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by chuckee 5y ago
> A ruling by the ECJ in March said that the EU can force member states to disregard certain provisions in national law, including constitutional law. In other words, the ECJ considers EU member states to no longer be sovereign. Is this
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by chuckee 5y ago
Core issue for some. For others, the centralization of power is more worrisome. Would it be an improvement if, instead of chasing profits, Facebook used their power to instead suppress your favored political movement?
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by chuckee 5y ago
> a 37-year-old spinster [..] yet I fear far too many NPCs will buy it [..] Not only is this bitch demanding that even more of my free speech should be taken away [..] designed to confirm all the biases of braindead MSNBC-watching cat la
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by chuckee 5y ago
Is "ban on misinformation" really the right term? Because it seems that "hateful" misinformation gets banned (although the article doesn't even call it misinformation, just "hateful content"), while inclus
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by chuckee 5y ago
I'm not saying those aren't a problem. I'm saying that ecological stress is proportional to human population size. Are you claiming we'd have the same ecological problems, of the same severity, if the human population
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Canadian government's proposed online harms legislation threatens human rights(cbc.ca)
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by chuckee 5y ago
Surely you're not implying that population reduction due to a lower birth-rate is as traumatic as living through the Black Death, just because the GP unfortunately used it as an example? As for Malthusianism - it seems to me the GP is
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by chuckee 5y ago
The article sadly doesn't address why foreign-made (or should it be "foreign-controlled"?) TPM chips are viewed as a national security concern. > “Those specific offerings are tailored for countries that don‘t allow origin
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Lost most of our ad revenue on existing users (both Google Mobile Ads and Facebook Audience pause monetization on removed apps). Does this mean the ads themselves were removed/blank?
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by chuckee 5y ago
Such mild criticism warrants cancellation, but we can totally trust studies that show the unalloyed benefits of diversity, right? There are no incentives against undertaking studies likely to show an adverse effect, or to publish their find
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by chuckee 5y ago
> If you run low on something you buy frequently, the fridge would notify you and make it easier to order more from Whole Foods or Amazon Fresh, which could give the company’s grocery division a boost. Just what we need, appliances helpi
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by chuckee 5y ago
Which personal information did it have, specifically? Twitter has a history of defining PII very broadly when it suits them: https://jonathanturley.org/2021/04/11/twitter-censors-critic...
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by chuckee 5y ago
Are telecoms not privately run? Or are you defining anything that's regulated as "not privately run"?
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by chuckee 5y ago
"Billion dollar corporation selects and grooms political candidates." But phrase it as "empowers young people to run for office", and suddenly increased corporate meddling in politics seems great!
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by chuckee 5y ago
Strange how the Paycheck Protection Program didn't directly pay workers who didn't get paychecks, but had to go through their employers instead.
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by chuckee 5y ago
Plenty of utilities are privately owned - telephone companies and ISPs, for the most relevant example. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_utility
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by chuckee 5y ago
Ah. So it is merely a war against the right of national self-determination.
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by chuckee 5y ago
Exactly the same, in the sense that a war against Taiwan's independence is as morally justified as a war against slavery?
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by chuckee 5y ago
It's interesting how far removed this is from the competitive ideal of "provide a better product/service at a lower price".
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by chuckee 5y ago
> And Australia and the US and Japan and others are not going to step up to defend Taiwan because China, unlike Iraq, and Afghanistan, and most recent US foes, can actually fight back. By the same argument you could say China won't
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Earlier this month, Anderson told me she submitted a co-authored op-ed to The New York Times warning that many transgender healthcare providers were treating kids recklessly. The Times passed, explaining it was “outside our coverage pr
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by chuckee 5y ago
Not at all. I'm saying that adjusting the past to match our sensibilities is becoming a trend.
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the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) republished a quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Supreme Court judge, on the anniversary of her death. The quote was a defence of a woman’s right to have an abortion. But the ACLU’s version—for whic
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by chuckee 5y ago
Voting with their feet/wallet/choice of medical procedure? We have rights and regulations because these individualist methods have again and again been proven ineffective.
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by chuckee 5y ago
"Deal with FOSS" is an interesting way of phrasing "Not keep secret how an implanted medical device works". There should be a fundamental right for patients to know this, otherwise they effectively don't have bodily
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by chuckee 5y ago
> granted by a Jewish actor He appropriated his own culture? Shall we then count everything inspired by other European cultures, that is present in pop culture, as "appropriated", regardless of who introduced it to pop culture?
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Those songs are not religious Yes, that was my point. Non-religious songs about a religious holiday.
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> Imagine how an Orthodox Jewish rabbi would feel if a gentile pop-music multimillionaire made a music video in which he used the Kaddish to mourn a Maserati he’d totaled. The offense isn’t appropriation; it’s the insult entailed by triv
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My militant sister campaigns against intermarriage. I am engaged to a gentile(jta.org)
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Timber Sycamore (CIA Program)(en.wikipedia.org)
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