Do you think they would have chose British rule when it first began?
Almost no one lived there at the time. Look at photos of how Hong Kong transformed under British rule
Readit Newsponcho_romero commented on When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire oikofuge.com/sun-sets-on-... · Posted by u/bediger4000
poncho_romero commented on More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves news.uoguelph.ca/2025/07/... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I'd be willing to bet this has more to do with more aerodynamic designs of cars than less bugs in general.
I believe the same decrease is visible when driving older (less aerodynamic) cars, but I don’t have any studies on hand
>Profit-motivated (above all else) health care?
That's an incomplete explanation at best. Most things in the economy are "profit motivated" yet aren't dumpster fire that health care is.
But healthcare is a captive market. People will pay whatever is necessary for life saving treatment. That’s not the case with, say, buying a new couch. If couches are too expensive, people will find alternative places to sit or forgo having a seat altogether. No diabetic can say no to insulin, so the market forces that produce sane prices elsewhere in the economy vanish in healthcare
poncho_romero commented on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic wave3.social... · Posted by u/nswizzle31
> The problem is the vast majority of women think this is stupid as fuck
Who are you to speak for “the vast majority of women”?
> They aren’t “evil”
I'm not sure I understand this. If mass murder, propaganda, war crimes, atrocities, torture, money laundering, drug & people trafficking, etc aren't literally evil - just 'normal Western capital' stuff - then what do you call evil?
I don’t mean to come across as an apologist, what has been done and continues to happen is abhorrent. I prefer not to use terms like “good” and “evil” because they collapse so much complexity and nuance into emotionally charged terms. So when I say “they aren’t evil” I mean they didn’t commit these crimes against humanity because they’re akin to comic book villains, but rather because of ideology, humanity’s affinity for greed, etc.
poncho_romero commented on Tariffs in American History imprimis.hillsdale.edu/ta... · Posted by u/smitty1e
Ok, so when the US steals it's irrelevant, but when the situation is the opposite now is relevant??
Why is hypocrisy brought up here? We are talking about national prosperity. Obviously what was beneficial to the US when it was a fledgling state is different than today
It's well documented. I'm not going to spend ages finding citations because this is a HN comment and not a scientific paper.
If you prefer to live in the psychological simplicity and safety of "neocons do evil because they're {evil,greedy,powerhungry,...}" or whatever then you're free to do so. But at that point you've also disqualified yourself from serious discussion.
They aren’t “evil” but the actions of the West in the Middle East have always been about capital despite being dressed up in the language of freedom and democracy. I would recommend the later parts of The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan for a broad overview of this dichotomy.
poncho_romero commented on The Frontend Treadmill polotek.net/posts/the-fro... · Posted by u/Kerrick
> Newbies should read MDN and ignore everything else.
I think people forget how inaccessible it is for a newbie to start writing pure javascript directly from the API reference.
People need tutorials and walkthroughs, and need to build a an internal understanding of how these all work.
Frameworks help them abstract all that
MDN has exactly those kinds of tutorials and walk throughs! It’s not all API documentation
poncho_romero commented on Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS blogs.windows.com/msedged... · Posted by u/SigmundurM
It's a decent idea, but it feels like it would have been more useful a decade ago.
With modern CSS you can typically handle separators with a single selector and property like:
.things .thing:not(:last-child)
{
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
}
As they say in the article, your solution doesn’t work for even moderately complex layouts. If you want to add a space between elements, margin works wonderfully until those elements can wrap. Gap was introduced because regardless of what happens, there will always be a space between elements. Your solution fails to address the situation gap was introduced to fill.