StanislavPetrov

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by StanislavPetrov 10mo ago
Probably the media that shows the UK locking up old ladies and people in wheelchairs for speaking out publicly against ongoing UK support for genocide (among other "speech offenses").
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by StanislavPetrov 10mo ago
There are many free VPNs.
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by StanislavPetrov 11mo ago
Revenue, not profit.
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by StanislavPetrov 11mo ago
PEBCAK
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>The guys who had access to this were very lucky. Accessed my first Atari 8-bit BBS as a kid in 1985 with my Atari 800 and 300 baud modem, lucky to upgrade to an Atari 130 XE soon after (also 8-bit). It was a whole different world. Asid
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Requirement by who? Discord isn't required to demand your ID, let alone store it.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
I can still remember learning my first "real" programming language (Turbo Pascal[1]) in 1990, entirely out of a book! It took much longer to figure things out entirely on my own when I was stuck on something, but once I figured i
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
To this very day I have several (older) relatives that use paper checks sent via snail mail to pay all their bills.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Shooting at flying things in densely populated areas is generally a bad idea because when you miss, whatever ammunition you used falls on somebody on the ground. And if you hit, the debris falls on someone on the ground.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
What country does this "confidential computing" exist in, and how can I get there?
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>Attacking/bombing/etc without large scale surveillance would largely mean increased collateral damage. That would only be true if your goal was not to completely obliterate the population you are attacking and bombing, as Isra
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
I was referring more to established Media that people consider credible like the NBC, CBS, The Guardian, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, etc. The fact that the only person in "media" who has been severe
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Policing speech for civility or spam is very different than policing speech for content that you disagree with. I was on the early internet, and on the vast majority of forums policing someone's speech for content rather than vulgarit
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>"You and I, if we say a lie we are held responsible for it, so people can trust us." I don't know how it works in The Philippines, but in the USA the suggestion that media outlets are held responsible for the lies that th
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
In my day we used to call it "social engineering".
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>The hollowing out of the middle class in the US isn't because of immigrants, it's because of a sustained campaign by capital to reduce the power of labor Importing cheap foreign labor to undercut unions and lower wages is one
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>Don’t understand this pessimism. There are a large number of countries in the world. You can migrate out of a country if they start doing insane things like this. Unfortunately in 2025 it is a race to the bottom. While some countries (
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
It is clear through any remotely honest reading of history that hemispheric hegemony was the whole point since Monroe. If you go back and read the speeches and literature from ~200 years ago from the time of Monroe it is pretty explicitly
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Whenever the issue of cars come up the gaping divide between Europeans and Americans rears its ugly head. It's like someone living at the equator telling the Alaska resident that though they own a winter hat, they rarely feel the need
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>Do you really think that companies were hiring that many unqualified people for DEI reasons? Depending on what industry you are in, absolutely. I can offer one anecdote that I can personally attest actually occurred. (though I was not
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Do you consider CBC "religious people"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3AJ3W_sbI
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>Why aren’t these discouraged with such massive fines that the board and shareholders oust executives? Because the politicians and "regulators" rotate back into the private sector and earn generational wealth for playing ball.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Because the primary goal of the vast majority of politicians is to collect life-changing, generational wealth by any means necessary.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
This is all happening right out in the open.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Let me be the first to welcome you out of your long slumber!
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>I doubt that an average girl watches as much porn as an average man. If you are talking about men and women, perhaps that is true. I'm not of the opinion that watching pornography as an adult matters much one way or the other once
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
No skin in the game here either. I'd agree that smartphones and social media are also very damaging. >I don't think porn consumption among teenage girls are high, yet their depression rates are high as well. That isn't wh
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>So far younger people don't seem any more fucked up than people were before, only the older people seem to be getting worse. If you look at levels of depression, sexual disfunction the steep drop in relationships and dating among y
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
If big tech didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
From the comments it seems that it is essentially the same as using cash as far as no buyer protection if you want to challenge a charge like you can with a credit card.

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