Ask HN: Why is there such little political discourse on HN at the moment?

Oh, there are definitely Topics HN Cannot Discuss, and that's a long-time frustration of mine, see: <https://web.archive.org/web/20190115023534/https://plus.goog...> (2018).

Also: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376111> (2022).

Point remains that the best way to resolve this isn't snark or whinging on threads, but emails to mods. They (dang and others) are well aware of this limitation and have occasionally expressed frustrations. Member-based moderation works relatively well, for much discussion, but does have some profound limitations. Acknowledge and work with those.

Everyone dies. What I find amusing is the concern of privileged Westerns who have probably seldom had to do a day of physical labor in their lives who think they can save the world from nature with their expertise and hope to profit and gain social status and better mating opportunities by doing so. It is nothing different from what primates Musk and Trump are doing. It is just playing a different game with the same goal. People want to influence the world, do good, so other people will give them higher status. Every single one of my human ancestors died. Most of them lived a more natural life than the livestock and zoo exhibits we see on the Earth planet today.

All tech is vanity. If you want to survive the coming collapse learn to live as wild humans. Become hard. Make a living from the land as your ancestors did. Learn how to solve real problems. The future is dark. Only the smart and the strong will survive. Theories don't matter. What matters is what works in nature. We may not live to see the collapse but it is coming. The easy resources of the world are being exhausted. There are no replacements that are not more expensive to save us. Technology will not save us because we are constrained by the laws of physics and limited resources on this single planet. Primate humans will not leave the earth planet because no habitable other world lies within traversing distance. The only way for the species to survive is to downsize and return to it's ancestral habits and find a religion that is life supporting and hope a true space faring species does not find our world and harvest it for it's meat before we can become quieter and less noticable to the hunters. Even then there is hope if we are the product of alien bioengineering in primates that we will be saved by our shepherd species. It is also more probable that we are alone in the universe or the local group. Time will tell. However with agglomeration of billions of tweeting, soft, delusional, meat bearing creatures I fear our world is ripe for harvest by a race of space faring carnivores if it is within traversable space from wherever they may be coming. Maybe they have wormhole technology. We should be humbler, keep the secrets of time secret and love our families and downsize and be smaller and less noticable like our early mammal forebears.

The meek shall inherit the earth and who knows what shall emerge from the bottomless pit.

We know less than we believe. We should act more than strive to know.

Live a humble, simple life, loving your family and particular social band in accordance with the Georgia Guidance whose monument was unfortunately blown up in accordance with the delusional zeitgeist that humans cause human problems and humans can solve human problems. Humans are a product of nature and subject to nature. Nothing more, nothing less. Even if there was an engineering project to create a more intelligent ape, it's still an ape. Don't forget. Your destiny, Adam, is not in the stars but on the planet Earth.