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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Are they facts?
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
There is no rigour in “cultural studies”, or any other social “sciences”. Not only is it impossible to prove anything in what is essentially the study of opinions with opinions, they didn’t even bother to verify something that could have be
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
A freedom index is about as objective as it can get: a list of categories and their rights along with a checklist of: * what kinds of guns can be owned * what kinds of cars can be owned * what kinds of speech is allowed * what proportion of
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
When’s it getting put in a phone?
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Who could’ve guessed, coming from some of the biggest violators of financial privacy in the world.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Redistribution of consequences strikes again.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Right up there with the democracy and freedom index as numbers you attached to your opinion and present like facts.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Which assumptions? I said nothing about subsidizing cities or suburbs. I said cars and roads would exist without the government, but anything resembling public transport would not.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
They do need to coerce people for funding, which might as well be the same thing. That’s like saying “people aren’t forced to attend public schools” - well yeah, but by forcing them to pay for it anyways you leave many with little other opt
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Nice way of saying your proposed transportation system doesn’t work without forcing people to live in cities.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
I don’t mean a window manager, I mean just snapping 3 windows together is impossible on macOS. Theming doesn’t change that.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Until you want to tile 3 windows on the same workspace, which Apple couldn’t fathom someone doing. Meanwhile gnome looks astronomically better with a bit of theming and has nicer animations and window control and resizing behaviour. Must be
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Lots of respect for the asahi project. Soon you can run what is subjectively the best operating system on the objectively best built laptops.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
The fair share is proportional to your use of the service. That’s means the USPS model, not the income tax model. Many people are against adopting the USPS model for other public services because they do not want to pay their fair share.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Refusing to give you something of mine is not taking something of yours. There would also be less refusal in the first place if taxes were actually proportional to the percentage of public services you use, but some people are against payin
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Another essay that didn’t address the inconsistency, I guess you got tired of running.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Are you against making comments towards someone’s race/sexuality or not? “Well it depends on their race” is not one of the two options. Learn to be honest instead of responding to a yes or no question with an essay just because it woul
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
You aren’t being made a servant when you’re asked to clean after yourself. If you want a hotel then go to one.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
How much something is valued is determined by how much others are willing to give up for it, and looking at artist salaries it’s already not much. Whether or not I browse artwork would make little difference. Trying to attack me for pointin
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
AGPL, on the spectrum of “I’m allowed to do whatever I want” to “they heavily restrict what I can do” sits firmly on the right side, alongside patents and other forms of heavy handed government intervention. It sucks how free as in freedom
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
So what is the selling point for writers and artists now? Being more expensive, much slower and less capable than a machine? At the rate these things are progressing, there’s not going to be any point in keeping them around.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
That’s not any better, you’re just changing how you’re being inconsistent. You want to regulate crypto on your perception of its value while taxing it on my perception of its value. As for whether I think pebbles should be taxed, no. I don’
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
How would the government make rules about other people’s money? Think of the children! Redistribution of consequences is a feature, not a bug.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
No, your views on tax obligations are irrelevant to the discussion. If I have no tax obligations and I hold cryptocurrency, would you force me to pay taxes? If you plan to tax me on the value of the cryptocurrency itself, then you’re back t
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Sounds like you support IP then, including stopping piracy.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Here’s a principled stance: you don’t have the right to a sound, arrangement of pixels, or ideas. IP for nobody. If you disagree, then it should be “IP for everyone” and not “whether or not I support IP depends on who benefits from it”. An
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
I already told you. Either it has value or it does not. “Depends on when” is not addressing it. If you don’t want me to assume your views, the state them directly, it takes a single word. It’s relevant unless you plan on taxing things with
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Whether or not crypto can be used to pay taxes is irrelevant to whether or not it holds the value to be taxed itself. But you’re demanding that I address an argument you made in an attempt to evade an argument I made. You’re now trying to h
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
Without fail, every single time I ask person like you a yes or no question, I receive an essay evading the question in response.
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by alphanullmeric 3y ago
It’s a yes or no question.

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