duairc

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by duairc 4y ago
amn't is absolutely a word. It's the standard contraction of "am not" in Hiberno-English. Wiktionary says it's used in Scotland as well: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amn't
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by duairc 4y ago
I'm sorry, but I don't think it's fair for you to imply that I'm posting in bad faith. The link I posted is not a "random" link, and whether you click on it or not is up to you, but it's a real video of Vi
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by duairc 4y ago
Post about US funded biological weapons labs in Ukraine. I've seen half a dozen Twitter accounts banned and subreddits quarantined/banned over posting on that issue alone. I'm not saying I necessarily agree with the claim mys
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by duairc 4y ago
> I'm always surprised how little interest there seems to be from the international muslim community in the Xinjiang situation, given that at least parts of it really blow up over even minor anti-Islam actions by single individuals
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by duairc 4y ago
Check out XY Tech who build and distribute modified ThinkPads. Xue Yao, the person behind it, intends to build a motherboard that will fit into an X220 case soon, possibly this year. I bought an "X2100" (a ThinkPad X200 with a 10t
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by duairc 4y ago
China is actually interested in helping people in Afghanistan. They sent aid[1] during the winter crisis and they have called for the return of the assets of the Afghan people that have been stolen by the United States[2]. [1] https:/
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by duairc 4y ago
It's a completely fair question to ask what is the Chinese justification. I found this documentary[1] by CGTN about the recent history of extremism and terrorist attacks in Xinjiang to be useful in outlining some of the context for thi
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by duairc 5y ago
> CCP has proven to us that we can't trust their word. Over and over again. Are you able to substantiate that claim?
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by duairc 8y ago
> Writing my own docx parser? Sure, that will be one mythical man century of work. I'm not sure that's actually a great example. I had a project a while ago where I needed to extract certain information from Word and Excel file
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by duairc 11y ago
Okay, I think we can all agree this guy is an asshole, and surely doesn't represent the views of most techies in San Francisco, right? Obviously it's fucked that so many people are homeless in San Francisco. Everybody blames us (t
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by duairc 12y ago
> Let's face it, humans need somebody to be on top. We don't know how to function otherwise. At least not for very long. What's your basis for saying this? Do you have any way of verifying this claim?
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by duairc 12y ago
> If you want real understanding of music in a useful way for real people, I recommend Bob Snyder's book "Music and Memory: An Introduction" which was actually written to teach creative artistic people about how music actu
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by duairc 12y ago
Communism is not the opposite of individualism, that's nonsense. Have a look at "The Right to be Greedy: Theses on the Practical Necessity of Demanding Everything". Greed in its fullest sense is the only possible basis for a
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by duairc 12y ago
No, not at all. I would argue that one implies the other. Historically, and still to this day in much of Europe, the term "libertarianism" is a synonym for anarchism, i.e., libertarian communism. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by duairc 12y ago
You could make it work for any colour with: color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
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by duairc 12y ago
> We have a democracy, and obviously only a minority consider this to be an issue of concern. > > If you have a problem with it, stand for election. There must be a name for this kind of fallacy.
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by duairc 12y ago
I agree that people should earn a living wage that enables them to live in the community that they serve, but all cops are bastards[1]. [1]: http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/atoz/fuckpolice.php
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by duairc 13y ago
I completely agree, except I am advocating shoplifting. I also wish there were more hackers who would use their lockpicking skills for more than just recreation. I feel like the idea that “hacking” can only be motivated by pure curiousity,
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by duairc 13y ago
Shoplifting can be a bit of an art. I agree with you that the “hacking” thing is overused, but I think it makes sense to call something like booster bags a “hack”, for example. There are lots of “hacks” for shoplifting.
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by duairc 13y ago
Would would a perfect drone make the world a better place? What would be better about that world?
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by duairc 13y ago
Could you explain to my why being “anti-GMO” necessarily implies being “anti-science”? What definitions of “GMO” and “science” are you using to make that proposition true? I actually am anti-science, in the sense of “science-as-religion”. T
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by duairc 13y ago
Haha, good troll. GMOs = science. Anti-GMOs = anti-science.
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by duairc 13y ago
“I own property”
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by duairc 13y ago
Are you saying that the political left would be more effective if it never used violence ever?
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by duairc 13y ago
> Abolition of property rights is usually down through coercive means by some agent of the state, hence it is top-down. No it's not? Property rights themselves can only be enforced through some agent of the state, hence they are top
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by duairc 13y ago
You have it completely backwards. Private property itself can't exist without the use of force and the state. If you abolish the state, you abolish private property. Let's say you're renting a house from some landlord. You li
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by duairc 13y ago
Why is socialism a top-down technocratic solution? What is top-down about the abolition of private property and workers owning the means of production? Also, what is “human thriving”? I find that capitalists use vague terms like this to mea
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by duairc 13y ago
I'm not a parody, I'm 100% serious. > Sexual boundaries were already crossed at the stage of people willingly doing body shots off each other. You completely misunderstand. I'm pretty sure you're doing it deliberately
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by duairc 13y ago
I don't think feminists have anywhere near as much social power as you seem to think they have. And the ones that do are white, liberal feminists. Most other feminists dislike them too (but not for the same reasons).
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by duairc 13y ago
Kissing someone who doesn't want to be kissed is sexual assault! I don't understand how you can be denying that? It definitely definitely is sexual assault. If you want to kiss somebody and you want to not sexually assault them, y

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