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by colpabar 4y ago
Genuine question/request: how do you stay informed about the world? I agree with you but I still want to know what’s going on and I find it very difficult.
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by colpabar 4y ago
I’ve been thinking something along these lines as well. For years, whenever a conservative was banned from twitter, everyone would smugly say “it’s just a private company bro, why do you care so much?” And they were right in a way - it is
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by colpabar 4y ago
It’s pretty funny that people think those journos/activists would even touch the fediverse after they indirectly turned it into twitter for people they got kicked off twitter.
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by colpabar 4y ago
I don’t use twitter, so I don’t really care about what happens to it. I stopped using it years ago because it was an awful experience and I don’t know how anyone can enjoy it. But I’ve been wondering: why is everyone leaving? Is everyone
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by colpabar 4y ago
They’re still going to be used against children though.
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by colpabar 4y ago
Why didn't you post it here?
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by colpabar 4y ago
Yeah just like how the islamic terrorists were gonna do 9/11 again but worse unless we gave the feds more power, right?
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by colpabar 4y ago
Well when the narrative is that all white people are at least slightly racist and that only white people can be racist to begin with, white people aren't really allowed to advocate for themselves, and any instance of it would immedia
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by colpabar 4y ago
Thank you for this. Are news outlets not allowed to include links to actual source material or something? Why is it that I almost always find these links in HN comments rather than the article itself? It's really annoying and I genuine
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by colpabar 4y ago
Here is how almost every conversation I've had with non-tech people about using any alternative web platform. me: have you ever tried X? it's an alternative for Y them: isn't that for racists or drug dealers or something?
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by colpabar 4y ago
I agree with you, but I think that when we are talking about extremely wealthy people, it changes things. An oil heiress knows people in the oil industry. A kennedy knows people in politics. These people paying randos to throw soup and glue
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by colpabar 4y ago
What are they supposed to do? They said they don't trust the guardian for scientific news because they have read the actual scientific literature and noticed that the guardian engages in clickbait and hyperbole. They seem to understand
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by colpabar 4y ago
>That's left me wondering: will there be a point at which I struggle, after having spent decades writing code that powers the web? I'd say it's not that tech will become too difficult to use, but the constant and frequent
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by colpabar 4y ago
I know this is a forum for tech bros who are generally well paid but responding to a story about a million dollar public toilet with "that's no big deal, I'm currently spending six figures on minor kitchen renovations"
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by colpabar 4y ago
They'd need to find someone who owns a port-a-potty company and is also married/related to someone on the city counsel, which could be a challenge.
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by colpabar 4y ago
It's the latest and greatest in terms of attention grabbing/stealing, so people get defensive about it because they spend lots of time using it. I get annoyed with the "but facebook does it too" argument as well. I don&#
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by colpabar 4y ago
This is what drives me absolutely nuts whenever I read about current events. Pfizer had to pay the largest fine in US history for a fraud case, yet questioning their data (which we weren't allowed to see until they were sued) is forbid
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by colpabar 4y ago
I feel like I see headlines like this all the time. Some country/government fines some tech giant some large amount of money. But I always wonder, do these fines ever get paid?
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by colpabar 4y ago
Agreed. They should honestly just use prison labor.
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by colpabar 4y ago
The state is just people though, and people like money. It's pretty naive to think that the politicians in charge of this stuff don't get huge kickbacks from private prison operators.
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by colpabar 4y ago
They're also more able to cry when they do this. I knew multiple girls when I was in school who openly admitted to making themselves cry when they asked a teacher for a better grade or to retake a test or something.
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by colpabar 4y ago
It's frustrating that people make the argument that the lab leak theory is "politically convenient" and that it "played into various conspiracy theories" and then go on to list ridiculous things that no one here is
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by colpabar 4y ago
Could you elaborate? We're not all as smart as you :) edit to add the now-dead comment I was replying to so people can still see it (and hopefully forgive my snark): "Completely insane hot take but sure."
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by colpabar 4y ago
Europe used to buy a lot of natural gas from russia via these pipelines. Now that they're gone, they will have to buy from someone else. The united states has a lot of natural gas to sell them. edit: nice stealth edit. the original com
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by colpabar 4y ago
> One such was, according to him, an occasion when "they handcuffed him, drugged him, put him on the bed". This doesn't seem like good evidence. It assumes that whenever someone is forcibly restrained and medicated, it was
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by colpabar 4y ago
Yeah, anyone who thinks wealthy people have any pull in the united states government and use it to make themselves more wealthy must be some crazy alt right conspiracy theorist. Probably a white nationalist too. We all know everyone in the
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by colpabar 4y ago
This seems to be forbidden to say, but for all intents and purposes, “diverse” means “not white”.
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by colpabar 4y ago
I am ignorant when it comes to where companies look when they are hiring, but your comment makes it seem like companies can choose sources that are somehow segregated by race/gender/etc. What/where are these sources? Do you r
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by colpabar 4y ago
In my experience, moderation can absolutely be harmful to the moderator's own mental health, because it involves removing the posts that aren't allowed. Porn, gore, insane political ramblings... a moderator is responsible for clea
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by colpabar 4y ago
The comment that you're replying to is poking fun at the way the biden administration responded to the report saying there were two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. Everyone "knew" that a recession meant two

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