no hush just sorts to the bottom of the thread. idk about other people but i like to go to the bottom to see what thoughts people might be missing. i think wasoxygen is saying it should look like the removed user didn't comment at all

I'm excited about the collapsible comment threads. I use that feature heavily on reddit, and now that hubski is getting longer and longer comment chains I see it being a necessity.

just don't go to the bottom

That doesn't work.

1. "To avoid seeing something, stop scrolling as soon as you have seen it." Too late.

2. If thenewgreen says something awesome, then jerkface replies with something stupid, thenewgreen's comment and the stupid reply will be at the top.

I've been waiting for these for so long. Thank you New Horizons for completing your primary mission.

they can't respond to any of your threads

With blocking, there's no PMing

no ability to respond to any of their comments

I don't care where the troll comments or what they say. I am not interested in trying to control their behavior. My proposal is to make it easier to ignore trolls by concealing their comments.

demo

Implying the world isn't ruled by lizard people.

Once on Hubski someone told me that my dad should've pulled out.

It's actually like, the most hliarious insult anyone's ever given me, and I cherish it a little bit. But that aside, an insult's an insult and saying something like "The best part of you slimed down your mother's leg" is a pretty serious one.

There is always going to be someone, at least one someone, who does not get along with you. It won't matter how much you try to get along (or not). You could be the most reasonable individual it's possible to be about it, and some people still won't like you. It feels personal, but it isn't. There's going to be a person like that for you everywhere, a person who, for whatever reason, thinks that you're their villain. Even on awesome community-based places like Hubski. The best advice I can give you is know that someone will hate you everywhere, and learn not to care about it. It is hard and not always easy, but worth it.

Actually, Germany plays a slightly different role.

Up until around 2008, things were going really well for everyone involved. As you may remember, some slight economic disturbances then happened on a rather global scale.

Germany kept selling Greece its goods and when Greece had no money left, further loans were offered, provided Greece agreed to use that money to buy... German submarines. This was at a time when Greece was already deeply in trouble.

Germany then arranged for further loans, which Greece had to use to pay off exisiting loans at private banks (which obviously had made huge profits as long as the party was still going.) This was not about helping Greece, it was time to socialize the losses of the big financial players. That much was obvious even back in 2012.

As a matter of fact, by 2015 only 10% of all the bailout money had actually made it into Greek government coffers. Everything else went right back abroad to foreign private lenders. Shockingly, this did not lead to an economic upturn for the Greek.

Even more shockingly, extreme austerity measures introduced right into the middle of a deep recession did not lead to 4-5% growth rates (more than any European nation in decades), as the models had assumed. Instead, strangely enough, all those lovely forced austerity measures only drove Greece further towards a point of no economic return. Meanwhile, the Greek population learned that cancer medication is kind of a luxury good, when you think about it.

You might think that Merkel, who understood just fine that recession time is spending time, would not somehow forget about that whole concept a year later. But somehow it slipped her mind. Whoops.

"We need to spend billions to bail out the freakin' banks again because they again took a huge and utterly retarded but highly profitable gamble" didn't sound so good in 2010. So things were handled a bit more discretely.

All said and done, the risk associated with Greek debt had been slightly shifted

Back in 2010, nearly all government debt was owed to private entities such as banks. Today 78 per cent is owed to the public sector, primarily people in other Eurozone countries, but also throughout the world through the IMF’s loans.

I could go on, but as I said, my point is: Germany's role is not exactly what you may think it is.

Well, assuming the people at my party weren't tuned in, you know?

grubski -- show and tell food threads that occur monthly (?)

also i spent entirely too long trying to figure out when someone would substitute "hubskispeak" for "word"

From Jerome Kern's All The Things You Are:

You are the breathless hush of evening That trembles on the brink of a lovely song.

You think you own whatever land you land on The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim But I know every rock and tree and creature Has a life, has a spirit, has a name

You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger You'll learn things you never knew you never knew

Cake is pretty awesome too. From The Distance:

No trophy, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no wine, He's haunted by something he cannot define. Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse, Assail him, impale him with monster-truck force.

One of the factors that led to some technologies being "underdeveloped" is the improvement of other technologies. For example improved telecommunications and miniaturization have reduced the need for better transportation.

Brilliant. I like that the professor wasn't angry about it but rather, he was impressed with their ability to come together.

I think this is a perfect example why we need anti-cartel and anti-collusion laws. The students have collectively found one way to beat the professor algorithm, managed to create an effective system to prevent anyone from braking the agreement so by my book, as we are talking about programming classes, means that they understand the essential part of what they are supposed to be learning, so I don't see why a good professor would do otherwise.

I don't think its worth the risk. Remember that this is a relatively new and not well studied type of oil.

If the risks were understood there would be much less criticism, but tar sands oil is not something we fully understand as a compound nor do we have the data to really analyze just how bad spill will be. Regular spills might be difficult to clean up, but they are understood.

Its like having spider nest in your room. New species too, haven't heard things about it. Is it poisonous? Who knows, but it doesn't look friendly. Then someone comes in your room and says they are going to use a series of plastic hamster tubes to bring lots of the spiders to the other side of the room, because it needs spiders. What if the spider tube breaks? Wihat are the consequences?

I'm not huge in to environmentalism, especially in the United States. I think much more needs to be done concerning forests in the third world, but just because my eye roams international doesn't mean we should be ignoring things at home. We certainly shouldn't overlook a large unknown like tar sands oil, and we shouldn't be pumping any of it anywhere without first understanding as much about it as we can. What are its effects on small environments? Large? Does it sink in sand;? What impact does it have on oxygen levels in the water? How efficient is it in terms of oil production? Will current safety standards be effectivve? Those questions and more need to be answered before construction should even be planned.

I know everyone thinks I am a boring cow and a curmudgeon. But one of the reasons for the future of the futurists not arriving is that the future (at least technological one) is created by engineers and researchers not science fiction writers.

Which is how it should be look what you get when take science fiction writers too seriously you get Scientology, Objectivism and al-Qaida

Quite right collusion is as common a result of the market as anything else.

The irony is this is going to be way worse than what everyone was up in arms about last year, what the unions fought tooth and nail to reject. Now, instead of a city-state partnership, they can simply appoint one guy to be the point person. I just hope they don't come for me when the race war starts.

The future as arrived, in some aspects we have far surpassed the wildest dreams of many sci-fi writers. Some technologies of Star Trek, for example, seem quaint in comparison we some things we got now.

If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower

From Nothing but flowers by The Talking Heads.