I have a pair of twins as sisters in law (who have a very different relationship than this pair) and even after more than 25 years of knowing them this article gave me insights about them.
Yeah, that one wasn't very good either. That one at least contained a modicum of science, and wasn't just about some person's experience completely unrelated to tech or business.
This one is literally blog spam.
Maybe we should just start having stuff reach the front that's about the new McFlurry flavors that come out at McDonalds.
> Maybe we should just start having stuff reach the front that's about the new McFlurry flavors that come out at McDonalds.
Submit it! It might actually get on the front page for a while. I would not be surprised. :) "stuff that gratifies intellectual curiosity." is literally "anything".
If this article doesn't gratify your personal curiosity, that's fine; it has gratified others', as the comments show. Meanwhile, HN has other articles to read. Please investigate those instead of ranting off-topically in a thread you don't find interesting.
Wow! I'm a twin and this is the first article I've read that really puts into words how I feel about it at times. Especially:
" Not coincidentally, twins are at strong risk of being objectified. First, we get reduced to our appearances: what matters most about us is how our bodies hit the senses. Second, we get treated as fungible: interchangeable with our fellow objects. Third, in many cases, our subjectivity is ignored. People don’t deny, exactly, that twins have rich and distinctive inner lives, just as sexists don’t deny, exactly, that hot young women do. But those lives often aren’t what’s interesting about us, and they’re easily glossed over. "
My 4 year old daughters have a completely different life experience. They automatically have critical mass at school, and can use this to manipulate the singletons around them. They make people happy, but yeah, they are pointed at a lot too.
A lifetime of that means the twins are on a different plane of existence. We singletons can only imagine.
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[ 5.6 ms ] story [ 37.0 ms ] threadI have a pair of twins as sisters in law (who have a very different relationship than this pair) and even after more than 25 years of knowing them this article gave me insights about them.
How does this garbage end up here? This is not even news, it's just blog spam.
This one is literally blog spam.
Maybe we should just start having stuff reach the front that's about the new McFlurry flavors that come out at McDonalds.
Submit it! It might actually get on the front page for a while. I would not be surprised. :) "stuff that gratifies intellectual curiosity." is literally "anything".
If this article doesn't gratify your personal curiosity, that's fine; it has gratified others', as the comments show. Meanwhile, HN has other articles to read. Please investigate those instead of ranting off-topically in a thread you don't find interesting.
I don't think the title is clickbait. Not every title needs to explain itself immediately, and it's good for HN users to have to work a little. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Usually if there's no point after a few paragraphs, I look at the comments to see if it's worth reading.
In this case, nothing in the comments really explains what the point is.
So why does this article belong here? That's healthy discussion.
" Not coincidentally, twins are at strong risk of being objectified. First, we get reduced to our appearances: what matters most about us is how our bodies hit the senses. Second, we get treated as fungible: interchangeable with our fellow objects. Third, in many cases, our subjectivity is ignored. People don’t deny, exactly, that twins have rich and distinctive inner lives, just as sexists don’t deny, exactly, that hot young women do. But those lives often aren’t what’s interesting about us, and they’re easily glossed over. "
A lifetime of that means the twins are on a different plane of existence. We singletons can only imagine.
Not only they don't have their emotional pair support, they also lost all their friends.
But, of course, there's a huge filter. People who wouldn't be able to stand that don't become immigrants in the first place.