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Sources: San Francisco police identified Luigi Mangione 4 days before arrest(sfchronicle.com)
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I wonder how many of the people back-patting the author and each other work for companies whose business models entail egregiously violating users' privacy or destroying the economic security of low-wage workers? How many work on explo
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Adolescents shouldn't have a non-anonymous presence on the internet.
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> The oedipus complex, Electra complex, Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect
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Do you remember what the internet was like 20 years ago? Censorship wasn't nearly as bad as it is now, and the push for more of it has predominantly come from one side.
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> Everyone, and I mean everyone, regardless of their personal political views, wants to silence people they disagree with Pure projection.
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As a great counterpoint to this thinkpiece (which argues the meritocracy is working as intended but having unintended consequences for society and thus fails to make any mention of quotas or the college admissions scandal from 5 years ago
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My point was that at worst it was just some edgelord humor.
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While the title could indeed be a reference to the 4chan "The xxx question" meme (e.g., "The femboy question"), which is derived from "The Jewish question," it's not clear if that was the author's act
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by _zagj 2y ago
> Interesting that you did not choose to voice your opinions using your main accounts on that community then Yes, it's interesting that someone opted to use an alternate account to discuss a contentious issue on a platform rife with
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14088005/Staggering... > Staggering graph shows how eight million Democrat voters 'vanished'
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Unrelated, of course, but interesting all the same: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/declaration-of-non-depende... > Starting in 1987, the I.R.S. required that taxpayers report the Social Security number of all dep
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The Republican National Committee's Poll-Watching Army(newyorker.com)
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It's pretty simple. Right-wingers want to control what information their minor children are exposed to, especially at school. Left-wingers want to control what information adults are exposed to (e.g., deplatforming wrongthink).
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Are you talking about groups like the Amish and Orthodox Jews?
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Do people forget that the BLM riots at the White House at one point resulted in Trump being taken by the Secret Service to the security bunker? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cqg2ywRAZ94
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The whole blog exudes a strong odor of AI slop, so that's not surprising.
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This approach, unlike the one in the OP, removes the per-state quarantining effect that the electoral college has on voter fraud. That makes it a non-starter for red states: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/c
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> At the time of writing, with many more votes still to be counted, Harris has just under 68 million votes, more than 13 million below the 81.2 million votes Biden had in 2020. Trump is currently at 72.6 million, less than 2 million away
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Where Did the Joe Biden Votes Go?(newsweek.com)
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> Tim Walz This lunatic, during the debate with JD Vance, volunteered that he didn't believe the First Amendment protected "hate speech" even before Vance could finish accusing him of that. I had previously given him the
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by _zagj 2y ago
Because progressives refuse to make any concessions, even reasonable ones. The border is perhaps the best example. They won't simply concede to having a secure border, with or without comprehensive immigration reform (i.e., amnesty). M
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Bezos has clearly been taking steroids for a few years now, and I wonder if that's contributing to his apparent shift to the right. A similar thing seems to be happening with Zuckerberg, who, while not showing obvious signs of PED use,
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by _zagj 2y ago
Same is true about Rbolox, which is why I compared Telegram with it. My objection was to the ordering of Wired's priorities.
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This one seems deliberately difficult to answer correctly, even with the requisite civics knowledge: > The President of the Senate gets his office > a. by election by the people. > b. by election by the Senate. > c. by appointme
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> Dozens of neo-Nazis are fleeing Telegram and moving to a relatively unknown secret chat app that has received funding from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. Isn't Telegram notorious at this point for being the go-to app for people dist
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by _zagj 2y ago
Worth a watch is the documentary about the "H" in DHL, Larry Hillblom: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212449/ https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/business/king-larry-the
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> I've read most of the report One would hope you'd read the entire thing, since you appear to have been behind it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859793
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That's a 2.7% margin of error (1/sqrt(1300)).
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It's still striking. The national average of people self-identifying as trans/non-binary is only 1.6%: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/07/about-5-o... Even if you only compare w

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