Jochim

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by Jochim 6y ago
> Well, if you look at large-scale carefully controlled data, unionized firms tend to be at least 10% less productive than their non-unionized counterparts.[1] It's not large scale or even necessarily generalisable. I don't thi
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by Jochim 6y ago
> That's not a strong argument at all. I don't think it's a strong argument either, I just think it's slightly stronger than the one people are trying to use for why AWS should be forced to host Parler. > Spouting
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by Jochim 6y ago
> But if you wrote that on a site hosted on AWS, there is nothing in principle from Amazon taking the platform down. Politician Y calls his buddy Jeff Bezos, and fwoomp! Gone. This should be concerning. Why should it be concerning at all
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by Jochim 6y ago
Building housing isn't enough. People need to be able to get to work in a reasonable length of time, they generally need to be able to maintain prior relationships, have access to hobbies, shopping etc. that all tend to be further away
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by Jochim 6y ago
That also doesn't remove your access to the Internet. They also weren't banned. Their hosting provider refused to continue hosting them. There are thousands of competing companies out there they can take their business to.
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by Jochim 6y ago
> Curious if you feel torn supporting the US highway infrastructure? It can clearly be used for to traffic drugs, humans, blackmarket weapons, etc. It can be used to flee justice, evade police, abets vehicular manslaughter, etc. The list
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by Jochim 6y ago
> One reasonable thing to impose tariffs on is products made with slave labor, Surely products made with slave labour should be banned outright?
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by Jochim 6y ago
> We should have trials to get to the truth You're still being cryptic about this. I'll ask you again what the basis of these trials should be? who and what should we be investigating? I'm aware of a few trials that have a
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by Jochim 6y ago
> But...did she weaponize his race? She called the cops and described him. Would she have told a white man that she was going to "call the cops and tell them a white man was threatening her"?. The prevailing opinion of the situ
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by Jochim 6y ago
I didn't know it was common to bludgeon police officers to death on your morning walk.
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by Jochim 6y ago
> I want a real military tribunal that follows all procedures, exposes their crimes and then punishes them. Exposes which crimes exactly? Don't tribunals normally take place after you've got a good idea of what the crimes are?
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by Jochim 6y ago
> And they just silenced a president The President is perfectly capable of getting a message out without the use of twitter. There's even a room in his house specifically for giving press briefings. To pretend that this is "sil
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by Jochim 6y ago
There actually were literal Nazis there though... > An image of Packer inside the Capitol, whose sweatshirt bore the name of the Nazi concentration camp where about 1.1 million people were killed during World War II, has evoked shock and
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by Jochim 6y ago
> When a group becomes sufficiently disenfranchised the most radical members transition from trying to make peaceful change to calling for revolution. I'd agree that there is a sizeable proportion of the population that feels left b
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by Jochim 6y ago
The man offered a service where he would produce a cake for your wedding. The man refused to provide that service exclusively to LGBT couples. There's no charade or dishonesty to that at all and it's just as abhorrent as the peopl
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by Jochim 6y ago
This isn't new. McCarthyism is the example almost everyone knows.
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by Jochim 6y ago
> I guess I was approaching that question from a different angle where "wrong kind of association" was from the perspective of Big Brother. So I probably made an incorrect assumption about what the parent comment intended. I ag
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by Jochim 6y ago
There are thousands of hosting companies out there. They either haven't tried very hard or people really don't want to deal with them. Neither of those things seem to be AWS' problem.
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by Jochim 6y ago
Should it? Society has always judged or kept an eye on people based on who they choose to associate with. If you were active on VK or WeChat I'm sure the government would have a few questions to ask you if you applied for a position re
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by Jochim 6y ago
We both know this situation wasn't caused by a single direct order, but rather a concerted campaign by Trump and the people around him who have spent months instilling a sense of fear in the minds of those who attended that rally. Fear
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by Jochim 6y ago
> Your unconscious bias against Trump is what is defining your interpretation of that exchange. A person not trying to find something wrong with everything he says will interpret it the way I did. You made up a quote, putting words in hi
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by Jochim 6y ago
> I think it’s also worth noting the irony that many of the people complaining that bakers should be forced to bake a cake are supporting stripe being able to refuse service. It's only ironic if you choose to ignore the fact that on
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by Jochim 6y ago
> There is a clear difference between people clearly going to the same bakery over and over to harass and old guy,There is a clear difference between people clearly going to the same bakery over and over to harass and old guy. Look back
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by Jochim 6y ago
If they manage to piss all of them off there's always bank transfer/postal cheque.
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by Jochim 6y ago
> Republican party being mostly indifferent about it. Well it's hard to argue against it when the people being cut out are trying to pipe-bomb your headquarters as well as the Democrats :/.
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by Jochim 6y ago
Doesn't seem like any other groups are interested in supporting them either or else they wouldn't have any issue paying to self host/finding a willing provider.
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by Jochim 6y ago
> All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump said. “Because we won the state.” How can this ever be read as "find the votes that existed that you shred"? Especially consid
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by Jochim 6y ago
If society has decided that your political campaign is so toxic that no one wants to do business with you, should private entities be forced to deal with you if you are not a protected class? Parler being booted is society's reaction t
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by Jochim 6y ago
> A compromise would have been performing a transparent audit in the disputed states, especially in counties where the counting stopped and resumed in the middle of the night. But it looks like this did happen? One example[1]. > You k
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by Jochim 6y ago
> At this point we are heading towards a complete mitosis of our information channels based on political ideology. This isn't a new thing though? People have always sought out information channels that reinforce their own views. Twi

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