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by _bfhp 5y ago
Big talk about theocracy but silence on the ethno-state that's given millions of dollars a day in military aid by the U.S.?
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Why are you afraid of the government randomly killing you? I think you only have to think about that if you're doing or planning something very illegal. People who have problems with trust and are overly paranoid might fantasize about
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Question: What do you think of Israel's governance and military?
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by _bfhp 5y ago
What is an example of a right that you think people should have (by law), which constrains the government in some way?
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by _bfhp 5y ago
> Even in regard to whistleblowers they only need anonymity. They want to do the opposite of hiding their messages. They want the opposite. For as many people as possible to see their messages. This website is freeeeeeeee
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by _bfhp 5y ago
"So sad" "I'm disappointed" Ok but everything like Bandcamp will always go away because it's not efficient enough. If it exists today , it's treading water! It is on borrowed time! Bandcamp was like a cha
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Why would I be mad at the guy who stabbed me? He is simply a collection of atoms following fatalistic processes. I'm furious at the knife and knife makers for not providing me with a stab-wound-free epidermis.
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Any specific-enough set of circumstances is inherently rare. Men stalking and using guns on women and girls isn't uncommon at all.
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Good point! Though, I wasn't trying to sum up the book nor was I endorsing the quoted sentences as gospel
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by _bfhp 5y ago
I think it's a manifestation of the inherent feeling that many of us developers are doing something mostly useless compared to others. We know that the world could be different and we could be working jobs that are physically and/
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by _bfhp 5y ago
could start here: https://www.8bitpeoples.com/?page=1
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by _bfhp 5y ago
I feel the same way about games like this. Many games can be social experiences. Even if the game isn't multiplayer, like a rogue-like (or Wordle -- is Wordle a rogue-lite?) you can compare "runs" with others. Other single-pl
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by _bfhp 5y ago
There's also over a billion more people in the world now... does that matter? Maybe not, but I always wonder when raw counts are compared across decades
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Reason 10 is the best reason. I strongly dispute some of the assumptions built in to the other reasons, but it's great to try some things out or try giving certain things up just to see what happens.
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by _bfhp 5y ago
I think the culture the issue... I could be wrong but it seems like a lot of companies ask new employees to use their Authenticator phone app for Google login, VPNs, SSO etc and if you want to use your hardware key you have to seek out a de
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Do what Dan Olson is doing but directly at your local representatives who can't understand any of it. Condense the info into to a letter or a flyer and get it into their hands. If the issue is not already on your local representatives&
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Nothing will change until a large scale/large target hack or until ecology activists can successfully get photos of huge piles of e-waste in front of people. Needing to trash your phone every 5 years is still ridiculously wasteful. Jus
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by _bfhp 5y ago
> Within both Activision's and Blizzard's studios, management allegedly both allowed and encouraged "cube crawls", where male employees went from cubicle to cubicle, drinking heavily and making inappropriate advances
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by _bfhp 5y ago
> we reflexively overindulge in entertainment and other low-second-price pleasures –- phone apps, streaming services, and processed food — even though their rewards are often only marginally better than doing nothing. But without religio
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by _bfhp 5y ago
When I was younger it was still fashionable to promote Slacktivism. I remember being a teenager buying a book of 101 things you can do to be More Green. But now I think it's become more and more implied. Between this and the first half
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by _bfhp 5y ago
I once saw a presentation from a man who build entire products this way. He automates hiring contractor devs based on their review scores, sends them to a huge Trello board that they use to self-onboard and then take on tasks, and automatic
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by _bfhp 5y ago
The Israeli government and former government ministers also fund propaganda orgs on American soil, CAMERA and Hasbara Fellowships to name two. You could even say that every US election has been compromised by well-funded, successful foreign
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Are we talking "triggering inter-generational trauma" terrorism or "promoting ideas that inspire AnarchoCommunist riots" terrorism? Because the government will pick one or the other before long
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Seconded, I ordered more D3 gummies online recently and they came pretty quick (Nature's Way brand are vegan) We introverts are staying inside even _more_ than usual so it's probably a very good thing to do
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Agree with a lot of this but there's something to be said about 1. daily routine and morale, having a normal routine is a good thing for everyone, even kids who don't "succeed" in academic measures at all, and 2. losing
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by _bfhp 5y ago
if US leftists didn't hate unifying around class consciousness and everyone else didn't hate protesting so much they would probably call for the Boston Tea Party rioters to be hung if they were alive then, we might be able to have
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by _bfhp 5y ago
My friend group doesn't focus on score, we just celebrate getting lucky or lament if we take until the last try. There is a point about luck taking away from the longevity of the game. Unless the developer adds more game dimensions (in
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by _bfhp 5y ago
She wants to join Bari Weiss in focusing on housing crises, wages and working conditions, billionaire greed and authoritarian drug wars?
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by _bfhp 5y ago
I don't know much about her, but Didion's central legacy is based around her creativity and putting art and ideas out into the world. Bryant's life surely has many lessons to teach us, but in terms of legacy he was not someon
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by _bfhp 5y ago
...relying on the evidence-free invention of not merely some specific fictional benefits of the technology, but a category of material improvements in the world: > And a whole bunch of problems who we don't even realize exist that

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