throwawaysea

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by throwawaysea 2y ago
Read about this judge on Wikipedia, specifically the Criticisms section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Moraes
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by throwawaysea 3y ago
I’m banned so I don’t know if anyone will see this, but I wanted to share more details on this capital gains tax. In Washington, income taxes are different based on income levels are unconstitutional. So you cannot have a capital gains tax
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Who replicates Reddit? Are there archives of all the banned subreddits?
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
This is what happened to me. I was shadowbanned or something like it for a comment made a few days earlier. The mod did tell me but I didn’t realize it because I would have needed to look through my comment history. I had no idea until anot
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I’ll volunteer myself as an example, as I was recently shadow banned (or some variant of banned). My other comment in this discussion has some details. I don’t think I am particularly controversial but maybe you can share a different perspe
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
> At the end of the day, it's just another form of censorship. This is how I feel right now, since there doesn’t seem to be a good way to openly debate the policies (or dark patterns like shadow bans) once you become subject to acti
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Science Needs Affirmative Action(science.org)
1 points by throwawaysea 5y ago|1 comments
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Ottawa Police announce digital surveillance of Freedom Convoy(reclaimthenet.org)
4 points by throwawaysea 5y ago|2 comments
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
To me, Spotify is a dumb pipe connecting listeners to content they want to hear. I use the phrase “dumb pipe” because the users don’t care about much of their features beyond that aspect (and there really aren’t many features). The librarie
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Many humans. Rich life (individual freedoms and high material quality of life). Low environmental impact. Pick two. EDIT: this apparently is one of my most disliked comments. To clarify, my point is that we can’t have both unlimited populat
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Anything can be construed to be a safety issue. Spotify has no responsibility. It’s a dumb pipe and people can make up their own mind as to what to do with information they receive from content creators. If you think exchanging information
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
It’s not that a consumer can’t tell a business something - I would not advocate for that either. It’s that some people are preventing competing political voices from being heard. It’s that people with power (like Young) want to use their po
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I am surprised news outlets are still trying to give life to this manufactured crisis. Who cares what Neil Young thinks about any of this? Why are these celebrities put on a pedestal by news media and individuals? At best, Neil Young is a h
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Ottawa Shifts to Aggressive Gear in Policing ‘Freedom Convoy’(wsj.com)
5 points by throwawaysea 5y ago|0 comments
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
What I would like to see next is an investigation into why this process was considered at all and how the vendor was selected. I find this entire situation deeply suspicious, since MOST online services (including financial services) do not
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Given the name - is this a tool for all constituents and parties or is it specifically for democrats?
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I’m with you - no one has even mentioned the Olympics to me in any way this time around. I saw the waning interest coming with the last couple Olympics as well. I think many factors contribute to this trend: 1. We have other ways to connect
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Wow this seems like a really basic thing to be able to configure. I’m not a Mac person - is this a new limitation with the new chips only?
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
The reason they can get away with not fixing basic things is because they don’t operate in a market that has healthy competition. I can’t think of how customers can get something better without addressing that issue.
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Do they still have a non subscription option? I feel like some of the most functional apps are reasonably priced but worse tools that cost a lot over time have somehow taken up market share and mind share.
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
It wasn’t just during a pandemic. It was literally the week after the stay at home lockdown order for WA state expired. It was the start of the various “phases” of restrictions following the hard lockdown order, including in King County whe
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Hmm - I might be missing something, but I think we are in agreement? I was just making a point that laws need equal enforcement to be just, regardless of jurisdiction. The Seattle mention was just to provide an example of a law being unequa
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
My mistake. You’re right I could’ve made that comment without the personal swipe.
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
This is a good point and if this law were enforced fairly and equally across all political causes, I would support it. Infrastructure is not, in my view, appropriate for political persuasion. It feels coercive in the same way ironically, th
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
It was not mostly centered around urban farms. That was only a tiny, tiny slice of Cal Anderson park. It wasn’t an actual farm either, but desperate PR - they threw down a few bags of soil a few inches deep, and obviously nothing came of it
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Sorry I thought your comment was in response to my earlier GP comment. I edited it to clarify. And yes I haven’t seen any of the same things with the Canada protests.
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
And this is forced through other means that aren’t physical - but it is still forced. I am also not sure why the choice to get other jobs changes or justifies anything here. For example consider this: “There are other jobs so quit complaini
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I haven’t seen any evidence of the Canadian truckers doing anything egregious or blatantly illega. However here are example sources I just found from a few Google searches for what I saw from BLM protests in my city (the grandparent comment
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
It is being forced. If you can experience significant losses or risks unless you comply, that’s being forced. You’re being disingenuous. It’s easy to see where this breaks down - per your logic a mobster running a protection racket isn’t fo
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Are you banning stirfish and bavent as well, who recently engaged with this account? It seems to me like most of their comments are low quality and trying to pick a fight with the person you just banned. This parent comment (that you just r

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