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by computerthings 2y ago
Or it might be just another variant of the various bunker building efforts to ride out the coming upheavals.
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> And I think one strategy to optimize an overgrown system is to just burn the old, and start from scratch. To avoid overspending and crashing the economy (I don't think the govt spending tax money crashes the economy but I'm n
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by computerthings 2y ago
Oh, so the CCC aren't "proper" hackers now? Where can I see that memo? https://media.ccc.de/ Lots of political stuff, in context most importantly https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-correctiv-rec
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Come on, you know they wouldn't agree with the spirit of the full quote? They're cancelling DEI programs because they don't care about the disadvantaged; precisely because they think they are worth less, socially. https:&#
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In context, I read that as describing the future he could have had in brighter terms to increase the contrast with the following description of the future he probably has . Like, being generous because it doesn't matter now anyway.
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I don't think people have to earn being socially equal, and can't earn being socially superior. Each person is 1 unit of human dignity, no seconds, but also no one left behind.
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> A relatively small group of people with Need for Chaos traits can now inflict a lot of damage in society. I'd say that's owed to the degree web discourse becomes dominant over people talking in the flesh. If you have a circle
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Good thing I wasn't asking ^^
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> We did not vote to send our tax dollars to other countries for these things. I have no reason to believe you know what "these things" are. > People are outraged that their hard earned tax dollars are being wasted on stuff
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by computerthings 2y ago
Sure, it's a watercooler, with Blockwarts that seek to prevent any discussion of the giant yellow bulldozer outside the window, but when you ask them if they don't have to work sometimes, they never make the case why other people
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by computerthings 2y ago
> $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa Heh. But all in all: yes, and? You're just listing things as if listing them means there's a problem with them, without even bothering to identify problem with any of
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Unprogress by Fairlight, 2017 [video](youtube.com)
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But making a profit can still come in the form of solving an issue for people. They may be the minority, but companies exist that don't just optimize for short-term profit, but have a stable base of product and customers and get better
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by computerthings 2y ago
Resistance is safer than compliance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_resistance_movement Integrity is the only long term defense against tyrants. Giving in kills your ability to think honestly (and like a chicken
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by computerthings 2y ago
> That one seems really straightforward - people don't owe you receipts for their views or explanations for their motivations. Everything "seems straightforward" when you just make up what seems convenient without actually
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Claiming "disinformation is subjective" and then cherry picking something to avoid all of it isn't even a credible attempt. Consensus isn't the objective, forwarding arguments that hold water is. You haven't dispute
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Because you just drop that into one big bucket, "the events", and then e.g. every single tiny coding thing is it's own thing, instead of the "coding" bucket. And even then I'd say it's a stretch.
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> If the reasons are benign and not to suppress awareness and discussion -- in short, not people thinking themselves the lords of others -- then nobody would have a problem with people opting out with something like "ignore thread f
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by computerthings 2y ago
> Where I disagree with them is the idea that mentioning genetics at all makes me a) wrong and b) an advocate for racial purity. FWIW I don't have that impression, that's not what I'm arguing against, I just think the cult
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by computerthings 2y ago
On his Twitter account. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93q625y04wo
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> Have a Jamaican newborn adopted by a Japanese family in Japan and a Japanese newborn adopted by a Jamaican family in Jamaica and see how each ends up. If "genetics cause a real difference" here, what are they? If the differen
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by computerthings 2y ago
"not as easily accessible information" and "disinformation" are two different things > Everywhere, in schools, in cafes, the bus stop people would tell you crazy things Where and when is this supposed to be? Even taki
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It's Americans having an issue with this, not Germans.
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There is nothing to know. You want to claim this is "the actual oppression" without making the argument for it, likely because you have none.
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by computerthings 2y ago
> Why should we operate under the assumption any policy implemented by any politician (German or otherwise) is inherently good by default? That's not loudly voicing an opinion. Nobody said you should "operate under the assumpti
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"the exact same thing in the same way" is a goal post of your own making, and I reject it. People stripped of their rights and disappeared, not based on individual actions, but their being only considered as object-like members of
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by computerthings 2y ago
> It seems reasonable to check to see if the preconditions are similar. I know. And I ask how that is relevant, how any answer to those particular question would makes them similar or dissimilar. It's not. I know this for a fact, bu
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by computerthings 2y ago
Even when the executive doesn't follow along, the President never is "the government", and never "the law", in the context of what the comment to I replied called "hilarious". When I say there should be hu
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by computerthings 2y ago
Trump is neither the government, nor is he "the laws", nor allowed to make laws. https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/three-branches/what-...
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What "concern" did Musk express with that salute? https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/auschwitz-survi...

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