cenophor

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by cenophor 5y ago
This is murder, not people falling off the cliff because of some accidents. There is probably nothing logically wrong with that question, and you are probably right that there is a correlation. But... seriously?
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by cenophor 5y ago
It's not the first time I complain about these articles from the same company popping up onto the front page, and I am really wondering how they are consistently doing this. For a format that is easier to consume and isn't marketi
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by cenophor 5y ago
This comment is just delightful to read. Thanks for saving us from potential frustrations and for reminding us that helping others can be simply an act of kindness without a monetization scheme attached. > probably a mistake I hope you w
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by cenophor 5y ago
> The post hardly felt pushy to me, and I don’t understand the skepticism of the poster’s intentions. Two things that lead me to thinking that: * Blanket statement on censorship without providing further details and references * Picking
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by cenophor 5y ago
> It really feels sometimes that the only thing the average Australian cares about is the price of their property portfolio. Maybe the sample average of the people you hang around is quite different from the population average. The avera
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by cenophor 5y ago
You can say the same things about a lot of things in many countries, someone can probably say the same about the one you live in. I suspect the censorship that you talk about are not as black and white as you seem to be trying to project. I
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by cenophor 5y ago
> Right, that's why I said "Many Chinese". No offense but I used to do this and I now think of it as a means of lying to myself that I have covered myself from the "edge cases" that don't support my obviousl
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by cenophor 5y ago
> It depends on your environment. Say if you are at a university or something with students it will be very different than if you are working for a tech company with your Chinese co-workers. That's what I thought before I went there
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by cenophor 5y ago
> I've heard from various Mainland Chinese people: that many of them thinks western media brainwashes us (think the thing about Olympic photo coverage of Chinese medalists) and many condemn westerner take on social matters (the US&#
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by cenophor 5y ago
> There’s an interesting discourse about whether gacha games are anti-consumer or not which I don’t have enough space to do justice to here. Broadly I think they have some challenges similar to gambling, insofar as many adults gamble rec
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by cenophor 5y ago
This reeks like a con-artists rephrasing perfectly normal and mundane observations into scary-sounding situations so that people would buy the air-filter companies that are funding your research. I'm all for cleaner air and I don'
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by cenophor 5y ago
There is no browser if there is no power?
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by cenophor 5y ago
The moment you said "subjective analysis" already invalidated the rest of your argument and supported what I said -- you are just saying it's okay to use you a set standards that are not universally accepted to judge others.
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by cenophor 5y ago
The fact that you avoided using "wannabe" as a noun to describe yourself in that contrived example says a lot.
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by cenophor 5y ago
They are wannabes because it makes the author of the parent comment feels better. Anyone who isn't objectively the best at something is probably automatically a wannabe. So at the end of the day it's just a wannabe calling everyo