fuvkthisguy

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by fuvkthisguy 6y ago
Personally, the fears around privacy are about harm being done to myself or others with my data. Google would be fine, except that big tech companies like Google sell your data to advertisers, who then use that data to coerce you into buyin
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by fuvkthisguy 6y ago
No, I'm pretty sure the cops are murdering black people. Your analysis is sorely lacking in context for <i>why</i> black communities have higher rates of crime (hint: it's systemic racism, namely poverty and overp
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by fuvkthisguy 6y ago
By induction - repeated exposure to ideas increases their staying power in the mind - see advertising. If one accepts the premise that fascist ideas spread by exposure, then one way to limit their spread is to limit said exposure. Sidenote:
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by fuvkthisguy 6y ago
Honestly I think this just doesn't work out this way in reality. First of all, we know that deplatforming racists/fascists does actually help to stop the spread of racist/fascist ideas. Secondly, and I think this is the more
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by fuvkthisguy 6y ago
Okay, but just so we're clear, what is concerning here isn't the system, it's the morality of what happened and how/why it happened. Wait, no - it is about the system. There is obviously a problem if this is one of the a
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by fuvkthisguy 6y ago
Come on now. You're being deliberately obtuse.
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by fuvkthisguy 6y ago
Do you have any sources for people who are interested in reading more on that?
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by fuvkthisguy 6y ago
> There is a big difference between "possible for a few months" and "possible indefinitely". A lot of what we did during the lockdowns was never going to be sustainable. I would be interested to see an argument for t
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by fuvkthisguy 6y ago
Right, but how great are those packages gonna be when Amazon (renowned for their stunning committment to worker's rights and freedoms, /s) knows that anyone who doesn't take their offer will join the ranks of the 'totall
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by fuvkthisguy 6y ago
Maybe this speaks to a need to tie taxes to income AND revenue. Not that I think the tax code should get any more complicated (quite the opposite), but if Amazon is selling at a loss to decrease the amount of tax they pay, while they starve