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by colpabar 5y ago
I don't know who any of these people are, but if that guy acts like that often, I'm glad he's been banned. I _hate_ when people dismiss questions as simply invalid without any explanation as to why it's invalid. How do
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by colpabar 5y ago
Easy with the conspiracy theories. They may know your height, your eye/hair color, your skin color, your license plate #, where you live, where you work, where you shop, who you hang out with, etc, but you'll still be totally anon
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by colpabar 5y ago
Just because she did not work in PR explicitly doesn't mean she isn't doing "PR" for the company. My take is that apple does not actually care, at all , about "mitigating the impact of mining valuable minerals in c
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by colpabar 5y ago
Option 3: choose to make less money and don't have offices in countries with human rights records as bad as russia. I know this isn't realistic, because we can't expect a company to make less money. that'd be crazy!
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by colpabar 5y ago
Again, yes . That is what some people believe. Maybe all these restrictions won't be in place forever, but some people believe that the government is setting precedent by putting them in place at all, and that they won't hesitate
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by colpabar 5y ago
Do you just want me to tell you that I think you're right? I don't really see this thread going anywhere productive. You seem to be arguing a purely philosophical position, and if I "changed the subject" to relate your p
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by colpabar 5y ago
YES Why is it so hard to recognize that governments like to give themselves special "temporary" powers and then not give them up?
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by colpabar 5y ago
I don’t think I’m changing the subject, I am asking you to look at the bigger picture. Your comment may not have been about facebook specifically, but we are in a thread about a new facebook initiative regarding yet another form of censorsh
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by colpabar 5y ago
Make whatever strawman analogies you want, but the fact of the matter is that massive online communication platforms like facebook are increasingly censoring dissenting opinions. One day, an opinion that you hold will become "dangerous
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by colpabar 5y ago
> But at the signing ceremony in October 2000, then-Speaker Dennis Hastert said the deal was about more than money: “you know what — we open it up so that we can exchange ideas and values and culture. And that's an important thing.”
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by colpabar 5y ago
You hit the nail on the head. It is so frustrating that every single social movement has to be exclusively focused around some innate quality that cannot be changed. Sex, race, sexuality, everything except class. We spend all this time
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by colpabar 5y ago
I downvoted you because you complained about being downvoted :)
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by colpabar 5y ago
I'm glad! Look at all this discussion.
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by colpabar 5y ago
reminds me of that tragedy
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by colpabar 5y ago
I'm extremely interested to see whether voting locations will start requiring proof of vaccination.
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by colpabar 5y ago
The mods are surprisingly responsive on this site, so I say this without a hint of sarcasm - try emailing them about it. I recently had a thread unflagged within an hour.
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by colpabar 5y ago
I was never home schooled but I went to private school through 6th grade, and then went to public through high school. When I switched, I took placement tests that put me into the higher level math and english classes for 7th graders. I ima
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by colpabar 5y ago
I find it funny how we use phrases like "Russian oligarchs" all the time without batting an eye, but we never use them when referring to the Bushes or the Clintons in the US.
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by colpabar 5y ago
> My point is that you respond to one claim with something else while cutting the context and pretending it is the same. Here's the bit I responded to. > Imagine in Donald Trump wanted non-whites to be forced on birth control in
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by colpabar 5y ago
ok sure, replace arab with black then. This whole thread is about poor treatment of ethnic minorities, and the point of the comment I replied to is that we wouldn't tolerate forced sterilization of an ethnic minority group from a count
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by colpabar 5y ago
>Imagine if Israel You don't have to imagine. https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-ethiopians-coerced-into-bir...
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by colpabar 5y ago
If I "deceive myself" by thinking I can drive with my eyes closed, and I crash my car and destroy someone's property, aren't I then required to pay the damages or face jail time? It's odd that we can all agree on ca
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by colpabar 5y ago
But what if they don't? A lot of countries in the middle east are profoundly not liberal. If things play out in an un-liberal/intolerant way, do we step in and "fix" them so that they meet our own standards?
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by colpabar 5y ago
> You seem to give the media the benefit of doubt, I however accuse them of malice, only because of all the opportunities they had to cover this issue (for months on end). To add to this, remember that Cuomo was given an award for his h
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by colpabar 5y ago
Ok, but you asked "should they have been free to do that?" I don't have an answer to that question, because I don't know. I know that human rights violations are bad, but I also know that democracy means the majority rul
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by colpabar 5y ago
But who will be the tolerance police? If a majority votes for something that is intolerant, does that give an outside faction the right to start bombing them until they vote the right way?
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by colpabar 5y ago
But aren't you advocating that the west should act as the world police and force sovereign states to act a certain way? If the people of a country vote for something, isn't that democracy? I understand that voting isn't a mag
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by colpabar 5y ago
from the same article > On August 17, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice, under the Trump Administration, announced that the Obama Administration's Operation Choke Point would officially end, stating that it was hurting legitimate
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by colpabar 5y ago
It feels like you're viewing this as a purely hypothetical question and ignoring reality. No company is 100% good or bad, and it doesn't make any sense to force all possible interpretations into good/bad. > If not, why did
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by colpabar 5y ago
> It is only moving from the cloud to the local device. But isn't that exactly why this is such a big deal? It sets a precedent that it's ok that devices are scanning your local device for digital contraband. Sure, right now i

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