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by apostacy 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to mischaracterize what you said. It sounded like you were saying you wanted to change the interface somewhat. The reason that I thought that was because if it was a 100% transparent interface identical to an exist
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by apostacy 5y ago
I thought it was clear that I was opposed to moving away from phone numbers. Of course if the system that OP was talking about was almost completely identical to a fax experience, then what I am saying does not apply. This is what the OP sa
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by apostacy 5y ago
This question reminds me of the now infamous comment[1] asking why Dropbox exists when you can just use an SFTP server. Just because there are technologically superior solutions is hardly what matters. You need to factor in the experience o
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by apostacy 5y ago
> And not moderating them is a slippery slope to facilitating violent extremism, and to anti-science activists leading an otherwise-developed country to top the chart in pandemic deaths. Have we really learned nothing over the last year
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by apostacy 5y ago
Yes, because right now it is effectively Google having a pretext to remove whatever they want, by only selectively overriding moderation. Just yesterday, a group posting Xinjiang videos was censored from YouTube.[1] Are their videos going t
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by apostacy 5y ago
> Hm. It does? My point is not saying anything is not part of "scriptural canon", merely that "CRT" as described is not actually taught in schools nor is it a clearly defined category. I think that it is an accurate e
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by apostacy 5y ago
> Yeah probably no lurking variable there... You are teaching kids to be uncomfortable with each other based on what they look like. You are telling kids that they are fundamentally different from each other. You are telling kids that &q
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by apostacy 5y ago
> That's always been true, and CRT has nothing to do with it. I have seen it happen to preteens first hand. Children that a year ago were comfortable hanging out, are no longer so. CRT encourages kids to engage in paint-swatch racia
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by apostacy 5y ago
> Nobody had even heard of CRT until like 3 years ago and what people call "CRT" isn't even an actual category. It is certainly not being taught in highschools. This to me sounds like someone dismissing the harms caused by
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by apostacy 5y ago
> The First Amendment to the US Constitution constrains the limits that laws can impose on free expression. That's one definition. One reason hat this is an unreasonably narrow definition is because it implies that censorship can on
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by apostacy 5y ago
Debunkers got people killed. Facebook, Twitter, and most of the mainstream media suppressed early warnings about COVID. Warnings that we should wear masks were called fake news and anti-Chinese racism. And every single person I know who is
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by apostacy 5y ago
> Truth and reality aren't subjective, but people's beliefs about the nature of them are, very much so. It's impossible to solve the problem by asking "The Experts" to adjudicate what is and isn't true, beca
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by apostacy 5y ago
Most high speed rail lines are just upgrades to existing lines. We already have these rights of way settled. That is all the more reason that should not be abandoned. It is typical to run minimal service to maintain the route, until service
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by apostacy 5y ago
I think the absolute time and distance is what matters, and it would still substantially benefit from being high speed, even if it is meandering through upstate NY and along the great lakes. Eventually, a more direct NY - Chicago high speed
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by apostacy 5y ago
These long distance routes should be left intact because they are an important anchor for eventually expanding to high speed rail. China kept their unprofitable rural slow passenger routes into the distant corners of their country, and now
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by apostacy 5y ago
Consider that most regional airline routes to rural parts of the country are subsidized as well (and far more is spent on it). Most of Alaska would lose air service. Large chunks of Texas, Arizona, and Alabama would be cut off. I think we n
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by apostacy 5y ago
For some perspective, the federal government regularly funds highways to nowhere that nobody asked for or wants[1] Most regional airfields are bigger money sinks than Amtrak. The federal government subsidizeds up to $800 per passenger in so
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by apostacy 5y ago
Notice the dotted line between Jacksonville FL and Mobile AL in the lower right? That is because of a "temporary" service suspension in 2004 from damage by hurricane Katrina.[1] Apparently even Amtrak thinks that by 2035 they won&
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by apostacy 5y ago
> But it's as easy to point to the dire consequences of persisting in amplifying the voices of people spewing hateful rhetoric as it is to point to the people silenced to protect the interests of the powerful. I think treating this
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by apostacy 5y ago
> Fellow Turkish trolls are doing extra duty on this thread :-) If I got something wrong, anyone please feel free to correct me instead of just downvoting. If I only get downvoted but nobody can tell me what I'm wrong about, it is j
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by apostacy 5y ago
I think your links prove my point: Facebook only cares about appeasing the powerful. Whether it is facilitating genocide or covering up genocide, they are the same. If it benefited Facebook, they would just as well deplatform people trying
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by apostacy 5y ago
Facebook has shown themselves completely willing to remove content at the request of the Erdoğan government. If they deplatform critics of Erdoğan, why would they also not be willing to deplatform anything else that Erdoğan does not like, l
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by apostacy 5y ago
Since Facebook has agreed to implement censorship on behalf of the Turkish government[1], how long is it until discussion of the Armenian genocide is flagged as hate speech and fake news? As far as Turkey is concerned, this is fake news. An
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by apostacy 6y ago
The problem is essentially the same. I did not say they should start a new browser engine. I think that if Mozilla was as willing to take risks as they were before, they would win over users. The difference is that before they were willing
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by apostacy 6y ago
I would assert that the exact opposite is true. Taking a strong stand in favor of users would increase their market share. Over a decade ago, one of the best things that Firefox did to compete against IE6 was to include a built in popup blo
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by apostacy 6y ago
> Regardless, you bet it would decrease the death count. Absolutely not. Guns "democratize" violence. People who are less strong will at least have a fighting chance to defend themselves. Without guns, those with brute force ha
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by apostacy 6y ago
The Philippines has more mass shootings, and way more crime in general. And how do you define a mass shooting? The media equates a gangland battle between two groups of crack dealers to be the same thing as the Columbine shooting. A country
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by apostacy 6y ago
I don't think so. I think it is our society. If you gave everyone in Japan a gun, I don't think people would just start committing more crimes. If you took away guns from everyone in a place like South Africa, I don't think i
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by apostacy 6y ago
This is just conservative Prager-U corporate toadying. Essentially, if you don't like your job, stop complaining and quit! People invested significantly in YouTube because they were promised that it was a platform for everyone. Now the
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by apostacy 6y ago
Lets of course also not forget the biggest one, COVID. COVID was fake news, until it wasn't. Previous weeks (months?) were spent suppressing warnings about it. I specifically remember being banned for saying that people should wear fac

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