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by kthxbye123 6y ago
This is absolute incoherent nonsense. Are TV networks that air press conferences giving 'untracked political contributions'? Is a network that chooses not to air a particular speech or event giving an 'untracked contribution&
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Don’t Quote Laws to Men with Swords(patrickwyman.substack.com)
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Just to be clear about your argument here - you are suggesting that Facebook changing its recommendation algorithm to not suggest that people join groups run by white supremacist paramilitaries advocating for a second civil war is akin to s
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
The cosplayers and the unmarked paramilitaries are on the same side. When the NRA and their allies advocate for an armed citizenry, they emphatically don’t mean “our political enemies”
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
This has of course been Dominic Cummings’s plan for years - you can read about it quite openly on his blog, and on the blog of his friend American physicist/eugenicist Steve Hsu. The point is to allow private industry to capture the he
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
No, people who murder people over property are murderers
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Name one
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Who the fuck cares?
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
It’s more dangerous to deliver pizza than to be a cop.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Or the police would preemptively send a death squad to their house to murder them, as happened in the 60’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Complete nonsense - if you believe for one second that those “reports” were legitimate or that this was a genuine public safety measure you’re an absolute rube and a mark. This was just an elected official pandering to his electoral base of
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Very impressive - only sixty years after the Communists put a man into space, the private sector has managed to catch up.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Just to not mince words: many of them are white supremacists and cultural chauvinists. Tweet a picture of old town Sarajevo or the Alhambra at one of those “traditional European architecture” twitter accounts and see how they respond.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
There is no equivalence between property damage equivalent to killing, much as there is no equivalence between a random twitter user “calling for the guillotines” and the commander of the armed forces threatening to unleash a massacre. It i
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
The American Presidency is a storied and historic office, not just a job but a symbol of the nation, of its civic and cultural identity, so it has been difficult for a lot of people to come to terms with it being occupied by someone who is
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
And to think, just this morning you were claiming the text of this order was probably a forgery because it was so shoddy and inconsistent.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
I think based on the events of the past three years (or really, the past three months) the most parsimonious explanation by far is that the President and his staff and advisors are simply lazy and incompetent.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
This order was hastily drafted by White House staff to soothe a temper tantrum the President had after a day of being extremely online. Why would you expect it to be anything but sloppy and inconsistent?
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
"Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks..."
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
That's great for them, but it means the current employees day-dreaming about leaving their luxuriously appointed home office in their palatial Mountain West exurban home for a Wednesday afternoon skiing trip are going to need to seriou
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Yes, my point is that this is the same mechanism that will reduce the inertia for "move half of our engineers to low-wage countries and squeeze the wages of the ones that are left"
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
>> If companies felt they could readily get the same level of talent outside the US, why wouldn't they do that currently? Well, by the same logic, why didn’t FB have a remote forward strategy before now? Presumably the pandemic
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
I think it’s much more likely that, rather than empowering employees to live rich and fulfilling lives outside of work, a massive shift to remote will drive down wages everywhere to the level of the cheapest locations where talent can be fo
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Part of the problem is "the ability to do abstract symbolic manipulation" becomes conflated with "talent" which then becomes conflated with "human worth"...
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Part of the allure of the job is that it's supposed to be about abstract values like honor, duty, loyalty, patriotism etc. and not about compensation. It can't be otherwise, because then you have to accept that the job is basicall
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Between their salaries, hazard pay, pensions, government hiring and contracting preferences, free lifetime healthcare, free tuition, free graduate tuition, free job retraining and zero-interest mortgages, U.S. soldiers are amply compensated
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
Well, in this case, it involved hiring mercenaries, arranging an elaborate heist involving traditional Lebanese musicians and bribing airport workers in at least three different countries. I think the ability to improvise is crucial.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
I think it becomes more difficult when you are an extremely high profile prisoner like Ghosn.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
This is a serious misrepresentation of the actual content of the leaks, propagated by a gallery of pro-Assad freelance writers and regime mouthpieces. In fact, the "leaks" never seriously contradicted the OPCW's conclusion.
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by kthxbye123 6y ago
>> or carnivore with a focus on ketosis Following a "carnivore" diet is a really terrible idea. Unless you're an Inuit living in the frozen north, you should eat some greens.

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