gorwell

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by gorwell 2mo ago
Reddit still thinks the EU represents democracy.
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by gorwell 2mo ago
But hundreds voted? 314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions
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by gorwell 4mo ago
You don't know the meaning of the word you're using. Immigrant (noun) A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence.
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by gorwell 11mo ago
Per capita isn't the useful metric in this regard for the reason Palau illustrates. The climate cares about volume. Per capita emissions is a way to assign relative sin by those who feel guilty about living large. Bill Gates today, &qu
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by gorwell 11mo ago
For context, here are the top 10 biggest footprints 1. China 26.16% 2 United States 11.53% 3. India 7.69% 4. Russia 3.75% 5. Brazil 3.16% 6. Indonesia 3.15% 7. Japan 2.15% 8. Iran 2.06% 9. Saudi Arabia 1.60% 10. Ca
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by gorwell 11mo ago
You can do taxes for free most of the time. Millions of us do every year, and the IRS estimates that 70% of tax payers could file for free. > Why must every service and thing in the US must be a private profit making thing? It isn't
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by gorwell 1y ago
It hasn't. It's been down since 2007 despite increased population.
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by gorwell 1y ago
Those are the numbers that matter. Percentages are how you lie with statistics. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...
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by gorwell 1y ago
Misleading due to missing context. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...
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by gorwell 1y ago
They also use dollars and credit cards and gift cards.
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by gorwell 1y ago
Not the same. Posts get reduced visibility and reach for using slurs, and Twitter used to go further and delete slurs and even ban the poster.
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by gorwell 1y ago
They could support a stablecoin like USDC and start pushing people to that. No censorship and lower fees. Valve broke ground with Steam, they could do it again.
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by gorwell 1y ago
You are projecting. Nazis were against free speech and big on censorship and ideological conformity. You are aligned with them.
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by gorwell 1y ago
Yes, it did. Every large platform including Twitter was censoring its users due to state pressure. Even Facebook has since admitted that they were told to censor information that was true, and they knew to be true.
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by gorwell 1y ago
X is still ground zero for news, and it saved free speech. In the fullness of time and distance it will be viewed by historians as one of the most important events in history.
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Britain's police are restricting speech in worrying ways(economist.com)
149 points by gorwell 1y ago|170 comments
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by gorwell 2y ago
It's not a boogeyman and there are many liberals who have been raising the alarm for years about the dangerously illiberal and authoritarian nature of this new religion. Not just PG, also Sam Harris, Bill Maher, JK Rowling, Richard Daw
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by gorwell 2y ago
Bluesky is the blue version of Gab. You'll find that it's an ideological echo chamber and gets uninteresting fast. The difference is that this version of Twitter isn't censoring and banning people for wrongthink. The people
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by gorwell 2y ago
It also means they will become increasingly radicalized in their echo chamber. It's telling that people who are leaving X are doing so not because they are being censored, but because their political opponents are no longer being censo
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by gorwell 2y ago
Just call it "climate"
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The reason the Internet sucks now(twitter.com)
21 points by gorwell 2y ago|17 comments
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by gorwell 2y ago
They're bold enough to say they're carbon neutral. "Today, Apple is carbon neutral for global corporate operations, and by 2030, plans to be carbon neutral across the entire manufacturing supply chain and life cycle of every
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Is the integrity of Signal compromised?(city-journal.org)
2 points by gorwell 2y ago|2 comments
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Forcing master to main was a good faith exploit(world.hey.com)
12 points by gorwell 2y ago|13 comments
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The Censorship-Industrial Complex [pdf](judiciary.house.gov)
3 points by gorwell 2y ago|1 comments
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by gorwell 2y ago
*Every legacy media article
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by gorwell 3y ago
It's infuriating how people spread that racist meme. And to add insult to injury, consider themselves holy while doing it.
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by gorwell 3y ago
Hopefully not! At this point we'd be better off if they did take it over vs getting out entirely. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39280477
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by gorwell 3y ago
No amount of capital can cut through the corruption and regulatory morass that has been built up over decades between the biopharma and government revolving door. That needs to get cleaned up before anyone has any chance of solving this. h
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by gorwell 3y ago
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is the opposite as advertised. It's a serious mistake to take the self proclaimed Ministry of Truth at face value.

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