> The believers aren’t just holding an opinion, they’re making decisions, taking action, voting, and even at times encouraging violence based on beliefs that are clearly wrong.
Sounds just like the USA going to war over WMDs in Iraq. Clearly we need to give even more power to the mainstream press so they can act as the sole arbiters of truth.
The article addresses your point about the drug trade:
"Stories like this are unfolding in industries across Mexico as criminal groups branch out far beyond drugs. Cartels have siphoned millions of dollars’ worth of fuel from Mexican state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos or Pemex in recent years; they steal cargo and pilfer lumber. The tentacles of organized crime extend even into Mexico’s avocado growing regions, where gangs extort farmers and hijack loads of the green fruit."
Funnily enough, Alex Jones' statement is mostly true:
"Hayes and his colleagues raised 40 male African clawed frogs in water containing atrazine, from when they were larvae all the way up until sexual maturity. The atrazine levels were about what the frogs would experience in environments where the pesticide is used, and below levels that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers safe for drinking water.
They compared this atrazine-exposed group with 40 other male frogs reared in atrazine-free water.
At the end of the experiment, all frogs in the atrazine-free group remained male, while 10 percent of the frogs exposed to atrazine were completely feminized — their genes said they should be male, but they had female anatomy, including ovaries. The feminized frogs were able to mate with males and produce viable eggs."
Yep. You know the library has to pay extra for electronic texts, right? For example, when a patron checks out an item from Hoopla, the library is charged from $1 to $3 (or so... prices may have changed) for that transaction. This affects the number of check-outs the library grants patrons for a given month. I've seen ours vary from 3-10. And many popular titles are not available at any time.
Another reason why it makes sense to leverage the physical books.
Looks like the leaked ABC video was flag-killed as well.
Sure looks like the same forces that are suppressing this story in the mainstream media are doing the same thing right here on HN.
You have 100% bias here.
This video pretty is interesting. It reached 700k views in youtube in very short time. It is also very unique. Maybe it is not interesting to a fan of Epstein. The interview has elements that have no interview until now has. watch btw 19-25:00. They are way less non intersting links about Epstein that you didnt flag.
2) Also u block this video way faster than you can watch the whole interview. Did you watch the full interview before flag this link? Without watching the whole interview how you can decide it is not good enough.
Just leave it community unflag the video lets see how community respond...
I don't know if it's a new phenomenon but there's enough interesting detail in that story to make it on topic for HN, in my opinion, plus the thread quality supports that interpretation. Of course these are all judgment calls.
Prince Andrew on Epstein is guaranteed to produce a flamewar, especially because it overlaps with the celebrity gossip genre.
This video pretty is interesting. It reached 700k views in youtube in very short time. It is also very unique. Maybe it is not interesting to a fan of Epstein. The interview has elements that no interview until now has. Ex watch btw 19-25:00. They are way less non interesting links about Epstein that you didnt flag.
2) Also u block this video way faster than you can watch the whole interview. Did you watch the full interview before flag this link? Without watching the whole interview how you can decide it is not good enough.
Just leave it to the hn community . unflag the video lets see how community responds...
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Daniel,and yet this interview is the new evidence. And this interview has more interesting parts than many articles that were posted in HN about this subject.
3) you also have a habit & pattern of limiting my posting in a short time after u uplift my limit after i submit any controversial topic which is less than 1 of 10 of my postings.
I took it out because the thread was veering into generic flamewar about Israel. Actually we often remove country names from titles because they trigger people into making more nationalistic comments, which are equal parts indignant and boring.
That's a bit of a pathetic policy if you ask me. In my opinion a country who permits this type of behaviour shouldn't be shielded from the ensuing negative press. If anything it might encourage otherwise unaware citizens to put pressure on the government to do something about it.
I hear you. I agree with your second sentence. But I'm trying to protect HN, not Israel or anyone else. This place is fragile, and when people bring the fires of the world here, it can only take so much.
I wouldn't call that kind of title edit (taking out a country name) a policy. We have an ad hoc bag of tricks and sometimes we use one and sometimes another, depending on what feels needed. Do I know how unsatisfying that sounds? You bet. Do I get how it opens us to accusations of bias? I do, better than anyone else does. But the threads are too complicated to be managed with precise formalizations.
Dan, you know what would be cool for HN comments? The ability for each node of a thread to be annotated with topic names. For example, if the node close to the root node here were to be labelled "Israeli politics", I, a user interested in the technical aspects of the topic, can immediately avoid it. This feature will be a killer feature for all topics that have divergent sub-threads! (I haven't thought further than just the annotation by end user feature - so, whether it ought to be at user level or a global one ... I don't know). :-D
OT, but scroll down with “showdead” and it should become apparent exactly why. It is HN trying to promote substantive discussion on the topic without devolving into flame war.
Another experiment would be allowing the user to set the new tab page to a local html file without having to create two config files full of magic incantations.
Sounds just like the USA going to war over WMDs in Iraq. Clearly we need to give even more power to the mainstream press so they can act as the sole arbiters of truth.
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