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[latexr]

What is happening to HN? What is it about anymore? Posts and comments critical of any tech CEO doing shitty things or technologies that affect millions of lives are routinely flagged, while posts about a dumb piece of fabric with no special characteristics that almost no one will buy hit the front page multiple times.

[Kuraj → latexr]

It makes sense that people tend to upvote things thats make them laugh over things that make them upset.

[newsclues → latexr]

I don’t understand the point of this post, (not your comment that makes total sense and I agree)

[taspeotis → latexr]

You're missing the meta: upvoting stuff like this is ironic shitposting-adjacent, so people upvote it.

[latexr → taspeotis]

Alright, I guess shitposting is not what I’ve come to expect from HN submissions. I also don‘t think it justifies multiple submissions for this one and the flagging of the others.

[taspeotis → latexr]

It's not shitposting, it's ironic shitposting-adjacent.

[latexr → taspeotis]

Sure sure, I get it. And that guy over there isn’t a street sweeper, he’s a municipal sanitation specialist.

Whatever you want to call it is irrelevant to the point made and explained in the previous two comments.