Amezarak

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by Amezarak 9mo ago
There are many well-documented cases of this sort of thing happening in the 1980s and even earlier. https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24... Note that here, Philip Morris explicitly said they use
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> John Brown got "cancelled" for opposing slavery. John Brown got "cancelled" for leading guerilla raids and killing people, not for being an abolitionist.
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
What country do you live in and can you link to the laws regulating nonprofit employee pay so that we can compare and use them as a model?
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
My town as two newspapers and two TV new stations. They employ more than a dozen journalists, including an old friend of mine. If you want any actual important news, you go to Facebook and make sure that you’re following the right people an
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Yes, placing your political views into the realm of moral views places them beyond contestation. For many people, most of their political views boil down to core moral views, including ideas about taxation and carbon. That’s why it’s not pr
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
Whether or not this is true, it's also true that a very popular way to dismiss someone and their beliefs is to insist they're one of these accounts. Happens to me all the time.
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Arresting someone without that being widely reported has historically resulted in substantial harm - it's called "disappearing" someone.
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> Cherrypicking your example: Newspapers shouldn’t publish names or images of suspects, so to me this specific example would be a very good thing. Not sure (IANAL) but I think in my country this is illegal already Why shouldn't they
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Yes, all those articles are about people getting around the safeguards in different AI.
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They aren’t tolerated on X, people get banned for this. That’s why the whole thing is so duplicitous. x is not different from other platforms in this regard. Grok on X was also limited to paying users because of this.
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
Who decides on the morality? Do you agree that unflattering fake nudes of Trump should also result in platforms being banned from the appstore?
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This is the sort of thing that is technically correct, but misses the emotional aspect that people want to be able to control their public perception. Of course people could (and did) do this with older tools or by hand. It doesn't mat
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
Grok has never been "wide open" to undress people. Anyone reporting that is being extremely duplicitous. Any image-to-image on Grok has stringent NSFW filters for exactly this scenario. People have worked out jailbreaks and those
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
I find this whole thing extremely tendentious. CSAM is illegal and people are banned from X for producing or posting it. Indecent faked pictures of public figures may be gross and indecent but it isn't clear they're always illegal
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I paid for it and got nothing at all. I don't remember if the app quit working or if Apple force removed it from my phone.I felt absolutely scammed - it's literally the only app I've ever paid for. It really sucks. Do they us
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I don’t believe there is any solid scientific reason to change my diet. Indeed I’d say there is mild evidence otherwise. I think the main issue is being turning this into a moralizing issue.
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> It's pretty absurd to imagine a diet in which the largest food group is just meat and dairy There's nothing absurd about this at all, this is my diet and my LDL numbers are great.
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Nothing about democracy implies minority rights, the rule of law, or the separation of powers. Indeed these things are in greater or lesser degrees anti democratic.
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What the Red Sea has shown is that drone and anti-ship missiles are massively overhyped. A 40 year old ship design has fended off hundreds of such attacks without losing a single ship. Without even taking a single hit. > The Navy also ne
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> I don't know where you get the idea that the Leave campaigns were complacent about racisms and bigotry and xenophobia; they excused it or amplified it at every turn (while lying about everything else) I'm saying that despite
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> This is pretty much how extremism and cult recruitment work. Wording this as a disprovable statement was of utility. "On it's own" is the key hinge in that statement. They impact people the social system has already fail
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"Interference" in elections, even foreign interference, is not a new problem. It has been a problem for at least 2500 years. The nice thing about a democracy, though, is you still have to convince masses of people to vote a certai
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
Your country is being 'destabilized' by your own government refusing to address popular concerns. No amount of bad speech can make people extremist on its own. Instead of addressing the underlying issues causing societal destabil
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> In a recent attack, the destroyer USS Spruance was “in a fight where they shot down three anti-ship ballistic missiles, three anti-ship cruise missiles and seven one-way (aerial drones) that were coming towards” them, said McLane, who
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by Amezarak 10mo ago
If you mean in terms of armament, this ship would have more missiles than any other class in the US fleet by a wide margin. If you mean as a threat, the USN has ships sitting in the Red Sea as the Houthis and Iranians and whoever else sends
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It wasn’t erroneous. The DoJ said they were redacting the faces of all non-celebrity women and children under the presumption they could be victims.
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Europe could have simply denied entry to the refugees and avoided their entire refugee problem. It's especially silly to blame the US when most EU states strongly supported the downfall of Qaddafi and Assad.
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I see. Well, foreign intervention and propaganda in democracies is nothing new. It is well documented all the way back to the time of ancient Greece. So your contention is that in Germany and perhaps other countries (France?) some of the mo
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If the #2 or #1 most popular political party in Germany are "literal Neonazis", I think Germany and likely Europe as a whole has a much bigger problem than whatever America is doing.
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It’s unfortunate that people believe modern libraries are the educational and literary sanctums envisioned by their founders rather than modern entertainment and community centers. Search for “deaccessioning” and “equity based weeding” and

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