LexiMax

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by LexiMax 3y ago
> The thing I don't get about Satanism/witchcraft and the like is... Satanism and Witchcraft aren't really similar at all, though it's common for them to be wrongly conflated. The modern idea of Satanism can be trace
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The idea is not for people with undesirable opinions to "out" themselves, it's more for the onlookers to realize that platitudes are merely nice-sounding soundbites. The real world is complicated, and necessitates nuance, cav
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by LexiMax 3y ago
Thank you for doing this, and I hope others follow your example. It's really easy to be agreeable with platitudes. The real world is a complicated and messy place, and asking for specifics helps to ground the conversation in reality.
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The conspiracy theory does not exist in a vacuum. People simply don’t want to admit to themselves that they were wrong for idolizing him, or they have a distaste for the kinds of people who attack him, so they choose to believe in the 5D c
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> It’s a little puzzling to me still why this is. Because there's a power imbalance that predators are all-too-eager to exploit. Sometimes in the literal definition in terms of raw strength, but just as much in terms of social manip
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It seems to be trendy these days to be a "doomer." It's a mindset where nothing good happens in the world, and no cloud has a silver lining. Skepticism is a default, and earnestness or cleverness makes you naive or a sucker
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What is the realistic likelyhood of this being mandated, given how many religious private schools there are and how much money they have to lobby with?
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Oh, so in a voucher system I would've had to choose between receiving a worthwhile education and being queer. Got it.
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Please elaborate on your equivocation. On first glance, you're comparing apples and oranges, and it doesn't make much sense.
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https://nitter.moomoo.me/IrisVanRooij/status/168032129462398...
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> Stallman and the FSF are hardly darlings of the corporate world I imagine the corporate world is very happy with the FSF, because they represent the most popular non-permissive licenses by a significant margin, and RMS's stewardsh
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> I would love if licences with usage restrictions were more popular, and the OSI wouldn't just say "that's not open source!!!". I agree with you, but guess who pays the OSI's bills: https://opensource
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> They are "thought leaders", if you will; perhaps not charismatic ones, but canny businessmen who know how to nurture their pet projects. The problem is that for every Linus, Theo, or RMS, you have a dozen tactless buffoons wh
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Linus has been trying to calm down in recent years, in large part because he decided he no longer wanted to be lumped in with the crowd that endlessly complains about political correctness. https://www.bbc.com/news/tech
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by LexiMax 3y ago
> Twitter was a minor, failing social media site up until Musk bought it. Twitter was anything but a minor player in the social media space. Financially, it was treading water due to the difficulty of monetizing its userbase. What doome
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by LexiMax 3y ago
One of the reasons I find myself continuing to use the fediverse is because in many ways it reminds me of the old internet. There are parts of it that are rowdy and salacious like old Reddit and 4chan, but if just want a shared space to ne
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A good chunk of them did, and some of them stuck around. I've had an account going back to 2017, and my feed is far more active today than it was before Elon purchased the site.
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> Any ascension is as much a matter of luck as it is of skill. Is it? Admittedly, I've only fooled around with NetHack occasionally, but from observing good players it was my impression that with encyclopedic knowledge of the game,
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by LexiMax 3y ago
I was never terribly invested in the Twitter to begin with, but I have noticed former Twitter addicts slowly accrete away from the platform in the time since Elon took over. It seemed like the site lost its use as a social space pretty quic
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Hey, I'm not the one who coined "Pax Britanica." People can read for themselves why this period of history is called that, and why it compares favorably to Pax Americana and Pax Romana as opposed to the rest of history on th
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My assertion isn't that the moral justification isn't there, it's that whatever moral justification that is in vogue at the time just so happens to dovetail with personal gain and/or political expediency.
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> Nah, ask a historian. I did. They call it "Pax Britanica," and there's loads of things you can read about that outline why historians put this period of history in the same category as Pax Americana and Pax Romana.
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> Let's not confuse Protestant fundamentalism motivated by political ends with religion in general. This is the rule, not the exception. Throughout history, instances where religious war was waged or religious atrocities occurred,
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The last 196 years of secular government took place in wake of the industrial revolution and the unprecedented population growth which those advances enabled.
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Nevertheless, the assertion that religious regimes are somehow advantaged is off base. Religious morality is not some constant force, it's a malleable, flexible construct that has less to do with actual scripture and more to do with wh
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This is non-responsive to their point.
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I was also never that big of a Twitter user, and it's my observation that my former Twitter-using acquaintances bemoan that Twitter's use as a social space has pretty much died. They still use it, but only as a glorified RSS feed
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Whatever idea of free speech that you have in your head, Twitter is not helping, as the site still regularly engages in "censorship" in every sense that the old ownership did.
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Pretty much. It was rather shocking to me that Twitter was so thoroughly broken by rate-limits and the login gate that it was easier to get updates about Twitter on Mastodon than on Twitter itself.
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This appears to be done by union-ing the types in question. The thing about Go interfaces (and C++20 Concepts) is that you can name a type that contains certain methods or behaves a certain way, but you don't actually have to inherit f

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