shazbotter

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by shazbotter 1y ago
> This is an undeniable truth. Well, I disagree. What evidence do you have to demonstrate that a) this is true and b) it's so unassailable that one could not deny it? Because it sure reads like, "I have a worldview. I will asse
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Good thing I'm not a communist or I might be upset. You keep moving the goal posts all over the place. I was just saying I'm not a tankie, lol, and you've pivoted to philosophers. But what about Bookchin, Kropotkin, or the pe
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Yes. Of course it failed. It also succeeded several times. I'm not a communist, though. (I do have communist friends, however.) Most of my communist friends are not authoritarian communists (aka tankies). A tankie is a very specific ty
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I'm old (50s), I don't want a strong any of those. I especially, however, don't want a strong executive because I don't think decision making should be strongly centralized. I'm a syndicalist anarchist, who believes
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I'm not a tankie, and if you think all leftists are tankies you definitely need to refresh some definitions. Unless you are saying, "I have nothing in common with the narrow subset of leftists that are tankies" rather than im
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by shazbotter 1y ago
You have to stop thinking it's us or them. You have to stop imagining that somehow any of this is ok because my team or your team did or didn't do something. I certainly hope I've been clear that this isn't some D vs R
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by shazbotter 1y ago
It's absolutely not the case. The US is an empire with increasingly dictatorial power centralized in the executive. Clinton increased prison populations and increased police power. Bush increased executive power during his post 9-11 pr
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Yes. The Supreme Court affirmed this in Texas v Johnson. It is an act that expresses a political view through a symbolic act. It might be offensive to you, but "I find it offensive" is not sufficient defense to stop political spee
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Newsom is a fucking nightmare. Willing to burn every minority community alive if it gets him 5% at the ballot box.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Obama also engaged in dictatorial policy... Just because two people have done it does not make it "not dictatorial". Or, using logical constructs - "A therefore B" is not made invalid by "C therefore B".
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by shazbotter 1y ago
It's an executive order that contravenes existing legislative and judicial precedent, sets penalties, and is expected to be unchallenged. It limits free speech by fiat because a single man wants it to be so. It's clearly dictatori
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Roughly one in three Americans water sources are chemically polluted, predominantly in minority areas: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP14721?mc_cid=180f74...
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Most of the comments here suggesting the UK it's evil have been downvoted. It's clearly still uncomfortable for a lot of people.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
You realize that being gay or being non binary are considered pornography to some legislators? Until we can decouple those things, banning porn has the effect of criminalizing LGBTQ lives.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Yeah, definitely don't blame the country actually committing genocide. You sound like someone who is excusing domestic violence by saying, "if she didn't want to get hit, she shouldn't have talked back". Fuck Hamas,
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by shazbotter 1y ago
> It's why you don't have to fear getting put on a show trial if you piss off the wrong people or they just want your stuff Civil asset forfeiture suggests that's very much a thing to fear. > It's why you know the
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I don't think that's what the parent was saying. They are saying the Nazis are truly evil, but the Brits are also truly evil. A different truly evil, of course, I'm not going to weigh tragedies against one another. And they&#
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by shazbotter 1y ago
The sooner Americans realize the democrats and the republicans aren't actually in opposition, the sooner we maybe get some parties who are.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Simple. The UK is not a pro democracy, pro human rights state. It might be uncomfortable to admit this, but if your government is a police state that's pretty much mutually exclusive with being a pro human rights state.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Unlikely. I suspect this will be a rubber stamp mill just like FISA in the United States.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
An executable is a random binary file...
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by shazbotter 1y ago
A ROM does not. A ROMhack, however, might. A ROMhack injects code into a ROM, the same way a virus or Trojan might inject code into an executable.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
MRIs produce shadows that are indistinguishable from cysts or tumors all the time. They are benign, but no amount of data will reduce them. And telling someone "you have a shadow here, it's probably benign" makes people anxi
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Vile. You know why we don't give everyone a full body MRI every year? Too many false positives, too many benign findings that result in unnecessary action, too expensive. This is the same. It's going to have errors, it's goin
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I hadn't even considered that some right wing folks would be bothered by that statistic, as if deportations were good, actually. But no, I'm sure it does bother some folks in the right.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
People really really dislike when you point out that the democrats are also broadly anti immigration in practice. They forget Biden deported 4.6 million people vs Trump's 2 million.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
If I voted for Biden nothing fundamentally changes in 2024. My state already went hard for Biden. No, I did not support the winner. But I agree, a vote for President is an invisible meaningless statement. At least we can agree there.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
Installing something named "doxx" and executing it sounds like a top ten bad idea for computer users. Needs a new name, or a certain percentage of the audience will nope out before you even get to explain what it does.
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by shazbotter 1y ago
These are not cherry picked examples. These are meaningful, material regressions in policy that impact communities I'm either in or close to. Quit suggesting they don't matter, or that somehow they are no big deal. Or even worse,
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by shazbotter 1y ago
I did it on my iPhone. I took me something like a minute.

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