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by apostacy 4y ago
It makes almost no difference at all, all that matters is the outcome. People with power are exerting pressure to deny people access to information. Honestly I'd rather have the weak and ineffective Indian government "ban" so
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by apostacy 4y ago
No it isn't. Freedom of speech is an essential American principle. The First Amendment is an instantiation of that. Congress should force big tech monopolies to reflect our core values. Essentially, the first amendment is the floor, no
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by apostacy 4y ago
What if you get called the fascist then? Anything you say to defend yourself is just fascist mind tricks. Denials are just more evidence of guilt. I would still defend your right to call for us to be silenced.
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by apostacy 4y ago
Telegraph companies, electric companies, bus companies, and airlines had far less of a monopoly than these tech platforms. Forcing them to respect 1st amendment values is the only reasonable thing to do.
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by apostacy 4y ago
So called "private platforms" don't exist on the internet. If YouTube really wants to be completely private, than the government should physically sever any backbone connections over public land. Let Google pay for every inch
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by apostacy 4y ago
Unlike XUL, extensions are just passengers, with no power to override core browser engine features. I don't think that web extensions have reached a similar level of usefulness today. And even if they did, why should we have waited so
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by apostacy 4y ago
It was really disappointing that Firefox removed RSS support. I could understand Chrome was abandoning an essential open standard, as they are a for-profit company. But Mozilla doing it was senseless. The only thing that seems to reliably m
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by apostacy 4y ago
> Don't be obtuse. Had members of Congress not evacuated their chambers just the fact a mob was outside the doors would be holding them hostage. Several rioters had flexi-cuffs and other bindings. It's not terribly difficult to
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by apostacy 4y ago
What specific acts did the Jan 6th rioters commit that would count as terrorism or insurrection? Is it insurrection to damage public property and disobey government orders? How were they planning on taking hostages without guns? Were they g
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by apostacy 4y ago
I wasn't even talking specifically about vaccinations at all. There are so many examples of injustices caused by our leaders during the pandemic. An example of a group that was harmed was the Canadian first nation communities. They had
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by apostacy 4y ago
> Specifically, what ‘shattered’ that trust? Doubling down on failed lockdown policy long after it was known to be ineffective and hurt more people than it helped. Profiteering off of the pandemic crisis. Rampant censorship of people who
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by apostacy 4y ago
Because the deaths prevented are debatable, that is why. Should we be forced to get every vaccine? Even vaccines that are not effective? Who decides that? What if the institutions mandating vaccines have a conflict of interest? Very few peo
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by apostacy 4y ago
So much of the handling of this pandemic has completely shattered my trust in our medical and scientific institutions. The debate about the actual medical benefits of the vaccine are almost irrelevant at this point.
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by apostacy 4y ago
Except that created a narrative that the pandemic was above politics, and was only about public health and "the science". But that is clearly not the case.
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by apostacy 4y ago
You don't engage in Steelmanning to be nice. It is for your benefit. Demonstrating that you fully understand an argument better than your opponent, and being able to charitably represent them, just makes it all the more devastating whe
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by apostacy 4y ago
I agree that the language about personality disorders is absolutist and pessimistic, which I think obscures discussion about treatment.
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by apostacy 4y ago
So it is possible to cure narcissism, if only the narcissist wants to be cured? That is a very far cry from being described as 'incurable', which I have seen used a lot. Again, I am not saying that narcissism doesn't exist, b
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by apostacy 4y ago
I am really confused about this. It does not make sense to me. Do you mean that it is difficult to cure? Because that is not the same thing as incurable. If people can be socialized into it, why can't they be socialized out of it? 15%
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by apostacy 4y ago
Should customers who have had a bad experience just not give any feedback then? Github should be grateful for this feedback. I know that it takes effort to make your product or service better, but that doesn't mean that customers shoul
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by apostacy 5y ago
This is like seeing Obama do a charity event with Halliburton and Dick Cheney. Disney is probably the company most directly aligned against the values that Mozilla purportedly holds. They spent decades funding projects to kill the modern we
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by apostacy 5y ago
> _Who_ has been "spending the last few years..."? Is it the same people who are now "outraged over a single schoolboard..."? Can you show that? Of course it is the same people, that was implied by my sentence, obviou
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by apostacy 5y ago
California recently decided that long division should not be taught until middle school, in order to fight "white supremacy" Some Tennessee backwater is not the joke here.
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by apostacy 5y ago
What if the author said something slightly problematic on Twitter 14 years ago, would that be a good justification for banning their book? Rednecks stopped being the biggest laughing stock in this country years ago.
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by apostacy 5y ago
A small school district removed a book because it contained some profanity that made some parents uncomfortable. Is this supposed to be more important than the massive changes that states like California have quietly pushed through over the
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by apostacy 5y ago
After spending the last few years gleefully cheering for Republicans to be banned from every online platform, it feels pretty fake to be outraged over a single schoolboard somewhere editing their suggested reading list. I used to see storie
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by apostacy 5y ago
This is because of the toxic effect of economics and marketing. Everything has to be centered on making the platform more money. Even in cases where it makes no sense to do so! I've seen open source projects embrace market driven desig
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by apostacy 5y ago
The only thing that function does is create a directory, and you could just as well have done an mkdir output && youtube-dl -o output/ I would also advise against using the mkv container, and use mp4 instead.
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by apostacy 5y ago
I have no idea what videos you were watching. The thing that is so compelling about JCS is that he keeps his distance from the subject, and lets the facts speak for themselves most of the time. The only time he really talks about psychology
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by apostacy 5y ago
JCS has actually spawned an entire new genre of YouTube videos. Just search for "JCS inspired" to find more. I find it really compelling, because it is much more grounded and less sensational than documentaries that would be shown
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by apostacy 5y ago
I am not remotely excited for any reboots. I don't want Stargate: Discovery

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