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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
How do you know that what happened to the natives was so much worse than the hundreds if not thousands of similar fates that must have befallen other cultures over the last several tens of thousands of years?
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
If the settlers had done what the first thousand or so invading cultures did and just exterminated the natives, they would have been able to cast them in whatever light they chose. Instead they gave them rather a lot of autonomous territory
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
We’re surrounded!
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Taking a 10,000-foot view, I wonder why we should be conducting offensive actions against anyone…?
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
This strategy will also make the rank-and-file at your vendors hate and distrust you, so proceed with caution.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
You’ll never be able to build a (large, complex) system that is consistently, inherently reliable over time and in response to change. You want to aim for such reliability but you still need troubleshooting ability .
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Does this same reasoning apply to social and cultural systems…?
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
> No good reason or case can be made for one person or entity to have this scope of access to this many government agencies containing this much sensitive information. The president should obviously have this level of access.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
What’s not to get? People don’t (mainly) want physical pleasure, they (mainly) want love and validation. When a woman has sex with a man without being paid for it, the subtext (even if protection is used) is “You’re worthy of reproducing.”
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
My condolences.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>The publisher told us it was “content” with the wording. They're content. They're just chillin'. Just veggin'.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>This is precisely the issue with this racial theory from the backdoor, and anyone with any shred of morality/ethics should stand with India, and for the indegeneity of its culture, civilization and languages. I don't know the
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>The way West frames/manipulates History (based on so little evidence) is deeply violent Violence is the use of physical force to coerce or to cause harm. The "way [someone] frames [something]" can't be anywhere close
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>Now, we’re months away from AI reaching cosmologically significant powers, making everything that came before it—humanity, the cognitive revolution, writing, the telegraph, smartphones—seem insignificant by comparison. I'd bet my l
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Ironically, the first two panels in this comic are themselves a meme, i.e., a sort of lampshading. It is of course at least a little bit hypocritical to use your iPhone to post about how terrible Apple is. The second two panels are just str
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>They’re trying to cosplay a version of a man. The journalist sounds insufferable and I'm not particularly up in arms about tech leaders--but my god, this is a sick burn.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>Until about five years ago, I got along with basically everyone. Sometimes, I knew, people didn’t care for me, but my impeccable get-along instincts and crushing fear of confrontation prevented things from coming to a head very often. A
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
This explains why, traditionally, founders donate 90% of their exit payout to charity.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
A desire for an “independent bureaucracy” is quite the creative interpretation of the idea of checks and balances…
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Again: articles claim that tariffs are pointless because target countries simply pass the cost along to consumers. But if that were the case, there would be no reason for the targets to “retaliate”.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
But there are many articles that suggest exactly this.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
There are several articles and videos that claim that the cost of a tariff is simply passed on to the consumer.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
But if the tariffs don’t actually cost the target anything, why retaliate?
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
What?
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve seen a politician make an absurd campaign promise and then follow through on it successfully. I’d find it terrifying if it weren’t about the most first-world of all first-world problems.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
I may have worded that wrong. Articles say that they will hurt American consumers and don’t address the actual purpose of the tariffs, which is to put political pressure on their targets. If the tariffs didn’t have at least some chance of s
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Every article I’ve read on this contains some variation of the following: >Tariffs will only hurt American consumers >Countries targeted by tariffs will retaliate I think this speaks for itself…
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Neat, but it doesn’t answer the question. It would be nice to see how well you scored compared to others.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Piracy isn’t stealing, period.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
The thing is, going from a high-level scripting language to a natural-language interface is a massive jump. The difference between a python script and a hand-crafted executable is essentially nothing in comparison. I don’t think that a si

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