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by ionised 7y ago
I was taking a jab at fundamentalist libertarians that think no government is somehow a solution.
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by ionised 7y ago
> but what makes life enjoyable is overcoming any challenge put in our way. Life is pretty fucking miserable for a large part (perhaps even most) of the world on a daily basis. I doubt they'd share your can-do attitude on this subje
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by ionised 7y ago
All the things that would make my life worse if served in the flavour that traditionalist conservatives would prefer.
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by ionised 7y ago
Conservatism has consistently been on the wrong side of every social issue in history, so I feel safe calling this 'theory' out as nothing more than teenage angst at a world they feel has left them behind.
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by ionised 7y ago
> and not feel treated just like a sex object. Tinder might be the wrong place for that.
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by ionised 7y ago
When you have a dislike of someone's comment but can't quite put your finger on why, why not response with some absurd illogical extreme?
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by ionised 7y ago
> The fact that they’re not committing their changes under a pseudonym or front company suggests that they’re okay with the world knowing about what they’re up to. They are not committing their most secretive and effective tools on GitHu
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by ionised 7y ago
They've likely broken many laws, but we'll never hear about it, much like the CIA.
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by ionised 7y ago
> I went to a presentation and talked with people from the NSA before and at face value they seemed like a silicon valley tech company. Why is that a reason to trust them? > They all seemed like they genuinely thought what they were
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by ionised 7y ago
Have you missed all the articles about Chinese students returning to China once their American education is complete? They are not staying in the US because it's 'freer'. Increasing numbers are leaving once they got what they
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by ionised 7y ago
And who enforces that civil or criminal liability?
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by ionised 7y ago
I think he's hating on those ridiculous SUVs that people seem to do their school-runs in more than the driving itself.
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by ionised 7y ago
You spend a career training in skills, not training in specific tools. If you limiting yourself to a single tool and refusing to learn anything else you are doing yourself a disservice.
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by ionised 7y ago
I'd need an explanation for why those two things are worth doing to begin with. If there is no absolute explanation then its left up to each of us to decide if this life is even worth living, and whether its right to produce more of it
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by ionised 7y ago
Then how can you apply rights usually reserved for people to a abstract concept?
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by ionised 7y ago
1 billion is pittance to Walmart
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by ionised 7y ago
Nick Clegg isn't exactly well thought of. They goofed hiring him, which is great because the more Facebook fucks up the better the world becomes.
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by ionised 7y ago
Not really. Humanity will one day no longer exist and it will be as if we never existed at all. The universe is that massive and indifferent to our existence, and it too will come to an end.
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by ionised 7y ago
He said data on WhatsApp would be kept separate too. He lied. Again and again and again.
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by ionised 7y ago
I agree. I'm a big fan of heavy regulation, especially for industries that can, and frequently do, ruin millions of lives with their avarice.
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by ionised 7y ago
> The fact that banks lent out too much money had no impact on consumer deposits, thanks to oversight. I like how you're trying to make like the financial crash was no big deal because this 'oversight' worked in this narro
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by ionised 7y ago
> Apparently HR did an internal audit and found no evidence of retaliation. Which isn't surprising. It just means that for every decision made by a manager in this case, they had a reasonable business justification that wasn't
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by ionised 7y ago
This. Up until recently Disney had very very few, if any, original works, and yet they are the most extreme in their pursuit of copyright and its enforcement.
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by ionised 7y ago
He said capitalism, not free-market capitalism. They are not the same thing.
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by ionised 7y ago
We distinguish between the land and the building/structure/asset built on it. You could potentially own property on the land but not the land itself.
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by ionised 7y ago
FaceFucks?
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by ionised 7y ago
Or just FaceBucks
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by ionised 7y ago
> Also your conclusion at the end is completely wrong. Prison excludes people from society. Letting them exist in society by imposing some rules is exactly the opposite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_viole
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by ionised 7y ago
Thankfully, I don't get my information on world history from Wikipedia. I read history textbooks written by actual historians and on this particular subject, I speak with people who lived through it on a regular basis and spend time in
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by ionised 7y ago
> You mention "quality education in the trades and higher professions for example." - what percentage of the population got to enjoy that? All the examples I gave were freely available even to the regular workers. I've spe

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