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The White House said "The memes will continue". Dodging the direct question while at the same time admitting it is a doctored image as it qualifies as a 'meme'. Obviously it masquerades as truth and this is terrifying deception.

What should I expect from the same administration that also altered the (tiny fraction of) Epstein files before releasing them.


The memes will continue until the torture is more widely tolerated.


Eternal September /thread

Sort of. Eternal September phenomenom was a regualar September cadence. Then AOL came.

There was no warning / taster of this. AI just dialed up to 11 real quick.


I personally find it very strange that you cannot downvote until 30+ userpoints, but that you CAN immediately post a new HN discussion.

Seems like there should be a restriction on greenies (from posting) until they've lurked more, here.


It does makes sense in terms of resulting damage. Make a bot that will post new discussion, it will instantly get flagged to oblivion. Make 10 bots that downvote something - it will take quite some time for the mods to find them.

It just seems to me that you ought'a be able to downvote before making posts (and also flagging). Perhaps good upvoted comment boughts ought be able to make submissions (eventually), too..?

Downvoting needs much more than that actually (is it 500+ these days?) Maybe you mean flagging? Which is similar enough to still make your argument work, but just saying.

Yes, you are correct. I also feel you should be able to downvote before flagging (since flagging is effective just a mega downvote).


Yeah, the explosion in numbers has been rapid, and they hang out in groups and can be real bullies to other birds so they'll definitely have an impact.

On the upside, they're also increasingly supplementing the food supply for peregrine falcons in London (they're apparently easier targets than the pigeons...


> They had stories that were absolutely insane.

Don't leave us hanging.


lol, Sure! Here’s one that was one of the crazier ones that I remember from my dad. There were a bunch of people complaining about smells coming from an apartment. The dude was a little out there and some sort of religious practitioner.

The workers were afraid of the guy, but he hadn’t really done anything except be weird and creepy. So he ended up going up with a few folks to check it out. The dude was capturing (many) wild animals and boiling their blood. So much so that it was condensating on the ceiling.

The dude opened the door and came at them with a bloody machete. He was babbling something about his mother, and I guess as it was told dad just softly said something along the lines of “Your mom sent us and she is not happy with what is happening here, and I think you know that.” I guess the guy stopped in his tracks, dropped the machete and started bawling.

He was a special guy and made a point to treat people fairly and with respect. They’d kick out drug dealers and people who’d terrorize neighbors with dogs and such. The local street dealers beat up some guy who tried to steal his car because being diligent in the buildings was keeping their families safe. He’d take me down as a kid in the summer to hang out and help out with kids programs. It was profoundly meaningful to me as I got to understand that we are all really the same.


I love this, thank you for sharing. I imagine that position gives you an exposure to humanity that many can't handle with that kind of grace and constitution. We surely need more people like him.

Yes, please give us some!

> Communism is a lovely idea on paper but a complete utopia

dystopia ?



Reminds me of AiAi in Super Monkey Ball.

Glad to see I wasn't the only one! That Super Monkey Ball game on the GameCube was just amazing.

It was all about the party games. Especially target and golf!

> If anyone still has old .NFO archives from 1990-2000

Have you checked https://srrdb.com ?


As a bit of trivia ECHELON was discussed in Grand Theft Auto III in 2001. 'Conspiracy Theorist Caller' phones in to Chatterbox FM to discuss and makes a call to free Kevin Mitnick:

> Come on, do you honestly believe the NSA's echelon system isn't already reading your e-mails, and recording your phone conversations? It's all designed to frighten us so we don't complain about our rights being taken away in the name of fighting whatever boogeyman they come up with today.


ECHELON was quite popular in games back then. In the Splinter Cell games from the same era (2002), you're an operative of a US black ops organization called "Third Echelon" (and there's a second Echelon too, I guess).


Yep. Sam Fisher works for the NSA!


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