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by fortuna86 4y ago
Ok, i'll be specific. Both are hopefully naive about the dangers of lending their platforms to extremists, and have egos large enough to believe that they can confront and debunk false information faster than it can spread via their di
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by fortuna86 4y ago
> modern type of progressives obsessed with race, sex, gender, and such In my experience, left wingers want civil rights for all the above, but are far from "obsessed" with those groups. Right wingers on the other hand..
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by fortuna86 4y ago
No he's the same right wing perspective, just with less jokes.
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> They way they target grandparents is surreal My grandmother got hit with one of these, she has a weak heart and was in severe mental distress all day because she couldn't get ahold of me to confirm what the scammers were telling h
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by fortuna86 4y ago
Bulgaria has single payer health care, it's to the left of most leftist states in the USA. And it's funny you recognize the usage of "woke" as problematic, but you still use it. Actual liberal politics means schools, roa
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by fortuna86 4y ago
Is being a caretaker for a small human the most important thing in life? Or is this some kind of default no one questions.
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by fortuna86 4y ago
1. Ultimately people employed by Twitter had to make calls on what content violated their rules, which they did so in a deliberate manner. Is this surprising to you, did you assume machines did this? 2. There was no direction. FBI pointed o
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by fortuna86 4y ago
Of all the "revelations" of the Twitter Files (mostly recapping the interactions that were already publicly known), preventing DoD run accounts from being marked as spam is the closest thing to an actual scandal. But 1. These acco
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by fortuna86 4y ago
Housing prices everywhere have gone up, just not at the same rates. You can still find reasonable housing outside London, Dublin, etc.
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by fortuna86 4y ago
There's plenty of Republicans in California, they just rebrand as Libertarians (same thing) or move to OC.
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by fortuna86 4y ago
Literally anywhere in Europe outside of Poland or Hungary ?
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by fortuna86 4y ago
Being outside most of the year? Overrated.
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by fortuna86 4y ago
While people remain in denial about how nice it is to only have 2-3 months of livable outdoor weather a year, housing prices will always tell the truth
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by fortuna86 4y ago
There's no evidence he acted on personal bias, and the US government never asked or told Twitter to do anything. Other than that, your knowledge of current events is spot on.
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by fortuna86 4y ago
You seem to have no idea what Yoel Roth's job was.
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by fortuna86 4y ago
Right heat + humidity is bad, humidity alone isn't even noticed.
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by fortuna86 4y ago
This is what makes taking in Russian refugees complicated, many of them support the war they just didn't want to die themselves.
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by fortuna86 4y ago
Yes, all the same people gathering in smokey rooms making purposeful crime and mistake, one after the other. The same people that did Iraq decided to kill Epstein and push COVID vaccines. Do you really believe that's how thing work?
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by fortuna86 4y ago
Yes because the people running human societies have traditionally been transparent and fair until 2008. Conspiracy thinking is not new, the mobilization and scale of social media allows the "othering" of people to reach a level we
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by fortuna86 4y ago
What would he have to gain from lying about donating to Republicans? He lies about not committing crimes to stay out of prison. Seems like a lot of partisans want SBF to be a democratic cartoon villain and won't let reality get in the
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by fortuna86 4y ago
He was also the second largest donor to Republicans, which he did in secret to avoid criticism from liberal friends. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/30/ftx-billi...
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by fortuna86 4y ago
> SBF was invited to prestigious $2500-a-seat event by the NYT. Where he was grilled about possible crimes.
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by fortuna86 4y ago
> a cut and dry criminal case got dismissed It was and continues to be anything but "cut and dry"
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by fortuna86 4y ago
Whenever I see a claim on HN i've never seen before and ask for a source, 100% I never hear back from OP.
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by fortuna86 4y ago
Unless laws are changes, the US Government cannot demand anything from private industry.
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by fortuna86 4y ago
So yours is a pure defense of Huawei, because they country the operate in has no civil liberty protections, they aren't at fault for helping authoritarians build a surveillance state and spy on others? I mean, I guess so. That doesn&#x
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by fortuna86 4y ago
How is cloud storage more secure than a password managers web interface ?
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by fortuna86 4y ago
What does my consent have to do with anything? The difference between commanding private industry to do something and hacking them yourself is the difference between free and unfree societies. Why you are trying to blur the line I don'
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by fortuna86 4y ago
People interested in what taxpayer money is going towards really ought to google where the majority of it is spent (hint: it's not student debt relief) https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/11/22/why-can
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What does that have to do with my statement ?

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