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by gordian-mind 3y ago
This is just a nerdy reference to the activity of gathering intelligence. > But again, to me this shows the danger of making decisions based on spying technology. Having more information is rarely a bad thing for making decisions. So tha
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
I've seen cis used in a dehumanizing way, as a slur. He's clearly right about this. Don't call out people's unchangeable identities by terms they don't want you to.
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
As a Parisian closely following Mayor Hidalgo's activities, her departure from Twitter amidst this controversy doesn't surprise me. The details about her Tahiti trip, costing €60,000 from our taxes, emerged on Twitter, during whic
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
I'm sorry, is saying that Covid originated from China a conspiracy theory? Or do you maybe believe that this was caused by Trump calling it 'China flu' a few times? Now, that's a conspiracy theory.
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
Could you please elaborate on what atrocities were caused by conspiracy theories?
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
This is bogus data, they took the officially reported numbers -- which were insane because they reported 'covid deaths' without taking into account comorbidities --, and quadrupled them for 'reasons'. > So much death
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
Why didn't you do that, instead of collecting clickbait YouTube videos?
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
Could it be that people care even less about your useless inflammatory opinions, which is why they would rather never see them again?
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
Companies are not the only ones who have something to gain from that exchange. Democratization of AI will also be used to push harsher legislation on the internet, in the guise of fighting "misinformation" (now possibly AI-generat
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
I don't understand this insistence on extrajudicial executions; doesn't the U.S. have them too? Those are not part of the Salvadorean legal system, are they? It brings nothing to the discussion, and seems an attempt at pointing fi
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
If you can't make reliable predictions then try looking into the past. > You can rapidly eliminate crime by just imprisoning anyone suspected of crime. Overgeneralization from the get-go is how you end up confusing a situation and d
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
> You should of course start with your highest-conviction fixes and I don’t think TikTok lands there. I would rather start with things that provably work... > But no, most persistent behaviors, not even problems specifically, are mult
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
> It’s hilariously misguided to look for singular causes and singular fixes for any issue that persists beyond the first few attempts to solve it. Sorry but that's wrong. If you try to fix an issue by doing useless things, such as a
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by gordian-mind 3y ago
It's hilariously misguided to blame TikTok for this, you realize that don't you?
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
But they didn't take anything? And those two moves of SO and Reddit are mainly about greed: they want some more money just for hosting content that people generated while viewing their ads and giving them money for features.
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
> And yes, Twitter and most platforms ban it for good reason. Thanks for pointing out that you are wrong in pretending that Twitter is governed by this "free-speech absolutism" strawman. > A great example of the way free-spe
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
That's true: unless you're on a very specialized instance, what you see on Mastodon is in large part r/worldnews outrage engagement content.
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
> "the [ethnic group] must be exterminated to ensure white survival" Nice example of speech that is currently not allowed on Twitter. > [1] https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents&#x2
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
Popular recognition is usually balanced out by resentment and envy.
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
Twitter has ample restrictions on harassing people. You are talking about censoring views, not harassment/insults. You core argument, that anyone is taking a "maximalist free speech" allowing people to harass others, is a lie
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
> You have to pick between the Nazis or the people they like to harass. Nice rhetoric, but no you still do not get to censor people. > The US consumer economy is diverse enough that businesses can no longer focus exclusively on the (s
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
Wow, if the McDonald's marketing chief says Elon Musk is a nazi, it must be pretty serious...
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
> Clearly what is being talked about are things like beating suspects after they are in custody. Pure invention, if you want to restrain your context then use precise language not a large variety of hyperboles like "It’s possible fo
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
Well it increases revenue, so certainly. The open sourcing increases its ethicality; I guess you could say it's not direct value. In terms of pure market cap, which I'm not sure how relevant it is, it seems that the current valuat
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
> I think Musk is a bad person, but I don't carry any particular resentment or anger towards him. Then maybe you should scrutinize who you get your information from: intelligent people who have worked with Musk, or random journalist
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
Good, I agree. Then you may also agree that your original statement > When one of their own is treated by the law like anyone else would be they retaliate by refusing to work was incorrect: if you were going to be arrested for killing an
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
That is plain wrong. From your article the rationale for the police department was the following: > New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with poli
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
> It should be expected to have a police force that enforces the laws while not allowing police to mete out non judicial punishment. This is, actually, completely impossible. A very simple example: an active shooter situation requires an
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
Actually, one should expect to live in a society where you do not get randomly stabbed and die in the street. This means that the spirit of law should reflect the necessity that arresting criminals gets higher priority than prosecuting cops
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by gordian-mind 4y ago
> If this is the conditions the police would like to return to, they should all go to jail. What a totally normal democratic thing to say.

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