GJim

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by GJim 9mo ago
Everybody now has antibiotics, oral contraception, machines to preserve and cook food, clean, heat your home, pass messages and put on music and plays in your living room. Who now needs dozens of personal physicians (practicing 19thC medi
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> but I understand now: it's the speech that aligns with your values is free! What a wilfully ridiculous interpretation of my text! I'll type this slowly for you: In civilised democracies, inciting violence against ANYBODY is i
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Heh Arthur C Clarke once suggested that some supernova could be industrial accidents. A curiously romantic idea, and one I rather like!
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> I think it's about the Northern Sea Route (NSR) which is opening up cause of climate change. But Trump said climate change is a hoax!
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Social media is where one shares ones social live; its in the name! Whist there is often plenty of crossover (think car enthusiast forums), I'd hardly call a technical discussion site 'social media'.
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Palestine Action was (rightly or wrongly) held up to be a terrorist organisation. Calling for violence & terrorism crosses the line from free speech in most democracies, including the UK. Those people who were prosecuted will face a jur
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> you can speak out all you want on political matters in the US Forgive, me for being blunt. You must be wilfully ignorant not to observe how many people your president has fired for speaking against him.
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> Why do individual European countries seem so obsessed with blocking Pirate sites? Ask the Disney Cooperation. A facetious, but true, remark that describes the influence the large American media companies can have in combating piracy ov
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"Counter force"? I'm genuinely questioning your mentality in using this term. It sounds like something Fox News would say.
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> the European approach to free speech (especially as it's handled in the UK) is incredibly alarming and off-putting. We do have free speech in Blighty thank you very much. Unlike the current situation in the USA, where speaking out
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I'll tell my ISP to use a .net shall I?
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I believe similar has happened, whereby a seller of the Big Issue (a magazine sold by the homeless to raise money) had a postcode issued to a bench where they could pick up deliveries of the magazine.
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Whilst you make a good point, the true purpose of this site it to draw attention to the new outrageous tax bills faced by pubs; many of which are going under and are a real loss to the communities they serve.
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> freedom of speech restrictions like Canada, Australia, and The UK Unlike in the USA, where speaking out to, or disagreeing with, the president will get you removed from positions of authority? (If you haven't already gathered, suc
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If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then we have to entertain the possibility that we are dealing with a duck.
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> Because the internet was invented in America And the web by a Brit working in Switzerland. It all runs on Chinese hardware with software written by people (and their dogs) from every nation on earth. The point, if there is one, is buri
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> when they applied to be a state, the people from WA Western Australia?
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Classic American exceptionalism.
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> There were over 1000 protests OVER THE WEEKEND At the risk of sounding sarky, you are going to have to do more than protest at the weekend (!) to stop what is happening to you.
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> Politics isn't 100% off topic for HN but mostly I come here to get away from it and I'm sure others do too. Whilst I sympathise, it's a bit hard to avoid politics on here, when the tech oligarchs of Silicon Valley are ac
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Probably Grok AI :-)
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> and started to fine the US companies and want to have saying how they run their business IN EUROPE. Fixed that for you.
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> The retaliation against individual government members is a new thing It's Donald Trumps SOP.
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You really need to look at what is happening closer to home before engaging in such trolling. EDIT: Look what is happening to those in authority who speak out and disagree with the US president.
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> It takes a special kind of thinking to believe major US companies at any point intentionally permitted CSAM Of FFS. What a ridiculous and twisted thing to say. Try replacing "intentionally permit" with "massively facilit
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I'll certainly give you that. We have a (reasonably!) healthy democracy in Blighty, despite our grumblings. Though it's fair to say that had the referendum been held more recently, Russian interference would have been orders of ma
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I remember our first digital TV crashing and needing to reboot it. "Wow"! we said. This is the future. Having to reboot the TV.
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> Russia and friends would seem to have an interest in Scottish independence as it undermines the UK. Famously, Alex Salmond (at the time, the leader of the Scottish National Party) was given a regular programme on Russia Today. https:&
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> Hard disagree with ‘great to be bored’ - being bored is one of the worst possible feelings, that you’re wasting your time doing nothing when there is almost certainly something you would rather be doing. You <---> The point Being
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> Perfect for skipping advert breaks The mute button is the next best thing. Advertisements become much less irritating when silenced. I'm surprised so few people appear to mute advert breaks.

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