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It's true though, these regulations exists because speculation and profit-chasing in agriculture is what lead to the dust bowl and worsened the great depression

It's true though, these regulations exists because speculation and profit-chasing in agriculture is what lead to the dust bowl and worsened the great depression. We really, really don't want a repeat of that.

boothby 5mo ago
The amazing thing about people failing to learn from history is that everybody thinks they're too smart to (a) learn history or (b) follow rules enacted to prevent the disasters of yesteryear.
- renewiltord 5mo ago
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      - Alupis 5mo ago
        I'm sorry, what?
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  - dang 5mo ago
    Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot lately. We've already asked you a whole bunch of times not to do this. Eventually we ban accounts that won't stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - renewiltord 5mo ago
      Sure, but I think you should strive to run your community in a way where you’re policing the “I don’t endorse X, but I don’t understand why more people don’t do X” that this comment espouses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773488 You’re busy policing this while people are out there saying “Destroy their things and firebomb their houses”. So is it just that I made a mistake in my phrasing? Should I just frame the same comments in the style “I would never endorse X, but I don’t understand why others don’t do X”? I can do that easily without LLM assistance if you like. But if you want your community to be exclusively endorsers of violence against enemies of a chosen tribe, then you should ban me so you can keep your little tribe of Ted Kaczynski fanboys.
      - dang 5mo ago
        This is one of those cases where the word "but" negates everything that precedes it. If you think we haven't been moderating the type of posts you're talking about, you haven't been tracking HN moderation lately*—which is fine, why should/would you? But in that case you shouldn't be taking snarky swipes at the mods based on galactically mistaken assumptions. * e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728106 More importantly, you shouldn't be pointing fingers at others instead of taking responsibility for your own bad behavior. Even if you were right in what you said, it wouldn't justify your breaking the rules. Moreover you have a longstanding pattern of doing this and we've been cutting you slack for years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367674 (March 2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486692 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486692 (Oct 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42686976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42686976 (Jan 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833543 (Oct 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41673360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41673360 (Sept 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41089956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41089956 (July 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959119 (Jan 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27992950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27992950 (July 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537346 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537346 (March 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537333 (March 2021)

boothby 5mo ago

The amazing thing about people failing to learn from history is that everybody thinks they're too smart to (a) learn history or (b) follow rules enacted to prevent the disasters of yesteryear.

renewiltord 5mo ago
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- Alupis 5mo ago
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    - Alupis 5mo ago
      I'm sorry, what?
- Dylan16807 5mo ago
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- dang 5mo ago
  Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot lately. We've already asked you a whole bunch of times not to do this. Eventually we ban accounts that won't stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - renewiltord 5mo ago
    Sure, but I think you should strive to run your community in a way where you’re policing the “I don’t endorse X, but I don’t understand why more people don’t do X” that this comment espouses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773488 You’re busy policing this while people are out there saying “Destroy their things and firebomb their houses”. So is it just that I made a mistake in my phrasing? Should I just frame the same comments in the style “I would never endorse X, but I don’t understand why others don’t do X”? I can do that easily without LLM assistance if you like. But if you want your community to be exclusively endorsers of violence against enemies of a chosen tribe, then you should ban me so you can keep your little tribe of Ted Kaczynski fanboys.
    - dang 5mo ago
      This is one of those cases where the word "but" negates everything that precedes it. If you think we haven't been moderating the type of posts you're talking about, you haven't been tracking HN moderation lately*—which is fine, why should/would you? But in that case you shouldn't be taking snarky swipes at the mods based on galactically mistaken assumptions. * e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728106 More importantly, you shouldn't be pointing fingers at others instead of taking responsibility for your own bad behavior. Even if you were right in what you said, it wouldn't justify your breaking the rules. Moreover you have a longstanding pattern of doing this and we've been cutting you slack for years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367674 (March 2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486692 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486692 (Oct 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42686976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42686976 (Jan 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833543 (Oct 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41673360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41673360 (Sept 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41089956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41089956 (July 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959119 (Jan 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27992950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27992950 (July 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537346 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537346 (March 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537333 (March 2021)