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by loceng 8mo ago
Easter egg: Click the logo!
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by loceng 1y ago
Until you understand how 1984 extrapolates with today's technologies - and the only defense against corrupt-captured state(s) and industrial complexes toeing the establishment line, in ever increasing consolidation of so-called power-c
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by loceng 1y ago
Option then to facilitate true decentralization of total offline, local-first mode? Where your data and updates - including network reference IDs and perhaps version controlled organizational data - can be direct one-to-one transferred in-p
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by loceng 1y ago
Re: "（Disclaimer: This blog post was drafted with the help of a language model, but all opinions expressed are my own.)" Anyone else appreciate the attribution to utilizing AI? I'd further appreciate if they were willing to p
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by loceng 2y ago
A 43% increase and the state of affairs in Canada is far worse now, including that he doubled Canada's debt to over $1.2 trillion - so now our interest payments are also huge, far less money every day going to social services because i
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by loceng 2y ago
Preventing protestors from getting supplies like fuel to keep warm (etc) is an international crime. They worked with local authorities to position trucks to allow adequate lanes and access to all of downtown. Ottawa being the capital of Can
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by loceng 2y ago
I knew roughly what the numbers should be, and Grok had the correct answer. Does your comment add anything to the conversation?
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by loceng 2y ago
I referenced TFW + student visas. Otherwise you missed my points of the economic harm of TFWs displacing Canadians already here looking for work but won't accept work The same "debate" is going on passionately in the US in re
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by loceng 2y ago
He increased size of Federal government by 43% since 2015 - from Grok: "By March 31, 2024, the federal government's payroll included 367,772 employees, up from 257,034 in 2015." That's 110,738 new people on pay roll - bu
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by loceng 2y ago
Please look at these numbers in depth - not how they're presenting them. Similarly, the majority of industry growth has been Federal jobs - from Grok: "Since Trudeau took office in 2015, the size of the federal public service has
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by loceng 2y ago
Indeed, Trudeau had the whole state-funded media to use as his propaganda apparatus on his side - and it's why free speech is under threat trying in Canada and elsewhere, them trying to manufacture consent by so-called "hate speec
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by loceng 2y ago
I stand corrected that it Sloly was the 2nd police chief during the protest, not sure how or when I warped that in my mind to thinking that he was the 2nd resignation. My point still stands though and as you say: he was pressured to resign
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by loceng 2y ago
That stopped after the judge gave an injunction. That judge also said the protest could otherwise continue as was a Charter right.
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by loceng 2y ago
What evidence do you have for your stance? For my evidence I'll reference this top upvoted comment that references actual truths, realities on the ground: "Does the economist know what time it is? Nationalism is resurgent: nationa
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by loceng 2y ago
I think people are quite tired of the harms of a centralized globalization effort - whether from a decentralized cabal or official part of law and official government agreements.
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by loceng 2y ago
"Fun" mode activated: A long time ago, in a forum not so far away... HACKER NEWS: THE DESCENT INTO CHAOS It is a period of declining discourse. Hacker News, once a beacon of insightful tech discussion, has fallen into disarray. Re
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by loceng 2y ago
grok/: write an introduction text similar to the Star Wars intro, where it's talking about how Hacker News forum has turned into Facebook's low level quality comments Answer: In a galaxy not so far away, where once thrived a
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by loceng 2y ago
You don't need precision with a herd. You need to send them in a general direction to "trample" and for just a few of the more skilled-competent ones to feel emboldened and righteous in their vigilante justice - not being com
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by loceng 2y ago
There's a shocking amount of #EatTheRich crowd totally happy with the assassination as supposedly justified vigilante justice. Divide and conquer. The weaponized ideological mob is quite the useful herd to wield.
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by loceng 2y ago
Well, that rule would apply to people who are generally arrogant.
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by loceng 2y ago
So does that word use allow us to insinuate this is more likely propaganda towards manufacturing consent towards certain laws being implemented?
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by loceng 2y ago
There's been another recent push in certain countries for authoritarian-like policies, and so I would be skeptical and criticize such articles as potentially being propaganda to try to manufacture consent towards acceptance of implemen
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by loceng 2y ago
I suppose the hope is that if relatively good people, maybe bad actors but with certain limits, if they get exposed to or inadvertently the "opportunity" to be involved in higher orders of magnitude of bad - that they may then act
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by loceng 2y ago
Aka civil society.
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by loceng 2y ago
Yeah, it's a lower bar to charge with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Genocide charges can come later.
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by loceng 2y ago
The proof you provide is very shallow, and with no real relevance or weight as an argument point - when it's known that the US and Israel have veto powers, as an example, that most international organizations currently are theatre wit
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by loceng 2y ago
Good thing that's not how laws are formed - "your" not recognizing authority doesn't mean "you" haven't committed the war crimes or other illegal act that international organization has charged you with; s
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by loceng 2y ago
Interesting turn of phrase you used - it is in fact a leap, as you're making assumption you put forward as fact in your mind; how often do you do that? Countless people are accusing him of genocide, including the ICC, and it certainly
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by loceng 2y ago
Straw man argument. I didn't make the claim the ICC accused the ICC of genocide, however Netanyahu is now at minimum now officially wanted for war crimes. ICC and ICJ are different, yes.
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by loceng 2y ago
dang, Any strange upvote/downvote activity going on in this thread? Watching my own replies votes going up and down, makes me think of the "THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!" GIF: https://tenor.com/search/there-was-

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