the_lego

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by the_lego 3y ago
It applies even more, as the 4th amendment limits specifically government searches.
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by the_lego 3y ago
Ironic, isn't it? The same people that will sing "They paved paradise to put up a parking lot", are also against any effective measures to prevent that turn of events.
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by the_lego 3y ago
A few tourists doesn't mean the community itself is transient. Even a great many tourists doesn't mean that, if the locals are mostly static. They form a community, and watch the tourists come and go.
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by the_lego 3y ago
This is like proposing to dig a bigger basement to fit more flood water. No matter how much you dig, there will always be more water in the ocean to flow in. In the case of New York, it will never have "enough" housing - what will
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Is that bad? Yes. A home is not an economic asset like any other. It is the biggest link to one's community and people. Healthy communities cannot form from transient populations.
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by the_lego 3y ago
I think the best issue raised is: Why would I, as a user, want this? https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
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by the_lego 3y ago
Should it? Such liability inevitably results in only "verified" content getting "promoted" - an extremely vague term. First it's the home screen, then related videos, then 1st page results for searching "cleans
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Just so we're on the same page, could you give me a definition of what a fake refugee is Someone who travels across one or more safe countries before claiming asylum.
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by the_lego 3y ago
> it's beyond the scope of this book to address the history of the Islamic conquest to the extent that you desire You misunderstand me. If the author simply did not address it at all, and left it as "Saracen influence/lega
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by the_lego 3y ago
> And how do we strengthen the system? According to the founder of the migrant sea rescue NGO Mission Lifeline [1], by importing more immigrants and giving them voting rights, to overwhelm the native population's vote: If there had
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by the_lego 3y ago
I see. So the only allowed anti-immigration position is "we want to stop immigration for no reason whatsoever". As soon as a reason is given, like, "there's too much immigration, we want to reduce it to 'normal&#x27
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by the_lego 3y ago
> What's the point of having a system of shared values if one member goes "Hey, let's, umm, [stop immigration]!" and your system can't defend itself against such actors? Corrected to better reflect AfD's pos
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Sabotaging people’s private property is a criminal act. That's what happened here. Refusing to scan without ink is sabotage. > If it was from a private individual plantiff, then they have a right to privacy you can’t just ignor
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by the_lego 3y ago
What does that have to do with allowing casual lies about history to go unchallenged? Let's say they do have a place - does that mean we have to whitewash the history of Muslim conquest? In other cases of descendants of invasions, they
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by the_lego 3y ago
On the other hand, there are laws against false advertising and (in this case) sabotage, where the action is illegal regardless of what a plaintiff thinks. If I went around offices and sabotaged their printers, the district attorney could p
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by the_lego 3y ago
To elaborate: "nothing to hide" ignores the benefits to society that others, who do have something to hide, bring. Whistleblowers, various lawyers, activists, investigative journalists, labor organizers, etc. Even if you have no
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by the_lego 3y ago
> your antipathy toward the Islamic conquests of Europe While I'm certainly not a fan of them, I'm not particularly outraged about them either. Wars of naked conquest were simply the way back then, and the Islamic world was not
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Don't think anybody even implied such a thing. But they could have, thanks to imprecise usage of "equality". Therefore the difference is not of interest only to pedants. > I think the point is that in Capitalism, th
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by the_lego 3y ago
> That is an extra helping of pedantic. People are equal So if someone is more successful than someone else, since they are "equal", the only explanation is discrimination?
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by the_lego 3y ago
"Equal rights" is not the same as the broader and less-defined "equality". If this conversation is to go anywhere, it behooves us all to be very specific in which meaning of "equality" we are using.
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, Europeans are increasingly airbrushing from history their cultural debt to the Muslim world. It is all so tiresome. A discussion of Arabic influences in European culture would certainly be interestin
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by the_lego 3y ago
Thankfully every single one of the contributions is independently sourced, so we don't have to rely on their reputation.
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by the_lego 3y ago
> They are suing about the "exploitation" of the cell line without consent You asked for our opinion. I will instead offer contrasting examples: James Harrison donated blood every week for 60 years, helping save the lives of ab
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by the_lego 3y ago
That still provides deterrence, and safeguards against future harm from the same perpetrator. Regardless, the chess federation is not being asked to act on pre-crime either, so in that aspect they are no different than the legal and police
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by the_lego 3y ago
> without acknowledging anything in my post calling out the manner in which your initial response to that post abused statistics I amended my original post to state it only refers to federal convictions, as you correctly pointed out, fou
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by the_lego 3y ago
Then robbery and assault and battery are also only "regulated", because they have similar conviction rates: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system And I couldn't find data on the averag
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by the_lego 3y ago
> A famous quote on this is that from a woman's perspective rape isn't illegal it's regulated. "Regulated" in the sense that the average prison term for [edit: federal cases of , see reply for closest approximat
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by the_lego 3y ago
It would be useful , it would not be ok. It's still an invasion of privacy, and Intel has no business knowing I play (and how much), e.g., a gay dating simulator, Postal, Hogwarts Legacy, or any number of other games that either are
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by the_lego 3y ago
> bankers’ conspiracies [..] Satanic paedophiles led by Hillary Clinton and George Soros [..] “Conspiracy theories provide the missing link, turbo-charging an existing account of what’s happening by claiming that it is not just the resul
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by the_lego 3y ago
> The goal of open source, of cloud, of open APIs, of great documentation, etc., is to enable developers to build with less friction and more opportunity. I thought it was to empower the sovereign end-user, to enable freedom in a world i

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