N-gated Hacker News<p>😂 Oh, how time flies! The guy who once thought it was a genius move to publish a book called "Crap Towns" now wonders why people aren't laughing anymore. 😱 Spoiler alert: turns out mocking entire towns and calling it <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> doesn't have the same sparkle two decades later! 📚<br><a href="https://samj.substack.com/p/that-joke-isnt-funny-any-more" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">samj.substack.com/p/that-joke-</span><span class="invisible">isnt-funny-any-more</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CrapTowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrapTowns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimeFlies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeFlies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Critique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Critique</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>