pnako

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by pnako 6y ago
The last few cases that come to mind (Breivik, Tarrant) are from lone wolves that had radical ideas but were not affiliated with any group. It must be very difficult to catch (unless you want a surveillance society where everyone is suspect
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by pnako 6y ago
I suspect you're just disagreeing on what "keeping tabs" actually means. The government shouldn't put someone under (specific|personal) surveillance without strong evidence of course. But I don't see what prevents t
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by pnako 6y ago
It's hard to disagree with this point, really. I don't see how you can prevent the police from reading stuff that's being broadcast for everyone else to see. And threats of violence, or evidence of organizing to cause violenc
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by pnako 6y ago
Do you have a problem with grammar anarchists?
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by pnako 6y ago
The cartels would obviously immediately stop chopping up journalists in pieces and would retrain to become car mechanics, bakers, factory workers, etc.
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by pnako 6y ago
Indeed. We also use this logic for juries.
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by pnako 6y ago
Twitter is a modern-day gladiator arena, where all the spectators are also actually inside the arena.
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by pnako 6y ago
Here's a concrete, practical solution: Radical affirmative action. Not radical in the rioting / revolution understanding of the word, but in its application. So, if the issue with systematic racism is such that it endangers the fo
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by pnako 6y ago
You cannot possibly avoid testing software, unless the software is literally useless. So testing will definitely happen _at some point_. The debate is about where it happens: on the developer's computer, on a tester's computer, on
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by pnako 6y ago
What do you mean exactly by "brown" people? Who do you include in that category?
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by pnako 6y ago
You're on Google, the 21st century version of AOL
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by pnako 6y ago
There are many risk factors, not just this one.
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by pnako 6y ago
Humanities departments becoming de-facto meetings of the party, as opposed to a cafe where philosophers of all strokes meet to exchange ideas.
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by pnako 6y ago
I despise the woke newspeak, but if we have to replace master and slave, I think master and puppet would be pretty cool. In this case, the analogy works even better because the puppet replicates exactly the movements of the puppet master.
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by pnako 6y ago
More important than this change of terminology, I think it's good that Twitter decided to donate ten million dollars to NGOs fighting slavery around the world (it's still prevalent, especially in Africa and Asia) https:/&#x2
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by pnako 6y ago
An even bigger mistake than starting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the mistake of keeping those wars going forever. And that mistake is still ongoing. Of course, I'm assuming it's a mistake and not a deliberate strategy. But
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by pnako 6y ago
If you're scrolling through your feed you haven't left Facebook either.
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by pnako 6y ago
Point taken, although I don't think I was engaging in that. I did not make comments about Islam specifically, and whether it is "good" or "bad" in the absolute sense. I could have made the same argument by pointing
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by pnako 6y ago
I think your view of the world is very naive. You can't inject political Islam in the French secular-with-deep-Christian-roots culture for the same reason you can't inject San Francisco LGBT culture in Baghdad. Peoples and nations
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by pnako 6y ago
"Democracy is like a train: when you reach your destination, you get off" -- Erdogan
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by pnako 6y ago
>Because the state stamped out every regional language during the creation of the Republic, and that was that. They had signs on the walls in Breton schools telling that "it's forbidden to spit on the ground, or speak Breton&qu
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by pnako 6y ago
The scarf is an issue in the sense that it was a way for militant, political Islam groups to test the waters. Which has led in less than a generation to much more extreme ways to openly show support for radical Islam (including burkas or mo
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by pnako 6y ago
They used to run on OpenVMS. I don't know if that's still the case.
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by pnako 6y ago
In France, about 20 years ago there was a lively debate about whether north-African girls, in high school and universities, should be allowed to wear a "foulard islamique" (scarf over the hair). Now we are completely past that, an
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by pnako 6y ago
Well, he got an airport and nuclear aircraft carrier named after him!
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by pnako 6y ago
The good news is that the drug that actually works is a generic one.
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by pnako 6y ago
We have a culture in common which encompasses languages, religion, music, architecture, food, etc. I've only ever heard that question asked about us Europeans, for some reason.
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by pnako 6y ago
I have the same problem with my BBQ. I bought it to keep my food cold, but systematically it heats the food to the point where it becomes burned. Just in case my attempt at analogy is not clear: on a free speech network you'll get free
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by pnako 6y ago
>exclusionary Aren't you arguing for banning them, though? You can't have it both ways.
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by pnako 6y ago
In a marketplace of ideas, unpopular views would get... unpopular view counts (on Youtube and elsewhere). If you want to keep with this analogy, censorship is a form of protectionism, so your marketplace of ideas is not a free market.

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