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aa-jv
4mo ago
Yes, that was indeed fascinating. I think we're not that far removed from the era of witches, personally .. but I say that, as a sorcerer who casts spells to make things happen, mind ..
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4mo ago
Wow, this is humorous .. whats next, the eye of the newt cures wistfulness? I sure hope so. Seriously though, we are living in an era where the more the science broadens its horizons, the more it just looks like plain ol' witchcraft.
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4mo ago
The price of freedom is constant alertness and constant willingness to fight the state. >That's not free speech, just because eventually you might be acknowledged that you have right to say something doesn't at all mean that yo
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4mo ago
Their speech was not actually suppressed, or else we wouldn't be talking about them. In fact their speech was protected by the courts, as intended. That the US Military/Industrial Intelligence Complex nevertheless violated their
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4mo ago
> Just because you banned speech through property ownership rights doesn't mean you have not banned it. Free speech is non-existent on US platforms and in US it is tucked away so it is impotent against the current ruling class. No.
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4mo ago
If these kinds of videos appeal to you (as they do, me), then you would also like the "Mossy Earth" and "Project Kamp" channels, which document various re-wilding and forest management/alternative housing projects g
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4mo ago
What you don't seem to be able to differentiate, not unusual for a Euro-centric view, is that you can indeed talk about whatever you want in public - but the platforms you despise are not public - they are privately owned and operate
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4mo ago
>Europeans are able to talk whatever they like about Gaza, WTF? I see you're not paying much attention to the streets of Berlin.
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4mo ago
>US civil rights movement? Seriously? Different times different people. Within living memory for some of us. So not that different really. >What freedom of speech examples do you have that involve living people? Julian Assange, Edwar
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4mo ago
5 years ago, some smarty pants would've worked out how to implement digital ID wallets on the block-chain, and there would've been some uptake for it in the European environment .. these days however, it appears everyone has given
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4mo ago
>I got the impression that free speech in the US is limited to right to annoy people and harass politicians from distance. That's a pretty trite way of looking at it. You could see for example how important free speech was to the U
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4mo ago
"The funniest man who ever lived?" - I beg to differ. That is Rik Mayall. Also, the sexiest. Pity Rik didn't make it to 100 though. Would have loved to have seen another Bottom or two ..
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4mo ago
True, you will have to write some tight code, but .. at that form factor and price, challenge accepted! Besides, 10ms is a LOT in that world ..
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4mo ago
I have a fascination with the subject of smart watches - specifically, those I can hack on myself (i.e. no iWatch/Garmin/etc.) - so I have a collection of them .. a Watchy, an Oscilloscope Watch, the PineTime, numerous LilyGo ESP3
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4mo ago
"Masses" of memory, it does not have. Sufficient to the task for synthesis? Maybe, if you do a fair bit of assembly ..
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4mo ago
Maybe not practical as a cluster configuration, but it could certainly be used as a voice-generating device for a synthesizer, or as a controlling device for MIDI I/O, or .. both even of course, configurable according to the users need
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4mo ago
No, actually the line is crossed when people who keep slaves are dishonest about it.
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4mo ago
"X"-"tee"-"ink" .. ex-tea-ink .. extinct? BRB, off to set up a "naming things as a service" startup.
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4mo ago
>Is the murder of 30,000 Iranians in a few days six months ago by their government America's fault? Is it true that 30,000 Iranians were murdered by their own government. Got evidence that will hold up in a court of law? No? >Y
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4mo ago
Yes, for sure. Any animal kept from its natural environment and harvested for its material resources is a slave. Doesn't matter if humans thing they're cute, tasty, or necessary. We literally enslave other living beings in order
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4mo ago
Australian, living in central Europe (have lived in California, also) .. this isn't hot, mate. Also, AC is for wimps. Americans just like to shit on Europeans for trivial/nonsense things because it detracts from the heinous crimes
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4mo ago
Pets are slaves. Stop trying to own emotions.
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"The world needs American war crimes", said nobody ever. Your Presidents changed flavor according to the whims of the superficial pretend-democracy culture, such that it is - the very real victims of their crimes however, didn&#x
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4mo ago
PC-Write on DOS had it as well.
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4mo ago
A nation willfully ruled by war criminals will always become their final victim. Americans need to start prosecuting their war criminals. This is the only way out of the quagmire.
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4mo ago
The Military Industrial Complex is the autocracy - the revolving door between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CFR - which are the entities really running the country (for the purposes of massively profitable military mis-adventures). htt
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4mo ago
I'm not stuck on anything except completely rejecting racist misanthropy when I see it. Your statement: >Those terms seem incompatible. Either you’re a racist and hate certain slices of humanity or you’re a misanthrope and hate all
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4mo ago
The USA won't do anything about it because the USA is also guilty of heinous war crimes, crimes against humanity and massive violations of human rights at scale - in fact, it is the worst criminal on the world stage when it comes to un
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4mo ago
If your state finds that it needs to murder children in its defense then it is a failed state and should be refactored by its citizenry, immediately. Because that which war criminals bring to their victims, they will also - ALWAYS - bring b
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4mo ago
You're just trying to distract from the racist misanthropy in this thread. Nobody sensible ever panders to racist misanthropes just to 'be polite'. Dismissing this article because "its just one of those 'in Japan&#x
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