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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
Yes, and she still isn't a nazi.
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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
The same gesture was made by: - Mamdani, who in contrast to Musk does mingle quite a lot in anti-Semite cirles - Bernie Sanders, a Jew himself but that has never kept anyone from being called a nazi - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also often se
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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
Taxing less =/= subsidising
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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
OK, down-voter, be a man and tell me where you think I went wrong in my reasoning about the chances DSA-communists have in gaining a foothold or the danger of fascism gaining ground. Stop knee-jerking that down-vote button, tell us what y
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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
You must have been living under a comfy rock the last few years since there are several communists - real ones, by their own say - in the running for positions in the "democratic" party. The coming elections will show whether they
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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
I may have been lucky then with my Redmi Note 5 Pro (and a similar one for my daughters), possibly because the first thing I did with these phones was root them, remove all bloatware, remove all Xiaomi-specific apps including the 'Mi a
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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
I've seen it in use many times, it is not an uncommon word.
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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
Then so do emulators, flash drives instead of 1541's, etc. Nobody forces you to use generative models to get older hardware to do its thing, you're still free to try to get the actual hardware to run, free to build interfaces to g
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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
It is especially true for projects like Firefox which have access to massive funding since these attract the sort of people who consider those funds 'wasted' because they can be used to do so much for 'the common good'.
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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
That is up to you but I don't see why. Just ignore whatever these entities do, run you free OS with your free software when and how you want it and 'your kit' is yours without interference by hostile entities. You won't
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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
Clear may be a racist or he may not be. His speaking out against cultural practices has no bearing on whether he is or isn't and neither you nor I are any the wiser on whether Cleese is a racist or not and it isn't even relevant
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by hagbard_c 1mo ago
I'd say that the outcome mostly depends on whether something resembling AGI is achieved since that would more or less inevitably end up leading to something resembling ASI ('super-intelligence') which in turn makes it questio
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
Yes, because before the EU there was the EEC [1] which was about trade relations without delusions of grandeur related to a United States of Europe. [1] https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/ch...
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
It is quite simple, really. You stated that a group like 'Palestine Action' being designated as a terrorist group only causes a stir because of the fact that they claim to act in support of 'Palestine' and that had this
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
> If it was any other political cause, no one would bat an eyelid proscribing them as a terrorist organisation. Oh yes they would just as long as that other political cause was part of the OmniCause , the ever-shifting web of Current
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
For some - like me - it is certainly a net benefit since there is no real transaction other than me buying the hardware and paying ~€2/month for mobile data/cell service: - the device is 'Google-free' - I only use free s
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
Depends how 'we' use them. Society as a whole probably does not benefit because of the severe drawbacks these devices have for those who can't resist the lure of 'social' media and garbage factories like TikTok. Ind
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
This statement reminds me of how older Queen albums like A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races proudly stated that No synthesizers! were used in the production of songs like Bohemian Rhapsody . Of course Queen did eventually re
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
You are 15 years old and just discovered the virtues of Neovim, what to do now? The world - ecxuse me, the whole fucking world - needs to know ASAP, they need to learn about your discovery of the philosopher's stone of editing wisdom
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In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You (2012 but Relevant Again)(crookedtimber.org)
4 points by hagbard_c 2mo ago|1 comments
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
Socialism is the B-movie zombie of politics: you can kill it as often and as dead as you want to but it just keeps on crawling out of its grave time and time again, ready to devour another victim. What is it that makes this beast to tenacio
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
Ah, more knee-jerk-down-vote-button-pushers. I'm fairly sure that those of you who pressed that down-vote button have a larger 'climate impact' than we do here but that doesn't stop you from thinking you're the &#x2
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
I don't see how you get this from what I wrote. The grandparent poster only mentioned the 'Fox bubble', I made clear that this is not the only one and that it is likely he was caught in one of the other ones. I neither stated
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
So your grandparents were caught in the 'Fox News' bubble and as a result of that you state they became 'isolated, paranoid, overtly racist and [hateful]'. Sounds dire... Have you considered that it may be just as true t
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
Yes, I believe in the gods of technology and pray on my knees to the silicon altar every evening. Alternatively I know some history - real history, not Howard Zinn and the likes - and see what happens when there is an incentive to do someth
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
One hot summer does not a climate make. Here's the German record for low and high temperatures: https://www.plantmaps.com/en/de/climate/extremes/c/germany-r... As I said, read some books instea
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
Anything which reduces the emission of new and brings down the level of existing 'green house gases'. Read a book on the subject, there are many. Climate catastrophism is just as unhelpful as totally ignoring any potential global
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
Here's a quick and concise answer: No Of course all people die in the end no matter what happens but that is not what this site is trying to push. A longer answer would be Malthus called and wants his prophecies back since both he
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
You're missing what happened in the Netherlands when the gas reserves were found. The social-democratic government headed by Joop den Uyl - who thought the reserves should be extracted and sold within 30 years - used the proceeds to in
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by hagbard_c 2mo ago
Not to rain on your parade about known ties to extremist organizations but I would count Carney's contacts more extreme - and certainly more believable - than those Poilievre might be accused of having (which would those be?). I&#x

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