AndrewUnmuted

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by AndrewUnmuted 5y ago
The burden of proof is on those who promote the lockdowns as an effective strategy to show how they help. This is because without that proof, so many other issues arise from legal, ethical, and practical perspectives that make supporting it
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The ACLU has been useless as a civil rights organization for quite some time. If you haven't already, I'd say it's definitely time to find a new defender of these sorts of issues.
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No, I didn't notice that. And if that's the intended use for this stupid website, then it's a terrible lesson plan they've made. It doesn't actually address any meaningful aspect to 9/11 besides make it appear
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What is the rationale for this kind of thing? What motivates a person to construct such a strange relic to 9/11 like this? And how come, after doing so, did the creator fail to make any sort of reasonable points about the event? This f
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I am sure all the gym owners in the US would love to open their saunas up for use. They surely aren't supportive of the current situation during these "Covid times." It only takes our collective will and resolve to allow our
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Go to any commuter train on a Monday morning and look what every last one of those people seated in the car are doing. They're consuming, not interacting. It is not lazy nor is it dismissive to suggest smartphones are largely devices t
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by AndrewUnmuted 5y ago
I remember when Amazon said they'd pay my college tuition back around ~2012 to pursue my graduate degree. Turns out, there are a lot of strings attached. Who'da thunk it?
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> Your personal experience of your thoughts is not in any way related to the statement: "Odd how that was a liberal position at the time, and nobody called them names." They are just a tangential anecdote. The statement in and
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I think you're failing to apply the appropriate context to the situation back then. Your framing of the Hursti Hack [0] and how socially acceptable it is to discuss its merits does not seem to consider the very different way society te
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I am sorry you're being downvoted, the fact that people can do exactly what you're doing is one of the only positively distinguishing things about our country these days, and of course the capability for folks to do it shrinks by
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by AndrewUnmuted 5y ago
> So have many artists and writers. A site like this is bound to have naive views of arts like this. But it's not correct. Art lives within the world of physical reality - otherwise, we would not be able to perceive it. Art is the e
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When I worked at Audible I remember a particular hackathon where a team created a way to pay their membership to the platform in Bitcoin. The executive team at the time was made visibly uncomfortable by the idea while it was being presented
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There's also the livecoding [0][1] world! [0] https://toplap.org/ [1] https://supercollider.github.io/
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Many countries did also provide help, even though they knew the "single US regime" was likely to be lying & fabricating. This regime has remained in power ever since Bush's 8 year reign of terror. In fact, they were in po
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> after reading Propaganda I got more of a sense that Bernays was tapping into something powerful and hadn't thought of all the shitty second-order and third-order effects of his methods. The most important thing to remember about
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How's PorcFest going?
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Sure, there's a subset of DarkNetMarket dealers who use Wickr. There's a subset of all sorts of underground/niche communities out there using it. You get purchased by Amazon after securing a military contract, not by being an
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by AndrewUnmuted 5y ago
Though true, this is just about entirely irrelevant given where Wickr has gone since 2016. It may surprise you to learn that Wickr was awarded a large US Airforce contract last year. [0] [0] https://wickr.com/wickr-awarded-u
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by AndrewUnmuted 5y ago
> Anti-vaxxers don’t approach debates in good faith. Neither do people who make blanket pronouncements about an entire broad demographic of people, after labeling them with loaded & vindictive terminology.
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We also have data showing that there are negative long-term effects from getting the full-blown COVID vaccine. [0] The range of negative outcomes for just about any medical procedure range from none to death, so this should not be surprisin
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There are many composers out there who work in the electroacoustic and computer music spaces, whose pieces are primarily scored for ambisonic playback systems. Hearing these works for oneself in a proper listening environment, such as Virgi
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SF is a bit of a one-trick pony these days, sure, but to me this is a broad over-generalization that is easily proven false. The individuals who occupy the upper-echelons of this world in SF tend to be the unusual kinds of unusual people.
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by AndrewUnmuted 5y ago
Until this year, I lived in the same place I grew up, one of the highest cost-of-living places on the planet: NYC. Until the pandemic, the goal of owning a home did seem totally out of reach for me, even with my remote SV tech job salary. T
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A lot of people strike gold on social media, as well. The list of people who had their 15 minutes of fame on social media platforms is endless and constantly growing.
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You keep changing your terms. First it was right-wingers, now it's conspiracy Twitter. What is "conspiracy Twitter," and what does it have to do with the right wing of US political discourse? Why are we conflating these terms
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When You Attack ‘Dr. Anthony Fauci, You Are Attacking Science’(mediaite.com)
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Uh, have you listened to their podcast? [0] The discussion of the great reset is not rooted in conspiracy theories, but rather direct quotations uttered by extremely problematic individuals who have a broad history of sketchiness, corruptio
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Huh?
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Reputation is also often the cause for corporations venturing into "anti-racism," and censorship territory. When the telecoms were buying up media companies and film/tv studios, suddenly all of their most expensive assets (ac
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> it's Vegas in your pocket, without any of the regulations and rules Vegas casinos have to abide by > I'm in favor of some regulation on this sort of stuff You really nailed the problem but I am not so sure about your solut

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