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by lkey 11mo ago
Shorter you: I'd rather not learn things, even a little, before commenting. Did you even read the entire article? | You should not assume that is what you would do if you lived in a dictatorship. No, one cannot. That said, there are pe
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by lkey 11mo ago
| Nobody wanted her tortured except the criminals torturing her. Oh, word? It's dope you know the inner thoughts of everyone involved. | Throwing Molotov cocktail is trivially an criminal offense. Article didn't say she threw them
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by lkey 11mo ago
Gaddafi was not a communist. The Chinese State's actions w.r.t. the Uyghurs in undoubtedly a genocide. The Tankie angle misleading, "Han supremacist" would be more accurate. Calling anyone supporting Franco a 'tankie&#x2
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by lkey 11mo ago
Choosing to substitute a general principle instead of reading about the particular event as it happened 50 years ago... that likely informed the formation of that principle... When you have nothing to add, say nothing: https://en
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by lkey 11mo ago
Wow, didn't know that teenager's protesting Franco is actually worse and has a higher body count than... checks notes ... the Franco Regime. Any other insights you'd like to add?
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by lkey 11mo ago
A) She was still a child. Her parents had full control over her. B) She was imprisoned, and tortured, as the article discusses. C) What POV would you prefer? D) This was Franco's Spain, what do you imagine yourself doing at a time like
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by lkey 11mo ago
A) She was still a child. B) She was imprisoned, repeatedly, and tortured, as the article discusses. C) Is it your opinion that everyone was "lucky" to live in 1968 Spain under Franco. Or just her?
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by lkey 11mo ago
My definition is the definition. You cannot nuance wash the material conditions that are increasing tribal polarization. Rising inequality and uncertainty create fear and discontent, people that offer easy targets for that resentment will
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by lkey 11mo ago
Perfect harmlessness is impossible. Thus, we cannot differentiate between harms, nor should we try. This a stupid thing to profess and I do not believe you would defend it if pressed.
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by lkey 11mo ago
| Drop the politics Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources . Most municipalities literally
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by lkey 11mo ago
Accepting as true "We don't know how the brain works in a precise way" does not mean that obviously untrue statements about the human brain cannot still be made. Your brain specifically, however, is an electric rat that pull
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by lkey 1y ago
Creating specialized and constrained DSLs is a common and useful pattern for folks that write Haskell (or really any FP lang that has ADTs).
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by lkey 1y ago
Cold reading papers from outside your field isn't 'doing science'. As far as medicine or economics is concerned, she's identical to a layman (or worse, modulo arrogance). Science is a collaborative social endeavor that
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by lkey 1y ago
No co-authors but... "I acknowledge help from ChatGPT 5 for literature research as well as checking this manuscript. I swear I actually wrote it myself." Sabine Hossenfelder has been on what I'd call a 'physics crank&#x2
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by lkey 1y ago
It's a great thing they are not backing down. Given how many institutions have complied in advance, we need as many exemplars of better behaviour as possible.
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by lkey 1y ago
You are comparing a skilled trade that commands ~100k annual compensation to positions that have recently commanded 100 million dollars in compensation upon signing , no immediate productivity required, as this talent denial is considere
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by lkey 1y ago
4chan has changed the way that discourse happens online, and it has definitely leaked to X at the very least. Incel lingo especially, you might even use it yourself being completely unaware. I'd call it as a style of reactionary discou
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by lkey 1y ago
X then. By unmoderated I mean it's a cess-pool of pay-boosted groypers, crypto ad accounts, ai accounts, sex accounts, pure scams, ai generated underage girlfriends, and actual CSAM, that go mostly ignored if they shell out 8 USD. I&#x
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by lkey 1y ago
"digital town square" These are privately owned for-profit hundred-billion+ dollar publicly traded advertising companies. These are, almost definitionally, not honest actors! Are you serious, you still believe their marketing copy
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by lkey 1y ago
Which ones? Everyone in this thread is afraid to stand on their beliefs and I find that annoying. Just say what you mean! First though, a clarifying question, do you think the civil-rights movement, as it existed in history, was 'too p
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by lkey 1y ago
Speaking of confirmation bias, do you disagree with Singal about anything in particular? What about agreement? Who else have you read on this 'controversial issue'? Why did you consider them less persuasive than a journalist with
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by lkey 1y ago
Facebook and Twitter no longer bother with moderation, do you think the experience on those platforms is better or worse than 5 years ago? It used to be common sense to immediately ban creeps of all stripes, especially the obvious ones. Sin
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by lkey 1y ago
Understood, then we disagree only about the appropriate response. I opt instead to ignore all messages written by AI. I can even feel myself developing instant blindness to its 'house' style in the same way I stopped being able to
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by lkey 1y ago
If you wish to be a writer, respect it as a craft. Learn to regret the losses you have accrued by throwing away growth for sake of expediency. Read a book about writing, think about writers whose writing touched you, discover the voice you
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by lkey 1y ago
You dream of a world where isolation is all that remains. You have attained the outlook of a billionaire, detachment is virtue, every interaction is mediated through your servants. When people do this in their relationships, marriages fail,
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by lkey 1y ago
No, there's no conspiracy here. Ezra's probably a true believer, which I think is sadder honestly. There is no coordination besides shared interest in protecting capital, same as it ever was. Shared 'class interest' and
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by lkey 1y ago
You could call it guilt by association, sure! But critically, the funders and speakers and membership that build a movement give life and shape to what that movement becomes. Not caring about 'means' only 'ends' or
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by lkey 1y ago
Abundance is just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way neoliberalism with a new coat of paint. The answer to all questions is 'bust unions and environmental groups'. We've been here before: https:&#
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by lkey 1y ago
SF, Dallas, and Houston all have Democratic leadership that could be described as center left? (For America. To an outsider, America has two conservative parties) The unhoused are 'stakeholders' too actually, so I'd describe
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by lkey 1y ago
The process of writing the code, thinking all the while, is how most humans learn a codebase. Integrating alien code sequentially disrupts this process, even if you understand individual components. The solution is to methodically work thr

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