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by a_shovel 5y ago
It seems that this is a sort of "dual" to what's called "Argument in the alternative" [1], which I've seen confused for kettle logic more often than I've seen kettle logic used itself. It's a subtle d
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I don't believe any major social media companies are based in Georgia. The practical effects and constitutionality of the bill are probably irrelevant anyways. The narrative of Republicans being banned from Twitter just for stating the
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I saw some discussion about how in (some versions of) the myth, Tamamo-no-Mae was purified and became good upon touching the stone, not trapped inside it. Then, they started speculating that maybe her evil and malice were split from her, an
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by a_shovel 5y ago
It wasn't DRM. The game was still playable, this one attack would just take much longer than normal. It was unfortunate, since I was planning to try speedrunning the game, and the bug just ruined the flow and the pace.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> This is made more frustrating by the fact that something about newer standalone flash players causes one of the levels to be near unplayable. It might be something else. I replayed Nitrome's Mutiny a while back, and though Blu
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Well, on one hand, there's a group's right to say what they like, and on the other, there's the discussion of what a corporate platform should host for free, what they can remove, what they ought to remove, what they'r
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by a_shovel 5y ago
This is it. This isn't really a discussion about freedom vs. censorship, it's about how social platforms need moderation, but they've become so big that they're utterly impossible to moderate properly . The Uber strat
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by a_shovel 5y ago
This argument would work equally well to support spreading neo-nazi propaganda material. Trite catchphrases are nothing to base a belief system around. An argument doesn't have to make logical sense for it to convince millions of peopl
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> They could find a piece of brick (or put one there) So the claim here seems to be: A university archeologist may decide to place a (modern) brick in your backyard, which they will use to support their claim that it's an archeolo
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by a_shovel 5y ago
In this metaphor, witches stand for openly racist trolls, flat-earthers, hardline anti-vaxxers, and self-confessed nazis. Terrible people that any decent community doesn't want. And the fact that there's a lot of them breaks the m
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by a_shovel 5y ago
This is a bizarre article. If a society is terrible because seven zillion witches live there, then how are witch-hunts wrong in this metaphor? If these offshoot communities full of outcasts are as horrific as he admits, why shouldn&#x27
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I think the specific action is relevant here. It's overly reductive to call it "glorifying something you personally find to be immoral." The question is closer to, "Is it discrimination to refuse to make a work that port
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Honestly, I don't see how a ruling against the web designer would work. If she really doesn't want to do it, couldn't she just make a really crappy website that nobody would want to use? If so, then the ruling is pointless. I
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by a_shovel 5y ago
If the problem is that accounts were being frozen without due process, then couldn't it be solved by adding some due process to it, instead of just banning freezing accounts outright? Treat it more like an arrest. People who are arr
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> While this is in its very early stages, what we know is the water-based suppression system released water that contacted some batteries. > Water only reacts with lithium—it doesn’t put lithium fires out. If that's the case,
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I pointed out the part about toys to highlight the unbridgeable gulf in stakes between the last two commenters' fearmongering over socialism and the wholesome and inoffensive lessons that were actually being taught. I do agree with y
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> Oh, but we do allow it to succeed. You allowed the minimum wage to be increased? You allowed us to require companies to give maternity leave? You allowed us to expand SNAP benefits? If so, it's news to me.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
This is how that argument usually goes. "This policy proposal might be helpful. Is it? Let's see: The policy is socialist in nature + socialism killed millions in authoritarian communist regimes = this policy will kill millions. T
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> Seriously, count how many times the article mentions "power", and count how many times it mentions "share". Why? What would that even tell me? Toy-hogging is one of the earliest and simplest examples of a power i
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by a_shovel 5y ago
This is article about teaching children to share Lego toys. If you want to compare it to communist autocracies, you'll need to at least tell us how they're at all related to each other.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I really want to know what you see the difference to be.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Pretty much. It's a basic story of teaching kids about unfairness and how to play nicely with each other. The hysteria in some of these comments is baffling.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> Of course the register supported 40 digit numbers. This was a machine that would have to be cranked. The clock cycle was literally a cycle. Anything less than 40 and you could more economically pay someone to calculate directly. Yes, b
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by a_shovel 5y ago
The criminal buyers' plan is to buy bitcoin, maybe shuffle it around a bit to hide their tracks, and sell it as soon as they can. They don't want crypto, they want cash, and they need buyers to get that cash. That goes for every
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Yeah, the star registry comparison is common, and a good explanation of how NFTs work. I'm more trying to explain how their price works, and what forces drive their increases. Bitcoins' price increase is driven by scarcity and s
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by a_shovel 5y ago
This leads to a pretty interesting comparison between plain cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Cryptocurrencies are beanie babies: Once available for a trifle, their value has ballooned based on speculation. But that already happened, you missed ou
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> Some institutions have actually institutionalised censorship. For example, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), a major publisher, has issued guidelines for editors to „consider whether or not any content … might have the potential to
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by a_shovel 5y ago
When you remark that they're "alive only because of artificial means", are you implying that your judgement might be different if they were, say, healthy and athletic young adults? Are you proposing that additional suicides d
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I do believe we should rebuild global society to prevent death from hunger. I don't know how to do that, but it's a thing we need to prioritize more. When I see people minimizing COVID, I wonder if they've somehow avoided
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by a_shovel 5y ago
This plan would kill a large portion of immunocompromised people worldwide.

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