DuskStar

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by DuskStar 4y ago
If someone says "here's a portal where you can report wrongspeak" my general intuition is that they are then going to punish people for wrongspeak.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Depends on the basket, the location, and the time period! Seeing what it would cost to replace the things directly extracted from India today would be extremely interesting, actually. Price of cotton * quantity, etc.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
The problem with this logic is it means that the largest ever theft was some hunter-gatherer stealing a spear 100,000 years ago. That's worth almost 10^3000 dollars now, you know! At some distance in time, returns on capital are no lon
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by DuskStar 4y ago
IIRC that is an absolutely bullshit number based on taking what the Brits actually did steal, giving it the most favorable conversion to USD, and then applying a few hundred years of compounding interest. 7% APR for 300 years is a 650,000,0
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Sometimes the last bad thing means that good things are coming. Other times, it means that nothing more is coming.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
If you made all the alternatives also pay to capture their carbon cost, I think nuclear would be very competitive. Obviously it blows fossil fuels out of the water, but hydroelectric also uses huge amounts of concrete, and IIRC the energy r
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by DuskStar 4y ago
There's perhaps a difference between an original DaVinci and whatever the latest paint splatter on canvas modern art is, though.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
As opposed to a standard contributor covenant based CoC, which is totally not religious at all. I'm not sure the one that says this is the worst option here: (22-34) Do not give way to anger. Do not nurse a grudge. Do not entertain dec
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Ah, so now the goalposts have shifted to "the primary content is something I find objectionable". Why not just take down every site with that kind of content, if the "deaths linked to the site" isn't actually why yo
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by DuskStar 4y ago
> New Zealand apparently wanted to take legal action (up to ten years in prison) against any New Zealand citizen who simply watched the video on Kiwifarms forums? Sounds like the owner was right to say "go fuck yourself" then.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
The Germans came for the Nazis. The Weimar Republic was very much in favor of imprisoning them for their (detestable) ideals and proposals. The Nazis were able to parlay this persecution (and Weimar failures) into an increasing share of the
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by DuskStar 4y ago
> a forum of people for quite some time organizing online hate and harrassment which has lead to swattings, and at least one death. Can anyone dispute those accusations? Could you not also say this of Facebook, Whatsapp, YouTube and more
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by DuskStar 4y ago
> twitter makes genuine, good-faith attempts at mitigating calls for violence. ...when they're made by people with the wrong opinions or politics. Attackers from the left seem to get the benefit of the doubt.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
> The amount of metal dies required doesn't seem to be hugely different. The number of dies you need for each page is different than the number of types of dies you need to print any arbitrary page. If there's a character for &
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Or, you know, CRISPR.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Or Kent State.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
The US population may not be decreasing, but the US has a lot of immigration. Essentially everyone else is far worse off, from China to Germany.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Policy is political and will change if the situation changes. If China was the only one in the world with nukes, of course they'd use them. China's warheads are also generally higher yield - they're intended for counter-city
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by DuskStar 4y ago
At least in the screenshots posted, "other" was only an option for offenders, not victims.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
5 minutes for each is better than 10 for Hitler and none for anyone else. And just about everyone thinks they're the oppressed ones, and includes it in their messaging. Including literally Hitler. (His being thrown in jail is arguably
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Pretty sure the Maus case was on no longer using it in the syllabus. It was still in the library.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
> books on how to commit murder, torture, arson, or mass shootings in a school? The Anarchists Cookbook used to be found in libraries. I'd hope it still is, along with books on energetic backyard chemistry. Not a 100% match, but in
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by DuskStar 4y ago
So this controversy started with people protesting pro-trans books. Did the library carry any anti-trans books, like Irreversible Damage? (As a nice big radioactive example) If so, being able to point to things like that would (IMO) be a go
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by DuskStar 4y ago
If the US dollar keeps getting stronger relative to other currencies, it will be better to manufacture things offshore and import them. That is what a strong currency does.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Absolutely fantastic. I bet that first paragraph gets said seriously within the year.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Tap to pay is a big one.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
CNN is indeed way far left. But there are three major news networks - Fox, CNN and MSNBC. Of those, Fox is pretty far right, CNN is far left, and MSNBC is farther left than CNN. https://adfontesmedia.com/wp-content/uplo
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by DuskStar 4y ago
It's closer to the center than the other major news network, MSNBC.
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by DuskStar 4y ago
> Re: the second point about demand — the Pokemon Pikachu has its own Wikipedia page, because people expect Wikipedia specifically to have an article about Pikachu. Other Pokemon do not — because there's already Bulbapedia around to
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by DuskStar 4y ago
Not building nukes guarantees a nuclear detonation will occur on earth, because The Other Side (TM) will use theirs on you.

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