cholantesh

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by cholantesh 2mo ago
>American politics Is racism/aversion to it a uniquely American phenomenon?
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by cholantesh 2mo ago
BAPS denies that they made any such request (let alone a _demand_); seems weird that DW omits any mention of this.
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by cholantesh 2mo ago
>if you want a silly pic with ur kids, just pay someone on fiver. it will be only slightly more expensive and likely far more exciting for kids as they have to wait for the dopamine hit. Or, y'know, learn how to draw, or accept that
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by cholantesh 2mo ago
I suspect they're a bot, fwiw.
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by cholantesh 2mo ago
And if the terrorist group that provides the impetus for the sanction is practically nonexistent, it's entirely sensical?
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by cholantesh 2mo ago
>They are making and providing tools that enable communication specifically for Far Left groups, some of which are terrorist groups. As per a government who puts cycling and expressing distaste for inflation in the same camp.
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by cholantesh 3mo ago
"HumanProgress.org is a project of the Cato Institute with major support from the John Templeton Foundation and the Searle Freedom Trust, as well as additional funding from the B & E Collins Foundation, and William H. Donner Founda
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by cholantesh 3mo ago
Especially funny because by his own admission, Spector wasn't even a major contributor to the development of Thief.
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by cholantesh 3mo ago
How do you imagine they get there in the first place?
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by cholantesh 3mo ago
Quite a lot of folks who got into tech for the tech are also miserable, because, as the byline rather aptly puts it, a lot of it is pointless. It does not serve a public good, or even a public desire, and 'work for its own sake' i
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by cholantesh 3mo ago
I quite regularly read weird characterizations of the USSR, but 'feudal dictatorship'?
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by cholantesh 3mo ago
Luckily, desk workers can never get tired or experience physical or psychological stress, or be subjected to unreasonable demands from leadership; these are just laws of nature.
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by cholantesh 3mo ago
So paid overtime, vacation, parental and sick leave, and 40 hour work weeks are, in fact, shameless excesses that have made office work worse?
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by cholantesh 4mo ago
I can't recall when the strongarmed union-busting happened at Basecamp, but it was a few years ago. Funnily enough, he kept patronizing Citations Needed well after. E: 2021, apparently; thanks mplewis.
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by cholantesh 4mo ago
'high-trust society' is quite often the same, as a sibling demonstrates. These two terms pretty much never appear simultaneously in an argument except as a dogwhistle.
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by cholantesh 4mo ago
I'm significantly more tired of the reactionary whinge machine re: 'progressive storytelling', to be perfectly honest.
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by cholantesh 5mo ago
They don't have bylines, though, so individual authors could be of different nationalities.
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by cholantesh 5mo ago
It's not a fact-free handwaving; every last one of those comments is just steelmanning Israel's position without any evidential basis. And if you are so deeply concerned about characterizing them as 'XYZ evil foreign power&#x
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by cholantesh 5mo ago
As opposed to treating fact-free rehashings of Israeli state propaganda as 'non-flattering statements' and decorating such treatments with thought-terminating epithets.
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by cholantesh 5mo ago
Someone in the Thief community was celebrating the Nightdive remaster announcement because it is apparently getting much harder with each passing year to install and run the Dark Engine games on Windows; meanwhile I've been doing this
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by cholantesh 5mo ago
>Netenyahu evilness Israel was an apartheid state before Netenyahu became its PM. The BBC wasn't quite as euphemistic about their settler colonial project until the 90s though.
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by cholantesh 5mo ago
More historically accurate, though, no?
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by cholantesh 5mo ago
Firstly, the 'Islamic' character of Malaysia and Indonesia has never really factored into Singapore's geopolitical confrontation or collaboration within SEA. Secondly, the narrative that Israel is some kind of plucky outpost
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by cholantesh 5mo ago
>surrounded by hostile Muslim nations ( though not as bad as Israel, but still) What a bizarre non-sequitur.
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by cholantesh 5mo ago
I gave up a few paragraphs in, partly because of the formatting, partly because the author seemed very impressed with themselves for being the nth person to articulate this sentiment in a particularly ostentatious way.
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by cholantesh 6mo ago
"Disregard disregarding, acquire currency"
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by cholantesh 6mo ago
Incredible work and yes, it really captures a Flash vibe. My only note would be that I'm surprised that Order from Chaos isn't featured anywhere; I feel like they are kind of a Rosetta stone for so much of what happened in the 90s
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by cholantesh 6mo ago
If you think your response was an attack on ideas, most definitely, in addition to correcting your juvenile conception of history.
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by cholantesh 7mo ago
Seems appropriate as it's about as much effort as you put into forming your worldview.
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by cholantesh 7mo ago
Which, in a sibling comment, you say reflects on the sect as a whole. This would be a clever use of weasel words if you were just more consistent.

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