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There are many Israeli organizations operating in the U.S. that flat-out state "we are propaganda, please spread us" and they aren't tagged as anything (and never will be): https://twitter.com/Hasbarafellows
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Two countries having different laws says nothing inherent about the need to "limit" the power of one to enforce a specific set of laws within their borders, unless We assume the U.S. is inherently Exceptional compared to other cou
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5y ago
I fear we are conflating morality with legality
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"Racy Photos Were Often Shared at N.S.A., Snowden Says" - New York Times (July 20, 2014) In 2021, to take a photo with a smartphone is to publish it, worldwide and forever. (Of course I still take plenty of pictures of myself and
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No one is confused about what the current norm is. The author and other commenters are curious about the arguments for the implications and improvement or replacement of it.
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I sympathize with the author but I would consider non-consensual street photography ill-advised at best, not necessarily immoral. It's an accessibility issue, and like with many accessibility issues, it helps to engage in a "thoug
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5y ago
Used books are great, try thriftbooks or ebay.
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At what point did we retire the option of convincing people to stop being hateful? I didn't get the memo. It seems we want to ban whatever groups are considered "hateful" (but not the oppressed expressing their anger at the o
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> hate speech and disinformation targeting at-risk users such as women and the LGBTQ+ community are left rampant on the platform And Israelis too! Or is it Palestinians who are at-risk. Oh well, I'm sure the moderators will sort tha
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Have you spoken or do you plan to speak out about the most normalized form of state-sponsored propaganda in the U.S., namely hasbara [1]? For example, Hasbara Fellowships and Israel on Campus Coalition [2] [1] https://en.wikipedi
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A deranged conspiracy theory, just like all the wackos that believed the NSA was spying on everyone or that COVID leaked from a medical lab
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I don't really care how "dirty" all of the people are, I'm going to listen to what experienced people of all opinions and motivations have to say about the issues and each other, and make up my own mind. Dismissing the u
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> Portraying patients as unscientific and irrational is the other side of the same coin for the myth that medicine is perfectly rational ... doctors are just as prone as the rest of us to biases, blind spots, and institutional errors. Th
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Justifying coding choices using a single SE principle ignores the others you have to weigh it against. Everything is a trade-off, or else the code could just write itself!
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Was the 2008 NTDS for all ages or just adults? Did it control for mental health? Does asking a single question about attempts without follow-up interviewing ("Have you ever attempted suicide?") have any effect on the reliability o
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I apologize for OP, let's all stick to unbiased, objective reporting like the New York "Enhanced Interrogation" Times in the future
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You don't even need to read the article, just listen to the 10 second clip of Sen. Ed Markey. It's not a covert thing