nothing you can do about it, what would you do as a good parent?

Now apply the same thing to if you think your kid is becoming a danger to others.

His full statement was that if we collectively reject the premise of restricting someone's (the child in question) bodily autonomy (by committing them), the argument is the only two options that remain are to watch helplessly or kill your kid. Obviously he is not seriously advocating the latter any more than Jonathan Swift was truly advocating for eating them.


> It's typical right wing "boys will be boys" mentality.

What on earth??? There is not a trace in that statement that fist that description! Stop making stuff up that is not there. The text is right in front of you, no need to invent words never said or written.

> Under no circumstance should boys or men be held accountable for their actions.

Even more insane. None of that is anywhere in that sentence, not even with an "interpretation".

In threads like these, some people are reacting to the shadows found in their own mind.

Why don't you just stick to the mentioned statement? "Adams opined that society leaves parents of troubled teenage boys with only two options: to either watch people die or murder their own son." Nothing you said can be found in there. That is all something you added ("interpreted" does not quite fit it when you hallucinate something new entirely into existence).


I did. You just didn't like the correct response of me pointing out his typical right-wing views on men. I'm not interpreting anything. That's what is views are.

Fully agree.

People call "bloat" the features they don't need, and "deal breakers" the lack of features they want besides good text editing.


You call all these products launches from google "internal innovation competitions"?

And even if they were, which they aren't, are you sure it's a "common business practice"? How many companies can afford that.


Not on mobile.


How would tables solve the issue they're talking about?


Borders can be applied to table cells independent of the content inside cells.

Gap decorations allow you to add borders between flex/grid items, but without the woes of dealing with table quirks and behavior.

Common use cases would include mimicking design patterns found in print layouts, particularly newspapers and menus, to help divide groups of items or info.

Examples: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/gap-decorations


You're replying in good faith to someone who ignored the main point of GP (an empire actively disrupting a region) and just said "every place has been unstable" (without even taking century-level timescales into consideration).


> an empire actively disrupting a region

> century-level timescales

Doesn't sound very scientific or predictive. Is also ignorant of history. Ottoman empire lasted many centuries. So did Roman empire. Which crushed and oppressed and destabilized a lot of Europe. China famously had their "century of humiliation" which was "century-level timescale" of "empire actively disrupting a region".


You are right, but I felt morally compelled.


I disagree, people are just happy to see coca cola fail, which's fair enough.

The ad company that made this supermarket's piece capitalised on that, and now we have ... an ad on the front page, with people commenting on its storytelling.

Celebrating an advertisement video is absolutely bizarre.


If something people dedicated multiple years of their lives studying and proving seems trivial to you, you're either a genius or you didn't understand the problem.


There is a world of difference between the obvious and the trivial. The post you are replying to only implied it was obvious, the retort is unnecessary.


> Cantor's stuff can easily be trashed.

Only on hackernews.


.. because that is where you are allowed to challenge some biblical stories of the math without the fear of expulsion from the elite clubs.

Most of math history is stellar, studded with great works of geniuses, but some results were sanctified and prohibited for questioning due to various forces that were active during the times.

Application of regular logic such as comparison, mapping, listing, diagonals, uniqueness - all are the rules that were bred in the realms of finiteness and physical world. You can't use these things to prove some theories about things are not finite.


This isn't iconoclasm, it's ignorance.


I'm aware that I'm ignorant of many things, just like anyone else on this Earth. Some are less ignorant and some are more.

Could you be kind enough to explain the phrase "set of all integers" when the word all can not apply to an unbounded quantity? I think the word all is used loosely to extend it's meaning as used for finite sets, to a non-existent, unbounded set. For example, things such as all Americans, all particles in universe have a meaning because they have a boundary criterion. What is all integers?

I think one need to first define the realm of applicability or domain for the concepts such as comparison, 1-to-1 mapping, listing, diagonals, uniqueness, all etc.


I'd like to see that comparison tracking the number of devs and how much open source software each company uses.


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