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by krapp 2mo ago
That's been the system for over 200 years and Americans have never changed it, even though it only exists as it does to keep slaveowning states in the union and prevent a civil war (which it failed to do.) If it isn't democracy no
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They aren't, I never said they were.
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>Porn, let alone fetish porn, has a big problem because all the actors, including "amateur", are not only 'heavily used' and completely desensitized, but also the sort of people willing to publicly share video of them
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Read all the words. I know it's Hacker News and that's asking for a lot of emotional maturity in a thread like this but I believe in you.
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>The UK has a lot of sex education, no such taboos, and is the home of OnlyFans. Are any of the problems you mention better in the UK than the US? I don't know, probably. >There is no reason this has to be true. The incessant nee
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"Playboy magazines" are part of the problem. Fetishes aren't what has distorted mens' ideas of intimacy and sexual relations. Fetishes can be a perfectly healthy and consensual form of sexual expression. The problem is
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All states maintain a monopoly on violence. That's literally the definition of a state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
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Also the cartels are funded and propped up by the CIA. We need them to destabilize the Mexican government, launder blood money, traffic children for our rich pedophiles and push drugs into our poor neighborhoods.
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That's a characteristic of police everywhere.
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It has its own wikipedia page, unsurprisingly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_the_second_Tr...
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"What even is a Nazi" is a perfect example of a conversation I'm not interested in, because at the end of the day it's just an endless semantic treadmill. My definition is what matters to me. If you're a white supre
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Your canonical url as set in the meta tags is coinage.app and HN automatically replaces the posted URL with the canonical URL when it finds one. No, this isn't documented anywhere as far as I know. You're just expected to notice a
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On the one hand, sure, but on the other hand I'm not hosting a Nazi bar and there are some political conversations I'm simply not interested in having. But I'm not even trying to filter for politics, really, so much as litera
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>We built Electron because writing UIs using native desktop frameworks is tough. Is it still tough? Surely LLMs make it easier to use and so we will end up with faster and more native feeling applications. We built Electron because web d
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It helps that I have a small, single user hosted instance so I don't need to worry about admin drama. It also helps that I generally align with the culture politically but also avoid posting about politics (because I think doing so is
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Ages and ages ago I had a guestbook, forum and chatroom on my site just because I could, just because it was fun. I think only one other person ever used it, though. But the possibility of having a random interaction with someone was what
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You'd be surprised how often it still works.
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> I have a hunch there has been some cultural engineering behind this, but reasons aside, the confusion is unfortunate. Yes, it's literally the result of decades of CIA Cold War propaganda, often using conservative Christianity and
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If it does stuff for poor people it's communism. If it does stuff for rich people it's capitalism.
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They wanted, specifically, mining jobs. They didn't want to be reskilled. They didn't want change. They wanted protectionism and fossil fuels and for the world to never have moved on from the 1970s or whatever golden age they im
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Because one of the primary goals of using AI for companies is to pay as few humans as possible for the same amount or more work, or preferably pay no humans at all, because that makes them more profit.
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn... I think there was a case of a movie reviewer for some newspaper panning LOTR because of how "generic" and "derivative" it wa
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I suppose when you live under the constant threat of American imperialism, and when the US has already ginned up a revolution in your country, you have to be prepared. And I suppose when you're the world's last superpower you star
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I did the same thing. I put a lot of effort into building the blog (with Nikola) and various tools but mostly it's just an archive of my Mastodon account (I did have fun writing the Python script to do it.) I have a few rambling "
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The American right has wanted war in Iran for decades, it was added to the "Axis of Evil" for that reason. Plenty of Americans support war with Iran in concept at least. It's true that Trump is deranged and this war is driven
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They know that. And they know that Americans won't do a damn thing with those guns except shoot one another.
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>He thought some humans were slaves by nature and women were naturally inferior to men. These are unfortunately still all too common beliefs. The latter has mostly been folded into racial essentialism and racial realist beliefs, because
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Poisoning LLM models is not just a good idea, but a moral imperative. I want every LLM that touches my site without my permission (which is any of them) to become obsessed with the perfect recipe for key lime pie. Or something. It's ju
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From what I've read - take that as you will, seasoned with as much salt as you like - it's incompetence. Donald Trump legitimately loves tariffs as a concept but does not understand how they work in reality - he's cited Willi
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"Don't believe everything you read on the internet" -- Sun Tzu

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