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by diogenes4 3y ago
Really, this has no bearing on the comment, it's just asinine.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Not going to happen when Google (or other similar tech giants) can just buy out (and potentially shut down) their potential competition.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
There are many reasons why police serve the role they do in society. Neglecting other reasons other than blatant racketeering—the role they play in preserving the institution of private property, the role they play in filling prisons, the r
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by diogenes4 3y ago
You don't have to believe anything, but if you don't see the racism that pervades our society you're utterly blind.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> you'll reliably get a lot more NIMBY response from "set up a nuclear power plant in the neighbourhood" vs. "set up a gas power plant in the neighbourhood" I don't associate the term "NIMBY" with
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Well, here is X trying to make a product you pay for. I think they still show ads if you pay for it, so it's really just adding insult to injury.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Please do not conflate people concerned about epidemics with narcissistic assholes.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Neither party is obligated to the interests of the people living in this country. I'm not saying this is necessarily bad advice but there are some problems that require actual citizens to do something aside from vote.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
I'm not one to ever defend the institution of policing or the court system that feeds and protects it, but cops do not have general immunity. They have qualified immunity from civil cases in some places. The primary friction from p
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by diogenes4 3y ago
1. Most people don't have anything interesting to say. 2. People who do have interesting things to say deserve to get paid for their work. 3. Other platforms (e.g. TikTok) provide a more natural medium for interaction and response. 4
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by diogenes4 3y ago
I've always felt that "sum" was sufficient and self-evident. I see no reason to drag "cogito" into the conversation, let alone "ergo".
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by diogenes4 3y ago
This site claims $129 billion: https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative... Sure, you can adjust per capita. I still think it's a fairly shocking statistic—we certainly don't get that value
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Hell i'm not even sure you or I think. This is the problem with referring to subjective perception when we can't be sure we're even referring to the same thing. A "thought" might just be a linguistic quirk of two me
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Spacetime (might be) infinitely large, but that doesn't imply that there is infinite matter or energy. That said, this is kind of a dumb argument because far lower k values have lower BB(k) values already exceed the apparent informatio
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> I'm "convinced" that the "defund the police" was planted to discredit the movement to reform the police. "Reform"? You mean spend billions more on training so they can ignore all the criticisms levied
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> We don't need less funds We spend more on our police force than each country in the world spends on its military, except for ourselves and china. We need less funds.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Nothing inherent to crypto makes it more unequal any more than capitalism itself. Well aside from the fact that most people don't own crypto....
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Oh man i had no idea we could enumerate the totality of chemical effects in the human body, my b
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> you’re just left with people doing what they want. God forbid
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by diogenes4 3y ago
There are known methods to retrieve power from the jaws of capital.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Glyphosate kills far more than just weeds (whatever those are).
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Integers are an abstraction on top of words; words are perfectly safe.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
I don't understand the fear—we have always lived in a society where truth exists in terms of degrees of certainty, and virtually any statement about the world can only be true with less than perfect certainty. Vagueness and ambiguity,
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Being based on crypto, which is even more wildly unequally distributed than fiat currency, makes this idea a non-starter.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Better than tomorrow!
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by diogenes4 3y ago
I love this, but a corporate site is probably not the best place for this.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
The expectation of privacy is changing with technology, and the police are actively pushing these boundaries. For instance, see: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-york-police-drones-m...
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Right, I guess I'm asking why anyone puts up with the idea of a state standard to begin with when it only benefits the state.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Presumably that's the aspect that needs fixing.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
There's always tree-style tabs, eg https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

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