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>dryers weren’t common

I am in the UK and dryers are getting more common. Now I have one in the house but rarely use it. I have moved on to using dehumidifier. Do the laundry in the evening and hang it with dehumidifier at 50% humidity auto. But morning most clothes are well dried without them going through the heating cycle of a dryer. Clothes last longer and retain their natural colours better.


Germans are just anti-technology in general. If Eeastern Europeans had the chance to flourish and were not getting abused by both Germany and Russia for most of their history they would be in an entirely different tiers of countries.

As EE is getting richer they embrace technology at must faster rates than DACH. Dryers, ACs, payment tech is much more common and widespread here.


> If Eeastern Europeans had the chance to flourish and were not getting abused by both Germany and Russia for most of their history they would be in an entirely different tiers of countries.

To my knowledge for at least last few decades all countries from Poland down to Bulgaria have been happily corrupted and pillaging their own populace and pushing out their working age populace into emigration. Now with their demographics there no one left to even emigrate anymore.


That's a relict of Soviet occupation and mindset. pre-war Czechoslovakia was one of the most prosperous countries in the world.


Pre WWII?! That's loong time ago. Many countries live by their pre-WWII, or even pre-WWI "glory days".


Weeps in websites made by Gov of India and its National Informatics Centre. https://www.nic.in/


Oh my, is that real?!

It literally has Comic Sans on the page...


I mean, I like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, they chose comic sans for its benefits for individuals with dyslexia?


After having travelled in India and experienced Indian bureaucracy I have to say I was expecting a lot worse! I did a cheeky right click inspect and they're quite the fans of commenting out large swathes of html


I love that the Indian Governments idea of security for their Aadhaar portal is to block IPs outside of India.

One VPN later…


Most of the majoritarian extremism in India is spread through WhatsApp and Facebook. But these two are very close to ruling right wing govt with FB making huge investment in crony capitalists promoting the current govt.


Please don't take HN into political or ideological or nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Hi dang, this is a policy on this forum, and it's completely up to the site maintainers. But in that case I would rather you don't allow these articles on HN at all. I understand why this policy is there, but these are completely political policies and as an Indian you not letting us acknowledge that it is a political policy made by a certain kind of government seems... I don't know, I can't come up with a polite term.


That question has a long history on HN and we eventually arrived at a clear answer: the shallowest sort of political stories are offtopic here, but there are also interesting stories with political overlap, and it's neither possible nor desirable to exclude all of those. A great deal of past explanation about this can be found at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

When a story does have political overlap, it's incumbent on commenters to stay within the site guidelines regardless of how strongly they feel, or how wrong they feel other people are. This is in the site guidelines: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." That's not easy, but it's possible. For this forum to succeed at its mandate, we all have to work hard at it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


I don't think we are getting a more substantive comment thread by banning people from acknowledging blatant truths about the political system. This isn't just me saying it, the BJP government itself prides itself as a Hindutva and Hindu Rastra (Hindu State) building party. I'm sorry, feels to me like you are making a "both sides" argument where reality on the ground is that there is no other sides.


It's not a 'both sides' argument to say that everyone needs to follow HN's rules.

What people call "acknowledging blatant truths" can mean a lot of different things depending on their passions about a topic. It's hard to perceive one's own expressions objectively. Even the users who post the worst flamebait typically feel like they're simply stating the truth in a straightforward way.

There are ways of acknowledging truths that are more likely to lead to flamewar, and other ways that are less likely to lead to flamewar. We need commenters here to do the latter, not the former. That's an ongoing process that takes a conscious effort, at least when one's emotions are engaged, and people need to do this regardless of how right they are or feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


I'm sorry, flagging people for calling the current government crony capitalist and Hindu majoritarian is absolutely not fair. It is absolutely a both sides argument because you think there is any other way to put it. Especially when the current government welcomes rapists with flower garlands because they are upper caste and actively favors certain business groups openly. It's ok, I don't expect you to understand our politics.


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Please don't take HN further into hellish flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Would you share a good, credible source for that?


Imagine an office where everyone is sitting screaming at their computer.


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