> (X number of crimes go "unreported"... if they're unreported how can we say that?).

“Unreported” is usually short for “unreported to police”

I assume researchers ask people if they’ve seen a crime and not talked to the police about it.

Note that you only pronounce Couch that way in Portland when talking about the street. You wouldn’t maintain the pronunciation when saying eg “Sorry for spilling wine on your couch”

It is ok if you just didn’t/don’t know what people were talking about, I hope you are doing well.

To put my point as simply as possible for someone that isn’t ‘terminally online’ and understands that ‘posting isn’t praxis’ but also uses those phrases unprompted: People have criticized Jay for getting Poster’s Madness because of a time when she, as an admin, appeared to respond to any criticism saying everybody else has Poster’s Madness.

> In reality, it is a struggle to find a single one who traces their fortune back to the first Gilded Age.

This is a good point because there are no oil billionaires and things like trusts, family offices, offshoring etc. actually pose no challenge to accurately numerating and identifying people that ‘have’ or effectively control over a billion dollars at their discretion because they all just sign up for the list.

Of course there’s the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers but that doesn

> Quote me where I said I've never heard of the pancake/waffles thing? Of course I've heard of it, it's been around for a decade or so.

Here is a link to your comment about not having seen it in the context of the discussion you are posting in. When people talk about the pancakes/waffle thing in this context they are not talking about a meme from several years before Bluesky existed but rather a specific event (which I have apparently failed to communicate to you).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314798

> I want you to read this out loud, to yourself. Maybe you'll feel as insane as I did when I read it.

That seems unnecessarily hostile, especially given I was responding to this comment of yours.

> Doing the pancakes/waffles thing in the thread about pancakes/waffles is so fucking on the nose and demonstrates a complete lack of self awareness.

I was talking about the topic of the thread, you seem kind of focused on swearing and insulting people. My bad, I hadn’t seen your other posts and did not realize how much this subject has flustered you.