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by ardy42 6y ago
> See Trope 9: "This speech may be protected for now, but the law is always changing." It's worth noting that no legally forbidden censorship has been happening with regards to the recent insurrection against congress.
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> no it is not. Saying “covid is a hoax” should be protected by free speech because it is an expression of (stupidly false) opinion. But I shouldn't be obligated to let someone put a sign saying that on my lawn, nor should I be obli
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I think parent was pointing out that the question of "where should the line be drawn and who should draw it" has already been settled. Those things are already illegal, so we don't need to impose further restrictions on
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> Prosecuting Epstine would have helped. Auditing the voting system would have helped. Both of those things happened. The prosecutors indicted Epstein, but he killed himself before the trial could proceed. The voting system has been au
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Indeed. It's impossible to stop the spread of disinformation completely, no matter what we do. Instead, what we need, is better education on how to parse and digest information we receive from others. True, but you're being t
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> But on a pragmatic basis, not a very smart idea to bring a gun to a protest. Most citizens are going to assume you are there to provoke violence or partake in it. If you end up in front of a jury, a reasonable citizen not going to give
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by ardy42 6y ago
> For HFT purposes, it's hard to hide an intercontinental range HF antenna, particularly a directional one. I know at least 3 locations not far from the illinois CME datacenter, out in some fields, with huge yagi-uda antennas aimed
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? Zero. The planning was largely done on Facebook. This is all a bullshit pretext for silencing competitors on ideologic
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> But when he goes to another network (Parler) it's shut down with 24hrs notice by Amazon. To anyone who's the least bit of a political dissident, alarm bells should be screaming in your ears. If a handful of tech execs can (an
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> This really makes it more of a propaganda weapon than a free speech platform. Which is not surprising, given how the term free speech is getting twisted these days. It seems the term is now used more often to whine about others who do
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by ardy42 6y ago
You're correct that Wikipedia has the blatant vandalism problem more-or-less covered. However, I'm not so enthusiastic about he culture. In a lot of cases, it ends up being "obsessives, fight!" with the weapon of rules
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Game how? Pretty girl says she will show how to mix a drink. Then proceeds to show how to mix a drink. Not ending world hunger or anything, but nothing deceitful here at least. Maybe I'm missing something IIRC, those videos are pr
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by ardy42 6y ago
> "Reform the police" is a slogan and accurate. IIRC, "defund the police" grew out of frustration with various police reform efforts that failed to address these problems [1]. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to
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> The truth is often less attention grabbing than falsehoods. Pretty much every slogan is a falsehood, if you want to quibble.
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>>> They are also presently discussing their next day-out for rednecks in the form of another insurrection and coup attempt on the 17th of January. > But if you play out the actual implications then you can use hyperbole and cal
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> It’s a violation of the constitution for an individual state to change voting laws like that I mean, while we're making stuff up, lets say it's a violation of the constitution to allow for a Democratic government. Article IV
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> I believe it’s been established as fact that Jacob Blake was armed with a knife when he was shot. I’m not drawing any conclusion about the justification [not comparison], but he was not “unarmed”. I stand corrected, though it doesn&#x2
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by ardy42 6y ago
> “Reduce police funding”? Better in some ways, worse in others. It avoids the confusion with abolishment, but it looses the connotations of seriously changing the status quo. Because of that, it's less attention-grabbing.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Since the 90s the alarm has been sounded about the infiltration of police forces across the country by white nationalists and neonazis. IIRC, there have been big scandals about that in Germany recently. The neonazis have been infiltra
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The problem is that "defund" means remove all funding. So these people are playing word games. You have to that with slogans. They're low resolution, so there's an inevitable loss of fidelity. No one marches with
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> I'm pretty sure I'd rather be shot by a hunting rifle than an assault rifle. Hunting rifles aren't designed to blow a deer's leg off. I don't think you know what you're talking about. IIRC, hunting rifles
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by ardy42 6y ago
Since it's all going to be about him anyway, he might as well just settle for a self-hosted WordPress blog.
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> He literally told people to stay peaceful... > It's not like that's all he said... Update: it sounds like Trump is now regrets telling people to stay peaceful: https://nyti.ms/3ot6MhR : > At the Whit
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by ardy42 6y ago
> He literally told people to stay peaceful... It's not like that's all he said...
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> Exactly. Remember when this was OK? https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1047935416182235136?s=19 Did they break into the offices and steal things?
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> I agree. Honestly I don't grasp the value in such stories except the typical clickbaiting via emotional content. I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but this story has some value in disrupting the stereotypes many people prob
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>> If your goal is to build houses > Which is the goal of Habitat for Humanity, correct? >> if it's to recruit lifetime donors > Which is not the goal of Habitat for Humanity, right? It's only a means to an end.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Desktop UIs are hardly mature, but for the last 15 years UI innovation has been about putting lipstick on a pig rather than deep-diving subsystems and figuring out how to graphically represent and control them. I disagree. To various
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> Or, instead of that, I could sabotage any efforts to create unions, thereby making it so I cannot be forced to join a union. That sounds way more productive. Well, at least that's honest. > Other examples of bad unions would be
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Pensions are horrifically anti-worker. You're basically withholding X% of someone's pay for 40 years, and also confiscating that pay if they don't stay at the same company until the pension vests (so people cannot leave

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