blackrose

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by blackrose 8y ago
But seriously, what are your motives in defending Facebook so much?
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by blackrose 8y ago
Right, and it's echoed in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [0] and elsewhere. [0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ayn-rand/#Intr
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by blackrose 8y ago
It's not that she's evil, just that her "philosophy" is what you said: one person's view (i.e. opinion). She couldn't reconcile many critiques of Objectivism and didn't do much self-analysis on it. So desp
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by blackrose 9y ago
Yep, nailed it. For those of us who still read despite all that, here's the browser extension you've been looking for (Make Medium Readable Again): https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
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by blackrose 9y ago
> Mr. Trump, who is known to watch Fox News while he is tweeting, posted his tweet shortly after a Fox News legal analyst appealed directly to the president during a Thursday morning segment about the coming House vote. The analyst, Andr
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by blackrose 9y ago
Nope. A lot revolves around them, but there are plenty of ultra-rich ideologues pushing their agenda this way. You can find some good investigative research on this in "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer, which details a lot of the histo
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by blackrose 9y ago
The formula works! If it can get that guy in the White House, it can sell anything . Also, I think it's kind of delicious when a variant like this is used to actually describe a previously "Y/Great" thing (Medium was
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by blackrose 9y ago
> ... but they returned money when they stopped. After they took a couple mil for themselves :) [0] [0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-founders-pocket-6-mill...
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by blackrose 9y ago
Isn't greed self-centeredness? > society at large is unquestionably a cesspit of low consciousness, and self-centered thinking That's a heck of a personal projection :) And pg disagrees with that last sentiment in the footnotes
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by blackrose 9y ago
Yes, it literally is. You just needed to scroll down the page a little more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#Conspiracy...
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by blackrose 9y ago
This is a seriously debunked conspiracy theory [0][1] that damages us all when people continually spread it. [0] http://www.snopes.com/seth-conrad-rich/ [1] http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/
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by blackrose 9y ago
People in the intelligence community consider Snowden a Russian asset now. Russia could've flipped or co-opted Assange since the Bush years, or maybe it's only now coming out. Either way much of this stuff is classified, so we can
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by blackrose 9y ago
That's the point -- the CIA, FBI, and NSA determined with "high confidence" [0] that Russia worked to influence us through (among other outlets) the media -- especially social media. It worked, and because of it our votes wer
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by blackrose 9y ago
From the intelligence community assessment [0]: > The Kremlin’s principal international propaganda outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) has actively collaborated with WikiLeaks. RT’s editor-in-chief visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
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by blackrose 9y ago
It could be you or your family having connections to powerful people. Being famous. But what's important as it pertains to our conversation: being in an authoritative position, e.g. a teacher, law enforcement officer, manager, or compa
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by blackrose 9y ago
> You honestly come off as hostile and even childish. You're fabricating complete strawmen and attacking them. > You also seem to be extremely self-loathing, and you want to project that onto others. These are funny sequences of
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by blackrose 9y ago
I was mostly trying to point out how ridiculous camelite's argument sounded. I thought maybe we should instead have a serious conversation about the events leading up to Uber's current troubles, and how they reflect on our society
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by blackrose 9y ago
Thanks dang. Removed.
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by blackrose 9y ago
I see what you're saying, but I've laid out many other, less aggressive points and remained open to any good counter-argument. I'll take the downvotes for this, but I think certain stances people are spouting on this thread a
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by blackrose 9y ago
And trusting people to have free speech is definitely going to be abused by people who want to say controversial things. And trusting people to use encryption is definitely going to be abused by criminals who want to commit crimes. And trus
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by blackrose 9y ago
> Parent comment said "believe women who..." Luckily we have the power of inference and ability to understand what statements mean even when people use different words -- unless, of course, we have an axe to grind, which is wha
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by blackrose 9y ago
I'm neither rich nor powerful, and I don't feel pressure to do anything outside of ensure my own survival. I mean, I could get a girl pregnant and still have a hell of a lot less to worry about than she does. [edit: removed para
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by blackrose 9y ago
Generally speaking, as a group, yes -- especially when compared to the social pressures put on women. Yes, that's changing, but we still have a way to go. Happy to hear any difficult and unrealistic social pressures you think we regula
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by blackrose 9y ago
> then you are deliberately stacking the deck against the specific men who are accused of sexual harassment, some of whom will invariably be innocent. This is really a stretch in logic, and the oxymoronic "some of whom will invari
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by blackrose 9y ago
Power is enacted through multifarious means, with wealth being one of them. Wealth isn't a requisite for power. Generally in the US, positions of power are held by men, because of (or in spite of) an interconnected system of laws, no
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by blackrose 9y ago
> or is this a one way deal? FFS, dude. Men hold the vast majority of power in our society. No cards are stacked against them. No old fashioned norms are still levied on them everytime a woman speaks to them. They aren't constantly
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by blackrose 10y ago
Shitting on Go for sport: a HN pastime.
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by blackrose 10y ago
It's called " batteries not included " and it's a shitty thing to do as a company when you're selling a several-hundred-dollar device. Seriously? They can't include a $19 cord?
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by blackrose 10y ago
I'd imagine that's exactly what they're looking for. And if they can somehow find someone so passionate, they can only benefit. So why not look for that (from their perspective)?
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by blackrose 10y ago
Seriously. And it goes for pretty much all of these. Has this guy never taken a subway? Flown on an airplane? Left the city?

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