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by beedeebeedee 6d ago
You've made several dubious claims. I'm honest and humble enough to be self-critical and not claim beyond what the deposition said, but that doesn't mean I should be held to a higher standard than you (i.e., if you did what y
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by beedeebeedee 6d ago
> It is not materially different. It is materially different. Either it did not happen as the widow claimed, or it did and it was declined. I will back down from my claim that Minsky did have sex with Virginia Giuffree. In the deposition
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by beedeebeedee 7d ago
Then your argument about this is a red herring
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by beedeebeedee 7d ago
>> Minsky's participation > Did not happen Unless you have special knowledge that the public does not have you do not know that and need to stop basing your argument on it
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by beedeebeedee 7d ago
In the deposition in Giuffre v Maxwell, she says she was directed by Maxwell to have sex with Prince Andrew, Jean Luc Brunel, Bill Richardson, Marvin Minsky and others. In those remarks, she is usually asked if she was sent or directed, pre
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by beedeebeedee 7d ago
> Because it would be absurd for the morality of the act to radically shift based on whether it takes place a couple of months later or earlier. The morality of this is that you should not take advantage of and harm a vulnerable person.
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by beedeebeedee 8d ago
The above commenter and others have made the claim that Stallman is just being "precise" and "correct" about a misapplication of what sexual assault means, which is exactly besides the point and a red herring. They have
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by beedeebeedee 8d ago
> Stallman's comments, if read logically like a computer, are generally strictly correct. Stallman's comments, if read inferentially like a human might, often imply abhorrent things. That's not true. I understand the drive
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by beedeebeedee 8d ago
> > but his views are not precise or correct in this matter. > The views he expressed re sexual assault were abhorrent Hi, yes, I think we agree- I was using those terms because that was what the commenter above was claiming
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by beedeebeedee 8d ago
From the article, Stallman said "We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing." That expresses an extreme obtuseness about human behavior and a lack of nua
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by beedeebeedee 9d ago
> Coincidentally, it's highly unlikely Minsky did anything wrong. Virginia Giuffre said that she had sex with Minsky when she was 17 and he was 73. I think no matter how you look at it (even if she was technically above the age of c
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by beedeebeedee 17d ago
Example: Surveillance state, endless propaganda. That is already happening and is the most frightening but not included in your list. Are you not worried?
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by beedeebeedee 17d ago
The only way to stop it is to regulate it. We’re almost there. Read the history about the war on drugs. David Musto has a great book about it, The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control. It was never designed to stop it. Its goal fro
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by beedeebeedee 17d ago
If you’re feeling down, go listen to music on Sixth Street, head to New Orleans or camp out at Enchanted Rock
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by beedeebeedee 19d ago
I think those two arguments converge into one- you can’t get the intent unless you have the process
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by beedeebeedee 20d ago
> The war on drugs definitely didn't cause the drug trade or the murders. Have to stop you right there. The “war on drugs” absolutely has created the conditions for the drug trade and the murders. If you criminalize a large part of
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by beedeebeedee 1mo ago
If Delaware was committing a genocide, you better believe people would be posting about it
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by beedeebeedee 1mo ago
There’s a great book called Paleopoetics by Christopher Collin’s that looks at exactly that
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by beedeebeedee 2mo ago
I’m from New Haven and if you went into a place and asked for a beef patty you would get a Jamaican beef patty, not a burger. It may not be everywhere, but pretty much every city I’ve lived in that is the case
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by beedeebeedee 2mo ago
Ha ha! Wow, the level of ignorance is staggering
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by beedeebeedee 2mo ago
I’d be curious to learn about what you were experiencing, what the astronauts experience and the third man syndrome that Everest hikers experience. I don’t know if they are similar but I’d be curious to learn more about how our perception a
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by beedeebeedee 2mo ago
Hi, this is a well known phenomenon in politics that is much discussed in political science and sociology, and goes by many names (strategic polarization, racial capitalism, split labor market theory, etc, and depending upon how you frame i
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by beedeebeedee 4mo ago
Stick around. The forum has some problems (like the confidently wrong commenter above), and needs curious, good faith folk to enliven the discussion.
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by beedeebeedee 4mo ago
The Times of London
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The theory taking the rich by storm: China funds data center haters(npr.org)
8 points by beedeebeedee 4mo ago|0 comments
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
Yikes! That is not good
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
If you’re pissed you had to pay your HVAC guy to drive to your house and do something you think is trivial, why didn’t you do it yourself?
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
> No it means that perhaps the US should finally start looking at itself instead of just asserting that it doesn't need to because China. Agreed, the US definitely needs to do some introspection to sort out its own shit (and stop sp
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
The article claims that the whole project only cost $40,000, and then compares that to electric conversion offerings that cost $75,000 (and mentions that the global conversion market in 2024 was $5.9 billion). I think the implication is tha
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
Neat. I would have preferred the original interior over Tesla's, but I guess it would then just be an electric conversion and not a "Tesla" conversion with "FSD".

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