bathtiles's comments

On: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?

[bathtiles]

It sounds like you have opinions about OP's position?

For clarity, perhaps it's worth just stating those.

On: Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?

[bathtiles]

Perhaps a web extension could block such content, in a similar style to ad blocking.

Alternatively, you could utilise a closed set of resources: Dev docs, offline manuals, StackOverflow, man pages, arxiv, wikipedia, etc.

Wide platforms appear to inevitable blue the lines.

On: Stop using app icons for political activism

[bathtiles]

> That said, the author didn’t tell us; so we’re left to guess.

We don't need to guess. The post was agnostic to the political cause.

[drewbug01 → bathtiles]

Not mentioning a cause is not the same thing as being agnostic.

[gumby → drewbug01]

The post itself was, though, as the gp post wrote.

[drewbug01 → gumby]

To me, it actually sounds like a dog-whistle. As I said in my original comment, making it an actually agnostic argument would have been trivial.