Why “traps” is being discussed
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This might sound dramatic but you have it a bit backwards. You can call back to Major General Smedly Butler and his "War is a racket". WWII got the US out of the remnants of the…
by MSFT_Edging · Oct 1, 2026
I appreciate your reply, and thankyou. It did strike me as harsh, yes, and I was rather horrified when I wrote the parent comment. But I think I was also responding to the tone…
by vintagedave · Oct 1, 2026
The allies bombed the heck out of Mosul and killed a lot more civilians than the IDF killed in Rafah. Those battles are very comparable in terms of number of combatants and numb…
by YZF · Sep 29, 2026
You are comparing different things. You should be comparing the intensive part of the battle in both cases. Mosul vs. Rafah is a great comparison. The total number of civilians…
by YZF · Sep 29, 2026
Story time: I got handed a ticket to go change a UPS in a “server room”. I was in Fairbanks visiting family, I had some downtime, so I decided to do some “slumming” to break up…
by K0balt · Sep 29, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "traps" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "traps" over time.
Trap most often refers to:Trap music, a subgenre of hip hop that originated in the 1990s in the Southeastern United States Trap (plumbing), a pipe to prevent the release of gases Trapping, using a device to capture an animal Trap shooting Read more on Wikipedia