jon_akimbo

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by jon_akimbo 7y ago
> cats can trust and respect? I think you're doing the reverse of anthropomorphizing - assuming that because humans have an experience, then that experience must be unique to humans. Cats have all kinds of trust signals: showing the
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by jon_akimbo 7y ago
I'm going to disagree with you on that first sentence. It's likely that cats can sense your superior attitude toward them. As a result, they avoid bond-forming behaviors that require trust and vulnerability and mutual respect. Whi
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by jon_akimbo 7y ago
The fallacy I see here is the assumption that today's hot topics will still be as relevant in 10 years and not (as I suspect) superseded by wholly different issues and problems.
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by jon_akimbo 7y ago
Looking forward to seeing the Baader-Mainhof phenomenon on the front page later today or tomorrow.
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by jon_akimbo 7y ago
People very concerned about this should spend some time reading ${opposing political group} social media. As you'll discover, people will believe what suits them. Veracity is of remarkably little interest to a remarkably high percentag
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by jon_akimbo 7y ago
It sounds like you're saying that what a company calls itself determines which ethical obligations apply to it. I can agree to an extent, but I suspect there's a different point here. Twitter, per its own website, is "what’s
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by jon_akimbo 7y ago
> It's pretty rational to focus more on the sites that have the most traffic when discussing bias, isn't it? I feel that if a person is making an argument from principle, then that principle should apply everywhere and not just
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by jon_akimbo 7y ago
It's hard to take this argument seriously when the only companies mentioned are left-leaning tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google. I suspect that the author's concern isn't censorship per se, but censorship of
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by jon_akimbo 7y ago
You're conflating right to receive a basic necessity with the right to distribute a non-necessity. You may have a right to receive water. But you don't have a right to pee in the water supply. Nor should the private water company