Thuggery

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by Thuggery 10mo ago
> Do remember that using LLMs is a choice. That seems like a naive take on technology to me. Once having/using a smartphone was a simple matter of personal choice. Once, having a car was a choice. If society as a whole adapts to som
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by Thuggery 1y ago
> I doubt that’s the problem. I don't know, it seems like it's a weird argument but it's definitely a thought I've had too. When I was eyeballing the Egyptian dynasties I was bit shocked to notice how short lived they
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by Thuggery 1y ago
That's pretty lame criticism considering many of those things were contemporary SOP for all countries. The USA remind abnormally libertarian despite this. Now it's getting abnormally authoritarian.
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by Thuggery 2y ago
I don't care about accusations of xenophobia. I don't like it because I don't like pointless historical revisionism. It's been called Gulf of Mexico since the 17th century, before there was a USA. And I don't like t
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by Thuggery 2y ago
50 years is honestly not that long. When you look at historical dynasties even the shorter ones tend to be ~100 years, if they don't immediately implode. That was a lot of suffering and chaos of what's actually a fairly trifling d
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by Thuggery 2y ago
Well you have been. The consent was always being manufactured. A certain controversial fellow by the name of Chomsky pointed out decades ago that media would inevitably reflect biases of their owners and staff, and the needs to be a for pro
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by Thuggery 2y ago
Sensible change. But I wonder if it will encourage retailers to treat the secondary now more food safety related "use by" date as the real "best if used by" date. If you're like me and slightly paranoid about food e
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by Thuggery 2y ago
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding but it sounds like you are implying membership of Hezbollah is deep dark shameful secret in Lebanon. The designation of Hezbollah as a "terrorist organization" is great for outside po
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by Thuggery 2y ago
I have never heard anyone refer to Neanderthal as a human unless they are talking in a "those are cavemen, early humans" way that's wrong. Where is this coming from? Is it a non-English world thing? Generally Neanderthals are
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by Thuggery 3y ago
It seems to me nearly every story about robots that gain sentience in human storymaking has them eventually turning against their human creators. Even the word robot itself comes from a Czech play were men develop an artificial human and th
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by Thuggery 3y ago
Depends on where you were. I was an American fan of anime before it was really socially acceptable and I've been of the mind that its popularity was probably inevitable once enough old guard culturally sneering at it died. Same as happ
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by Thuggery 3y ago
Are you so sure that was a legitimate and real comment? I'm not a woman so I can't know the truth personally. But people are very performative on Reddit. They also like narratives of victimization and offense. If you were to strai
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by Thuggery 3y ago
Well maybe it's just because I'm an unpopular weirdo, but I think "invite only" is cancer. In fact it's another head of the hydra killing the Internet. Whatever alternatives exist to the spam wasteland are strangled
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by Thuggery 3y ago
Humans may be tribal, but the universe is also entropic. Things decay in quality over time, and the only answer to this is cyclical rebirth. The analogy of music here is telling because in fact the vast majority of bands are only truly good
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by Thuggery 3y ago
Twitch "pays" streamers with a cut of the money they made off them though. The paycheck is 1/2 a cut of money given to the streamer by a third party with no work from Twitch, and 1/2 a cut from ad revenues that were gene
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by Thuggery 3y ago
This has been a talking point pretty much from the day the Brexit vote happened. The usual suspects then repeatedly publish that same line in the usual papers (The Guardian for one) hoping to reify the "belief" into being with the
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by Thuggery 3y ago
Side debate: the USA "ceasing to exist" from the view of a native American, in a manner analogous to Palestinians, would be the status quo that already exists today. In opposition to a racially exclusive "white supremacy&quot
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by Thuggery 3y ago
> By and large, the constitution grants wide privilege for states to decide how they run their elections, and how they validate whether a person is qualified. Do you have any historical precedent in which the population of a state have l
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by Thuggery 3y ago
Why would you need violent state enforcement of voluntary contracts?
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by Thuggery 3y ago
> This is a problem created by multiple governments over various parties Why blame "government" and not capitalism? Canadian Gosplan didn't conspire to set housing prices at insane and rising levels. It was the market mech
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by Thuggery 3y ago
> it's a ton of work, with people constantly bitching at you, for no compensation. One of my favorite things about Mod self pity that always seems to come up is this insinuation that they did not want the job. The literal opposite o
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by Thuggery 3y ago
I would say it's more male sexuality (primarily hetero) and female sexuality that is seen as threatening and uncontrolled that is categorized as grotesque. Things like OnlyFans has never been more normal.
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by Thuggery 3y ago
> When Napoleon Chagnon told his Marxist colleagues that the Yanomamö made war over women, the Marxists faced a choice: Either revise the whole foundation of what they thought they knew about humanity. Or declare that Chagnon must have g
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by Thuggery 3y ago
> Only assholes think like that. Only assholes doubt credentials because we are now trying to explicitly defy our biases. And/or people capable of unpopular rational thinking and noticing patterns. You can't aim to select peop
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by Thuggery 4y ago
> Can't blame him for being friends with people who asked for it. If he has not denounced those Libertarian friends, yes you can. If he has not lobbied the government with his disproportionate power and privilege to not socialize in
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by Thuggery 4y ago
Are people on HN of all places pretending to be cutely ignorant about doxxing? Back in the days of Internet forums it was understood to be a bad thing to publish someone's home adress or a picture of it. It's not that home locatio
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by Thuggery 5y ago
> overabundance of evidence that the COVID vaccines are safe, effective, and that they decrease hospitalizations and death "evidence" that comes from tightly controlled information sources with clear non-truth oriented motivati
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by Thuggery 5y ago
In the time when the 1st amendment was written (which is not a holy document that decides all morality. Nor is the U.S. the center of the universe) corporations as we understand them did not really exist. The people that were concerned abou
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by Thuggery 5y ago
Undoubtedly? I've never seen any real proof of it. It's just kind of a mantra. Housing pricing continues to be a problem in every first world country's urban center. Do they all have the exact same "zoning?" And why
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by Thuggery 5y ago
Okay, unpopular opinion that is maybe outside the scope of this place time. What serious non-biased proof is there that "trafficking" is a real thing? Because I don't think it is. It seems to me to be a modern day witchcraft

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