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by computerthings 2y ago
You may jest, but https://x.com/bungarsargon/status/1881439445523775961 > As a person with a strong track record of criticizing Elon Musk, I feel extremely confident asserting that this was not a Nazi salute.
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Taking this and the context of all of it and reducing it to "politics" is not exactly being intellectually curious. What you wrote could be a standard reply triggered by a button click. Bold faced lies that followers take as a sig
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When I said > As for the comments, I see people trying to claim this isn't an issue and being refuted, how is that bad? How is that "unproductive"? Compared to what? You just ignored it outright. Just because it's not
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You don't have to talk about anything, just because others talk about it. Someone is deciding that nobody should talk about it. When Meta changed their terms, it was a BIG topic. When TechCorp releases anything, it will be covere
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What data point? That a question goes unanswered because my account is 5 months old? > If you can find a contentious story and plenty of debate elsewhere, it almost always gets flagged for multiple reasons by a variety of people You just
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Just for the record, because it irked me and I wanted to refute it: the flagged comment said anyone with a knowledge of history would know this isn't a Hitler salute, because that's not done at an angle. And yes, I guess the &quot
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Everybody has excuses. And you don't actually "hear" people discussing in threads you don't click on. I don't want to hear about Apple, ever, nothing they do or make interests me, or ever will. Yet I wouldn't
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> On a big site that attracts millions of small time spammers along with commercial and nation state level scammers, you've already lost. Bluesky is not that site though? There used to be a lot of fake follows a few weeks ago, and m
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> I just can't see how granting artists special rights to monetary compensation for AI training or for output that is being done in "their" style won't eventually (or even immediately) result in harmful impacts to hum
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> The internet is filled with shit. Bots, influencers, spammers, the clinically insane, outright enemies. And also with people who just add people they consider enemies for whatever reason to all sorts of lists, and others who just subsc
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> these events become less relevant to each passing generation, and you don't rightfully get to decide what your great(x20) grandchildren are concerned with. In context of you claiming the AfD is "one of the oldest parties in
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> Ideally no one's art would be hindered by having to track down and pay someone for creating something in another "artist's style". After "you" tracked them down, slurped up their art and spent a lot of ele
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> what is unreasonable is expecting people to hang their heads low forever and sell out their own interests in contrition What is that even in reference to? The AfD is fully neoliberal, they're the last to talk about selling out. &g
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> one of the oldest parties and the second largest party in Germany What? They were founded in 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany As for being "nationalist conservative": > In J
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by computerthings 2y ago
After the Holocaust, some wondered "whether there can be poetry after Auschwitz", and here we are being told that condemning genocide -- and being uncomfortable with people who fail to do so -- is a "Chinese worldview".
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by computerthings 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German > Swiss German (Standard German: Schweizerdeutsch, Alemannic German: Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart, and others; Romansh: Svizzer
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No, just collective punishment. Why are you asking?
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> the population of Gaza would not grow over time That has nothing to do with anything. If I steal from you, I steal from you, doesn't matter if you get more than I stole from elsewhere. By that logic, not even the Shoa would be a g
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by computerthings 2y ago
IDF soldiers, singing: "there are no schools in Gaza, because there are no kids in Gaza", posing with underwear of women they displaced, saturating TikTok with war crime videos, blowing up infrastructure with controlled demolition
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None of these orphaned children did any of these things. Don't pretend collective punishment is justified. There are consequences.
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When someone claims they are a grandmaster in chess, and then talks about how the king is important ("you can tell because it's very tall")... and doesn't know how the rook moves, then yeah, if you never heard of chess,
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by computerthings 2y ago
What hard proof is there of him doing something hard that you have expertise on? If he lies, so badly, so hilariously, about being good at video games -- apropos nobody caring whether he is -- what else is he lying about? https:/&#x2F
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by computerthings 2y ago
As if everybody who ever talks with someone in Germany is "threatened"? And what freedom would that be? The freedom of Musk and people and his foot soldiers to be liked by everybody, no matter how dishonest or ignorant they are? T
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by computerthings 2y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-far-right-german-leade... > Musk concurred with her assertion that Adolf Hitler was a communist Not that I want to absolve him, but Musk genuinely doesn't know what he&#x27
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Seeing the place where you have lived for years and decades, and the people who you met a million times, with the eyes and openness of a traveler, would be such a gift. I wonder if it could be practiced somehow. > yet everyone, including
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Why play kids and the elderly off against the other? How is there even a dichotomy here?
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> nobody in the history of music has made more money than the CEO of Spotify This seems vaguely important?! Yet this story got utterly nuked off HN (can't find it on the first 10 pages). Meanwhile this still lingers on page 1: http
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Oh, you can't judge this, but you can declare hundreds of millions of Americans as "not normal" and yourself better than them. Is this a joke?
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That's why most people celebrate the death of this CEO, because they're well-adjusted. Roughly 25k Americans die each year for lack ability to afford health insurance. Normal people don't cry over one filthy rich guy accuse
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Sort by date, no difference. And FWIW so far I only heard the idea that this CEO deserves empathy online

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