occultist_throw

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by occultist_throw 9y ago
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re t
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
> Insulting the community won't help against the downvotes. The healthy path is to just ignore the votes and freely discuss your opinions, whether they resonate with other people or not. That's the problem with "Downvotes&
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
Thank you for acknowledging that. I tend to dig in to certain topics that I feel strongly in. I've had similar response before, on reddit and in real life. Both cases have been, what I could call, nasty responses to matter of factly st
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
Waitsec. So, because I didn't write a dissertation on this topic, nor did I write a longform article, it's invalid? Hardly. It's not hard to look up that google maps census dot map. And then go find prisons in Google Maps and
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
Ive always taken an unpopular view about slavery. "We never quit doing slavery." It is true the Constitution was amended after the Civil war to include banning of slavery in most circumstances. However, slavery is explicitly still
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
Kind of pricy, to be honest. Walmart has an A1C test for $30. Although if they offer other tests, it could be useful.
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
Indeed not. The prosecution is on the Cops' side. The prosecution decides how vigorously they go after people in Grand Jury and open court. The Judicial system is on the Cops' side, even if during a jury trial they give words that
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
And this is only the facet of the real story here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwZcR0q6VE Uber is an old scan. - By Richard D Wolff We legislated and regulated the old Taxi Cab industry when there was no insurance, bad
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
Evidently for their trials, they have bots that scan the VMs and kill machines running cryptocurrency software. Just read a bit of threads on google, reddit about this. Possibly, you can run it on paid machines - but why would you? They cha
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
Well, where "Machine Learning" (aka: black box you can only get weights for a given question), one can train a machine to be racist, sexist, ageist, or whatever. The problem is that the end weight distribution is different than th
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
I can't speak for New York. I've never been there. My experiences are that of portions of the Midwest in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Missouri. Larger places will have Walmarts and will have grocers and more industry. W
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
I would concur with that paragraph. When I was driving through South Indiana and Kentucky, I saw dollar store after dollar store after Dollar Store. I would see a little town with one to three dollar stores. These little towns all had somet
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
I would love for someone to explain how keeping the pricing information away from me, for weeks or months equates "Informed Consent"? Because if I would have known the price, I would have chosen not to "consume" the serv
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
BTW, this is also the basis of a story by Greg Egan. Diaspora. (Aside: I highly recommend Greg Egan's work, especially Diaspora) The claim he makes in the fiction novel, is that a neutron star-neutron star collision event would be enou
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
So, in other words, the law is wrong. And the is kept as such for purposes of revenue enhancement (illegal taxation)? I can see a few interesting govt things coming out of "Autos": 1. Revenue from bad laws drops to 0. These vehicl
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
In other words, its malfeasance by the security community for holding out. There's only a few courses of actions. One is to sit quietly and let everyone eventually do the solution. And that doesn't work. No fire under peoples&#x27
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
If you can show who's running those lists, and their names, sue them for damages. Garnishment is very much a thing. Admittedly, attacking others in a system that features money as a signifier as status/power isn't usually wis
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
Indeed. the "American Dream" happened only for as far as I can tell, from the 60's and 70's. before that was war-torn, and after that was republican-destroyed. What we saw in 2000 and 2006 was a revival in the tech indus
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
> I agree with the conclusion, but for a different reason. "Theft" is the wrong way to think about IP. The economic function of IP is not to protect producers from consumers, but to protect producers from free-riding by other p
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IoT Company Canary starts charging users for free service(theverge.com)
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
I used to date a biologist who experimented with animals, primarily zebrafish. And she said they chose these creatures for quite a few reasons: 1. When genetic mapping was expensive, they were some of the first mapped. 2. They procreate qui
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
What you said reminds me of that old comment: "If one woman takes 9 months to have a child, how long is it for 9 women?"
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
And unfortunately, when it comes to religion, this is a flat-out religious war. But I mean, they're all Moslems, right? It has to do with who the rightful heir to Mohammed is. Is it Ali, or Abu Bakr? The answer to that question thus sa
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
What's interesting is that "mindfulness" via what westerners think of meditation is only one of 110 different techniques. Some of them don't work now (wrong time), some wont work in the future, and some won't work f
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
"Mindfulness" is an occult method. End of discussion. It can be, and has been studied not by science, but by people working with the occult. And mindfulness is more of a byproduct of meditation, controlled breathing, or other tech
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
But that's what is talked about in Star Trek DS9. Except we have the similar name, but very different meaning... Sanctuary Districts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Tense_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Sp... Effectively, th
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
> It reminds me of the endless ghettoes of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy (Neuromancer, etc.) where people are basically warehoused and left to jack into "simstim" and rot. > In reality the pitchforks will come out as
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
The issue here is the following: Crowfunding implies that you don't have enough money to start making and holding inventory for $something. And $something is usually small, under some hundred dollar device that the markets haven'
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
When you work for 5 years at a place, and unemployment law only recognizes the last 2 years as history, yes, I am getting cheated. The point of unemployment insurance is to cover things like this. And when the govt's law intentionaly b
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by occultist_throw 9y ago
> This is how 99% of people are. I wouldn't have believed it until I became a victim. Even people who claim to love you and you have known for life. I used to be a republican. Or Libertarian. Blame my parents, as I do. They're

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