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by computerthings 2y ago
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by computerthings 2y ago
That something has to be applicable to only one "side" is a goal of your own making, not mine.
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by computerthings 2y ago
> A jury quite quickly ruled against defamation here Yes, and? That changes nothing about Musk attacking a guy as "pedo" because he wanted to insert himself into the spotlight and went threw a fit when he was told off for that.
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by computerthings 2y ago
More than zero would be a start. You said it's not viable to give evidence of claims during a press conference, okay, but it's been a while since then.
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by computerthings 2y ago
Well, on every page on HN there is currently a link to a blurb about an AI startup school, with a sentence mentioning Elon Musk as the first of "the world’s top AI experts and founders". Make of that what you will.
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by computerthings 2y ago
So where's the evidence?
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by computerthings 2y ago
> send your political monologue to the mods and see if they care I already did, they also got nothing ^^
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by computerthings 2y ago
I've seen it happen even as a young person, and still saw the fallacy of this "argument". I've been arguing with people twice my age who used it to silence any criticism of trends. And it's totally an online thing,
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by computerthings 2y ago
Right, so it's useful to just just say things without evidence, because they "might turn out to be true" in the future. Something being useful to Musk and his goons doesn't make it "useful" without such quali
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by computerthings 2y ago
> And yes, ending the Russian-Ukrainian war is in fact de-escalation, even if giving Russia what they want is the outcome. It's siding with the aggressor, and makes the soil more fertile for more such aggression. So if I try to stea
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by computerthings 2y ago
> There is a huge difference, though, in being able to say factually that someone was murdered or that the legal system of apartheid ended and saying why you believe someone made a certain gesture. The poster said "Elon Musk does Hi
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by computerthings 2y ago
> We’re in the middle of sorting out a disloyal administrative state that needs to be brought to heel. That's one way to put it. https://bsky.app/profile/twlldun.bsky.social/post/3lic2x56dv...
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by computerthings 2y ago
It's also true that for every thing that turned out to be horrible, there were people saying "this is gonna be great". Do you then also also dismiss all optimism? Why is this fallacy only employed in one direction? It's
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by computerthings 2y ago
"free speech" https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3licoe... You mean the freedom to engage in garbage sophistry and calling anyone a "retard" who talks back. Shit like ca
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by computerthings 2y ago
Please don't forget to tell us about them in great detail, Socrates and all that. After all that supposed counter-argument to anything and everything only gets brought up every single time when anyone suggests something got worse.
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by computerthings 2y ago
This is the guy who claimed Twitter was slow because "App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!" and then fired the engineer who pointed out they're doing zero remote procedure calls. "Sta
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by computerthings 2y ago
I found it among the comments here: > > I don’t know who said it, but this: > “It’s said that the honest man has nothing to hide. Not true. The honest man has to hide himself, because honest men are the prime targets of those who l
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by computerthings 2y ago
> Sure, and not even a quarter of Americans voted for Harris. So if Harris and her goons did this shit, the correct response would be the same. > if you really want to be pedantic Why would I want to be? Saying "the people are
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by computerthings 2y ago
Dissident have something to hide, persecuted people do. Wives escaping their violent cop husband do. So when we are saying "I have nothing to hide" we are essentially saying "I'm throwing all of these and more under the
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by computerthings 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Zwiv8erk0 If you shift the goal posts from "nazi salute" to the "intent", apropos nothing, that should give you pause. You call other people retarded, essentially, and c
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by computerthings 2y ago
> Eric Adams alleges the charges were brought against him by the Biden administration for political reasons. Sp what if he "alleges" that. The question is whether he is corrupt. > Dropping charges against your political oppo
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by computerthings 2y ago
Oh, I didn't disagree that they're populist right, and not progressive. I just think it's so much worse than that. Or maybe I don't associate enough "weight" with "right-wing populist"? For me it&#x27
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by computerthings 2y ago
Destroying government and rule of law and replacing it with a violent movement, giving people implicit permission to be brown shirts ("he who saves the country cannot violate the law") isn't just "populist right" in
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by computerthings 2y ago
Mind you that not even a quarter of Americans voted for Trump.
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by computerthings 2y ago
That's as much as an "engineering principle" as him thinking minimum character level of an item is more important than the actual attributes of the item in PoE2. He's just saying stuff his target audience thinks are smar
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by computerthings 2y ago
> highly damaging to scientific research in general Uhm, what? How so? > Describe your own research as "crap" in an email you ask to keep confidential? Give me a break. I don't know any researcher thinking what they do
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by computerthings 2y ago
"starting to talk like" is just code for you not being to quote and make a valid criticism of what she is saying.

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