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by cld8483 4y ago
> there is a kind of... meanspiritedness to them. It's hard to describe but almost like, spiritual viciousness or a deep nasty pessimism about people. Yes, I felt this way about his books when I was a kid. I did like the books d
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by cld8483 4y ago
Or why they tried to erase Joseph Conrad, despite Conrad being famous for his opposition to colonialism. (Probably because they judge Joseph Conrad by the outdated language he used, rather than by the ideas and values he presented. Because
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by cld8483 4y ago
The device is the hard part. AR hardware that occludes the real word is a difficult challenge.
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by cld8483 4y ago
I predict that creative innuendo will always stay one step ahead of the AI censors, which will always be playing catch-up. It's just another form of euphemism treadmill. When I was in public school, the adults got sick of kids using t
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by cld8483 4y ago
I haven't heard of this trend before, what you say seems very strange to me since I've always found first-person novels to be more than a bit odd and uncanny.
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by cld8483 4y ago
> Kind of a tangent, but is it fair to define ppl up in arms about this as “anti-woke”? Im basing this on the fact that anti-woke usually is considered right-wing/libertarian etc You're right that one of these is unfair, but
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by cld8483 4y ago
Debian Sid makes a pretty good "rolling release" distro for home/hobby use at least, although I prefer OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for this.
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by cld8483 4y ago
> Said no one relevant [Retort insult.]
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by cld8483 4y ago
AppImage is great, definitely the best of the bunch.
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by cld8483 4y ago
Ubuntu is an African word which means "Afraid of Debian" Seriously though, just install Debian. It's not hard, the netinstaller may be text-mode but it walks you through the simple steps one by one just like Ubuntu's GU
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by cld8483 4y ago
That's fine if you have no other option, but it is inferior to uBlock Origin since it can't do any cosmetic filtering. Better to use pi-hole on your network for clients that have no other choice, but to then also use uBlock Origi
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by cld8483 4y ago
Not permitting the accused to know what they are being accused of is always done in bad faith. If the accused were guilty, then they'd already know who the victim is and already know who the accuser is, so hiding the accuser does not
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by cld8483 4y ago
Whenever an institution makes the decision to start taking anonymous accusations seriously, you can bet the bureaucracy of that institution has already been captured by precisely the sort of people who are eager to abuse such a system. To
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by cld8483 4y ago
The rattlers around here could fuck you up, particularly if you can't get medical attention within a few hours because you're disabled on the ground alone at night. But fortunately, rattlers rattle (usually) so the snakes actual
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by cld8483 4y ago
The only "good" ads are those you have to specifically go out of your way to view because you want to view them; such as product catalogues. All other ads are physiological assault and should be made illegal. Particularly those a
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by cld8483 4y ago
Weather permitting too, but yes. Moonlight is quite bright once your eyes have adjusted to it.
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by cld8483 4y ago
Just as some young men ride motorcycles at 200mph or free climb cliffs, others travel around the world to join wars that have nothing to do with their family or community. I would be very cautious about ascribing noble motives to reckless
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by cld8483 4y ago
Butlerian Jihad gives me a spark of hope. ;) A global taboo against thinking machines is probably our best bet for freedom.
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by cld8483 4y ago
I distinctly remember trick-or-treating in suburbia with a flashlight. A flashlight at night is not so odd, that's pretty much what they're for. (And yes, there were sidewalks...)
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by cld8483 4y ago
I take the view of humans being very innovative cockroaches (in the most endearing sense possible) with a strong will to survive. There are surely global catastrophes in store for us in the near future, climate change particularly, but I d
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by cld8483 4y ago
Yes. I think he does a good job of explaining that technology necessitates the loss of freedom, and that conservative politicans who oppose regulation are taking people for suckers to promote big business. Footnote 13: > [13] Conserva
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by cld8483 4y ago
> Do people walking on foot carry torches? At night, if there is insufficient moonlight? Yes of course. Street lights only exist in urban areas, if you're walking anywhere else in the world at night, a flashlight seems like a
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by cld8483 4y ago
What a truly unfortunate coincidence.
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by cld8483 4y ago
That really is a perfect analogy.
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by cld8483 4y ago
> a breaking point Of our sanity maybe, or a breaking point of traditional liberal enlightenment values, but short of a global catastrophe I don't see anything halting the inexorable march of technological development and the soci
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by cld8483 4y ago
Even if that worked, it would still only get her something like a 6-12 month reprieve. She's been convicted of murder, none of these ploys will get her out of going to prison eventually.
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by cld8483 4y ago
Both these abortion-related takes are incredibly cynical. I know lawyers aren't people but even they might earnestly care about a pregnant woman and her fetus/child...
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by cld8483 4y ago
> I think it's more of a sovereign citizen "hail Mary" type move to get her out of jail. It would only delay the inevitable by a few months at most, right? Trials regularly get delayed for years anyway, so they may as w
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by cld8483 4y ago
That's very unfortunate for the individual victims, but it cannot explain the under-performance of the targeted movies.
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by cld8483 4y ago
Try FDroid instead of Play Store. FDroid has a clean version of 2048. And Shattered Pixel is pretty good too; a well polished touch-based graphical roguelike, free on FDroid without any ads or IAPs.

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