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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Bingo. This is borderline clickbait. Just another instance of a giant corporation shitting on ordinary people. The real creators of DOOM are long gone, and wouldn't give a shit about something like this. Corporations, and lawyers, are
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
May as well accelerate the demolition.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
I was hopeful for a bit, then I saw some stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JurplDfPi3U and realized nothing has changed. It's the same old shit: reporters being willfully ignorant, business people mislea
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
I'm all for decrying leftist propaganda, but if you think driving a massive vehicle while a bunch of screaming kids get up to god-knowns-what behind you is "fun and entertaining" you probably need your head examined.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
I don't appreciate being forced to pay for a feature I don't need. The modern car is FULL of such features, and it's caused the price to skyrocket. The median price for a new car in 1968, adjusted for inflation, was roughly $
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
"Do your own research" is disingenuous. If I do my own research (and I have) and it disagrees with your beliefs, you'll still tell me I'm wrong. Incidentally, people thinking for themselves and being able to look at stud
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
By the same measure, I don't want to spend much time around people who: 1. Blindly accept what the government, the media, and "experts" tell them, despite all three repeatedly demonstrating they're not trustworthy. 2. Co
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
People who agree with the mainstream, official line, government etc. don't need anti-censorship platforms. Your response to opening such a platform and seeing positions you hate should be "Excellent! It's working as it should
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Despite all the talk IPFS is just voluntary content mirroring. If people feel you're spamming, they'll stop mirroring your shit. Which of course illustrates the worthlessness of the platform for "Anti-censorship" and &qu
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
I stopped believing in "decentralized free speech" platforms the moment they all decided to censor and attack anyone they politically disagreed with (ie Gab's treatment at the hands of Mastodon). None of the people running th
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Your ideology is flawed. Human beings are not divided into two camps, "Good" and "Bad." You do not slice the pie in two and and discard everyone in the "Bad" camp. If you do, and do so honestly, you will find i
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Bingo. Fuck this gaslighting. The vast majority of pollution in general, and CO2 in particular, comes from industry, not individuals. Tossing trash everywhere and running gas through your bus-like SUV like a maniac is an asshole move, and y
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
They ARE anti-white propaganda. This isn't hyperbole, it's simply descriptive of the facts. Maybe they weren't at some point, but a new crop has taken over the reigns, and pretty much all of those groups have embraced wokenes
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
How long can a country endure if it continues to cripple learning, muzzle truth and persecute some of its most talented and capable individuals in the name of childish, incoherent ideology? Not long. The stage of history doesn't care h
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
What on earth are you talking about? Yes, obviously in order to make an apple pie you must first create the universe. In order to be gifted you must first be born, have a basic level of food and shelter, be mostly free of disease and so on.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
This is what a dying country looks like. The ship is sinking, and we're arguing about whether the scrollwork above the bar is cultural appropriation.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
It's well-established that radical leftists, the people who scream "Racist!" at anyone they can find, are ironically some of the most racist people in existence. Their whole ideology demands that they infantalize, disempower
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
More accurate title: "California seeks to turn Math education into anti-white, anti-intelligence propaganda devoid of any connection to reality. Few remaining sane people in state protest fruitlessly." These people are monsters. T
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
The old internet was largely user-agnostic. It involved a bunch of tools that were genuinely just tools, that people could use as they liked. As a result, all kinds of communities sprung up, and there was a lot of humanity on the net. New i
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
"Feels like" being the key phrase. The reality of the modern Internet means there's no need for GPT3: You don't need AI that can write like a human when humans are being pushed by market forces to write like robots.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Glad this is (at the moment at least) the top comment. Add another to the infinitely growing pile of HN news posts that are either out of date, massively misleading in making a calamity out of a non-issue, or both. Not that it's HN&#x2
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Consider 3 situations: 1. Google does not require 2FA. 2. Google DOES require 2FA on an account, but only requires the second auth if "suspicious activity" crops up. 3. Google requires 2 auths on each and every login. On 1, if a b
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
GOOGLE is literally forcing people to use their products. Their entire business strategy is based around it, gobbling up or destroying every competitor, advertising and promoting their own services on search above others, illegally collabor
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Is this the standard answer now every time someone complains of beating treated like shit? "I was walking down the street in broad daylight and someone beat me and threw me in the gutter!" "Nobody is obligated to teach you se
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Something nobody seems to be mentioning: the 2008 crash happened. The "cool" internet was largely populated by two things: People screwing around creating content in their spare time, with no expectation of profit ("Hobbyists
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
This is a good first step. The second would be for them to remain out after walking off their jobs and never return, so that Netflix could regain something resembling sanity. Maybe then they could stop manipulating ratings, censoring 30 yea
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
It's really amazing how far Firefox has fallen. This used to be a browser people bought TSHIRTS for. TSHIRTS! And wore them! And not just in SV: I'd see them in the wild in small cities too. The discussion is always the same, I&#x
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
What else could it be? Almost all these "clever" new "AI" products are just people taking a particular "trick" for interacting with GPT and obscuring it behind a slick interface. Hilariously, AI Dungeon was pro
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
There is no "selection process." The only people eligible to participate in federal "democracy" are already rich, powerful, and well-connected. The voters then "choose," in primaries and elections, based mostly
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Politics is about making the country a better place FOR YOUR GROUP, whatever that group may be. There are many groups, with competing, incompatible definitions of "better." That's why "politics" exists in the first

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