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by frob 3y ago
And then the Israelis put that target they only have partial confidence about into a system called "Where's Daddy?" which will track their target until he goes home to his family at which point a kill order is sent out to dro
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by frob 3y ago
Yes, we Americans committed many atrocities in our many wars and we will absolutely do so in the future. Please learn from us instead of following our path.
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by frob 3y ago
I believe it's more a reference to the allowed civilian casualty rate. If they're allowed to kill 10 or more civilians per bombing of a suspected target, then even if they're 100% accurate in targeting their suspects, 90%+ of
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by frob 3y ago
Seeing as these discussions are always insta-flagged and you need to revive them to allow for discussion, have you considered adding 'Israel' and 'Palestine to a set of keywords you need to approve to be set as flagged instea
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by frob 3y ago
That is genocide.
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by frob 3y ago
One challenge here is that pictographs assume an order of viewing. The same set of pictographs that show someone decaying away and dieing by staying in the exclusion zone depicts a magical fountain of healing and youth when viewed backwards
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by frob 3y ago
My company has been using DSV for a bit: Dagger Separated Values. Unicode dagger (†) to separate values and double-dagger (‡) to indicate end of row. It allows us to easily handle both commas and newlines.
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by frob 3y ago
And here I thought this was going to be about Operation Pigeon, the time the US military tried to design a pigeon-guided missile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
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by frob 3y ago
I know your comment is just internet puffery, but please know that the old adage is true: "A man who represents himself has a fool for a client." There is a reason that judges will ask defendents multiple times if they're rea
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by frob 3y ago
This is mostly true and is part of what helped soften the absolute disaster that the Trump administration was. In multiple instances, Trump and his ilk wanted to do absolutely illegal and unconstitutional things but we're thwarted by c
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by frob 3y ago
YC doesn't need to be funding the weapons industry; they're already filthy rich. This shows their greed outweighs any moral quandries around building machines of death.
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by frob 3y ago
I don't see anything in YC's call saying they would only fund defensive capabilities (which is itself somewhat of a misnomer since it doesn't take much engineering to turn "defensive" tech into offensive weapons of
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by frob 3y ago
Respectfully, I'm aware of all of the fancy words investment firms hide behind to make themselves sleep at night when they're really building killing machines. I'm sure plenty of them have patriotic stories they tell about pr
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by frob 3y ago
Today I learned that YC not only funds military companies, but encourages new startups to focus on killing machines and spying. And to point to the spy firm Palantir as an example of a model company shows how morally bankrupt YC truly is. A
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by frob 3y ago
Amazon should be held accountable for running a safe workplace. Even if she is not there, Amazon should not be allowed to operate an unsafe workhouse that puts its employees in danger. If Amazon has a culture of firing anyone who dares to s
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by frob 3y ago
You're watching a known liar interview a known liar. What are you going to do, learn their new lies?
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by frob 3y ago
Could you please give an example of a major politician agitating against white people? To be specific, I do not mean someone pointing out that our system has been built to privlidge white people at the behest of white people, but a politici
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by frob 3y ago
> so we are not "occupying" their land because there is no "them". And that, right there, is a genocidal mindset. A huge goal of genocide is destroying the identity of a people. This is going to the next step. This is
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by frob 3y ago
He campaigned on banning Muslims. He then tried three different times to ban a large amount of Muslims. He regularly denigrates Muslims and blames them for our problems. According to his own people, he wanted to ban Muslims and wanted a fig
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by frob 3y ago
I would argue there has been massive condemnation of Russia by much of the west. The west is lobbing missiles at Russia. It's giving missiles to Israel to lob at Gaza.
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by frob 3y ago
People who are unhoused are not necessarily homeless. Their home could be their vehicle, a tent, a warehouse, or some other place. A home is a place you can come back to, where you can feel some modicum of security, belonging, or safety. A
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by frob 3y ago
I think Oklahoma is just trying to prove everything isn't bigger in Texas.
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by frob 3y ago
Please don't use dismissive language around the atrocities going on in Texas like "even if that's all true." It is true. The hell that Texas is forcing women like Kate Cox through is well documented. And Apple, a major t
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by frob 3y ago
No, dang, this isn't a generic tangent. Apple is forcing women to relocate to a state that will premptively threaten doctors with jail sentences for giving these same women life-saving health care. If you don't know what I am refe
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by frob 3y ago
Wow, that Jake Ward guy linked in the middle is an absolute douchenozzle. His entire business model seems to be generating low-quality AI spam to help websites steal traffic from their competitors. The internet would be a better place if pe
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by frob 3y ago
It would be intesting to see how their payout compares to the payouts going to Reuters [1], the BBC [2], the Guardian [3], the ever-so-anticapitalist WSJ [4], and a few dozen other establishments reporting on it as well. Makes sense that ev
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by frob 3y ago
> And demanding "cease fire" ... is all 100% antisemitic. Please, I encourage you to take a good long moment to think about what you just wrote. You are effectively saying that it is the Jewish position that Gazans should be ki
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by frob 3y ago
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. --The other Frank Wilhoit
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by frob 3y ago
Except for denying women medical care and forcing them to carry nonviable, high risk pregnancies against their will. They absolutely love doing that.
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by frob 3y ago
Dang is aware since he has already commented in this thread. He is complicit in allowing this to be suppressed.

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