zpallin

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by zpallin 3mo ago
I noticed this myself. Hard not to notice how some of the close-ups on fans have that glossy visual sensation that is common in AI generated content, or this one woman I noticed swinging her arms above her head in an unnatural manner. Fasci
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by zpallin 6y ago
> It has already happened. Thailand asked US Air Force to vacate in 1976 after the Vietnam War. USAF closed its base and vacated. Right after the US lost a war... I doubt the US was prepared to fight Thailand over it at the time and is w
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by zpallin 6y ago
My point is that it's a technicality. On the surface, legally, these countries are not officially occupied by the US. But if any of these countries tried kicking the US out... what do you think would happen?
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by zpallin 6y ago
It appears that you are advocating for censorship then. If you think all this /r/politics stuff is contemptible, would you agree that banning T_D was good, even if it was, as you assert, a biased measure?
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by zpallin 6y ago
> US has an army base in Japan, South Korea and Australia. So is US occupying Japan, South Korea or Australia? Technically it's not military occupation by definition , but if China had a military base in one of its ally's terr
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by zpallin 6y ago
How is this a rational response to what I wrote? You think calling a spade a spade is too much? US is expansionist, that much is clear. Absolutely in no way am I saying that makes the US the same as China in all aspects. Both are unique in
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by zpallin 6y ago
It's still expansionism, and strange to say it's not.
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by zpallin 6y ago
> However, US is not about expansionism. ... wait, what? Since when? You don't think US military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan are about expansionism? Besides, the concept of expansionism includes economic expansion, not just
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by zpallin 6y ago
Technically 2000 subs, 200 established "communities."
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by zpallin 6y ago
> they migrated to thedonald.win An individual can migrate a forum without any assistance. Not denying that The_Donald was a community, just saying that the migration of content is not evidence of the extent to which something is a commu
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by zpallin 6y ago
I don't but that's not really my point -- the poll itself isn't a problem, it's the lack of multiple polls that cautions me to draw concrete conclusions from it as rayiner did. 140 people out of 30 million is about 10% m
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by zpallin 6y ago
Nice. However, since yougov experiences sample bias due to their data collection method being only online participants, and the sample size of black people isn't anywhere near even 5% margin of error (meaning it could be completely wro
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by zpallin 6y ago
Agreed. To a lot of people, policing means "solve disruptions in society" but that's an oversimplistic and unrealistic idea of what police are trained to do and what is even possible with an institution that treats violence a
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by zpallin 6y ago
So, it means Santa Cruz has a track record for being on the cutting edge of policing technology?
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by zpallin 6y ago
I heard this recently, but I forgot where: policing software is supposed to be used to help inform decisions in addition to established investigative practices, but police are instead using the software as decision-makers which has possibly
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by zpallin 6y ago
Nice. This is very interesting. I suppose it would be hard to make any assumptions about the reasoning here. At least Vox interprets this as black people "view inadequate protection and inadequate service levels as part of the larger p
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by zpallin 6y ago
Interesting, do you have a link?
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by zpallin 6y ago
Agreed. I find "boring" to be an unreliable metric for decision-making in software. A boring tool could result in damage to the long term development of software if it is inflexible, for example. Migrations between tools are easil
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by zpallin 7y ago
Except your quote is exactly what I am saying. And just because universal healthcare is "provided to everyone regardless of their ability to pay", it doesn't mean that they'll always be able to pay it. Because even if co
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by zpallin 7y ago
Universal Healthcare does not guarantee affordability, only access. You must be thinking of "Free Universal Healthcare". And no, the US does not have it. You can be denied insurance and you won't be able to see most doctors b
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by zpallin 7y ago
While I agree with you that universal healthcare should be "free", in most cases it's just "universal" healthcare and there is a marked difference between the two. Universal Healthcare only centralizes the insurance
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by zpallin 7y ago
Universal healthcare does not mean "free healthcare". What it means is that all people have equal access to healthcare, the kind that would otherwise be provided by everyone having private healthcare insurance, such as what woul
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by zpallin 7y ago
Sometimes it is. For example, if you can ever stomach watching "Vampires vs. Zombies", potentially the worst movie ever made, then you may qualify for hospice care.
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by zpallin 7y ago
What I "implied" was: 1. union benefits are redundant in worker owned-cooperative, not in typical corporations 2. and that's because corporate employers cannot emulate collective bargaining rights (but co-ops can) Please, I&#
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by zpallin 7y ago
The original bar set by Doug Mcllroy was: > ... [a] more practical, much faster to implement, debug and modify solution of the problem takes only six lines of shell script by reusing standard Unix utilities. Unlike tr, sort, uniq, awk
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by zpallin 7y ago
Absolutely agreed, although technically a project group could democratically decide they are willing to accept discord's censorship standards. I don't think this decision should be made lightly, but it's okay if the group dec
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by zpallin 7y ago
That's sorta how I felt. The article has plenty of valid reasons not to use discord, but it's somewhat of a ridiculous idea that we should not just expect but protect people who practice illegal and toxic behaviors in our chat
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by zpallin 7y ago
That's an extreme perspective. Mondragon is about as "nationalist" and "ethnocentric" as Ford, Samsung, or Sony. I'm not sure what "strong political orientations" is supposed to mean; I can easily poi
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by zpallin 7y ago
However, the two aren't mutually exclusive.
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by zpallin 7y ago
Indeed. They can also choose to unionize.

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