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> But what does population decline look like on the ground? The experience of Japan, a country that has been showing this trend for more than a decade, might offer some insight. Already there are too few people to fill all its houses – o
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> And that statement is emblematic of the problem. I'm immediately lumped into "right wing" by people like you because I challenged the narrative you believe. I'm not a right winger, and that "counter-factual&quo
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> I did think about having correct dates and authors, but then I got lazy and in fact got more focussed on getting all the amendments in place. Now that the core work is done, I'll add corrected dates (perhaps real date + 100 years)
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> The supposed hypocrisy is that Amazon, a company, has a different view on mail-in voting than Jeff Bezos, a person. Jeff Bezos is the CEO of Amazon and controls the majority of its voting shares, so they're entangled enough that
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> They don’t have the infrastructure that a state brings to bear to oversee a fair election, nor are there laws to protect the integrity of mail-in ballots for a corporate election. It’s just disingenuous to compare the two. That's
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> I mean this is state-state business and communication, not Jack and Joe Nobody. It is not state-state business and communication. That kind of thing is not done on Twitter. At all. The closest is propagandistic back and forth needlin
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> And diplomatic channels including back channels are the gold standard for diplomatic and undiplomatic communications. Let’s not ruin a good thing by replacing them with Twitter. To even confuse Twitter with a diplomatic channel is a b
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> Obviously it's not acceptable to make threats to heads of state or ex-heads of state, but still I think that's a State Department, Secret Service and other governmental entities that should handle this decision, not Twitter.
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> I mention regulations in general and not particular one, because the context that you are talking about is placed within bigger context of everything around changing. And once law is put in place is almost never removed. But you can&#x
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> Creating a youtube clone is much simpler than creating a youtube clone that doesn't brake any existing laws and regulations. Every additional regulation is making it harder. Though, that's an exceedingly narrow perspective, j
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> ...but I believe most regulations against big tech only establish their domination. These companies can likely invest more resources in legal analysis than the goverment, so they will use most of it to their advantage. If that were tru
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> But Parler _didn't even try_ any of these less drastic measures. They could have properly moderated, or if that's not possible because they were growing so fast they could have limited posts from new users, or added moderatio
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> Well the fact that the riots were organized on Facebook for the month leading up to it certainly looks inconsistent. That's misleading. While there was definitely unacceptable activity that slipped through Facebook's moderat
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> Now that's motivated reasoning. You are choosing to dehumanize those who disagree with you, because that's more comfortable than acknowledging that they might have a legitimate grievance somewhere beneath all the ruckus aroun
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>> IIRC, it's a pretty core journalistic principle that subjects don't get to make decisions about how their story is presented. > Maybe journalists think that, but lots of people (including Scott and me) don't. I be
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> While some people get upset about it, "Democrat" is useful to differentiate the two verbally. Obviously capitalization isn't possible. Not really. "Democrat Party" is literally just a shibboleth used by opposi
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> I really, genuinely, truly don't understand why people insist on understanding this only in the context of partisan censorship. It's motivated reasoning. It's how you can get to the conclusion that Amazon cutting ties w
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> b) that was what the NYT was thinking about why it's ok for them to dox him It's not really doxing if you posted your own personal info publicly. At least once, in 2017 when he was less careful, Alexander publicly outed himse
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> IMO part of his service to the community is helping define those boundaries for the less... socially aware members of the community (ie, the things you Do Not Discuss). Are you talking about stuff like this? https://slatesta
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> For the uninitiated, what sort of content is Slate Star Codex known for? IIRC, it's a blog that's very influential in the "rationalist" community, which I think spun out of https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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> I am saying the deservedly poor reputation of the NYPost is irrelevant in this case because the reported facts are easy to independently verify. The reputation of a newspaper counts when their reputation is what we must rely on, which
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> Well let's look back at some recent history of interference by america. They interfered in the middle east so they could take out the Taliban they trained and armed during the 80's You know there's a lot more context the
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> What matters is whether their reporting is factual or not. In this case, there seems to be little doubt that the reporting is factual; the reported lawsuit does exist and does make the reported claims. That matters, but it isn't t
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> Suppose the NYPost has an axe to grind and went looking for a lawsuit that makes twitter look bad... so what? Because that would be more like propaganda than journalism. > That wouldn't mean they're lying, it would only me
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> Do you think the NYPost fabricated the existence of the lawsuit? As far as I can tell, the lawsuit really does exist. Straight up fabrication is not the only way to disinform, and it's in fact it's a pretty shitty way to do i
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> 10 unionized employees out of thousands isn't enough critical mass to count as a union for the things that matter. The power is in numbers. That may be so, but laying off those 10 could be a strategy to kill the union in the crib
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> The article doesn't link to the Tucows Downloads Archive, for whatever reason it only links to the archive.org homepage. > Here's the direct link: https://archive.org/details/tucows > It also appea
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> Yes america believing it has the right to interfere anywhere in the world and police other countries to put in governments sympathetic to US interests is a problem. At least to everyone outside the US anyway. I'm not so sure about
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> My problem is that this is a decision for the state department, not a blogging platform to make. I disagree with that strongly. If it was the State Department's decision, I'd have to host the CCP's propaganda in my yard
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> Someone needs to watch Abby Martin's series on the U.S. empire's lies about Venezuela. This Abby Martin? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Martin : > She hosted Breaking the Set on the Russian network

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