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by blotter_paper 6y ago
You know how after the last big civilization all-out-war it turned out that the losers had secretly engaged in gross scientific experiments on humans? I think it would be naive to imagine that the winners didn't do so as well, they jus
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
Zoe gods have chips: https://youtu.be/jT-jmq8KBw0 (Some chips aren't actually signing anything, they're just another way of reading the same info that's on the strip. It depends on the company issuing the car
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
It's probabilistic, like everything, but N-95 masks do protect the wearer from particles that small. The CDC purposefully lied to you so that you wouldn't stockpile masks they (understandably) wanted to use elsewhere. / https
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
It's funny you use mask wearing as an example -- when the CDC told us that masks would not protect us[0] there was no theory to back it up and no homework to do, it was just a realpolitik lie. Be cautious of experts wearing the skin of
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
From the about section (emphasis added): >Subreply was created by Lucian Marin from the desire of a having a simple to use, English only , public forum that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks. [...] &gt
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
Reputation?
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
Could you expand on that last sentence? I haven't had coffee yet, and I'm legitimately failing to grasp which regulations you're referring to.
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
>So in your view, anything that is a composite of two or more primitives is by definition "made up". Yes. If we start calling higher order configurations "real" then we have to contend with all of the potentially imag
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
>Then define "made up". That which is not a part of base reality. If base reality were operating using the same rules as Conway's game of life then cells would be real, but gliders would be made up. Since Conway's gam
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
No prob, but if mdszy reads this I want to explicitly note that this is not meant as a caricature of their statement, I'm just trying to distill my meaning down into the most simple terms I can muster. Alice buys a status symbol instea
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
I wouldn't say that being found in nature means that something is not made up. Issus coleoptratus evolved gears long before humans invented them, yet gears seem purely phenomenal -- I wouldn't expect the noumenon to have anything
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
Strongly disagree.
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
While I don't disagree with my reading of your statement (which may differ greatly from your intent -- I'm not sure), I also don't see it as another way of putting my last comment; I was attempting to make another point entir
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
I, for one, both agree with your perspective and see how the last sentence of your original comment could be taken as engaging in a "political slapfight" (a pretty vague term) when viewed from the other side. I think being able
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
I'm disappointed by how much sympathy for cops was expressed in the video I'm about to link, but when Killer Mike tells me that the destruction of black-owned businesses is a problem in his community while wearing a "kill you
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
Without conceding that this topic should be our main focus right now I feel like we should draw a clear distinction between, say, local businesses on one extreme and police precinct buildings on the other. I see voices on the right, such as
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
Host it on IPFS, which was literally made to be eventually consistent across planets: https://docs.ipfs.io/how-to/host-single-page-site/
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
...and also a blood thinner :/
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
I would recommend watching the George Floyd murder video, and not for morbid reasons. I think it helps to understand how calmly, with his hands in his pockets, this cop sat on Floyd's neck for 8 minutes (the last 3 of which Floyd was u
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
I had named an example, the one which just happened. Reading that question sandwiched between my last sentence and your next one I was legitimately unsure what you were asking. Therefore I made it clear which question I erred on the side of
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
>Have you got an actual example? Of a cop murdering a black man in broad daylight and not getting charged for it? Hell, here's an example I just pulled up for someone else of a 12 year old black kid being murdered while he played ai
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
>Name one example of this strategy succeeding Uhm... when the 3rd precinct got burned down and George Floyd's murderer faced charges the next day? Cops don't normally face charges for murdering black men in broad daylight, so I
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
>Yes, deliberately preventing anyone from providing care or defense for a person who's being murdered makes you an accomplice to the murder. Are we in agreement that this was documented as happening, and the other cops present were
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
In this pattern of cases, the system is the perpetrator of extra-judicial violence. We've had plenty of time for the system to correct itself, and it hasn't. Now a precinct gets burned down, a cop gets charges the next day, and I&
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
6 paragraphs, 0 answers as to whether George Floyd deserved the form of justice you would extend to his murders or why he got an extrajudicial execution instead. If there weren't riots, the topic would be whether to charge the direct m
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
The topic of the week is an extrajudicial murder committed by a team of four cops; where was our restraint in deciding the fate of George Floyd? Do these officers deserve nicer treatment than this system gave Floyd? Did Floyd deserve this t
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
What if you stop an EMT from checking the pulse of somebody who your co-worker has been choking to death for minutes? Does that make you an accomplice, too? If your city charged these cops justly then nobody would be burning it down; cure y
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
The more that protestors refrain from violent property destruction, the less likely it becomes that the three cops who were accessories in the murder of George Floyd get charges brought against them. Burning down one precinct got one cop ch
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
>You don't have to make a bit fuss or be rude about it, but I don't see anything wrong with pointing out something is wrong. In industries where people tend to treat each other sanely, I would agree. I believe that most kitchen
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
In most situations I would probably note the mistake to my friends after I was sure that the waiter was out of ear shot, but not make a big deal out of it. I can think of one person who I wouldn't say anything to until we'd left t

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