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by atypicaluser 6y ago
> Rhetoric that led to an insurrection... A situation that some term an 'insurrection' and others term a 'riot'. Trouble is, who's right? Who has the authority to make an objective claim on this? For half-a-year
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by atypicaluser 6y ago
Those communities are dwindling in number. Increasingly, you step out of line once with the Left-leaning mindset, you are muted or banned. And these moderators will tell you to go elsewhere. Except Google, Apple, AWS, etc. are now actively
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by atypicaluser 6y ago
OP writes: > We just assume we're right. And you follow up by proving just how right he is. First you dehumanize your political opponents--"If a rabid cougar gets loose..."--then you tell us what we need to do--"we ta
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by atypicaluser 6y ago
What's amusing is how Schneier himself falls prey to his own 'emotional thinking'-- > Emotional appeals have likewise long been a facet of political campaigns. In the 1860 US presidential election, Southern politicians and
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by atypicaluser 6y ago
To answer your second question first, The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand started me down this path. The sheer brazenness of the title made me pick it up: what I read over the next few days broke me. Or the old me. I've long left R
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by atypicaluser 7y ago
What could it be other than punishment? RMS committed no crime. What he did was offend certain people by having the audacity to speak up on behalf of his dead friend. That was his 'act.' Inconvenient enough?
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by atypicaluser 7y ago
"...principles of liberty in expression and action." It amuses me that you fail to see the irony in your use of that phrase when it comes to RMS being forced to resign for what he said.
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by atypicaluser 7y ago
It's a question because I'm trying to assess where the line is drawn, eg. if a person is sexist in their private life, but keeps things professional on the job, should they be punished for being sexist? You've helped draw tha
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by atypicaluser 7y ago
Feel free to believe anyone you meet, or merely hear about, is a jerk. The question is--should being a jerk be a fireable offense?
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by atypicaluser 7y ago
So... sexism in and of itself ought to be a punishable offense?
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by atypicaluser 7y ago
That's not what happened. And I doubt that any amount of apology, even if RMS was sincere, would have been sufficient--contrition is not punishment enough in today's Salem.
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by atypicaluser 7y ago
Not really tech related, but... is there an age limit now on men and women having sex? Just trying to gauge the lines being drawn in this age of moral relativity.
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by atypicaluser 8y ago
Who draws the line?
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by atypicaluser 8y ago
As could /r/politics, /r/srs and other extreme subreddits infested with bots, trolls and other societal rejects. How unfortunate that this generation's social scientists are interested only in grinding and swinging
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by atypicaluser 8y ago
You missed the point of the article entirely. The Bookish Life --obviously this will discuss a life built around books. Yeah, yeah, anyone could guess how it would end, i.e. there's little fortune in it. How to Read and Why --interes
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by atypicaluser 8y ago
> all is well and good I would say that striving to be 'all is well and good' is a never-ending chore. (As in never will end. ) > since all lobby organizations are represented in Washington. Not all, but many. There are als
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by atypicaluser 8y ago
They would prefer it as a way of lowering the cost of doing business. However, as Google has shown with Dragonfly, this attitude is likely to encourage a race to the bottom with the most oppressive regimes.
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by atypicaluser 8y ago
The electoral college (EC) is a state system connected neither to Congress nor the Senate. Rather the EC is apportioned representatives based on the total number of Congressmen and Senators a state has. These representatives are chosen by (
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by atypicaluser 8y ago
> their democratic system is very weak. And with good reason, e.g. mob rule. (As an American I hope this remains so.) > bought out by lobbyists On all sides. Goldman Sachs has their man in Washington, as does Planned Parenthood. >
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by atypicaluser 8y ago
> I think you, and others, seem to ignore that deep learning bots produce what the data [and the rules it uses] contains. The bot uses data, sure, but like the humans it also-- * Chooses what data it uses based on... * The rules that mak
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by atypicaluser 8y ago
Well... yes. Why not? Equal protection under the law means exactly that. If you--as a government--force a business to cater to customers it doesn't like, then you need to do this to all businesses. Why else use the words 'equal pr
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by atypicaluser 9y ago
True enough - > It's hard to have discussion with someone who will not acknowledge basic facts. Let me acknowledge the article as 100% factual, and further let me concede that the New York Times (NYT) didn't leave any pertinent
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by atypicaluser 9y ago
"Irresponsible." March 5-6, 2018. Trump's comment to Theresa May over Putin's boast regarding nuclear weapons. Anywho... I'm tryin' hard not to roll my eyes as I write this, but here goes - Like everything Trum
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by atypicaluser 9y ago
My initial reaction to reading this - 'Hey old people, just die already!' A more considered reaction - shouldn't you at least offer 'older folks' an incentive to give up their lives other than 'it'd be bet
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by atypicaluser 9y ago
> Why isn't it just a good thing that Ethiopia had a part to play in the development of civilization as well? Did Ethiopia have a part to play in the development of Western thought? Given his own final question, that seems to be the
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by atypicaluser 9y ago
Not all of us will argue to the contrary. On the other hand, expect no sympathy when the powers-that-be decide to knock your favorite site(s) off the grid because they haven't passed the (next fashionable) purity test. You've no l
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by atypicaluser 9y ago
Your reply misses the point of the OP: > ... physical attack has been socially approved. It's okay to punch a Nazi. And you're free to define Nazi whichever way you want. Quite convenient. How many Americans actually self-ide
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by atypicaluser 10y ago
Keeping Muslims out of the US (banning Muslim immigration to the US) != deportation. You may disagree with Trump, but please don't put words in his mouth.
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by atypicaluser 10y ago
Three comments - (0) Nice setup of the sane and compassionate versus... Trump supporters? Who cannot in any way be sane or compassionate... (1) If Trump supporters must be fought and excluded from any sort of decision-making that affects
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by atypicaluser 11y ago
> The age of filling a 50k+ person factory with uneducated workers is over. Very honest. > Our society is moving towards post-ownership. Now how a bit more honesty? What you really mean to say is our society is moving towards an owner

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