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by Digory 6y ago
>reverence for the founders and the conditions established at the founding, including Washington, has been integrated into a deeply racist quasi-religious civic cult model of what America means, largely in direct response to and as a too
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by Digory 6y ago
Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/non-black-people-speak-up-fo... CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-silence-on-social-media-w... Houston Chronicle: https://www.hous
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by Digory 6y ago
Which of the ten are not mainstream? Surely you agree some are held by significant numbers of people. Take his #3 for example. You haven’t heard people claiming “Silence is violence?” While decrying the Karens’ inability to just listen?
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by Digory 6y ago
To which proposition?
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by Digory 6y ago
Then, with respect, you are not listening to and understanding the people to the left of you. They deny that there is a mere undercurrent of latent intentional bigotry by those in power (racism). Rather, they affirm that America is a system
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by Digory 6y ago
Not entirely. The idea of a gay/straight binary, though, is pretty outmoded. Some people probably do have agency over their sexuality, or respond to incentives other than gender/sex. And part of that’s probably social.
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by Digory 6y ago
It doesn't relate specially to trans speech; KixiQu's comment above observed that fediverse instances seem to moderate out transphobia more than Twitter. Then JL6 asked if fediverse is moderating itself into a silo. I'm sayi
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by Digory 6y ago
Taleb wrote a book called "Anti-fragile," which comments on three kinds of systems: * Fragile systems try to avoid disorder, disruption and/or shocks. * Robust systems stand up to shocks, but don't change. * Anti-fragile
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by Digory 6y ago
Agreed. I'm kind of pricing in DNS as a public good that can't be cut off.
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by Digory 6y ago
Yeah, I don't think you can compel debates. I'm sensitive to arguments about bodily integrity and complicity. People are exercising a right to exclude voices they don't want to hear. But new tech lets us do it so well. And
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by Digory 6y ago
The Fediverse solves the problem of authoritarian silencing. It doesn't solve the human inclination to share strong emotions with likeminded people, and to exclude and punish people who make you mad or sad. That causes many good thing
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by Digory 6y ago
Twitter and Facebook aren’t “free speech,” as the wags remind us all the time. In fact, they’re machines for hyper-self-reinforcing echoes of the national id. More speech leads to truth, unless you can choose to wall yourself off from all c
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by Digory 6y ago
I think the more interesting part is that the ACLU was committed so strongly to non-discrimination in 1986. And I agree the settlement doesn’t prove the claim was valid. But why would protection matter less when you’re wearing the garb o
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by Digory 6y ago
California makes political view a protected class. In fact, in 1986, the California ACLU sued a restaurant for excluding Nazis, under California anti-discrimination laws. The restaurant settled. http://volokh.com/2006/0
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by Digory 6y ago
Should Apple have to bake a wedding cake for Parler? Discuss.
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by Digory 6y ago
Individuals don't have to treat these things "the same." But the First Amendment requires our government to be "content neutral" in the way it regulates and limits expressive conduct. Similar lawful, expressive con
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by Digory 6y ago
More speech, not less. A "clamp down" on wrong think will result in martyrs. They need to start explaining and persuading. Something Biden has not really been forced to do in this process, unfortunately.
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by Digory 6y ago
>assuming it was used in the show’s production There are only two blurry photos of an old Hasselhoff in the car. I suspect someone has converted an old car, and agreed to pay Hasselhoff well for the privilege of putting his name on the
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by Digory 6y ago
This affects sharers, not freeloaders. "Platforms" are easy to create in the minds of judges. It creates felonies like: "Hey, if you'll chip in a few bucks, I can run a plex server for the dorm." or "Hey, neigh
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by Digory 6y ago
Can you explain or link further about the “chainsaw?” Google comes back with this post.
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by Digory 6y ago
They must be, but they are running things pretty close to the bone. They had a home sensor platform that seemed cheap ($5!) and reliable, but Reddit forums are full of complaints that a low battery bricks the sensors. Wyze will send you a r
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by Digory 6y ago
The Separatists (Pilgrims) were close on many things to the Puritans, but should be classified separately from "Puritans." The Puritans believed in a unified government and church, which the Brownists very much rejected. Ultimatel
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by Digory 6y ago
If you have an ecobee, take a look at beestat.io. Ecobee's consumer interface hides a lot of the useful trend data, which is the whole point of having these, IMHO. Beestat is a vast improvement on the default.
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by Digory 6y ago
He’s joined America’s rich, and America’s rich will live like the global rich. This column doesn’t answer the basic fear that open borders means America’s middle and lower classes will tend toward the global middle and lower classes. Rich
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by Digory 6y ago
Yeah, it's a both/and, I think. The Q. was about changes to norms, and the Imperial President norm is just bad, not new. But no one wants to limit it, in case they win next time.
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by Digory 6y ago
On media, the NYT predicament seems clear: >“Philosophy schmosiphy,” wrote a researcher at the Times whose Slack avatar was the logo for the hamburger chain Jack in the Box. “We’re at a barricades moment in our history. You decide: which
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by Digory 6y ago
1. It's fair to say the President was outmatched by the job. If he wanted to be a dictator, he was incompetent. But the damage to the immediate office of the president is worth considering. No honest person wants to work close to this
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by Digory 6y ago
An older relative’s oncologist told him these machines were probably behind an increase in thyroid cancers of kids from the 50s. Hard to prove the causation decades later, but that was the working assumption.
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by Digory 6y ago
I bought a Xiaomi burner for an asian trip a few years ago. Seemed competently done, and the international versions allowed Google.
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by Digory 6y ago
If I'm buying for an adult, the flagship cameras / imaging software makes a difference.

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