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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Lots of people are publicly mocked on Twitter everyday. What makes "trans" people so special?
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
That's complete and utter nonsense. Being "intolerant of the intolerant"? Does that include your own intolerance? People are completely within their rights to be intolerant. Nothing gives you or the government the right to de
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> "Some political organizations should be prohibited." And who gets to decide which ones are prohibited and the standards used? Because some people think Antifa should be prohibited while others think it's a necessary orga
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
You don't get it. The stuff you find abhorrent is THE WHOLE POINT of protecting freedom of speech. Things that nobody finds objectionable (if there is such a thing) don't need to be protected.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> "Together with the fundamental liberties of speech, association, and religion, the Basic Law confers a general right to “personal freedom” as well as a more specific right to “life and physical integrity." Germany has too man
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Self-driving cars will definitely happen. It won't happen next year, but it will absolutely happen. That's the way humans are. If they can do something and make some money, they will do it.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I agree that suppression isn't good. But there still needed to be thorough investigations. It being "obvious" isn't enough. That being said, the corporate media and the politicians (mostly Democrats) who called this theo
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> What happened to Hu Jintao? The same thing that I'm sure happened to many Chinese people when he was in power.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> Musk Said to Begin Firing Twitter’s Top Executives And nothing of value was lost. I look forward to seeing what Musk has in store for Twitter. It's been a biased cesspool for a long time now. Maybe he can at least make it a less b
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
And who says it needs to be compatible? Companies design what they feel are the best/better components for their products. If consumers want to have a "standard" connector that works with multiple devices, they have that with
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
All the more reason to not dismiss them as for "people with nowhere else to go" and simply make sure that they are well maintained and people aren't using them as their personal poop graffiti space.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> "Meh, I don't have to countenance the opinions of selfish people" And the rest of us don't have to inject untested, unproven chemicals into OUR bodies just so YOU can have a false sense of security and virtue signal
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> "If there is a liberty to expose innocent people to potentially deadly diseases I don't want it for myself or others." But you don't get to make that decision for OTHERS. If you are worried about COVID, stay home an
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I used to live in the South Bay and go up to San Francisco and Oakland every other weekend. It was bad, but it seems to have completely gone to hell in the last decade. I would not set foot there unless all of human existence depended on it
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
That doesn't make any sense. Public toilets are for the public. Anyone who finds themselves in a situation where they need a toilet. A tourist, for example. Or maybe just someone who finds nature calling at an inopportune time. I'
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
And what, exactly, do you believe he means when he says that? Because I have a hard time seeing how any rational person would think that that's an actual threat towards Jewish people. And absent it being an actual threat (which it&#x27
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
If his purpose truly is promoting, advocating for and protecting the free and open exchange of ideas in an open society, then I fully support his purchase of Parler. I don't care what he's said in the past. I don't have to ag
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Censorship anywhere is bad. Especially when it is purely for political reasons. Most European nations have very strict Holocaust denial laws. And as much as I personally think people who deny the Holocaust happened are idiots, that's c
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
If Alex Jones is a conspiracy theorist that most rational people don't take seriously, which is how the media portrays him, how could what he have said possibly had such an effect on the public to warrant almost a billion dollars in co
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
So your focus is on what "camp" someone falls into, not whether their arguments have merit or their statements are factual? No wonder you think there's nothing wrong with Wikipedia. As long as your "side" controls t
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> "The whole point of no-platforming individuals is to make a statement that their views are seen as reprehensible..." Uh...reprehensible by whom? You do realize that what's "reprehensible" is extremely subjectiv
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> "Wikipedia doesn't have a left-leaning bias, reality does." It's impossible to take you seriously when you say things like this.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Given the trend we've seen towards dictionaries rewriting definitions of words and sites like Wikipedia scrubbing long-existing content in the name of combating "misinformation", I'd like to have a set of older hardcopie
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
An interesting article from Intellectual Takeout on how being "traditional" is the new "counter-culture". And I could not agree more. I myself am black/African-American who grew up without a father because he died w
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I can't get the page to load for some reason, but I don't think whois is obsolete. I used it via command line to search for available domains when I was creating my blog. It was simple and effective for that purpose.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
This brings back memories of my old iBook G3 and PowerBook G4. I miss that weird smiley face logo-thingy.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I understand what you're saying. There are different ways to implement any social or economic system. Capitalism doesn't always look the same, neither does communism. But there has to be a core definition, and as long as that core
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> "Companies have the right to handle this issue however they wish." But that's precisely the problem these days. We have seen recently that the government has been colluding with the tech companies to censor content that
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Interesting discussions can happen on pretty much any forum/platform. It's not the 'where' that matters, it's the 'who'. It's the people having the conversation. I've had meaningful conversations
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> " There was one forum I was a part of where none of us knew each other in real life and yet we had long, intense, good-faith discussions..." I'm curious what happened to that forum?

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