quantum_solanum

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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
I really need to make a HN bingo board one of these days, though it'll have to be like 12x12 or it'll be way too easy.
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
Real Life was one of the few sources of interesting technological critiques and commentary besides Logic, sucks to lose it. Anybody have favorite essays to share? I quite like all of Lauren Collee's pieces, in particular: https:/
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
Gitlab has a number of government contracts including, for example, with the NSA.
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
Or if you're American and Black, gay, Indigenous, etc
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
I'm sure you watched the news from Buffalo with glee, scum.
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
> There are effectively no Nazis in Germany Gee, I wonder why people are downvoting an obvious fascist stooge. [1] > Twenty-nine police officers in the western German state of North-Rhine Westphalia have been temporarily suspended aft
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
> where war is less common. This particular refrain is one that's worth examining from the lens you're dismissing. Under what frame is "war less common" in Europe (or even "East Europe")? An extremely narrow
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
[1] > It is not uncommon for Ukrainians to refer to African-Americans as “[N-Word]”. Volunteers of color may be called 'a monkey' or may see children’s games with Blackface. Being aware of the history of dehumanization for peop
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
> whereas US prisons actually seem decent to me based on what? Places like Angola or San Quentin are as brutal as any gulag.
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
> Capitalism means tolerating the emergence of independent centers of economic power I'm sure the CIA would be surprised to hear that.
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
People in the US have far more ability to change the US than they do countries on the other side of the globe. Which is why the US's crimes have to be minimized - so people can freely ignore them and simply bray for military action aga
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
> In exchange the US got cheap goods (and low inflation), and continued supremacy of the dollar in world trade and as a reserve asset. And perhaps most importantly defused the worker radicalism of the 60s/70s by literally moving th
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
Almost like Microsoft deliberately helped marginalize the position because it's profitable!
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by quantum_solanum 4y ago
Which individuals faced any material consequences from the Church Committee? Or subsequent exposés?
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
> If you assume that a bad bear market is a 40% drawdown, and since 2009 the S&P 500 has gained 20% on a good year, you only need just 2 good years or a mixture of some good and mediocre years to offset a bear market. This is one of
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
[1] > In 1970, the United States had orchestrated a coup to oust Prince Sihanouk, and installed Lon Nol, a general who was supposed to be Cambodia’s Suharto. His forces trained in Bandung, not far from the site of Sukarno’s 1955 Afro-Asi
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
The US killed millions of people in North Korea, and was also largely responsible for the Khmer Rouge taking power in Cambodia in the first place.
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
> by posting supporting "evidence" for an article written by a guy with a fascist agenda. I compare sources with opposing biases because I believe it helps to parse out what's true and what's not. Bellingcat is absolu
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
Sure. Do you agree that there are fascist elements in Ukraine's government that should dealt with (by the Ukrainians, to be clear)? If you don't, which aspects of my examples do you contest?
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
> Is that correct? Nope! I think Putin only cares about having a buffer zone from NATO, much like Afghanistan is (or was intended to be) for the US against China. I'm simply providing examples to your question upthread: > Are the
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
here's an article [1] from Bellingcat (who are certainly quite different from RT and Gray Zone in terms of bias): > In the most high-profile, but far from isolated, incident showing how Ukraine’s far-right movement is being mainstre
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
> As to what might work I would consider medicine or genetic augmentation maybe? you're a fucking nazi freak, foh with this Mengele shit
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
sterilization as well: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/16/913398383/whistleblower-alleg...
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
that's literally YOUR own definition, as you said elsewhere in the thread > Free markets require a working police and justice system
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
> A person can fairly easily drink alcohol or take adderall regularly without suffering physical withdrawals though alcohol is notably one of the few common drugs (along with benzos) where withdrawal can actually kill you.
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
other case studies: Belgian Congo, British East India Company, US chattel slavery, etc.
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
you missed the point, which is that many of the people in Gitmo _were not_ "enemy combatants"
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
the same military intelligence that blew up an aid worker and his family and lied about it a couple weeks ago? oh ok
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
> enemy combatants this is literally the core fascist tautology that the article is critiquing, gotta love the uncritical regurgitation of it
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
lmao please try this and film it so we can all watch you get punched in the mouth

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