jonnyone

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by jonnyone 3y ago
Media (and corresponding manipulation) could be created specifically for teaching purposes, aiming to keep the material as apolitical as possible while still retaining the techniques of manipulation.
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by jonnyone 3y ago
Maybe interested in science, but disliked scientism?
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by jonnyone 3y ago
Those Yahoo Groups could be a trove of niche, otherwise uncollected information, especially with regard to vintage or specialty electronics. Removing them was a huge loss.
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by jonnyone 5y ago
Many episodes with COVID discussion are still up. The ones taken down feature comedians and (non-COVID related) controversial figures. I'm not sure these removals are related to the controversy.
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by jonnyone 5y ago
>broadcast disinformation that is getting people killed. A statement many people appeal to that nobody can substantiate.
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by jonnyone 5y ago
I think they're a great way to tell which two minute "how to remove [x] from your computer" video actually works.
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by jonnyone 5y ago
I haven't watched in a while, what "quack pseudoscience" has he entertained recently?
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by jonnyone 5y ago
>Sure, Genealogy of Morals is probably all wrong All wrong according to what exactly?
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by jonnyone 5y ago
The affected sites that I use are now working. Check again.
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by jonnyone 5y ago
Wonder if the name is a Deleuze/Guattari nod.
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by jonnyone 5y ago
I should be clear that I agree with the sentiment of the Burning Man saying as it applies to Burning Man and events like Burning Man, I was just nitpicking the language of the curator. I happen to be part of a group that sometimes hosts eve
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by jonnyone 5y ago
>I still really prefer a world where we can be heads up, aware of each other, aware of the world about us, casually participatory with each other as we go about. It's such a waste of personage, of society, when people keep to themse
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by jonnyone 5y ago
>Online provides a forum for people to get the sort of attention we might like. "Look what I can do!" or "Look at me!" Still, one of my gripes about social media is that there are so many people who lurk. There's
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by jonnyone 5y ago
>It's very odd to me. I've seen people directly telling leadership that we are overworked, that schedules are impossible, that we need to work on group morale, etc - and it very obviously meant nothing to the leaders. You could
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by jonnyone 5y ago
Fair point re: considering Marx's time of writing. >The distinctive, defining element of the bourgeois property system is marketable property in means of production to which rented wage labor is applied, and it is principally that p
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by jonnyone 5y ago
>Where does Marx argue for this? It depends on what you mean by "raised", but after calling for the abolition of the family in the Manifesto (in whatever sense that the family under capitalism is bourgeois I guess) he says that
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by jonnyone 5y ago
>If you do a surface level reading of text, you're going to get a surface level understanding of it. I'd take this comment more seriously if you cited Marx in a primary text making this distinction, and not some secondary Wikip
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by jonnyone 5y ago
>even the Manifesto From the manifesto: >"The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most co
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by jonnyone 5y ago
No, not necessarily. You can be psychologically influenced by a society imbued with religious moral undertones to the point where you unwittingly want to "prove yourself" to "some omnipotent other." I think it's fai
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by jonnyone 5y ago
Work is not replacing church. In the Middle Ages, there was farm work performed by peasants. As far as 100 days off, if we take 52 weekends a year, we're a little over that same amount for those who don't work weekends (which is t
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by jonnyone 5y ago
I kind of see all documentaries this way. All documentaries rely so much on manipulation to drive a narrative that it's difficult to classify it as anything other than art. They can still be informative for sure, but I will never watch
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by jonnyone 6y ago
I don't think that's a problem with psychedelic drugs so much as people fitting their experiences into pre-existing molds that only prospered because of their illegality (so the experiential dialogue around the drugs is biased tow
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by jonnyone 6y ago
That looks like a great follow, thanks. Speaking of Twitter, their "trending" section introduces yet another level of possible editorializing/bias. They have started to try and summarize trending topics in a digestible way, b
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by jonnyone 6y ago
>Modern actors aren't as willing to sacrifice their health for muscle as their historical counterparts, especially because the lean look is preferred over the muscle-bound appearance of yesteryear While it's true that the Schwa
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by jonnyone 6y ago
>It mostly boils down to people pumping themselves full of steroids up until a week or so before the competition so they test clean. The most common "base" of a steroid cycle is testosterone. If you stopped injecting testostero
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by jonnyone 6y ago
Good to have a term for what usually happens when people try to freestyle rap.
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by jonnyone 6y ago
>defy reason once again. Nothing I've read about this hints that reason was ever defied. If anything reason was used cunningly.
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by jonnyone 6y ago
Is there room for the argument that Robinhood should have seen this coming days, possibly weeks beforehand, and been raising capital preemptively? In addition, DTCC raised collateral for specifics stocks from 2-3% to 100%, is there not room
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by jonnyone 6y ago
Like it or not, Trump is allowed to dispute the results of the election. He's also allowed to do so openly and to a crowd. Language like "will not stand down" is obviously in reference to the "fight" for his "c
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by jonnyone 6y ago
Too many people here are unable to distance themselves from their ideological contempt for Trump to be able analyze this with a clear mind. There is not much of a case that Trump "incited" a riot. The fact that this was planned fo

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