astronautjones

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by astronautjones 6y ago
what a ridiculous comment. it was a crowd of some of the dumbest people alive - some attempting to kidnap, injure, and kill lawmakers, some thinking that by entering the building they'd find an OVERTHROW GOVT button. Idiots. anyone tha
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by astronautjones 6y ago
what culture? literally all these people care about is demanding blind devotion to their leader and buying Q merchandise to wear at their demagogue circuses. it's time to stop treating them like they're anything other than a delud
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by astronautjones 6y ago
it speaks to the greater problem with all of these companies - they dodge responsibility by automating 99% of the work they should be doing to moderate content. i bet youtube, insta/fb, and twitter's actual human employees doing t
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by astronautjones 6y ago
it still gets your information if you're in someone else's contact list and they make the connection
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by astronautjones 6y ago
EA not supporting it did a lot of damage, though ironically almost every sega sports franchise was better than their games
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by astronautjones 6y ago
"i, also, like to live dangerously"
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by astronautjones 6y ago
they weren't, though. the truth is that SRI was running these studies in an unscientific fashion (read some of those results and see how liberally they counted something as "accessing the target") to make money off of several
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by astronautjones 6y ago
that is absolutely false
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by astronautjones 6y ago
as i pointed out the last time this came up ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23067492 ) the most simple answer, the answer with the most historical analogues (think government-funded remote viewing research well into
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by astronautjones 6y ago
I totally agree with your point (and would trust a hazy dream more than anything coming from this government), but I'd add that even if they claim to identify these parties forensically, they're often using parallel construction t
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by astronautjones 6y ago
i don't necessarily disagree with you overall, but your comparisons at the end aren't appropriate because alcohol is an addictive substance
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by astronautjones 6y ago
it's such nonsense, especially if you are even remotely computer literate. I'm working on an article about it, but I used snow leopard for 12 years with no ill effects (until this year!) and only finally left it because of the tyr
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by astronautjones 6y ago
it's definitely worth the inconvenience
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by astronautjones 6y ago
aren't you doing that by having children anywhere?
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by astronautjones 6y ago
This is low-key pedantic
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by astronautjones 6y ago
the reason "politics" are so derided on this website is because these guys can't stop themselves from impulsively showing their true colors (and exposing the very endemic racism at hand in the process!) at the drop of a hat
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by astronautjones 6y ago
> The NASA HQ was named after somebody to celebrate traits they didn't earn or choose to celebrate them for their achievements made while fighting uphill and exponentially harder than their white counterparts in a society rigged aga
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by astronautjones 6y ago
came to the thread to encourage everyone to experience them this way. it's so immersive and really makes you feel like you've time machine-d into dialup era (or older!)
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by astronautjones 6y ago
bless WACUP. It runs perfectly
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by astronautjones 6y ago
"not me personally but a guy i know"
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by astronautjones 6y ago
she is completely right
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by astronautjones 6y ago
we're about to enter a very different phase imo
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by astronautjones 6y ago
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/12679643851479777... "FBI WFO has no intelligence indicating antifa involvement/presence"
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by astronautjones 6y ago
your link doesn't even suggest what you're suggesting. "The notice asked activists to “bring your friends, bring your crew and come prepared to disrupt the nightmare that is Trump,” while the site predicted “thousands” would
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by astronautjones 6y ago
> Being an anti-democratic organisation which violently attacks civilians for having made the “wrong” vote in a democratic election is not. this is a lie though. where's your evidence of this? where is it organized? If "attacks
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by astronautjones 6y ago
no, they don't! what are you talking about? I have been to places where people have to defend themselves from neo nazis coming to beat them up for being gay. it is a label that indicates reactive protection from fascist violence, perio
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by astronautjones 6y ago
I don't think you're allowed to point it out here, but there is a large audience here that is a massive part of the problem. rich, influential people with power (whether they use it or not) riding this generation's wave of pr
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by astronautjones 6y ago
It's literally not an organization. There are lots of people that have anti-fascist stickers or flags or whatever in europe that explicitly exist to stand up for people when nazis/neo-nazis show up to protests, or to their squats,
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by astronautjones 6y ago
It would be completely different and give his ridiculous nonsense an appropriate context. Think about how every NBA game, breakfast show, mayonnaise commercial, news outlet shows people's tweets to make people feel connected through so
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by astronautjones 6y ago
> DT doesn't "rely on twitter for his political survival", any platform he goes to all his supporters would happily follow while gleefully trashing twitter on their way out the door. they wouldn't, and even if they d

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