DuckFeathers

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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
They do, famously so for recognising cows as holy animals which make vegetarianism possible.
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
>I also don't get why you are bringing elephants into this Because trees are invasive plants and elephants keep them out of the grassland ecosystems. >especially because there are whole sub-species of elephants that are adapted t
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
> Targeted advertising is incredibly expensive No it's not. For example, you are paying $7 million for a Superbowl ad and assuming 100 million viewers, you are getting 14 impressions for a dollar for your old spice after shave lotio
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
>Are you arguing for that deforestation? Not the same user but I will argue for deforestation any day. Humans are grassland creatures and trees are our enemy. Trees shadow the grass and affect our natural habitat. Even elephants know thi
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
The whole "plant based" thing is based on the simplified Wall Street model of food based on misunderstanding of nutrition. For their purposes, protein and fat are just protein and fat whether they come from meat, milk, eggs or dai
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
Apple's close ecosystem nonsense and blind worship of vendor-lock-in by the tech community is partly to blame for it.
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
I have not met anyone who has this attitude who also happens to be a person of good breadth or depth of understanding of ANYTHING. This doesn't mean they don't exist, it's just that I can't begin to imagine what they&#x2
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
People support whatever they see as the lesser evil. Everyone knows other politicians are slimy agents of large corporations and Trump is getting in legal trouble BECAUSE he stands a chance in the upcoming elections. It is clear to everyone
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
Science today is exactly like the Catholic Church 500 years ago. We are supposed to worship the Gods of science and listen to everything the priests have to say. I have given up on any reformation coming from the West though because I think
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
Attacks on Elon has been growing since he started calling out corruption.
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
Also, strict Jains are only supposed to eat anything other than fruit that has fallen from the tree, taking into account the suffering of plants as living beings.
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
The Lex Fridman podcast[1] with Aaron Smith-Levin, a former scientology insider (who grew out of it), made me believe that Scientology has been overly vilified, most likely because it threatens power of specific people, just what the scient
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
Yeah yeah. It just takes protection money to protect the people.
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
> Say something inappropriate semi publicly and of you go to the gulag You're thinking Snowden and Assange. In the Soviet Union, they were sent to the gulags for spying for the enemy.
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
If the US bans it on national security grounds, there is NO WAY that any of the NATO countries will not ban it immediately. So 60% of European population will lose access. Then, they will recommend it to any other country that still wants t
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
Soviet Union, China and Russia copied the US. They just didn't copy the "freedom" idea. They mostly didn't do it because they didn't have to... so they were very lucky. With modern technology, ordinary people got to
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
I had been using Linux and macOS for many years mostly because as a developer, you were not supposed to use Windows. In late 2019, when I got my new work computer, I decided to try it out. The Windows 10 experience was surprising. Imagine n
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
> At some point, even if it takes 1000 years, America will stop being numero uno. Then what, we're all doomed? In 1000 years, if the US gets taken over, the new power that takes over will have the same reasons to keep the peasants d
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
You don't need to install dictators. You can just continue to get potentially problematic leaders into unexpected accidents until your guy gets voted into power.
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
> What was wrong with Linus’ screen that couldn’t be fixed and how did switching to Linux fix it? I remember this incident so I can elaborate. While Apple is known for "consumer premium" hardware, they have not necessarily been
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
Just a reminder that China banned Facebook in 2009 when riots were happening in Xinjiang and Facebook refused to block activists from communicating with each other or reporting it to the Chinese government. Similarly, Google was banned in 2
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
It's a similar waste of my time to respond to comments like this... but I will at least try to give some pointers so that those who encounter this comment won't immediately fall into that line of thinking: - a lot of programmers,
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
It can sit there and communicate with people endlessly. In fact, that is what it's good at.
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
"Intellectual property rights" is a scam implemented by corrupt western cronies and is completely unfair to the people. No person owns the right to their "invention" because it is leeched off of other people's work.
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
Not very different from study designs used by pharmaceuticals to show that their new patent-pending drug outperforms the generic one. They deliberately design it so that the competing drug isn't the right dose or somehow not administer
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
The biggest problem with ChatGPT (and alternatives) is the risk of being coopted for generating the content someone gets in trouble for. Someone very important will get in BIG BIG trouble and try to blame OpenAI for it... and the series of
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
This is just FBI acting as a PR arm of Meta. It must be embarrassing to Americans in-the-know.
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
If "study finds" anything, it's safe to run away from it. It's the same studies that found "cholesterol free" toxic plant oils (that they produce just to prevent from being eaten) to be healthier than the ONE C
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
This one time, a colleague of mine was working from home and we had a meeting and when I joined the video call I thought that we had someone new joining the meeting... except when my other colleague said "Hi [HER_NAME]" and I real
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by DuckFeathers 4y ago
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TnAn7qV1s&t=816s We're supposed to watch that and pretend that it is a "racist rant".

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