Levitz

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by Levitz 1y ago
Absolutely. Anecdotal but I lived in Krakow, Poland for some months years ago, back then, for some goddamned reason, the vast majority of the room rentals for foreigners were advertised and managed through Facebook. I didn't have a Fac
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Problem is that then the communities do form, but automatically radicalize. Truth Social and Bluesky users are in similar bubbles, just in opposite sides of the spectrum.
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>It's not the fault of BlueSky or their users I'd actually argue against this. although I'd probably blame Reddit more. It is now normal for social media to be composed of echo chambers and that's because administrati
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This is basically the case right now in Spain. We pay a tax on every piece of recordable media (don't think it's only SD cards or hard drives, it applies to phones, laptops, mp3 players, ebooks, even smartwatches). In exchange, sh
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I can name at least one country in the European Union in which torrenting copyright content for personal use is legal, people still do very much use spotify and netflix. Gabe Newell got it right from the very start, piracy is a service prob
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Supply and demand rules go out the window when the product is infinitely replicable.
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On whose speech? It seems more and more that the elephant in the room here is that schools are part of government, but they overwhelmingly lean the opposite side of the administration and they want to exercise their speech through their p
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That looks like the mother of all slippery slopes to me. I'd be very, very careful around the idea that some workers of the government don't have to abide by the constitution.
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What's the secular reading of "You shall have no other gods before me" ? What? I can understand that Christmas has mutated into a family reunion, a time for gathering with loved ones etc, even Santa Claus, name and all, has t
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You can't possibly complain that any ideals you stand for get suppressed then, surely? You are refusing democratic process and arguing that media deems people unable to partake in it. This is not even Nazi ideology, this goes way, way
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You might want to look up how denazification efforts worked post ww2.
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Freely as in freedom, not as in free beer.
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Aren't public schools part of government? This looks like a bizarre state of affairs to me if the government can't regulate speech from the government. Say someone in the police department takes the public stance, as a police offi
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Surely there are more than two stances that can be had on issues? Plus I still remember that time a certain journalist entered the platform and people completely lost their shit, making up pedophilia allegations, demanding him to be banned,
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It's hilarious how that's pretty much true, only you have to define "bad" as "ideologically different" and you're set. Anyone disagreeing with the userbase in any contentious topic, well, they are just evi
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Reminds me of those "Edit Wikipedia as homework" college assignments.
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How is it genuine to write information about yourself in such a way that it seems crowdsourced?
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No in the west we don't. Israel can either be aligned with the western sphere of influence or not, but belonging to it has some requirements and not being an ethnostate is definitely one of them. Now it may be the case that Israel woul
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It's a dangerous game to play, spending credibility to influence stuff. Not that it's unthinkable or anything, but my impression is that people are not quite aware that it ain't free.
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I'd like to add, it's fine and dandy to have the stance that huge corporations in general shouldn't throw their weight around to shape politics, that's still not the world we live in and that must be acknowledged. Even i
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>The country is predominantly Catholic No. Most of the country professes no religion.
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Well, those are literally entries for a contest so you'd be correct, they are meant to be for showing off.
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I found several things like these last year while doing a pilgrimage through Camino de Santiago[1] in northern Spain. The idea that people, after days or even weeks of walking stayed, at the very least, honest enough to keep it happening, m
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It's interesting how I think our experience differs completely, for example, regarding people's concerns for AI ethics you write: >People are far more concerned with the real-world implications of ethics: governance structures,
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So the rational explanation is somewhere along the lines of "someone ordered to remove a small section of the constitution of the US off a government website (not all of them) and monitored the response (through social media, I guess?)
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So your point is that some homeless (surely we agree it's not all homeless people) would rather live in a tent free from restrictions bound to housing programs than to take part in those housing programs and submit themselves to the
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I'd probably start playing with the idea of leaving the country and advise people I know to do the same, at that point the country is not a democracy anymore either way. Hopefully I don't have to point out how there's a mass
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>If it stays up and does not get restored, that's also "incompetence, laziness" but it's also the effect of increased fascism. What if it gets restored in a matter of hours, like it has?
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The page is now back to the original: https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20250601021212/202508061932...
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>A lot of the tech "movements" that are all about disruption have leaned heavily conservative in the past decade, and its the conservatives that are implementing these rules. Hard disagree. Look at the reaction from the Tea app

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