mcantelon

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by mcantelon 2y ago
>Imo, the bigger question is why Hungary, Poland, Spain, Greece, and Cyprus (all countries part of the recent EU Spyware Scandal) [1] continue to allow their Interior Ministries to attack the phones of both domestic and foreign opponents
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by mcantelon 4y ago
>web3 is a culmination of late capitalist grift, ironic meming, libertarianism and mansplaining, all resting on bad tech that is damaging the planet ... Proof of Stake is an alternative to validating transactions that doesn’t involve set
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by mcantelon 6y ago
There's lot of edgy people on Twitter... lots of folks with hammers and sickles, ironic or otherwise, in their handles, despite the many documented atrocities committed by communist states.
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by mcantelon 6y ago
Law of the jungle's where it's at.
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by mcantelon 6y ago
Institutions earned their current distrust.
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by mcantelon 6y ago
>If the code were an ATM pin code cracker, would that be any different? No. Lots of pen testing stuff exists in the open source realm. A society that allows exploits to be "free speech" is anti-fragile.
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by mcantelon 6y ago
Reports of shitty working conditions aren't exactly a new thing in Amazon warehouses.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
>I got no doubt at this stage that the US will be hit the hardest from all the developed countries. It's the biggest and most diverse so that's wouldn't be surprising, yes.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
It's not "hypocritical" to address the fact that authoritarianism is a failure multiplier unless one is an advocate of authoritarianism.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
>The Nazis won a plurality of the popular vote, so it’s not exactly a great distinguishing factor for Trump. The distinguishing factor is that Trump's admin doesn't actually resemble a Nazi regime.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Perhaps mainstream conservatives would be cooler with this type of violent agitprop-masquerading-as-satire if it they weren't often called Nazis and physically attacked.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
>Yes it's accurate, though the "Always Punch Nazis" controversy was just the tip of the iceberg Wow pretty crazy that a company would expect employees to consistently enforce a reasonable part of the company's T.O.S.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Given historical experimentation by the military and intelligence agencies it seems pretty likely that this sort of research is happening.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
>who clearly have not investigated any of the most obvious follow-up questions, such as “what is the probability of this occurring naturally?” If it's true then the cause is an entirely different question.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
The Twitter user seems legit. The Internet in general is full of BS yet we don't guilt-by-association the entire Internet.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Corporate media has done a lot to promote polarization (and even violence). Social media is making corporate media redundant to some degree, but those who run social media are also influenced by the same forces influencing corporate media.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
The severity has grown but the scale of the toxicity's grown in the "human flesh search engine" era.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Lots of people would move into other people's nicer homes if they could too, but the owners of the homes might take issue with that. Nations are a form of collective property.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
What some call "American cultural imperialism" is what he/she is likely talking about.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Animals protect their territory. Fierce tribalism has long existed. I find the idea that people could just live anywhere, back in the day, to be hard to believe. In some places? Sure. In "the entire world"? Not so much. Spain was
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by mcantelon 7y ago
>i don't believe in borders and if you believe in the free market then you shouldn't either "Free" doesn't necessarily mean unregulated or without limitations. If you want to scrap a norm as old as borders there&
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Characterizing someone as having a "traumatic and damaging" influence seems pretty positive.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Using an obituary to characterize someone's influence as "traumatic and damaging" is kind of extraordinary.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
>we need to cut emissions by 15% annually Such a Great Leap Forward isn't going to happen and even if it did it wouldn't reduce the rest of the world's emissions. Geoengineering is likely the only way to cool the earth glo
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by mcantelon 7y ago
That's pretty crazy... if there's 133 convicted in that time span then the actual number of folks doing this might be considerably larger. This seems like a subject worth someone doing a documentary about given this is likely, if
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Assuming "cause a brushfire" means intentional causing, rather than unintentional causing during commission of another arson, that's certainly an alarming trend. I live in a region of Canada that's had seasonal forest fi
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Care to quote that rather than linking to a largish PDF?
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Are those stats on people deliberately setting forest fires, something much more serious than garden variety arson? >What is increasing is the rate at which those acts become extensive bushfires According to MSM 24 were charged with &quo
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by mcantelon 7y ago
>Arson has been stable for 24 months Trends regarding arson in general may or may not correlate with a specific arson niche.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
>is titled and written in such a way to provide ammunition to climate change deniers Do you honestly think the BBC are climate change deniers? Even when discussing something considered to be an emergency one shouldn't suppress truth

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