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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> One woman tried to run from me and my husband on the assumption that we were up to no good for trying to catch her because we happened to see her drop her wallet just before she got in her car. But, obviously, we must have been muggers
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> Why bother going through Tencent? Indeed, especially considering this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21241712 I think the only difference is that it also applies to the region set, so don't do that if you&#
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7553127/Even-death-... Compare that with American documentaries about American atrocities. Sure, people are mean and cruel. Under totalitarianism, they are also mean and cr
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests Inspired by Fang and other 'people-power' movements around the world, in December 1986, student demonstrators staged protests against the slow pac
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
The last article I saw on that wasn't exactly encouraging: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/j...
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
If you use Firefox, something I made a while ago might be useful to you, I certainly wouldn't want to read HN without anymore: https://pastebin.com/8StFpps9 To make comments readable, only the lines from 86 to 106 are
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> when the communicative tool of greying out is taken away, more people will write pointless responses. It's as much a communication tool as physical violence is. It conveys zero information. Not having this "tool" would r
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
A HN comment from 2 years ago I bookmarked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15235151 The war on general computing implies disempowering users, rather than empowering them. But that it's "not surprising"
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
You can appease these "angry" people by being honest. Kind of like the opposite of the CCP. They didn't even have to get into this situation in the first place, and they don't have to keep their lot thrown in with that
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> Got a good chuckle at "anti-censorship" activists. Last I looked that was the alt-right. It was never true that the alt-right were the "the" anti-censorship activists. > Free speech is a dirty word associated wit
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> This is what it must have felt like for a sane person watching the Nazis coming into power. Hannah Arendt described it well in an interview, and it also sheds light on contemporary mental gymnastics, especially on HN. https:/&#x2
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
No idea if he is, but thanks for that. Here it is in a more readable format, or least, in a not-on-Twitter format :) ------------- This hurts. But until Blizzard reverses their decision on blitzchungHS I am giving up playing Classic WoW, wh
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> a far cry from recruiting folks to dump napalm on villages or use Iraqi farmers as target practice It's not. People get recruited to look the other way as Uyghur graveyards get disappeared, not to mention what is done to people. T
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
or the "Nineteen-Eightyfour" one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> One of our goals at Blizzard is to make sure that every player, everywhere in the world, regardless of political views, religious beliefs, race, gender, or any other consideration always feels safe [..] playing our games This HN commen
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
But when users get empowered they get ideas, and they lose the appetite for slop, and then the sky falls.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
I could have just done the same, and just say "I disagree" without making an argument, but that's not really much of a discussion is it.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
I was referring to the article, not you :) I think it's totally fair to be reminded that hey, actually, what do they have on me and not hold off until the "punishment" is over, but then what I said obviously doesn't ap
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Thank you so much for that! And I agree, even though I do support the protests in HK in their five demands, there is no need to exaggerate or cut away context, ever, and it happens habitually. Yet, trying to be fair, just adding very relev
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Brian Kibler put it very well: http://bmkgaming.com/statement-on-blitzchung/ > I do think that Blizzard was correct in issuing him a penalty for his actions. They do not want to set the precedent for their official
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Why not "punish" them by criticizing them, or boycotting them? Even "review bombing" sucks, but abusing the GDPR, that really sucks. I'm very much in support of the protests, I think what Blizzard did was shameful
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> Gallows humor is a coping mechanism. I'd be more worried if they acted like everything is normal. False dichotomies are a sophistry mechanism. I'm noting what Hannah Arendt said also applies to a lot of people with money, or
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> plenty of things that are meant to signal dominance And that's why I pointed out that it's usually done by meek little fellows in the larger scheme of things. Asserting dominance over others is coupled with being dominated in
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
It's not "totally unrelated" or "unconnected", it's the container these stickers are made in. You failing to see that doesn't change it, and "seems pretty bad" is just saying nothing.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Even the devil's advocate [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate ] is supposed to cite facts and reason properly -- not claim a falsehood in support of the devil, which misrepresenting the article is.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Seeing how dang danced around user flags here, and outright doesn't see anything unusual about how stories are sunk, I doubt that is done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195297 When was the last time you saw mo
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> They're still allowed to be human. Are they, and are they, by extension, allowed to see "the enemy" as humans, too, or are these stickers part of the rituals of compensation? > [Hobbes] foresaw the necessary idolatry
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
It should be possible to use exiftool to write any color profile tags you want to keep to a separate file, strip all metadata from the image, and then copy the color profile metadata you saved out earlier back to the image.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Yes, the idea of progress as a straight line is silly, it's like a tree that goes into all directions. All we can do is make progress along a certain route of branches, at the exclusion of others; for every door opened, countless doors
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> I thought you are proud of your superior capitalism? You're just talking to yourself, this is a complete waste of time.

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