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by computerthings 2y ago
Not even 23% people voted for Trump. The people who still want this are all insane. Or maybe they're not, but it makes no difference, that's the output, just lengthy sophistry at worst, brain worm slogans at best (because it saves
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by computerthings 2y ago
There's so many prolific posters here debating the same simple facts over and over, pointing out they don't care about a discussion without contributing any of it. But surely all that weird stuff we see cannot possibly ever infl
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by computerthings 2y ago
> "There's God's side and the other side." --Katt Williams This reminds me of one of my favorite things: > Now I am enjoying the last rays of the sun again, marveling at the incredible beauty of everything that has
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by computerthings 2y ago
Where does the rush come from? From within yourself and wanting discoveries to be made in your lifetime? The way humanity approaches and organizes things, where everything and everyone is owned and just a tool to increase profit to repeat t
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by computerthings 2y ago
I tried it on music videos, and with most of them I got the distinct impression it's drawing from the description or external info, maybe PR, because it was very generic, the funniest I saw being https://tldw.tube/?v=kx
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by computerthings 2y ago
I read this, twice, and could not draw a drop of meaning from it. As in, I have no clue what I just read, twice.
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by computerthings 2y ago
(I shortened the answers, imagine this padded out a lot more with repetitious blurb and chipper nothingness) what's the best way to fire fast with a joystick that has no auto-fire function? > 1. Tap the Button Rapidly 2. Use a “Doub
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by computerthings 2y ago
> Technological change is like a force of nature. No, progress is, though not a force of nature per se, you could call it that within human cultures (though they can still perish, and easily, especially the more complex and interdependen
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by computerthings 2y ago
> Shelled out tens of thousands to create army of 2,500 LGBTQI+ allies The upper bound of "tens of thousands" would be 90k, right? At least I don't think you'd call 200k or more "tens of thousands", right? W
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by computerthings 2y ago
The phrase "Ark Fleet Ship B" is wandering through my mind in search of something to connect with.
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by computerthings 2y ago
Colonizers demand you change. Things make life better for people need to just exist. You just need to see your neighbor enjoying it to want yourself some of that. If you need to make changes for that, you'll ask what changes those
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by computerthings 2y ago
Trump firing FBI and DOJ staff for doing their job, deleting archives, all that stuff? If you just translated English reports on that, just translated some choice quotes and put it on page #1 Germans would probably be more shocked than Am
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by computerthings 2y ago
Good what? I wasn't complaining that shit gets memory holed here, I observed something I had never seen before. The discussion seems generally really informative, it's mostly the people who don't want the topic discussed who
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by computerthings 2y ago
> Meaningfully reducing the size of government is a surprisingly rare occurrence throughout history. "meaningfully" is doing all the lifting here. This is saying nothing. And it's not as rare as oligarchs persecuting polit
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by computerthings 2y ago
Now this is interesting.. when this had 17 votes in 17 minutes I was like "yeah this is gonna get flagged" so I left it open in a tab. Now I see it's not flagged, yet I can't find it on the first 20 pages of the front
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by computerthings 2y ago
It's been happening from day 1 kinda: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5124328-trump-ad... > Some of the first actions from the new leadership at the FBI and DOJ have targeted those who worked o
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by computerthings 2y ago
> Remember, headlines are fighting for views. It is natural that they spread "we're all fucked real real bad" vibes I disagree with this. What spooks me out about headlines in Germany is how relatively silent they are abou
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by computerthings 2y ago
I wanted to quote much less, but it proved difficult, since wanted preserve some kind of "self-containment" of the point. It always feels wrong to take one of the many "quotable bits" from her books, because thinking o
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by computerthings 2y ago
I'm not American and other users aren't here to entertain specifically you.
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It's inherent. https://archive.org/details/TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism/ > The struggle for total domination of the total population of the earth, the elimination of every competing nontotalitarian reality,
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by computerthings 2y ago
As Hannah Arendt said, the difference between traditional and modern lies is like the difference between hiding it, and destroying it. > Moreover, the traditional lie concerned only particulars and was never meant to deceive literally ev
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by computerthings 2y ago
> If the U.S. Constitution is the core operating system of the U.S. government, the Archivist of the United States and NARA are the maintainers of the system’s foundational codebase of legal and historical documents. to dismiss anything
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by computerthings 2y ago
Yes, there are advocates for technocracy on here, and they think they can gain from this. Being "thoughtful" doesn't make any of their specific arguments for it more or less valid. When you have to move away from the thing in
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by computerthings 2y ago
And private companies don't even have to be vulnerable, they can just do nasty things nilly willy, because it might be profitable and they might get away with it. Yeah, there could be ones that don't suck, and then customers co
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So they didn't have proof, and some participants pinky swore? Cool. And whenever someone gets caught frothing at the mouth over putting people into mass graves and pissing on them or whatever, and other such things that are a constant
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they don't "exist by default" or without reason
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I say it's easier today, if you keep it simple. Everything I did 20 years go still works, or works better, or became simpler to do, or is now built into the browser or the language or what have you. Like this little PHP script I had
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I doubt that includes no longer wanting to look into X and election interference, which Musk probably counts as one of those more pesky regulations, while with the other side of his mouth talking about transparency. No, DOGE would be more l
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He isn't a big picture thinker, he's not even a thinker. Show me a coherent "big picture" thought of his. Or I could show you many things he thinks are very deep any moderately bright teenager would be ashamed to claim.
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by computerthings 2y ago
> “Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.” > we’ve just got to do a wholesale, spring cl

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