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by fasbiner 9mo ago
The resemblance this has with a drunk text sent at 3am is uncanny, but I don't think we're missing anything constructive.
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by fasbiner 9mo ago
I suspect you're right, but what we are and are not surprised by is self-referential rather than evidentiary. But are we supposed to be content with not being given enough information to make a meaningful differentiation between people
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by fasbiner 9mo ago
This is not a good line of reasoning since it would just as surely apply to such fanciful cult terms like "I'm using fargate with docker over ECS to integrate with ceph, but I'm considering switching to talos and EKS." I
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by fasbiner 9mo ago
Extortion is the right word here. The problem is that virtually the entire new world and much of the old world was acquired by force and threats of force that has been legitimized over time. So yes, I think this is clearly extortion and any
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by fasbiner 9mo ago
Europe going forward is going to be treated the way the US treats and has always treated Latin American and African and Middle Eastern countries. That you see a conspiracy in further coercion of a non-consensual empire indicates how shelter
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by fasbiner 9mo ago
Ironically, this kind of mindset is exactly the one that Putin encouraged within Russia because it makes political pluralism impossible. If no matter who wins, 40% of the population is convinced the opposition is inherently wicked and inten
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
So to be clear, your sole expectation of a liberal democracy is that it have a better judicial system than Russia or Iran. And beyond that, you applaud any democratic country's efforts to reign in speech by arresting their own citizens
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
I am not a party to the conflict and I now restrict my efforts to assisting refugees and deserters on both sides. I supported Ukraine's July offensive because it was still capable of changing the strategic balance, and I hoped for a pe
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
Perhaps you're right and I just don't want to believe that the goons in the Kremlin are telling the truth about how ignorant and mendacious the worldview of many of their (very real victims) are.
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
People who alienate the 90-92% of the non-white/european global population against Ukraine by repeatedly asserting that only white european lives should have any kind of moral impact or even be remembered at all are feeding into Putin&
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
My claim is that we see the same terrible violence and wars of aggression with subsequent public support (for a time) in both the Russia and the West. Ie, there is a fundamental hypocrisy to either set of alliances to condemn wars of aggres
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
Unfortunately that just leads to more questions, since you did not answer the previous ones at all, and personally volunteering is what most double agents and saboteurs do in order to be in a position to cause more harm by first gaining tru
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
I think that if you clicked on the links and reviewed the original claim, you'd see that you removed every single word and concept and overwhelmingly mutually agreed upon fact and then replaced it with nonsense. Russian and English are
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Invasions_by_Great_Br... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni... This kind of historical blindness and hysterical hypocrisy has never
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
> Learning the language of a nation where a significant percentage of population supports war and killing is not something I'd consider. Are you a european/white supremacist who doesn't consider the victims of the anglosph
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyis... Do you mean these fine former civil servants simply making administrative decisions who are now Flock lobbyists, or do you mean current civil servant
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
That's a vey reductionist position.
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
You and your argument are reductionist.
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
This sounds very reductionist to me.
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
I think you're being reductionist here.
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
Using -ist instead of engaging in discussion or presenting any evidence or explanation whatsoever for extradorinaiy claims is in fact a thought-terminating cliche. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
How so? In china, app stores are open to market competition as an eventual consequence of a maoist insurgency. It's fine if you're personally a coward or you just don't think it's worth it. But not only does it work, it
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
People pay the mafia protection money because it's cheaper than fighting the mob and it makes the mob go away for awhile, and in the long run, we're all dead. Most mafia-like entities don't have an inexorable existential driv
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
Mozilla leadership are quite literally ex-google and current google loyalists, who are paid to create the appearance of a competitive browser landscape for regulators, judges, and lawmakers who started out obtuse and are now increasingly op
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
That's certainly some nuance there! I had in mind a more basic concept which due to legal restrictions in Germany maybe make thinking about it as part of German history and a geopolitical conflict likely to naturally reoccur is part of
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by fasbiner 10mo ago
This may be too far of an obscure historical reference, but is there really nothing specific to German history and nothing within german civic education and contemporary national identity formation that might make this potentially more cont
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by fasbiner 11mo ago
I disagreed with some points and agreed with others based on my experience and the data I have available, but the last few sentences really weakened the overall point. > Giga AI, a company building AI customer support agents, claims to h
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by fasbiner 11mo ago
I did not say anything about your professional experience nor make any implicit assumption. You would benefit from using translation tools in order to participate more effectively with less frustration. This is not a personal attack, it is
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by fasbiner 1y ago
Using SSE was far too inconvenient in theory despite that being how nearly all of the MCP that gained traction was working, so instead the spec was switched to being better in theory but very inconvenient in practice: https://blo
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by fasbiner 1y ago
Had an almost identical experience. Even if you don’t need anything with auth, no one has yet made an mcp that wasn’t ultimately worse or the same as a cli but with a lot more song and dance. Security is also a bit of a joke when half the t

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