SenAnder

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by SenAnder 3y ago
The claim was that "we figured out how to handle Nazis 80 years ago", where the "we" that did the handling would be considered modern-day Nazis, and it is to people holding a mild version of their opinions that the moder
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by SenAnder 3y ago
I don't think I said anything that disagrees with your post. Except for one detail - the comic you linked writes (emphasis mine): "It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole, and they're showing y
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by SenAnder 3y ago
You're right, credit also goes to the Russians that had just finished starving Ukraine into submission (and would go on to implement a system of brutal repression that killed tens of millions and consigned eastern Europe to dictatorshi
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parties. So libel on top of computer sabotage.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
But remember - Malthusianism was debunked, and the planet can support many more people. As long as you never think about environmentalism and population size at the same time - the only way to hold two conflicting ideas at once. I wonder if
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by SenAnder 3y ago
The email cites a tweet url as the reason for the ban, but the tweet itself has since been deleted. What was it?
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Throughout the piece he cautions against abandoning friends, principles, and of striving for the inner circle for its own sake, and for greed. It is a very uncharitable reading to then recast this caution and awareness as a general prohibit
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by SenAnder 3y ago
It's very in line with the current zeitgeist to dismiss a thoughtful piece on the perils of compromising personal values and friendships for the sake of social climbing, as a mere defense of classism. Gone from public discussion are vi
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by SenAnder 3y ago
So it is your claim that Blacks still lie about their race on the census, in significant numbers, because they are afraid of... what, exactly? Except in rare cases, race is obvious on sight, so I don't see what they would gain by givin
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> What is the better solution that retains the anti-theft capabilities of the device? Include the unlock key in the box the device was sold in, and in Apple's database. Tech-savvy users can, possessing the key, change it. Tech-uns
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> Higher-income households reside in distinct neighborhoods and send their children to better schools than low-income households. But state and federal funding supplements local tax school funding to achieve approximately equal funding p
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Dismantling Jim Crow does not seem to have affected their numbers much - the census found Blacks to be 10% of all Americans in 1950, and 12.4% in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_d...
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by SenAnder 3y ago
48% of the US, including 35% of those self-described as liberal, and 25% of those self-described as extremely liberal, are nazis? What a flexible (and useful!) term. I'm so glad it's only ever applied to my opponents.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
I don't know why you're singling out the middle-aged or men, but in the 1950s the US was in fact 87.5% non-Hispanic White [1], so all other groups accounted for only 12.5%. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Much like the EU patent convention that also excludes computer programs as such, programs for generic computers routinely get patented. It seems it is the opinion of esteemed patent judges that "as such" means it only applies to p
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> a lot of opposition from feminists for obvious reasons They oppose financial aid to young families, flexible working hours, and the promotion of living in multigenerational/extended family homes, where relatives help care for chil
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Interesting. The researcher correctly states that economic concerns are only an excuse. But he never asks why people object to reducing their homelands to mere economic zones. This is typical of such research - their goal (openly stated i
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Formally verifying does no good if the compiler is infected. In the stuxnet example, formal verification wouldn't even help - how do you formally verify centrifuge timings? Unlike what your sibling comment claims, I'm not saying
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> adult websites Don't buy their framing - every website with user-uploaded content is an "adult website" in the eyes of this law. If one of your users uploads a single jpeg of porn/hateful political rant/descr
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Hospitals in at least 4 states diverting patients from emergency rooms after ransomware attack - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/28/ardent... Moreover, it is untenable to m
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by SenAnder 3y ago
We lament that circumventing DRM is legally perilous, but sabotaging your customer's property is illegal . That you were the one that sold that property makes no difference - you sold it, it's not yours anymore, despite corporate
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> The issue is, a lot of the people at the top engage in business practices that actively disenfranchise people at the bottom. In an ideal world, we could first ban those practices, and only resort to punitive wealth/income taxes [1
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Holding the railway system hostage should make even the most short-sighted realize that DRM is an assault on national sovereignty.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
The key distinction is that it is legal to build and sell a scanner that ignores the Eurion constellation, or a radio capable of transmitting in radar frequencies [1]. You may not be allowed to actually interfere with radar or counterfeit m
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Mandating that your property disobeys you, and instead takes orders from someone else. They're starting with "benevolent" stuff like drunk-driving, then it'll be quarantine enforcement, then congestion control, and prett
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by SenAnder 3y ago
You love to operate by association - "They want to preserve their race, therefore they're nazis. The nazis committed genocide, therefore they also want genocide". A nice trick, for some reason the left side of the political s
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by SenAnder 3y ago
You have still not substantiated that the Nordic Resistance Movement is advocating for genocide, let alone this web retailer that is (allegedly, by the left-wing organization that attacks judges and politicians) linked to this movement, le
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> A century later, American academia has gone in the opposite political direction—leftward instead of rightward—but has ended up in much the same place. The question is whether we—unlike the Germans—can do something about it. Even when i
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by SenAnder 3y ago
By "participation in a Nazi organization", do you mean buying stuff from a Nazi online shop? And the "totally separate situation" is this same antifascist organization's target selection? But no, let's return
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Given that AFA Sweden has attacked immigration judges, does "genocide" here mean simply "reducing immigration"?

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