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Witness to Destruction
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Witness to Destruction is a personal blog at witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Social observations from someone who spent too much time in therapy to buy the BS.
Most-linked posts?
- A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-11-14
What Hacker News says?
You seem to be reading in a lot more hurt feelings on my part than I really have. I was doing a thing called "giving testimony." [1] I talk about sexism because it comes up. I talk about sexism because it is pertinent to my life. I talk about sexism because I happen to be online and have nothing better to do because the thing my life revolves around is coping with my medical situation. [2] I overall have a really po…
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on “Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up”Submitted A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems as a story · 151 points
HN discussionI think it's inherently tricky for reasons I tried to explain in an old blog post, recently republished here: https://witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com/p/the-gray-zone.ht...
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on “6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far”Submitted It Seems My Silence Was Heard as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThis is true. That doesn't make it an invitation for the entire world to grill me about the specifics of my life. Previous opinion piece by me if people really want to know what I think about how I'm allowed to mention a thing about my life and then decline to answer invasive personal questions: https://witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com/p/a-pragmatic-appr...
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on “Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars”Submitted A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's mostly about moderating, but maybe it will be helpful to you/someone: https://witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com/p/a-pragmatic-appr...
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on “I am lonely will anyone speak to me”Submitted It Seems My Silence Was Heard (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhere I come from, the correct term would be "y'all" or "all y'all" which I have also seen arguments online about the correct usage and meaning. I used to routinely use y'all online in a forum where I was intentionally emphasizing my Southern identity to more clearly distinguish between singular "you" and plural "you." I've had a class in linguistics. I grew up in a bilingual home. I'm not uninformed about the fact…
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on “Demoted and Placed on Probation”Submitted The Gray Zone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBut what is the real problem that women have? Probably best explained here: https://witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com/p/the-gray-zone.ht...
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on “OnlyFans, influencers, and the politics of selling nudes during a pandemic”Submitted The Gray Zone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionP.S.: DoreenMichele is a lady. Googles lady : a woman of superior social position, especially one of noble birth. My maternal grandmother may have been a lady in that she was born into a low level German noble family that sold the title when they fell on hard times. I, however, am a dirt poor American woman who spent years homeless and not a woman of superior social position, especially one of noble birth. So I'm la…
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on “Impact of fasting and calorie restriction on cancer cells”Submitted A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems as a story · 2 points
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