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drharby commented on Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email diaryemail.com... · Posted by u/kossnocorp

drharby · 6 years ago

shut up and ship it

I love the simple sourcing of requirements. Good job!

drharby commented on The deepest hole we have ever dug bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/otoolep

DonHopkins · 6 years ago

One environmental impact of the hole is that it just caused you to unnervingly outgas huge quantities of hot carbon dioxide and stinky methane into the atmosphere, years after it was dug, and expose yourself as a troll.

Why don't you donate some money to charity to offset your fake moral outrage?

What I don't understand is why you're so clearly and idealistically virtue signaling, and taking other people's commentary so deeply personally, while your profile says:

>This is my avatar for participating in a community full of idealists, virtue signallers, hardworkers, and paid advertisers.

>To take personal any of my commentary is a folly of the reader.

You sound like a troll to me.

PS: You misspelled "signalers" and "hard workers", and just forgot two apostrophes. Did you know that your web browser has a built-in spelling checker and corrector? Look for misspelled words with squiggly red lines underneath them, then click the right mouse button on them to pop up a menu with correct spellings. Also, you should brush up on the simple easy-to-remember apostrophe rules -- it will improve your trolling:

https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/punctuation/apostrophe-ru...

drharby · 6 years ago

I want to tag on the remainder of my profile for you, since you conveniently skipped it in your hate speech.

>Live long and prosper.

I hold a genuine desire for strangers to live a fruitful life.

Please, consider revisiting the source of your anger and hate to a stranger and ask yourself "what is the effect I aim to have?" If you are aiming to hate as a cathartic release, I suggest writing a journal. If you are aiming to hate as a means of cruelty to a stranger online, do it anonymously without your real name attached to it.

drharby commented on Napoleon’s Vision for a New Imperial Rome thehistoryblog.com/archiv... · Posted by u/ecliptik

RandomBacon · 6 years ago

I've heard people compare the Roman Empire with the United States (implying an eventual, similar downfall).

What are your thoughts to such a comparison?

drharby · 6 years ago

I feel like that's a broad and general comparison. It would be equal to ask that of the UK during the height of their reach.

To do any real comparison you need to isolate something quantifiable. For example, languages. Latin influence is real and measurable. English is derivative from Germanic languages and was borrowed, and we didn't really export English...the UK did that. Why is Spanish one of the more commonly spoken Latin languages? The spanish crown was real good at that whole conquest thing, with the germs and the horses and the etc.

America? We influence geopolitics thats for sure.

drharby commented on The deepest hole we have ever dug bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/otoolep

DonHopkins · 6 years ago

TIL there are reactionary hole digging experts.

https://www.motor1.com/news/313750/top-gear-hole-digging-con...

>"I was almost physically sick watching this last night," said Mark Stevens, chartered safety and health practitioner at The Building Safety Group. "In fact, I had to turn over straight away I couldn’t watch it anymore."

drharby · 6 years ago

This is a real example of what I was alluding to. Environmental impact isn't all polar ice caps and methane gas. An unprofessionally dug hole is a LIABILITY.

But personally attacking strangers on the internet is acceptable too.

drharby commented on The deepest hole we have ever dug bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/otoolep

DonHopkins · 6 years ago

One environmental impact of the hole is that it just caused you to unnervingly outgas huge quantities of hot carbon dioxide and stinky methane into the atmosphere, years after it was dug, and expose yourself as a troll.

Why don't you donate some money to charity to offset your fake moral outrage?

What I don't understand is why you're so clearly and idealistically virtue signaling, and taking other people's commentary so deeply personally, while your profile says:

>This is my avatar for participating in a community full of idealists, virtue signallers, hardworkers, and paid advertisers.

>To take personal any of my commentary is a folly of the reader.

You sound like a troll to me.

PS: You misspelled "signalers" and "hard workers", and just forgot two apostrophes. Did you know that your web browser has a built-in spelling checker and corrector? Look for misspelled words with squiggly red lines underneath them, then click the right mouse button on them to pop up a menu with correct spellings. Also, you should brush up on the simple easy-to-remember apostrophe rules -- it will improve your trolling:

https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/punctuation/apostrophe-ru...

drharby · 6 years ago

Everything about this comment is a personal attack and sidesteps my real concern--the flagrant disregard for the environment just because someone can do it.

And Don I have to tell you, I am not a troll and I have to ask what crime did I commit expressing myself?

Was the post script necessary?

Maybe I get heated because this forum claims a standard is being held while I see bias persist

Maybe i believe it is important in a healthy democracy that the right conversations happen.

Maybe I hate bullies. You def. Are being a bully.

You disregard a real talking point on how little liability we hold people to disrupting land, and just attack me, AND YOU CLAIM YOU CAN BC YOU PERCEIVE ME AS A TROLL.

I stand by my profile description bc this is a diverse community.

I have a question for you, what is your purpose of your rant? To make me feel bad and you feel superior?

drharby commented on The deepest hole we have ever dug bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/otoolep

bananabreakfast · 6 years ago

This is extremely reactionary to the point you must be trolling.

"Destroying the planet"? Come on. It's a hole in the ground. We make a hole ten times bigger than this every time we build a building.

drharby · 6 years ago

I am not trolling.

this is the same forum where people minimize their consumer garbage output to one bag a year and reduce aviation usage to reduce carbon footprint. I find it EXTREMELY condescending that you ridicule my opinion. Whats the scope for scales of environmental impact that matters?

Every single construction project in an area where an endangered species lives, the USAF must conduct an environmental impact study for said species from the project, even if its a toilet.

I am very much extremely reactionary, this is a news forum. People post news and react to it.

drharby commented on The deepest hole we have ever dug bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/otoolep

DonHopkins · 6 years ago

Cards Against Humanity got people to donate more than $100,000 to dig a big hole for no reason at all. Maybe scientists should try funding a deep bore hole for science by live streaming it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cards-agai...

drharby · 6 years ago

I want to know what the environmental impact on that hole...i mean where is the humor in destroying the planet just because we can?

That hole makes me unnervingly angry. And I can't be the only one.

drharby commented on The End of the Bonus Culture Is Coming to Wall Street? bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/pseudolus

ackbar03 · 6 years ago

Yes and that seems to be their intended scope. In what corner of the street do you dwell?

drharby · 6 years ago

Probably buy side

drharby commented on Cities move to ban dollar stores, blaming them for residents’ poor diets city-journal.org/banning-... · Posted by u/fortran77

drharby · 6 years ago

Sounds like anticompetitive muscling out with a trivial and nondata supported claim for justification. If diets were a real concern of governments, there exists more appropriate policy measures, but passing laws that apply pressure on the free market with no effect on the bottomline of a city's budget is just easy so I can see why they are doing it.

drharby commented on War Is a Racket (1933) wanttoknow.info/warisarac... · Posted by u/rahuldottech

tekmate · 6 years ago

but what's the ROI on money for weapons and military contractors?

drharby · 6 years ago

Government doesn't measure ROI. It measure impact on policy goals. A government is not a business.