notreallytrue

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by notreallytrue 6y ago
Individuals will retain the freedom to speak even if we shutdown social networks. That's the point you are missing. > whatever you're doing isn't making the world better. Imagine what a nation founded to avoid taxation and
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
It might surprise you but being in the spectrum doesn't mean being autistic as in the cliché. It's, as the same implies, a spectrum. I've lived in the US, New York, Los Angeles and Columbus Ohio for a brief period. (I also li
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> First, stop moving the goal posts and the whataboutism. Now you are bringing things like political assassinations Can you tell me who wrote this and brought up political assassination? Because I'm sure it wasn't me. > Hav
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> More than 1 in 15 Chinese people are not part of the Han ethnic group Are you jocking right? 1/15 is about 7%, did I say or did I not that ~92% of the people in China are from Han ethnic group? 92+7 = 99 so yeah, there are mostly
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
I did of course Did you ever lived outside of it? Not as an occupant of course, because that's what usually Americans living abroad do The point is to prove that "freedom of speech" said by American corporations is ridiculous
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
I'm sorry if Han people make up for 92% of the population, there are over 1.2 billion of them I will rephrase this way "92% of Chinese people are part of the Han ethnic group but that doesn't mean that they are mostly the sam
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> Weird and revealing double standard you got there, comparing "Chinese" as a collective to "many" Americans. Chinese are collectively more or less in the same situation, they are ethnically mostly the same people and
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
Italy too But that's about carrying them, not owning them The point is that you can buy a butcher knife or a chopper from IKEA but not a rifle gun For obvious reasons
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
They always looked for places where to share their opinions with other people Those places didn't weaponize their feelings and weaknesses against them to sell them ads Want to make a global social network? The State should be able to c
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
Nobody wants to suppress free speech, just private controlled public speech. Free speech is not gratis. It needs care.
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> mass shootings on the INTERNET is miniscule. It is not Unless you have proof that they only talk in person and through rotary phones
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
Yes, rare. Like a few times in a century, not hundreds times in a year, every year, sir. Closing social networks is not a technological solution, it's political. Public speech must not be controlled by private entities Unless you are t
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
Let's start with Facebook and Twitter that are cancerous and see what happens... > men running trucks over people in Christmas markets like in Berlin? This is one of those events that we can consider extremely rare. Nobody can preve
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
They send hate letters to each other with stagecoach services? The problem is that there is no such thing as "freedom of speech" it's BS, there is a right to have an opinion, but some opinions are crimes and should never beco
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
Are you sure? Looks like 99% of the mass shootings are organized by young people and 99% of them happens in the US (in the west)
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
Please stop pretending that USA are not a violent country where mass shootings don't happen all the time https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_th...
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
I understand it, but there are many ways to help. In my case I've been diagnosed in the spectrum of autism, I know it's my problem if I get easily bored, not because I'm not checking my work email while I'm on holiday.
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
There are jobs where you have to provide the service, it's a crime to interrupt it for futile reasons. They are not liable if they don't go to work on their free time, ever. Healthcare, public transportation, firemen, etc. they ca
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> soldiers In my country they have 28 days of paid holidays every year Ant it's still one of the few jobs left where they can retire after 15 years, 6 months, one day of work > Police In my country they have 28 days of paid holid
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
I think that if you look closely inside yourself you'll find the answer. Hints: how many presidents any country has? And who put them there? Do they send CVs and get selected after a black board interview where they have to invert a bi
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> He works. He draws a salary. What do you think the difference is? Well... Let's say that if I have to explain it too you, we have bigger issues to solve first. > Why can't the Vice President delegate out of hour Because th
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> ook at how people criticise presidents who are golfing during a national crisis where people are dying Isn't the job of a president to handle crisis? The job of a doctor is not to prevent any death, just those that they can preven
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
That's another thing entirely But being bored is part of the free time Boring is good, not bad Edit: I love it too, but when I'm bored I work on some side project (never completed one!) instead
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> Sometimes there are only so many people who can solve a problem That's a very small subset of the entire workforce. Maybe one in a million or less > No it's reality! It's not. > Look at how many people criticise p
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
That's a terrible apology... Free time is a right If someone dies during your free time it's not your responsibility Besides: US have the worst life expectation of the whole west. You should ask yourself why.
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> it gives me a feeling nothing is getting out of control. I think many of us in technology feel the same, the trick is to repress the control freak inside you and enjoy your free time while someone whose job is to fix these problems wor
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> I check email and sometimes answer when on vacation, because often 10 minutes spent addressing a small issue while I'm away prevents several days or a week or two of dealing with a huge issue when I get back. The question is why t
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> In this case apparently it's fine for it to stop with a dead person. People that do a job where they can save lives accept the fact that saving lives is not granted. People don't die because someone is slacking. Do you realiz
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
> Do you realise in some fields work not getting completed on time could in some cases cause people to die? It doesn't work like that. > Sometimes there is an emergency, and a professional saying 'sorry nope on vacation Why
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by notreallytrue 6y ago
It doesn't Retina display are simply more dense but add nothing to the screen real estate , nobody uses them at 1x I bet many don't even know that every pixel they see is actually 4 pixels on the monitor Better have a larger monit

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