hello_marmalade

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by hello_marmalade 7y ago
How and/or why would that be more likely? Why would Verizon talk shit about it's own brand? What sense does that make?
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by hello_marmalade 7y ago
I don't understand why advocates for gun ownership need always be painted as crazy or having some kind of bizarre inadequacy that necessitates gun ownership rather than something reasonable and logical. The 2nd Amendment protects the r
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by hello_marmalade 7y ago
Hah, interesting to see an analogy I've made before to explain different situations. This is accurate. The US is huge. A lot of European nations could quite literally fit inside of one of our states, with room left over. Hell some coul
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by hello_marmalade 8y ago
This is exceedingly rare. Intersex individuals, or individuals with genetic deformities or mutations are not that common, and none could appropriately labelled as a "third sex".
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by hello_marmalade 8y ago
Unfortunately, it is important for medical personnel to know whether you are biologically male or female, which is yes, very real, and also very much grounded in science. There are serious implications to avoiding reality here. People could
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by hello_marmalade 8y ago
Perhaps I should have been more specific, but what I mean is forms of reasonable legal content. Sexual harassment is not content. General sexual content has legitimate reasons for having, say a content warning filter (same with violent cont
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by hello_marmalade 8y ago
Because it's counter-productive. I agree with it insofar as things like spam, which has nothing to do with communication, really - but when it comes to just simply, speech, it's a bad idea. Lets take a really overly simplified exa
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by hello_marmalade 8y ago
Well more specifically, what I was trying to say is, if you wanted to be part of, say - the cross-stitching community, and you made a post about how over-under stitching sucks, and so the owner of that server banned you, and then let every
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by hello_marmalade 8y ago
The idea that you should be able to shield or blind yourself to content is a flat out stupid one. Not to mention that the way Mastodon works kinda lends it self to the old issue of jerk forum admins. If an instance owner doesn't like w
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by hello_marmalade 8y ago
Sure, but that's exactly the problem. The President having direct control over the visibility of somoene's speech. It's one thing if someone simply isn't popular, and therefore their speech isn't widely seen. It&#x2
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by hello_marmalade 9y ago
I hate this stupid argument. Nobody ever marketed me to be into computers - my parents just had one, and I liked it, and wanted to use it. Whenever I saw a computer I wanted to play with it. Nobody needed to "market" it to me. Als
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by hello_marmalade 9y ago
Here's why that's stupid: a nation is not build so simply. There are places where having firefighters would not be economically viable. Does that mean that the people in those areas don't deserve firefighters? Libertarianism
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by hello_marmalade 9y ago
People have to be willing to sell it and/or market it. Just because you have the means doesn't mean that you have the availability.
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by hello_marmalade 9y ago
I don't think you know what a Ponzi scheme is.
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by hello_marmalade 9y ago
There are designs for much better implementations that are completed or in the works. Cryptocurrency is here to stay, whether or not it will be Bitcoin specifically is another question.
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by hello_marmalade 9y ago
I did say "when used the right way". For various activities it allows you to mask your identity while making purchases online far better than the alternative of using your credit card or PayPal or something.
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by hello_marmalade 9y ago
It doesn't have to have a coercive power behind it enforcing it's use. It has a natural benefit, which is anonymity (when used the right way). People want to use Bitcoin as a currency. It doesn't need to supplant normal money
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by hello_marmalade 9y ago
He seems to suffer from massive ego. He always assumes that if his stuff is failing, it’s somehow someone else’s fault, and refuses to acknowledge fault even when evidence is presented. At least that’s what’s been apparent to me from the th