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by arp242 1y ago
There are many differences between the two cases, and also some similarities. I don't really understand the purpose of your question, or why it's useful to compare?
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by arp242 1y ago
They didn't ignore it. The show was suspended for several days. Over some really tame remarks. The warning is pretty obvious to anyone paying attention.
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by arp242 1y ago
At this point his political views are still not clear. You can be pro-trans and pro-Trump at the same time. See: Caitlyn Jenner, who supported Trump in the 2024 election. Even more so given that all of this pinning on extreme-left groups st
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by arp242 1y ago
If you want to ban saying something false then you need to start with arresting everyone who loudly and aggressively claimed that the murdered of the Democratic politicians in Minnesota was a far-left extremist and all of that. People are s
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by arp242 1y ago
That's not how law works in most places. Even in most European countries with more expansive defamation laws merely saying false things as such is not against the law. And it wasn't really defaming anyone, so none of that applies
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by arp242 1y ago
And the endless recriminations continue. I can point out that Gaza was engineered to fail, and that every movement towards peace that Hamas has made since 2005 has been ignored, and things like that. But I'm fairly sure that would fall
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by arp242 1y ago
So you're fine with people being obnoxious assholes bullying people off the site with aggressive attacks as long as they're using nice language. Got it. (and if your response to that is an annoyed "oh please, that's not
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by arp242 1y ago
All of these are very minor incidents that have been hugely exaggerated by the right-wing outrage media. And you're bringing up this unrelated minor years old drama in a "Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK" story
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by arp242 1y ago
There are real limits to what life can be supported due to basic chemistry/laws of physics. e.g. "Venus is so hot — hot enough to melt lead — that the acid rain evaporates as it’s falling." That life evolved on Earth and not
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by arp242 1y ago
In addition to that, you don't need to ban criminals from wearing masks because you can already arrest them for the crime they're doing. And also pretty sure you can identify them after that one way or the other. It's a dumb
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by arp242 1y ago
There have always been the occasional silly "Monty Python type moments" throughout the history of humanity, even in the best of institutions. We just didn't have the right-wing outrage media to jump on every tiny incident to
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by arp242 1y ago
If you had said in 1988 that The Troubles in Northern Ireland would have a peace accord ten years later no one would have believed you. Everything seemed at a complete stalemate, and there is a history going back hundreds of years. Yet in 1
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by arp242 1y ago
You don't think it's obnoxious to aggressively put words in people's mouths and becoming even more aggressive and accusatory when getting some gentle "that's not what I said" pushback on that? Practically no on
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by arp242 1y ago
I once had an Apple fanboy explain to me at excruciating length that my preference was actually factually and objectively wrong, and that everyone should use the macOS scrolling and that anyone who doesn't is just stupid. I do not miss
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by arp242 1y ago
I'm not namecalling anyone Dan, I said their behaviour is bad. Which it is for any reasonable standard.
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by arp242 1y ago
The metric you would need for this is "fatalities and crashes caused because someone was struggling to deal with their bloody touchscreen", which can be both motorists and non-motorists. I don't think anyone is tracking that.
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by arp242 1y ago
It's not my impression that if you make a knife very very sharp it turns in to a lightsaber.
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by arp242 1y ago
> in Dune there is an aversion to technology Just computers, no? IIRC they use knives because the shields stop fast-moving objects like bullets, so you need a slow-moving object like a knife.
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by arp242 1y ago
In the video he says he spent a lot of time making prototypes and perfecting the design. Is he lying? He shows images of the prototypes. Did he create fake prototypes?
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by arp242 1y ago
> if this version of the knife doesn't connect to the cloud, the next one will. That's just ugly cynicism. And I'm willing to bet a good amount of money the "next one" from this company won't. But it doesn&#
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by arp242 1y ago
I watched the video and this seems pretty neat. Don't want to knock it or be negative. He's definitely right that most people's knives are dull – when I use knives in other people's homes I often just want to cry at how
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by arp242 1y ago
You're comparing a full-time salaried employee with a "few months" to spare vs. a bunch of people spending their spare time. Obviously not the same at all. There is a difference between "able to do the task, given enough
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by arp242 1y ago
It's not that people like Ghadaffi or Sadam were known for their good taste haha. Trump's affinity for dictator chic is not entirely out of step.
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by arp242 1y ago
No, he wasn't quite this bad before. I spent some time reading up on what he was saying around ~2021 and there was racism, but not "these low IQ savages need to be segregated" levels of racism.
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by arp242 1y ago
There are some people really obsessed with Antifa. A week or two ago I browsed Eric S. Raymond's Twitter/X, and he keeps banging about it as some organisation that ruins everything. He also still keeps banging on about BLM in a si
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by arp242 1y ago
You don't just destroy foundational democratic principles just because it's convenient in the moment.
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by arp242 1y ago
> its not clear why, say, Chrome or Firefox wouldn't want to take over XSLT/libxml2 development Very few people actually like XSLT, presumably including the Chrome and Firefox devs. I know XSLT has its share of supporters and t
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by arp242 1y ago
I see this "high-ranking elected officials" vs. "A few anonymous nobodies on Reddit and Twitter (now Bluesky I guess)" type of false equivalence all the time.

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