tekmate

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by tekmate 3y ago
i also use ublock matrix so i get to play "which third party hosts are needed to make this page work" for every new website
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by tekmate 3y ago
that timeline was decided by the a conservative government after fukushima
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by tekmate 3y ago
we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas
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by tekmate 3y ago
it's not actually that helpful because a lot of the skill comes from muscle memory and that's not just for aiming but mousemovement also has a significant influence on movement for example there's something called a circle ju
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by tekmate 3y ago
worse even, it killed off many vibrant quake 3 communities that had been going from 1999 to 2008 because half the people started playing quake live and the other half stopped playing alltogether
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by tekmate 3y ago
please elaborate where op drew false equivalencies to attack political opponents
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by tekmate 3y ago
there's nothing religious about entertaining the idea that sentience could just be an emergent property
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by tekmate 3y ago
hard to answer that without it looking like religion bashing to be honest
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by tekmate 3y ago
it's an uncomfortable topic for a lot of people because the idea that sapience/sentience is just a side effect of our brains being pattern matching machines with a giant knowledge graph of neurons means that we're not that sp
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by tekmate 3y ago
maybe if you went to college you could come up with one
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by tekmate 3y ago
In the 80s there was a javelin thrower named Jan Železný who was so good that they had to redesign the javelin because there wasnt enough space in the stadiums
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by tekmate 3y ago
if you frequently discuss these topics you should be aware that those were always just nice sounding soundbites that were never rooted in any kind of conviction
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by tekmate 4y ago
just brand it "the dark souls of x" and young players won't be bothered by complexity
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by tekmate 4y ago
because it makes absolutely no sense here. what op is criticizing is on businesspeople lying to make more profit, not scientists
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by tekmate 4y ago
it's interesting, when you start getting into debating politics in your teens it's easy to fall into the trap of attacking authors instead of arguments, then as you get older you try to be better about this and then it turns aroun
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by tekmate 4y ago
that's some leap
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by tekmate 4y ago
op made no value judgement as opposed to you
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by tekmate 4y ago
this is a transparent gotcha attempt, op wrote "what they've decided are reasonable terms of service" and you pretend that op wrote about their own defintion of reasonable
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by tekmate 4y ago
but looking at it like that doesn't make people feel like they're some kind of freedom fighter (freedom to be bigoted trash)
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by tekmate 6y ago
and the british electorate could have used its power in controlling the levers of one of the most pampered and privileged members of the eu to keep laws friendly to british business in the same way they've done it since thatcher, but a
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by tekmate 7y ago
but what's the ROI on money for weapons and military contractors?
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by tekmate 7y ago
you're clinging to a fantasy
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by tekmate 7y ago
the guy was always a laughingstock
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by tekmate 7y ago
true, triangulating doesn't mean the middle necessarily
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by tekmate 7y ago
identify potential biases in a source and then filter the information of that source through a bias lense, then use another source and do the same thing to triangulate "the truth" giving up on consuming news because everything mig
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by tekmate 7y ago
from my experience, when science stories that go viral turn out to be wrong it's some secondhand reporting by people misunderstanding or misrepresenting the actual firsthand report
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by tekmate 7y ago
sure, you could arrive at this rhetorical question after about 30 seconds of rational thought OR you could be a contrarian and feel super smart because you saw through a conspiracy!
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by tekmate 7y ago
hard to work on your juggling if you're slaving away 20 hours a day
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by tekmate 7y ago
it's got nothing to do with socialism and everything to do with capitalism. restricting the advanced workforce and research to the thin slice of a population with the opportunity (mostly well off parents, sometimes race and sex) you lo
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by tekmate 8y ago
the public opinion doesn't need to be swayed on this and it's unlikely that the cia would ever release things that would threaten their process of getting such things. there's a difference between healthy skepticism of intell

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