sickofparadox

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by sickofparadox 6mo ago
Here's an article from right after the original one that I posted giving 12 examples. https://web.archive.org/web/20250903165214/https://www.teleg... Some of these people are certainly not saying ki
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by sickofparadox 6mo ago
The UK already arrests more than 1,000 a month people for online "hate speech". Higher than the official numbers for China, whatever those are worth. They'll probably reach the unofficial, real number soon enough. https:&#x2
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by sickofparadox 6mo ago
Don't forget the people claiming that Epstein ate people because of his weird emails about beef jerky.
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by sickofparadox 7mo ago
Another step towards the Redditification of hackernews. This is the exact opposite kind of functionality pages like HN need, we need ways to get people to engage with others' ideas more substantively rather than literally put someone o
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by sickofparadox 7mo ago
At this rate, we're only a few years away from discovering evidence for Herodotus' giant ants.
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by sickofparadox 11mo ago
Nation-states sponsored hackers make up a huge amount of known targeted intrusion groups. This is not some random company tilting at windmills, these are real threats that hit American and American-aligned companies daily.
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by sickofparadox 11mo ago
>It's easy to see this reflected in nature in the real world. All animals and life seem to be aware and accommodating of each other, but humans are cut out from that communication. This just seems like noble savaging birds and rabbi
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by sickofparadox 11mo ago
In education, the effects of striving for equity in the US have amounted to a ridiculous level of Harrison Bergeroning within the public school system, which is partially responsible for the collapse in trust in schools.
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by sickofparadox 11mo ago
Because getting rid of the first on ramp is how you get rid of the entire system, year by year rolling it up until the whole thing is gone.
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
>Democracy" in these discussions increasingly just means the 21st-century bureaucratic status quo. It is for this reason that so many young people, left and right, are latching onto non or even anti-democratic political ideologies.
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
The idea that the average person in America commits even one felony a day is so ridiculous it falls flat on its face after being spoken. How can you even say something like that without feeling embarrassed for believing it?
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
Are you going to address the part where I pointed out that zoos ensured the survival of multiple species that were on the verge of extinction in the wild? None of that could have happened without the ticket sales.
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
From my first link: "Individuals experiencing homelessness are frequently arrested for minor crimes, like trespassing and shoplifting, that directly result from their housing and economic status. Like most governmental entities, we hav
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
Once you reach a certain points threshold (500?) you can downvote and vouch for flagged comments.
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
Not only are zoos wonderful ways for those who cannot afford a globe trotting safari to experience some of the wonders of nature close to home, they conduct hugely important preservation research and undergo essential conservation work. If
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
Again, why bother to arrest someone if the rest of the system is just going to let them out? In Austin, your leadership decided that it was fine for you to be robbed, because they pursued a policy of not prosecuting property theft. [1] In a
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
What point is there to doing anything if the officers know that the DA won't press charges or that the system will just let them out in a few hours on no-cash bail? 1/3 of all (reported) shoplifting incidents in NYC happen because
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
What percentage of papers even reproduce these days? Is it more than 50%?
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
Are you by any chance a European?
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/06/german-police-mass-raids-h... https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-woman-given-harsher-senten... https://www.foxnews.com/media/germany-star
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
If you tax remittances at 50%+ I have a feeling that suddenly many of the incentives for the H-1B workers themselves would change for the better.
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
You can, and people have, get arrested and sentenced to prison in most of those countries for posts on social media.
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
The people using it.
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
The inflection point for the extreme rise in costs of US higher education is the Federal government making it so that students can take out loans that are not dischargeable through bankruptcy. This is a massive subsidy to the entire educati
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
The totalizing idea that your beliefs and values get to be the ones guiding the moderation of every single conversation happening anywhere on the internet (and therefore, the world) is probably more authoritarian than 80% of the ideas infor
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
There are none because people can just go on 4chan and post.
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
https://archive.is/DLZRL
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
>Also, he seems to lack the usual mentality People on the outside generally think that the main motivation for lifting is about women but from inside the community it's an often joked about fact of life that guys are much more likel
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
Congress wants to keep the A-10 Warthog flying even though the Air Force desperately wants to be rid of it because it's a good jobs program, there are considerations outside of battlefield prowess that go into their thinking. Not to co
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by sickofparadox 1y ago
An F-35 doesn't need to be faster than an SU-35 when it has triple the radar lock on distance and missiles the SU can't outrun. The thing has a radar cross-section of a US 25¢ coin and can see beyond the horizon on radar, the Russ

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