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by gorwell 3y ago
Censors made the same argument with the Printing Press and since time immemorial. Censorship has always been on the wrong side of history and it still is. Speaking of abusing systems, censors end up being the worst bad guys who imagine them
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by gorwell 3y ago
Communist China is responsible for nearly 2/3rds of CO2 emissions since 2000. In the US it's been going down for the past decade. You also have to keep in mind the American entrepreneurial culture or DNA which has born fruit unlik
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by gorwell 3y ago
> More than 100 deaths have been confirmed, and roughly 1,000 people remain unaccounted for. It's been two weeks now. Does this mean that roughly 1,000 people died?
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by gorwell 3y ago
Think of how stupid the average 16 year old is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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by gorwell 3y ago
Nope, they've been brainwashed to think it's "reasonable taxation" and the solution is always more taxation despite massive waste, fraud and corruption.
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by gorwell 3y ago
"In November 2022, DOD failed its fifth consecutive audit, unable to account for sixty-one percent of its $3.5 trillion in assets."
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by gorwell 3y ago
No doubt they will sell it by saying the opposite. "Online harms are extremely dangerous to our democracy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYj11qWb-M
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by gorwell 3y ago
"equity" is being used as though it's a magic key word and as though it's not the road to hell. Is it getting confused with "equality"? Equality: Equal opportunity, everyone treated the same Equity: Equal outco
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by gorwell 3y ago
Feel free to explain why an "uncensored library" would have this criteria.
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by gorwell 3y ago
"sensitive" as a criteria is a dead giveaway they are censors advertising themselves as the opposite. It's an evolved brand of censor; like some types of predator snakes that have evolved to mimic its harmless prey.
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by gorwell 4y ago
This is a bipartisan bill and supported by the White House. It's Patriot Act Version 2. Everything they wanted in version 1 and couldn't get, they are putting in here. It does not contain the word TikTok. It applies to "deskt
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by gorwell 4y ago
Did anyone notice that the bill doesn't even mention Tiktok??? If it's a "bill to ban TikTok" why doesn't it name the target? It's a red herring. This is the Patriot Act for the Internet. Ironically they'r
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by gorwell 4y ago
There's a great book called Brave New World that explores something like that.
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by gorwell 4y ago
It's clear you don't understand or don't want to understand. If the existing organization wanted a union, it would have established the union itself. If it did not, it's parasitizion of an existing organism.
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by gorwell 4y ago
Forcing an existing organization to bend to your will is textbook entitlement. You can start a new software company and run it the way you want as opposed to parasitizing an existing one. This isn't the 1800s where you have to go build
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by gorwell 4y ago
Some of you May Die, But it's a Sacrifice I am Willing to Make https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiKuxfcSrEU
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by gorwell 4y ago
In practice these roles are about enforcing their own ideology, which informs their ethics and what they believe are the correct ethics for the entire world. That's how we get AI that is not neutral. Microsoft made a necessary move if
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by gorwell 4y ago
Imagine the narcissism required to change the words of a classic book.
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by gorwell 4y ago
Or buy the physical version. Buy it now for anything you want to be able to read in its original form.
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by gorwell 4y ago
What are the odds. No really, what are the odds?
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by gorwell 4y ago
It's also wordplay to cover for the fact that many live beyond their means. Earn more, spend more. Lifestyle inflation is more common than we like to admit. When I made $30k per year I lived paycheck to paycheck. When I made $50k per y
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by gorwell 4y ago
"potentially" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
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by gorwell 4y ago
The next time someone asks, "What do you mean by woke? Isn't that just about being aware and kind?" I thought so at first too, but no. It's use the words we tell you to use. Have the opinions we tell you to have. Otherwi
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by gorwell 4y ago
Yes, that's right. It's racist but defended as "anti-racist", which is a remarkably effective phrase. It was the same thing with food packaging. Land 'o Lakes literally removed the Native American woman but they kep
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by gorwell 4y ago
This is why we should have rejected changing master to main. No one was offended by that in the first place! They created the problem and negative association entirely out of thin air. But we accepted it, updated our tooling, retrained our
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by gorwell 4y ago
What will they deliver to me, a xi/xir, born in 1935?
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by gorwell 4y ago
It's funny you call out the exception as tedious as opposed to the groupthink that's mindlessly enforced and repeated ad nauseam on most Subreddits.
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by gorwell 4y ago
On r/wallstreetbets there is an automod that proactively deletes people's comments to save them from Reddit's Orwellian "Anti-Evil" foot soldiers. "Reddit has a paid team called Anti-Evil Operations (part of th
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In December the Fed forecasted 4% GDP growth for 2022(twitter.com)
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by gorwell 4y ago
Also from Wikipedia: While national definitions vary, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's real gross domestic product is commonly used as a practical definition of a recession. From the Oxford dictionary (recession): a p

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