drak0n1c

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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Dissenter was banned from Firefox a few months ago.
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Yes
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Over the same period the mods handled 83,000 cases.
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Howard Schultz was a moderate Democrat, and that didn't save him from the ire of the media and his former allies.
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The Colorado STEM school shooters were far-left. So was the "nutjob" who shot Republican lawmakers. The Dallas sniper was far-left as well. See where this type of argument leads? It's irresponsible and wrong to claim that peo
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
For those interested in the source, the admin logs show that the Reddit Corporate Admins only needed to remove on average one comment per few days going back 30 days. Then they removed 9 comments on one day on a post about Oregon - a somewh
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For context, the admin logs show that the Reddit Corporate Admins only bothered to remove on average one comment per few days. It wasn't a deluge. The Oregon post is an anomalous casus belli. https://twitter.com/thedona
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The Project Veritas Reddit account was suddenly banned (even though they rarely used it), and Youtube removed all of the long-form video interviews with the Google whistleblower.
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Perhaps a better counter-example would be /r/ChapoTrapHouse, which routinely promotes generalized violence against landlords and police.
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There are internal PDFs, interview with cooperating Google whistleblower, and undercover video footage of a separate executive on the topic - all accessible here: https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insi
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Is that out of the norm of how daily television news and late night shows present their content? The only difference I see is the Veritas muckrakers’ tactic of going undercover as a sympathetic listener.
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They consistently release the full unedited footage afterwards, for years now. That’s significantly better than the large TV news outlets, and the selectively edited videos paraded nightly on Oliver, Colbert, Late Show, etc.
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A Google whistleblower today released internal documents and helped Project Veritas obtain camera footage: > Google Exec Says Don’t Break Us Up: “smaller companies don’t have the resources” to “prevent next Trump situation” If a single c
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Lacking new construction they'll buy up the larger, older family homes as investments instead. That's what happened to San Francisco with its lack of development. If a foreign investor invested $1 million dollars into real estate,
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Exactly. To the tune of $120 Billion per year. That's a lot of people being artificially willing and able to pay higher and higher tuitions. The federal taxpayer guarantee on these loans is one of the strongest forces behind the dramat
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Federally guaranteed student loans exceed $120 billion every year. That is a massive subsidy, and it may be increasing costs for more people than it helps. The glut of admissions being able to pay artificially high tuitions is emboldening a
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The issue is not so black and white. Intervention and interning addicts in rehab centers is a very effective program for Rhode Island. They prosecute drug crimes and misdemeanors, and offer a choice between prison or enforced rehab. Many pe
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Intervention and interning street addicts in rehab centers is a very effective program for Rhode Island. They prosecute drug crimes and misdemeanors, and offer a choice between prison or rehab. Many people who go through the program say it
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What is the difference? Willful inaction being the internal rationalizations around the crushing fear?
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There's an opposite political argument that the decline of the family, especially among the poor, was due to government benefits replacing the need to maintain social networks and interdependent families. In the 1800s and early 1900s,
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On macOS the best config-free entry to programming is Swift and Swift Playgrounds. Everything else can have config and shell hell for further more advanced learning purposes.
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Of course reporters are largely in the clear based on what we know so far. But the DOJ and intelligence agency officers who selectively leaked information about the Russia investigation and unmasked people to the press in order to foment th
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1) Crowd control exports: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezu... https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA07/20170913/106398/HHRG... 2) Running over o
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It's not just for home use. China is also exporting their surveillance and social credit technology to Venezuela, Cuba, NK, and even Australia. Those white crowd control vehicles used by Maduro forces to run over dozens of protestors a
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It's not convenient, or relevant, if you read the other real estate focused reply to your comment. If anything, it is convenient for the NYT's news cycle to focus disproportionate attention on myriad related-only-by-keyword events
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Australia is experiencing the same trend. Quillette has an interesting analysis of the trend - both sides have their own empathy deficits, but when the deficit pits the party against electorally significant populations, losses inevitably fo
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Barbasol started their own cheap razor delivery. Theirs stay clean compared to how clogged Harry's and Gilette's get. For most days where stubble is fine I recommend the Phillips One Blade - it's the only electric razor shape
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If an investor is planning to buy $1 million worth of housing, it is strictly better that he spends it on 2 small units in the midst of a luxury high-rise than spending it by snapping up 2 large traditional family homes. High density centra
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Rhode Island (where I used to live before Seattle) is a blue state with functioning prosecutors that actually prosecute charges for misdemeanors and crimes, but they offer sentenced individuals the alternative of entering the drug court sys
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I see on average 2-3 syringes on the sidewalk and in the dirt beside the sidewalk during my weekly walks through the neighborhood around the new elementary school. I've had human diarrhea inside my compost bin, and solid feces in a gia

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