Impassionata

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by Impassionata 5y ago
I can understand why you think the way you do and the way you construct your arguments, unlike some others in this thread, makes me believe you're genuine. But I hope you can see that there are a large number of people who see a physic
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by Impassionata 5y ago
Once you only care about silencing those who would point out fascism, it becomes easy enough. Watchful moderation willing to act is necessary. I'm unsurprised that HN is being exploited this way, but I am pleasantly surprised that the
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by Impassionata 5y ago
These people here in this topic are the vectors for misinformation.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
Might get far enough: this entire thread is flagged.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
... nah.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
It's not that it's hard to read his texts, and sometimes there's still some good stuff in there. It's that once someone shows bad judgment you have to think about how that manifests, and that manifests in poor thinking
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by Impassionata 5y ago
There's a way to achieve the stated goals: have the government come down real hard both on the low-level data crime and the big players that are supposedly legit. Burn it all down.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
It has always been like this. Everyone always repeated talking points they heard in the mainstream media. Always.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
Pathologizing hobbies, even as a joke, doesn't really make for a great start.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
This is a stupid trap you're trying. See how they misdirect? I'm not saying d0mine is taking Russian money, I'm saying that the Russian money spent getting hooks into Trump leads inexorably to a bunch of chumps like d0mine
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by Impassionata 5y ago
See here's this guy proving me right. These nitpickers are extremely easy to fool into doing the work of propaganda.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
Half of the country thinks the Mueller report exonerated Trump. The body politic has become completely decoupled from reality. If it's that easy for Russians to influence our politics, why wouldn't the Chinese perceive that there
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by Impassionata 5y ago
If you constrain 'performance' to things which can be easily measured and then test how multitasking affects those measurements, you can come to some broad conclusions that are also useless.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
Hello there! It's nice to be remembered. How, may I ask, are you familiar with my work?
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by Impassionata 5y ago
This privileges confident speakers. (The same way written tests privilege confident readers, and standardized written tests privilege those who have the time and resources to study the standard.)
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by Impassionata 5y ago
Those people are capable of speaking for themselves and don't need your advocacy. Rethink your approach, muddling equivocator. There is no good strategy to convince the unscientific. Your project of seeking a good strategy is deluded
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by Impassionata 5y ago
No, mostly because you come into topics about serious issues and opine inanely about how science is a religion. You talk past the topic. You get called out on it. You double down. You loftily say that we're talking past each other,
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by Impassionata 5y ago
I bet it happens to you a lot.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
You aren't being instructed to believe something based on faith. You're encountering evidence you disagree with and making up, which is to say hallucinating , the idea that the evidence of science is something that is like faith
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by Impassionata 5y ago
That wasn't an examination of voting population dynamics, that was just lazy opinionating with a flimsy curtain over the motivated reasoning.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
God will not stop us from destroying ourselves. I wouldn't bring faith into a political discussion.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
Referencing the fictional arguments of 'a lot of people' just means you're too ashamed to own your own opinion.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
You want to call other people crazy for using precise, accurate terms, I think that makes you crazy.
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by Impassionata 5y ago
This is what people were saying as the climate emergency set in. Incredible.
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by Impassionata 6y ago
I wrote a letter. https://theimpassionata.wordpress.com/2020/06/23/to-whom-it-...