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by aksss 5y ago
The orchestrated release of that n-word video from PAC-related political actors is because there’s been no substantial traction on cancelling him (for insert whatever contrarian view he’s given airtime to). It’s part of the same political
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by aksss 5y ago
Rumble, it’s more like a YouTube alternative. At least that’s the offer I saw in headlines today.
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by aksss 5y ago
Will robot repair tomorrow look more or less like the job of the Xerox printer repair tech today? Maybe a job I’d start training for if I worked in a warehouse.
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by aksss 5y ago
If they’re not true, they’re not facts right? Are you asking how much horseshit can be contained on the Internet? Son, look skyward.. see the stars? That’s how much and more.
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by aksss 5y ago
Neil Young and censorious tendencies are the problem, not Joe Rogan. Maybe that should be his new band name.
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by aksss 5y ago
I'm not big on boycotts, much less big talk about them, but I confess I lean the same way. If Rogan gets the boot, I would seriously consider dropping Spotify out of principle assuming there's some other service to cover my music
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by aksss 5y ago
> I don't think we're arguing free speech "Free speech" is being progressively constrained to prevent "offense" and attacked with the murky dog whistle of "misinformation" or disloyalty (most commo
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by aksss 5y ago
This is the heckler's veto, and entirely unsustainable. Someone will always be there to argue your criticism is invalid because the soil you're standing on is soaked in blood, racism, whatever. It would paralyze you to accept any
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by aksss 5y ago
Only that Epstein was probably more a tool of the political systems and governments than they were tools of his. Symbiotic, I guess, but only one person got suicided in a prison cell while the cameras happened to be offline the guards inatt
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by aksss 5y ago
The modern one reflects some... changes - the more contemporary window style, and the number of minifigs wearing ties in the firehouse has increased. I expect it reflects an assumption of a higher tax base in legoville. In all seriousness,
851.
by aksss 5y ago
Debatable - I think the Internet is straining mighty hard to do its thing. When major cloud vendors and government can conspire to shut down an alternative platform (I've already forgotten the example - Parler) right before an election
852.
by aksss 5y ago
There's always a convenient excuse for censorship. Who defines "worse horseshit" today? Tomorrow? Show me the information and I'll find an excuse. A better standard is whether the communication rises to criminal offense
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by aksss 5y ago
I agree with your approach if it's us as individuals making the evaluation, but if it's some centralized authority (even the private/public censorship arrangement as we have now) "clearing" allowable conversation in
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by aksss 5y ago
Does that include governments? Or is there no objective standard -- the mis/disinformation is whatever the (local/state/federal) government is not currently supporting? It's obviously a slippery slope approaching censors
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by aksss 5y ago
Way to strawman!!
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by aksss 5y ago
It just might be the case that you’re focusing on the straw that broke the camels back while ignoring the bale of straw in its entirety.
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by aksss 5y ago
How silly is it to have a confederate flag at a Canadian protest, anyway, if not simply for shaping optics in the citizenry of the United States to tell them how to frame current events?? Screams of an orchestrated heuristic. If you’re awar
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by aksss 5y ago
“Terror” about describes it if it’s your neighborhood and not just a scene on TV. The people breaking windows of businesses that don’t sport the right stickers or threatening violence against those not wearing the right clothes or making th
859.
by aksss 5y ago
Well, the media can’t spend two years telling people that riot and protest are legitimate forms of expression when feeling disenfranchised and then act shocked when all political demographics follow suit (J6, truckers). Want things to calm
860.
by aksss 5y ago
You’re arguing a strawman by responding to a statement about transmission with a conversation about hospitalization.
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by aksss 5y ago
I tend to think that's exactly what's happening here. What you may be perceiving as an academic exercise (based on earlier comment), I see as merely SOP for the entertainment industry to dust off old stories and making us all du
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by aksss 5y ago
"Incredible Journey" like where the dog, cat, and goldfish had to walk 250 miles barefoot in horrible conditions just to find their real home at the end or something? Sounds apt.
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by aksss 5y ago
It's a lot like the case for and against similes.
864.
by aksss 5y ago
I have a cousin twice removed who knows FoxPro and could do this.
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by aksss 5y ago
> I found it hard to stay focused because the applications and usefulness of the concepts weren’t immediately obvious Yep, I had that experience with electronics, but I applied the lesson you’re pointing to - you need to have practical p
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by aksss 5y ago
For me, it was “money for nothing”, best job in the world because it was also my hobby. Not everyone is that way. Easy as breathing for some, completely incomprehensible alternate dimension of reality for others.
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by aksss 5y ago
Or simply boring. Telling a more nuanced story of credit is one thing, but continually seeking new angles to further deconstruct for its own sake starts to feel unproductive after a few rounds. It wasn’t this guy, Bob, it was this team; it
868.
by aksss 5y ago
Well sure, there’s always a few whose random area of interest might land on microbiology. Most career developers I know are autodidactic obsessives who have no trouble finding fascinating rabbit holes to crawl down. Then life advances, gate
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by aksss 5y ago
Wish Microsoft put some thought into this before completely kneecapping the start menu customization and capability in Windows 11.
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by aksss 5y ago
Alternative view: A) any microbiologist may eventually need to learn very basic coding to do their job/tasks effectively; B) a programmer likely won’t be interested in learning even basic microbiology unless hired by microbiologists.

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