Frondo

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by Frondo 8y ago
Spanking a child is absolutely violence. It's just been a socially acceptable form of violence for millennia, just like some killing (either in wars or e.g. with a death penalty) has been socially acceptable for as long. The question
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by Frondo 8y ago
It's not a punishment; that sort of language is tantamount to sophistry. The tax structure in the US sucks, especially with how, the more you have, the more you can dodge supporting the country that obviously made you so very rich. Bu
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by Frondo 8y ago
One more fucked-up data point about the for-profit health care system: before the ACA, I was also unable to purchase health insurance from anyone at any price . Why? Because, in 2004, I had my gallbladder out. Then I moved overseas for
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by Frondo 8y ago
I just don't think state actors need to go that far. They can shut it down more easily than slowly trying to sink it through attrition. And besides, if I were a state actor and I wanted to sink a program like Signal through such subve
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by Frondo 8y ago
You're welcome, and I apologize for being a bit tetchy. And you said it perfectly -- it's easier on the eyes, and I don't think it's one single thing, but several little touches.
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by Frondo 8y ago
Again, if visual flair isn't important to you, then fine, it isn't important to you. It's important to me -- I like my stuff to look subjectively "nice" and Here's Signal: https://imagebin.ca&#x2F
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by Frondo 8y ago
State actors have a much more direct route to killing secure chats like Telegram and Signal: they firewall the servers at the national level. There've been several state actors that have done this to both Telegram and Signal already -
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Having used Signal, Telegram, and Whatsapp heavily (friends on all three, natch), here's my one absolutely critical beef with Signal: It doesn't always deliver messages, and it more frequently doesn't deliver them in a tim
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by Frondo 8y ago
All of my Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp contacts are unverified in the app itself, but almost all of them are de facto verified by other means; we plan meeting up at bars and I know who I'm chatting with because the person I expec
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by Frondo 8y ago
"The community" has had such a hostility to a broadly-accepted user experience ever since there was a web to browse. (I used to be one of them, back when <center> was a netscape-only tag. Follow the standards! Write for c
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by Frondo 8y ago
Because very few people buying expensive phones are doing so for knobs; they're doing so for better cameras, larger screens, the cachet of having an expensive phone. Well-written and properly-designed software buttons can satisfy the s
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by Frondo 8y ago
I sincerely wish the site admins were as fastidious at minimizing ideology when it's pro-capitalist, but I also understand that this site functions largely as a promotional vehicle for a venture capital fund; it's never wise to bi
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by Frondo 8y ago
FWIW, I am happily planning to expend my 3500 magic internet points promoting unions, worker's rights, and democracy in the strongly antidemocratic USA. In fact, I am looking forward to it.
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by Frondo 8y ago
For those haven't heard, there are plans underway to change that, too. Check out the National Popular Vote movement: https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/ They're more than halfway there. I'm all in favor of
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by Frondo 8y ago
It isn't women's fault that the capital-holding class has turned the screws on the rest of us. It is, however, to the capital-holding class's advantage that we blame women for being paid less.
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by Frondo 8y ago
To spare others the work of digging, the highest-cited paper where Jordon Peterson is listed as first author is the 1990 paper, "Acute alcohol intoxication and cognitive functioning," at 321 citations. Important work, I'm sur
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by Frondo 8y ago
You did look at that list carefully, right? He's listed as first author on three of the first 20 entries, and one of those is a pop-sci book, not an academic paper. Of the other two, one is from 17 years ago and the other is from 29 y
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by Frondo 8y ago
If he is such a stellar scientist, I'm sure there are quite a few other scientists building off his work -- I'm sure he's advancing some fields of study, if he is as sharp as you say. Is there a list of people building on the
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by Frondo 8y ago
This is always the implicit question, and I'm guessing the answer is scientism -- material that has the form of academic product, but isn't academic. Like Jordon Peterson videos or a lot of the scientific racism stuff on Youtube.
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by Frondo 8y ago
It's absolutely the business of everyone who works for that company. People are trading their time based on certain assumptions, including the viability of the company; seeing the company's books is a vital way to do that. "T
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by Frondo 8y ago
Anecdotal counterpoint: my friends and I are slowly being given all that stuff we weren't allowed to touch, by our parents who preserved it to "pass it down"....and it's mostly stuff we have no space or need for. A chi
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by Frondo 8y ago
I don't know why your comment's downvotes into gray, striking has gotten serious results several times already this year. Taft-Hartley banned wildcat strikes, but I think if we saw more of those (despite their present-day illegali
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by Frondo 8y ago
Do you not see that there is a line drawn from speech to action, like in the situation surrounding the Rwandan genocide or in the case of antivaxxers leading to a resurgence in preventable disease? Like, are you trying to frame this in the
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by Frondo 8y ago
Parent is talking about unions, people, and it's a good idea. There's no more effective way for labor to throw its weight around than collectivizing in bite-sized (i.e. company-sized) bargaining units; history tells us this is so
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by Frondo 8y ago
Two kinds of ideas I would consider harmful to the point of using the force of law to ban them: antivax materials, and the kinds of comments broadcast over media leading up to and during the Rwandan genocide that lead to that genocide taki
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by Frondo 8y ago
It is consistent but not tenable. And, as history shows, censorship waxes and wanes in every society; you certainly can stop censoring things that once were censored.
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Philanthropy in a general sense? No. People can give whatever they want. The laws that allow so few to accumulate so much, when the rest of the world has so little? Something seems off about that. Like the systems we've built aren&
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by Frondo 8y ago
Lots of people work hard and work long hours all their life; where's their big payday?
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It's not just a bureaucracy built to move slowly and purposefully, it's one that we all, by design, have a say in operating. Don't like how Facebook runs its data collection on you whether you have an account or not? Tough.
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by Frondo 8y ago
What isn't subject to definition creep? Murder now, for some, includes abortion. Censorship now includes, for some, private companies removing bad actors from their private systems. Come on, that's lazy to dismiss it that way wh

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