ShinyLeftPad

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by ShinyLeftPad 5d ago
Because if we hold them to the same standard, in the eyes of the public neither is better than the other, then there is much less interest in the whole debate on this question. guy leaks secret info about how US agencies surveil Americans
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by ShinyLeftPad 5d ago
You do pay for pavement and roads in the form of taxes.
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by ShinyLeftPad 5d ago
Nepal UAE Belarus Mongolia Vietnam Laos Montenegro Indonesia
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by ShinyLeftPad 5d ago
> But also, what country could protect him from the US other than Russia or China and wouldn't hand him over? As i wrote he probably took the easiest way out for himself . We are in agreement. I just say what's better for hims
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by ShinyLeftPad 5d ago
it's built on top of https://github.com/agent-substrate/substrate which is not on Google github.
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by ShinyLeftPad 5d ago
For some people what Snowden did was the right thing. But settling in that particular country, makes it seem like he didn't do it from pureness of his heart. Maybe it was accidental but optics is optics. He took the easy way out that i
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by ShinyLeftPad 5d ago
if you visit wikipedia.org/whistleblowing, what exactly value is there from hiding content but force revealing you visited it, making sure it can't be retrieved from a cache within your organization/school network? and doesn&
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by ShinyLeftPad 5d ago
Russia offers asylum to stateless people. The only problem with getting asylum anywhere while being stateless is proving who you are. And it wasn't a problem for him.
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by ShinyLeftPad 5d ago
Yes. But everyone knew if necessary it was possible and was done by police to fight crime.
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by ShinyLeftPad 5d ago
what does that word mean? Wiktionary says it's a vulgar word for "gay person", huh? consider that not everyone grew up in an oppressive dictatorship.
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by ShinyLeftPad 6d ago
> you've spent 20 minutes editing this comment to optimize the amount of snark why would i waste that much time on writing a reply to you and where do you see snark exactly? > one proof i just talk about it with people irl, yeah
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by ShinyLeftPad 6d ago
They accept it as a tradeoff. They vote for things like "less crime" or "our children don't access things that are bad for them".
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by ShinyLeftPad 6d ago
They're all around you irl. Touch grass and find out. And to your sarcastic remarks about those people being dumb, believe it or not not everyone is willing to forgo every possible evil in the name of personal privacy in remote communi
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by ShinyLeftPad 6d ago
Interesting. When will OpenAI and friends be blocked on the same grounds?
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by ShinyLeftPad 6d ago
> do you know anyone who'd voted for having to scan their face to access verboten webseites? to have encryption backdoors in their messengers? to have state-mandated spyware preinstalled on their phones? I know a few. They're c
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by ShinyLeftPad 7d ago
"AI safety" is not a cult by that definition any more than Christianity or Islam. There's some subgroups that are a bit more cultist, and that's the same in Christianity etc Same with Falun Dafa, have a friend who is a p
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by ShinyLeftPad 8d ago
What defines a cult then in your opinion if not "a cult that i like"?
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by ShinyLeftPad 9d ago
You don't need to survey them because they already voted. US congress is 95%+ religious people
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by ShinyLeftPad 10d ago
The author does use VOR/DME navaids
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by ShinyLeftPad 10d ago
and your evidence is?
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by ShinyLeftPad 10d ago
> underestimated the agency of indigenous cultures l yeah thinking "we shouldn't influence poor locals because obviously we can do it so easily" is a little condescending. I know people from the west who reject religion bu
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by ShinyLeftPad 10d ago
only contacting each other via humanitarian aid is more isolation than coexistence. Humanitarian aid also exerts influence, if anything by showing how advanced the more advanced group is. For someone whose religious practice involves tradit
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by ShinyLeftPad 11d ago
can you describe how such groups can coexist without isolation so that the more developed one helps the less developed one without a degree of influence and control in some shape or form? ideally something not too far removed from how the w
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by ShinyLeftPad 11d ago
Do you argue for full isolation and no assistance between those groups you describe?
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by ShinyLeftPad 11d ago
Do you see diversity of cultures with different levels of development on the planet as a problem? Because as long as it exists there will be the imbalance
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by ShinyLeftPad 11d ago
Are they actually violently forcing anyone though, like Russians did in Siberia etc?
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by ShinyLeftPad 11d ago
I heard they just made animations a bit faster:)
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by ShinyLeftPad 11d ago
Compared to ios 26?
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by ShinyLeftPad 12d ago
i have the latest phone with the latest os and I believe my eyes (and i make screens recordings for every new glitch i encounter). If it happens on some phones the problem is even worse because how on earth they make software THIS inconsist
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by ShinyLeftPad 12d ago
There is no proof possible. There is no experiment that can show something humanity scale will happen. There are even no remotely similar precedents in the past to extrapolate. The actual established real evidence is that this tech is showi

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