deciplex

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by deciplex 2y ago
> Those perspectives both can't be correct! Uh, sure they can: he saw an opportunity where he could make a difference and bring a program to light where the NSA was otherwise blatantly lying to Congress and the American people, and
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by deciplex 2y ago
Probably because the US empire had deteriorated enough by that point that revoking passports for exposing the blatant lies and crimes of our government was on the table by then. Of course, it's different these days. These days they&#x2
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by deciplex 2y ago
The universe itself, if bounded, might be a hypersphere.
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by deciplex 2y ago
If you're referring to the increased scroll speed with two fingers issue, that was patched within the last year.
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by deciplex 2y ago
They've yet to top Civ4 but third time's a charm I guess.
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by deciplex 2y ago
>It's the worst of both words. And it's quickly becoming the status quo. They really don't ever let a disaster go to waste, do they?
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by deciplex 2y ago
If you're required to RTO and doing it you probably aren't in a position to "insist" on jack shit.
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by deciplex 2y ago
One of the earlier examples of enshittification, before the process had been smoothed out and best practices established.
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by deciplex 2y ago
> Capital follows the most profitable investments. I think a common error is that people forget the "most" in this sentence. It is a very important word. It's not even that only profitable investments will get funded: even
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by deciplex 2y ago
> I find it hard to just say “none of this means anything, it’s just a hallucination”. I don't think that's the claim being made. FWIW I've done psychedelics as well, and I've had "natural" hallucinations (s
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by deciplex 2y ago
I will refer you to my earlier post: To me "I don't know" is pretty close to "didn't happen" anyway. I mean we will even say "hmm, I don't know about that" to indicate skepticism. I suppos
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by deciplex 2y ago
Our current understanding has most of the answers you seek, and compelling reasoning for why they are the correct answers.
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by deciplex 2y ago
Human memory is extremely unreliable. > This is obviously an inadequate explanation for the parent's complex ongoing saga so it doesn't add much Sorry but I am not going to copy/paste hundreds of paragraphs of literature
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by deciplex 2y ago
The compelling explanation you think we won't have for centuries in the future, we literally already have. It's perhaps not as comprehensive and well-understood as Maxwell's equations, but they are well-studied. What happened
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by deciplex 2y ago
To me "I don't know" is pretty close to "didn't happen" anyway. I mean we will even say "hmm, I don't know about that" to indicate skepticism. I suppose you are picturing someone who is obstina
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by deciplex 2y ago
I mean people have deja vu which is literally your brain misinterpreting a currently-happening experience as a memory. Medical literature is filled with tons of quirks of human perception and memory, and we frequently find new ones and new
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by deciplex 2y ago
> Parent poster is being unnecessarily smug and dismissive Can you elaborate? I tried to keep a neutral tone.
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by deciplex 2y ago
I don't know about "religiously" but did you have a better idea? Am I supposed to believe suppositions as though they are fact, for literally no reason?
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by deciplex 2y ago
>How can one explain that? She didn't actually do it, or at least she didn't do it to the degree that you think she did. Instead, you had an intense enough experience that your memories of the tone, cadence, and choice of words
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by deciplex 2y ago
I think your point is going to be lost on people who view art as a commodity to be consumed. From that point of view, replacing the artist with a machine can only result in a loss, if the person consuming the art could tell the difference i
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by deciplex 2y ago
> unlike you I believe that the median United States citizen does benefit from our global military supremacy Oh no I agree with this. I think the cost/benefit ratio is going up, but it's still less than one. I just happen to th
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by deciplex 2y ago
Why is it that "creative destruction" is so celebrated here right up until you propose eliminating jobs that murder people (either in the direct manner, or indirectly by needlessly denying them care etc) and replacing them with jo
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by deciplex 2y ago
My post was long-winded way of saying exactly that: Pax Americana doesn't exist, and never existed. Apparently this rhetoric was lost on you or, more likely, you're being needlessly pedantic here in order to rebut my claim without
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by deciplex 2y ago
That would defeat the purpose of our health care system and military-industrial complex.
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by deciplex 2y ago
To kind of piggyback on here since you described your experience very well, I'll give my own as a contrast to yours: Mine seems similar. Instead of piloting a body I just am my body, and I don't perceive any screen. Instead of an
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by deciplex 2y ago
> Sometimes the little guy is actually wrong. He is, sometimes. Also sometimes, the moon passes exactly between the sun and Earth, a new star appears in the sky, the magnetic field of our planet reverses, a proton decays (jury is still o
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by deciplex 2y ago
but you agree it is 50% of the problem
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by deciplex 2y ago
> we elected an opposition leader who favors capitalism. unfortunately, he's a total nutbag many such cases!
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by deciplex 2y ago
No, it's not, because this isn't a court of law. You're allowed to read between the lines here and use common sense. You don't need proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Given the history of the US on matters such as this, it
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by deciplex 2y ago
> unprecedented Not sure what you mean by that. > unconstitutional Not according to their Supreme Court. > including by OAS (if you care what OAS thinks) I don't. No one should. > unapologetic right-winger Jeanine Anez, pro

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