constantius

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by constantius 8d ago
Hey mate, I'm glad you could write this, hopefully the few messages of support you got help. If I had one advice, it would be to find someone who relates to how you feel, because being able to talk about it to someone who's been&#
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by constantius 9d ago
You're talking about the party. You're not saying anything wrong, but parent was talking about the voters. It is true that the issues of people who vote far-right are ridiculed, and they themselves are demonised, which the parent
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by constantius 9d ago
I believe I attended those rallies you mention: those slogans were anti-Zionist, ie anti-genocide/settler-colonialism/war. I'd bet that a significant minority of the rally attendants were Jewish. I imagine this fixes the misu
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by constantius 10d ago
KDE Connect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45557599
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by constantius 22d ago
Ah you said it much better than I did, I'll link your comment.
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by constantius 22d ago
You have a conclusion that you want to defend and some biases you're unaware of, so you're also not aware how tortured this argument sounds. Pick some other topic. For example: are people who thinkthat slavery is inherently and al
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by constantius 1mo ago
They are rationalisations: 'whatever makes a change to my situation' is a ticket that appeals to a lot of the poorer people, and it of course won't be the Tories or Labour, or their stand-ins in other countries. A huge amount
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by constantius 1mo ago
Presumably both Big Tech and the US in general have a massive incentive to prove it, largely for reasons of saving the stock market, so I'd expect these models to be finecombed continuously. Up to now, they've only been able to da
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by constantius 1mo ago
> You are arguing that terrorist attacks on public transport in the UK are mythical or dramatised? What kind of question is that? Did I ask you if you're calling cameras in the UK mythical? Same as what you said about London, I&#x27
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by constantius 1mo ago
> I am aware and never claimed that Your comment very much implies a strong link between the two however. That you then switch from data centres to factories is also a shift that is not related to the discussion at hand. Personally, ever
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by constantius 1mo ago
> based on myth and dramatisation > We have had generations of terror threats to and attacks on our railway system, trains, railway stations I think your take might be based on myth and dramatisation too, as well as a misunderstanding
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by constantius 1mo ago
I think your understanding of 'proactively' might just be different from parent's (and mine). I'd agree that entities that provide their users' data upon a simple request, and a carveout in regulations that allows (
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by constantius 1mo ago
You are in a new country and feel that your kid needs protection, which is perfectly human, but does mean that your opinion is a bit biased. As sibling comments mention, countries exist with many cameras, public or private, where driving fe
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by constantius 1mo ago
Yes: the content is very different from what I remembered it as from back when I first visited it after Aaron died, I don't know how the website went where it went, and I'm sorry I didn't check prior to posting. Updated link:
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by constantius 1mo ago
Thanks, updated link below: seems to have been changed since last time I saw it back when it all happened, sorry! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Bushnell
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by constantius 1mo ago
Thanks for quoting, I wasn't going to read the article, but now I realise the author is obviously onto something and I'd do well to read him.
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by constantius 1mo ago
I think it was your reading that is faulty, the commenter wasn't subtle and didn't undermine anything. Can you stop playing the game of owning people with teenager level zingers based on you yourself being too thick?
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by constantius 2mo ago
Thanks for surfacing this. As another user says below, Mitchell had more leeway in choosing his investors than most anyone. His is a dispiriting choice.
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by constantius 2mo ago
Bought the documentary and will be buying it for some friends, thanks!
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by constantius 2mo ago
You're strawmanning, or having difficulty reading. Whatever my personal opinions about copyright, this whole thread is about copyright set at 2000 years vs 20, so that answers your first 2 points. For the last one, 'losing value&#
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by constantius 2mo ago
A famous paper argued that, from 1960 to 2006, nonviolent resistance was twice as likely as violent resistance to achieve its goal: it's a paper that most activists I've ever met had heard of. The reasons are largely the perceptio
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by constantius 2mo ago
This is an edge case. The vast majority of intellectual output loses value extremely fast. If a new Kafka comes along and their writing becomes popular 30 years after publication, they will have 0 issues getting a fat contract for a new boo
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by constantius 2mo ago
To your second point: a company (or any kind of organisation) is continuous work. It's a very obvious retort to your analogy. It would be akin to the author writing a book in a series every year for twenty years, then giving their righ
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by constantius 2mo ago
> Is there a spiritual way to kill an animal? How would Jesus kill an animal? Amazing question. I'm not spiritual, but regularly debate this topic with others (including here): this will be a useful way of approaching it. Thanks for
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by constantius 2mo ago
As another sibling points out, creation before the fall, so.the animals and humans in the garden of eden, were vegan. There is also a theory that Jesus was vegan and a belief that Christians should be too: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by constantius 2mo ago
The idea that wars, epidemics, and catastrophes lead to wealth redistribution is the thesis of "The Great Leveler" by Walter Schneidel: it's not an absolute rule (and as far as I remember, another book was published to critic
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by constantius 2mo ago
I'm not using this to post religious flamebait, and to anyone thinking I'm attacking their faith: this is not my intent, and I'm for sure not singling out Christianity. I find history fascinating, especially the history of re
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by constantius 2mo ago
As a preamble, I don't want to attack your faith. However, the argument here is not that Christians side with the elite, but that the Church does. The Church has sided with the powerful again and again over the centuries, to great effe
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by constantius 2mo ago
Agreed, and the fact that he's not today recognised as a martyr is telling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M%C3%BCntzer
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by constantius 2mo ago
No religion is unscathed: joining with the powers that be and lagging behind every ethical development is the rule, for sure, but I had mistakenly believed that at least the founding had been devoid of the usual hypocrisies and blood. Alas.

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