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by krapp 3mo ago
Yep. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -
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by krapp 3mo ago
Christ the font on that site is terrible. First rule of agitprop - make it readable.
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by krapp 3mo ago
I'm not volunteering, and I know you aren't asking, but why don't you have more moderators than you seem to? Do what other forums do and have regular mod drives, take applications from the community, take on more people durin
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by krapp 3mo ago
>yeah the hostility started recently with trump and his ilk - fighting for nationalism of a bygone era. It definitely didn't start with Trump, it just became policy under him. Trump would never have had a chance if Americans didn&
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by krapp 3mo ago
> And then not doing fuck all to fix the root cause, besides thoughts and prayers, because muh freedom. We can't do anything to fix the root cause because the root cause is an inviolable Constitutional right. So we simply must accep
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by krapp 3mo ago
>Having to google obscure acronyms and having to guess which interpretation author meant makes for super boring reading. It doesn't, because we don't have to read that. Also the interpretation can be gleaned from context, as @w
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by krapp 3mo ago
I may be one of the few people who preferred the original version of The Gunslinger. I dropped it after Wizard and Glass, though. I really like the setting and the concepts in the Dark Tower but it started to feel a bit too self indulgent a
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by krapp 3mo ago
I don't think so, but even if that were the case there wasn't a secret Democratic black mass child sex dungeon next door either. The MAGA folks are trying desperately to say they were right all along when the only pedophiles they
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by krapp 3mo ago
Asking pointless questions that can be answered with a simple Google search and complaining about other people's use of language do dilute the thread. It's explicitly in the guidelines that we don't complain about voting beca
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by krapp 3mo ago
>This HN thing of casually using acronyms without defining them is baffling to me You have a whole internet at your fingertips with which to look up terms you don't understand without diluting the thread, but if you need at all to d
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by krapp 3mo ago
No. I do remember when they went on and on about how the Democrats and Jews were all Satanic pedophiles and then they elected the King of all pedophiles to stop it. And then they objectively interfered with good faith efforts to police se
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by krapp 3mo ago
The option was on the table, and Americans doubled down on the dementia patient.
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>As for your question: I personally don't want data, I want a service backed by sound data and expert validation+analysis. Don't expect to find it in the US.
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by krapp 3mo ago
I have decided this mention of Mamoru Oshii is a good enough excuse to recommend STEVEM's continuing retrospective series on his life and work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shxS5YpyK04&list=PLyhSewr7ii...
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by krapp 3mo ago
The thing about dystopia is that it's never a dystopia for everyone.
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by krapp 3mo ago
A lot of mangaka have done that sort of thing, calling something normal in the industry "infamous" and "corrupting" seems overblown when Tatsuya Matsuki and Nobuhiro Watsuki are grooming children and collecting CP and
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by krapp 3mo ago
I think that goal only works when the community is small and culturally homogeneous and the velocity of content is relatively slow, but all of those result in implicit silos at scale. People's subjective experience of HN already differ
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by krapp 3mo ago
Neither IRC nor BBS* use algorithms to create feeds of third party content based on user preference, history and a network of subscribed accounts, but Youtube does. Forums can count, depending on their implementation - I don't think
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Ask an LLM.
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>I don't think there's genuine atheists in America, as soon as they lose institutional religion they project the same kind of patterns onto tech or politics. Or maybe the people who do so aren't actually atheists. There ar
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by krapp 3mo ago
A lot of people would disagree that China is communist in any meaningful sense (despite being run by the CCP.) I've seen the term "state capitalist" applied to describe their economic system. Here is a long thread debating th
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by krapp 3mo ago
Strictly speaking, in the US system the President isn't allowed to bypass Congress. Congress makes the laws and sets the budget and the President is suppose to execute on what Congress decides, which is ostensibly supposed to reflect t
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by krapp 3mo ago
I don't think it would be possible without a serious restructuring of the Democratic Party. It's far too beholden to capital and corporate interests and too afraid to be seen as "socialist" to allow someone like Mamdani
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by krapp 3mo ago
>Can things happen that are possible via mechanisms you don't understand, or are incapable of grasping because of your sensory/intellectual limitations? Possibly, but I fully believe science is capable of explaining these mecha
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by krapp 3mo ago
They didn't happen. Impossible things by definition didn't happen. People observe and record all sorts of crazy things all the time, including for all of the religions you don't believe in, but that doesn't mean anythi
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by krapp 3mo ago
Could it be that later generations of archeologists took the opposite view because the preponderance of evidence uncovered in that time pointed in that direction (and because the cultural and political stigma against contradicting the Bible
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by krapp 3mo ago
>Of course the supernatural events could have happened! Unless you're certain that: Yes, I am certain of these things because I am an adult with an education, and an awareness of the difference between mythology and reality. If you
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by krapp 3mo ago
Thank you for demonstrating my point so perfectly.
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We know the Exodus didn't happen because the supernatural elements described cannot have happened, and there is no evidence of any such mass migration in the archeological record, nor any non-Biblical references to such an event taking

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