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by komali2 11mo ago
You claim to know more than us. I would love to be educated: when did I enter into an agreement with YouTube that I must watch ads to use their website? YouTube is sueing me for damages. Their claim: I used their website but didn't wat
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> The deal you make with YouTube is that you watch the ad in exchange for the video. Did I? Can you tell me where I made this deal? I navigated to YouTube.com, I don't see a contract, I don't see a place to sign or a hand to sh
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If you don't deny that the USA is plagued by a drug addiction crisis, what's your solution?
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Google "Ethical Capital Partners." Operates: Pornhub RedTube YouPorn Brazzers Digital Playground Men.com Reality Kings SpankWire
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> but ad blocking is definitely piracy This is a huge escalation of an already over-stuffed term. Equating piracy to theft was bad enough, now choosing to not view ads is also piracy, which is theft? I try to be chill here but no, foot d
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by komali2 11mo ago
I've loved Grayjay as an alternative YouTube client. It can pull in videos from other platforms as well, and it can Cast videos! AdBlock and sponsorblock built in too.
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Rousseau and Hobbes were just two dudes. I'd wager neither of them cracked the code entirely. To claim that addicts have no responsibility for their addiction is as absurd as the idea that individual humans can be fully identified sepa
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That's exactly right, and that's fine. Our society is unwilling to take the steps necessary to end the root cause of drug abuse epidemics (privatization of healthcare industry, lack of social safety net, war on drugs), so localiti
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Whenever I hear about this criticism of free public transit I always wonder why the question isn't "how do we keep homeless people from living on our busses" and is instead "why don't these homeless people have some
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> It’s not just “undesirable groups”. It’s people stealing your stuff if you aren’t paying attention, stalking women, creating messes, or just harassing people who want to be left alone. This seems to be a symptom, not a cause. The free
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Based on, of all people, Pewdipie's videos, seems around 25k in GPUs (4090s mostly) will get you pretty usable local results.
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Hitching my wagon to this train to ask: same question, but for nvim!
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* in an editor other than vscode, for me anyway was important. In my testing Supermaven was the best in nvim. Copilot is... fine I guess.
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Or was it "the neighbor" in the same way that "my friend" has a weed hookup?
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Depends on the company type. Seems like FAANG and companies trying to act like FAANG just follow a strict formulaic process and your portfolio or blog is kinda irrelevant there. For startups and small companies I think it makes a huge diffe
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> chosen” historically means chosen for responsibility, not privilege. > moral responsibility Yes, this is identical to how it was stated by the three separate Israelis I had this conversation with that said it exactly this way. I ask
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> From the perspective of 2025, I can't help but think about the people I know today getting vocally angry about Israeli violence in the Gaza strip It's really just a question of if collective punishment is ethical, which I say
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I feel like the implication here is "see, it's not so bad, the world didn't end, not a big deal!" But plenty of these articles describe small events that absolutely contributed to world changing, and often world degradin
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Read diaries of anyone heteronormative living in a collapsing empire. The Israeli experience is swayed heavily by decades of supremacist propaganda which is unfortunately becoming baked into the religion. I've had a surprising number o
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There are other things that are critical to democracy to actually function in the spirit of democracy - universal suffrage obviously, and the USA fails in this insomuch as it removed the right to vote from felons and engages in gerrymanderi
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Interestingly, one marker for longevity is distributed ownership, aka profit share or co-op structures, or family run businesses. Co-ops specifically have much longer longevity than traditional corporations.
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> The classic retreat into the subset of the rules that make sense. Yes, because lasseiz-faire has no allowance for the subset of rules that make sense, so I oppose that mindset, but I don't oppose one that promotes simplified, cont
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> They still have to comply with all the laws, so you don't want the laws to adversarially impede its humanitarian mission to improve housing affordability and reduce homelessness, right? I do want the laws to ensure that the buildi
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> If a corporation wants to build electric cars to fight climate change or build housing to reduce housing scarcity, that doesn't make it "bad" -- it's good, and you don't want the government impeding that when s
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The most common traditional Chinese language code is zh-tw, for "Taiwan," since Taiwan is the largest country to use the traditional characters.
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Please clarify what racist thing was said. Unless, wait, is criticism of the CPC racist? Well, that would only be true if the PRC was an ethnostate, after all, that's what makes criticism of Israel anti-Semitic, right? So, is the PRC a
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These statements about numbers are meaningless to make the case that democracy exists in the PRC. There's 1 billion people there, comparison of vote counts to smaller countries doesn't make sense. Party membership comes with 關係. I
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Sure, but the fundamental premise is that good corporations are seeking to generate profits, and good governments are seeking to provide for their constituents. A corporation that doesn't prioritize profits isn't a good corporatio
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People often say this kind of argument is in opposition to regulation and in favor to deregulation, but lemme play devil's advocate and say, why is it not an argument in favor of stronger, centralized, simplified regulation, aka what t
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My buddy had his septic tank drained last week. He's feeling burnt out as a software engineer and had idly did a bit of a job hunt as an experiment, sending out 70 applications, mostly to larger companies. He has a phenomenal resume, n

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