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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
Oh my god yes. I grew up in a mixed race household in Michigan (still happy in my little corner here), but the absurdity of how non-white people are treated in the more rural areas of the state, and even the more conservative urban areas, i
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FCC chairman: social media lack transparency in restricting conservative content(washingtonpost.com)
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
I've recently gotten a new laptop, and everything is supported out of the box in Debian. It has a 2160x1440 screen, and the hidpi support with gnome on Wayland is outstanding. I would say that the fonts and symbols look on par with the
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
On the face of it, it's a hard thing to take seriously. A currency backed by nothing and based only on the energy expended to generate hashes? We've seen this before, in 1992, as hashcash. It didn't go anywhere then, there wa
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
Matrix allows for all of these, by the way.
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
Matrix (the protocol riot uses) includes voice and video, and riot.im supports both. I run a matrix server for some friends and we like it a lot, though some of us still prefer IRC.
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
It's murky because they call themselves communist, but it's in name only. If anything I'd call it state capitalism, where the government is the biggest player in the market, but it's a market nonetheless.
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
China abandoned communism with Deng Xiaoping's reforms. They are fiercely capitalist, with strong authoritarian political structure.
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
If that's what you took away from the book then I'm afraid you did a shallow reading of it. Animal Farm was specifically a critique of Stalin and the USSR, and how Stalin hijacked the revolutionary vanguard and turned it into a fi
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
What's worse is that it actively sabotages responsible governance so rural and red state voters can get their revenge for being left behind.
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
As an aside, the train kids are my favorite. They can be a real handful (to put it mildly) but damn if that isn't an interesting culture.
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
That's the important distinction between criminal and civil forfeiture as I understand it. Criminal forfeiture is when property is seized as proceeds from an unlawful act following a guilty verdict.
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
If this is their job then the entire institution of policing is irredeemably flawed and we ought to scrap it. If these officers were acting outside of the law then they should be fired and charged with a crime.
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
Culture is fluid. They're not attacking American culture, they're contributing to it and helping to shape it. Just because our culture is one way now doesn't mean it should always be that way. We can debate all day whether we
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
And that could be an attitudinal thing. Why should I care about how someone else personally identifies? Why should I be disparaging about something that will have minimal or no effect on me? I think this is part of why some conservatives fi
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
It's more fair to say he's making good arguments against wealth distribution so bad for the majority that they're willing to kill their masters to have a chance at improving things. If the rich were interested in self-preserv
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
What should they have learned? At the end of the day they kicked Nazis off their platform, and they're as successful as ever but have gained some extra credibility for not being complicit in Nazism.
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
Let's not also forget that due to gerrymandering (for the house) and disproportionate rural control (for the Senate and Electoral College), the people in fact voted against this but we still end up ruled by a spiteful backward minority
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
Not Midwestern, but Rust Belt.
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I hope the bill that gets passed allows for home cultivation. Previous versions did not, and it would be a shame if business interests were able to monopolize the supply chain in the state.
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
This is a digression, but I think it's hard to classify Thiel as a libertarian unless you view libertarianism and feudalism as equivalent.
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Additionally, what's to gain by making art unavailable to the public? Many of the things these people produced are very high quality artistically. Polanski is responsible for Chinatown for instance. Limiting the reach of these works ou
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
This is a great comment, so thank you for that. Obviously one cannot disprove the existence of a God. I suppose I am thinking more of dogma that contradicts with observable phenomena, things such as the age of the universe and the planet, t
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
No, belief and reason are orthogonal. But you're playing an equivocation game, redefining the words I used to suit your purpose. As I understand it, the "faith" Christians refer to is a deeply held belief in religious princip
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
That is only nominally true if you ignore the world outside if Europe, and also if you ignore the pursuit of knowledge undertaken by various religious institutions and other curious individuals (see Moses ben Maimon).
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
This is an interesting essay, but I do not think it contradicts what I said above. I am being careful to avoid ascribing a moral value to faith-based belief. I understand that reasoned knowledge is inductive, which is why I claimed it is ba
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
This is a bad metaphor. Religious belief is predicated on faith in the absence of evidence. Climate change science is based on acceptance of the best available body of evidence.
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The masses might need to be upset as a cost of ensuring the survival of our species. And climate change will not be resolved in 4 years. What party has made a platform of denying climate change and enacting policies that will hasten its imp
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by SauciestGNU 9y ago
Regret is not ever rape. I question from what sources you are getting your information if you believe so. What can happen is that someone who was too intoxicated/incapacitated to give consent to sexual activity can make a complaint bec