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Honestly, as a European some American racist tropes are truly baffling to me. Stereotypically Black people apparently enjoy watermelons, deep fried chicken and grape soda. In other words Black people allegedly like food humans often like an
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The title of the blog post seems to have changed since submission. It's worth noting (and the article tries to argue this if you read below the examples) that while a number of right-leaning (or outright right-wing) talking heads took
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If Twitter is representative of that future, 50% of those social rants will also be ai generated.
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Propaganda for what?
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Sure, telling people who openly advocate for the death of people in your group to take their opinions elsewhere is exactly like peasants beheading kings or kings throwing people they didn't like into the pit. I'm not even sure how
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If I had more time, I would write shorter comments.
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Yeah but that assumes ATP reaches anything even remotely approximating the ubiquity of email rather than ending up like Google Wave (not literally by being handed off to Apache - which took Wave behind the barn in 2018 in case you're w
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Communities are built on shared values and expectations of what is or isn't acceptable conduct. If a guest to your club house starts pooping on the carpet, you throw them out not only because you don't want that to happen in your
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This is what a lot of people don't get about the "pop feminism" era of online "journalism" in the pre-Trump era: it wasn't feminism, it was clickbait. At best it sold an idea of feminism but the emphasis was al
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I'm wondering if you really mean "2015-era Tumblr" or are trying to evoke pre-Trump liberals on Tumblr (i.e. "manspreading is a micro aggression" pop feminism and teenagers creating fan lore about gender identities)
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Hi. If the protocol is open, the software is free and the main instance openly federates with self-hosters, what's the monetization strategy here? Clearly it's not "harvest all the data and figure it out later" as that a
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I didn't say Asians have a hive mind. It used to be a widespread racist stereotypes of Chinese, Japanese and other East Asian people. Luckily it seems to have fallen out of favor but it's hardly ancient.
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> Also, the Empire was always modeled after fascist Nazi Germany, even down to the black, white, red colors, and storm-trooper terminology. Yes but it was also explicitly an allegory for the US in the Vietnam War. George Lucas stated as
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A friend of mine is an electrician in Germany who had a lengthy discussion about this with another friend of mine who was drunkenly complaining about how large corporations pay less for electricity. I'll try my best to reconstruct what
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> I think if you ask 3 communists to define communism you get 4 answers. For one, some are anarcho-communists and some aren't. Not really. Most communists agree that communism is a "state-less, class-less society". Sometim
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That's neurodiversity and the social model of disability in a nutshell. We've defined a very narrow set of neurotypes as normal and treat any divergence from it as a disorder. We've additionally structured society in such a w
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The Bolsheviks specifically believed in vanguardism. This meant they not only had to suppress the 80% or so that had no interest in Bolshevism at all but also the various communist, anarchist and syndicalist movements that existed alongside
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I think you mean violence, not hierarchy. Engels made a similar mixup when he wrote a screed against anarchists based on a misunderstanding of "authority" to mean any form of violence. Anarchy describes organization and cooperatio
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Let's be honest, this is just navel gazing. At heart it's a simple question of ethics: Do you prefer a system that affords a very small number of people a lifestyle of exuberant luxury and wasteful excess at the cost of exploiting
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It's tiring to hear people critique communists using the same tired arguments I hear from Christians critiquing atheism. "If there is no God, why wouldn't you rape and murder everyone" and "If there is no police, wh
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Besides the obvious(?) social reasons this is a pointless endeavor, you're also forgetting that stones are not homogeneous crystals but complex minerals, especially at this size. You could try to find the exact type of rock and chisel
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That's why I prefer the label "anarchism" even if the desired end state of anarchism fits Marx's definition of communism as a "state-less, class-less" society. To paraphrase Bakunin: I don't care if the st
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And state capitalists will keep defending Vietnam as "communist" because the universities offer courses in "Dialectical Materialism and Ho Chi Minh Thought", I'm sure, just as when they denounced LGBT rights protest
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Degrees are signals. A degree from a reputable university signals both a group membership in a certain social group (e.g. "Ivy League graduates") as well as a common shared experience. A degree in general also signals some level o
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I didn't know the idea of weeding out "useless eaters" was still so popular after what we had to do the last time that kind of talk got traction.
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When I read your comment I thought "hang on, I remember this discussion from years ago". Looks like the issue dates back to 2017 indeed. I remember this idea being shelved because of concerns around the handling of things like scr
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Based on my grandmother who was always very mobile well into old age and did eventually become at risk for falls: a lot of it is not lifting your feet anymore . As the leg muscles get weaker, seniors often don't fully lift their feet
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At least. There is a lot of the Old Testament that is literally just lists of things. Leviticus is another obvious one or the "begats" in Exodus. It's largely impossible because of the Old Testament's status as a holy te
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> which many cultures did and do value Eh. That comes with a lot of caveats. There's an entire branch to library science (yes, that's a thing) dedicated to storing and analysing different "editions" of the same text b
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I think the mistake is that after the original trilogy most fans just seem to want "more of the same" because they don't see the original trilogy as three separate films but rather "a thing". Spoilers from here on o

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