loggedinmyphone

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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
When people adopt a behavior, no matter how damaging, it's because they get something out of it. What might people be getting out of such a polarized worldview? Maybe they'd rather ally themselves with half the world, and be the e
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Very cool, I've been wanting to try Tumbleweed as it looks like the most noob-friendly rolling-release distro. Glad to hear the positive reports.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
The "culture war" isn't about beliefs; it's about satisfying the human need to blame (scapegoat) someone else for your problems, meanwhile not becoming the target of blame yourself (or at least, being blamed by anyone yo
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Isn't there some kind of DKMS package to automate this?
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
There's a joke about a guy who gets a phone call because his son used "the S-word" at school. "I'm so sorry, I don't know where he picked that up; I'll have a stern talk with him." "Good," t
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
> We live in houses with yards and fences and don't talk to each other. Yes, ironically, putting more people together creates more isolation. People live in extremely dense apartment housing in cities - and still don't know the
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
How do you feel about Disneyland making a ride out of Pirates of the Caribbean?
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
An interesting case is the US driving Colombia out of Panama when the Colombian senate refused to approve the Panama Canal. The war is considered to have been engineered by the New Panama Canal Company including Bunau-Varilla and William Ne
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
People are so impressed now with predictive models based on any kind of correlation. Like: "we predict what kind of wine you will like based on your favorite candy bar" or "how long you'll live based on what you eat for
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
The technical problems I work on are interesting to me personally because I enjoy getting good at the particular subfield I am in. I don't think they're necessarily "interesting" in the sense of "advance the state o
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I (perhaps mis-)read the subtext as being that violence is a historical, hence tolerable and perhaps even inextricable, part of reform movements. The literal point seemed obvious, so it didn't occur to me as a possible topic of discuss
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I do have specifically marginalized groups of people who I try to help. But my most important project is being a decent human to those around me every day. It's not as easy as it sounds. It's second nature for all of us to pass on
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
What I am betting on is precisely that reluctance of the populace to stomach brutality. Whatever political victories are achieved through escalating violence are ultimately empty until a fundamental rejection of brutality is achieved.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Self hosted social networking and email platform that runs on Digital Ocean, OpenStack, etc. Total cost to user is around $5/mo hosting and $1/mo DNS for ad-free privacy-invasion-free Internet. Ironic that you mention hosting reso
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I don't think the South loved owning slaves as much as they found it an expedient economic model, which was less true in the North. So I believe they could have been moved by economic pressure. We can't know for sure, but we can s
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
If anyone wants to dismiss a movement because a few of its adherents are violent, that's obviously unjustified, because no one can control who agrees with them. Just like we can't condemn the entire anti-abortion movement because
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Violence can certainly bring about short term gains for the perpetrators. I'm personally interested in changing the cycle of violence itself, more than replacing one violent actor by another.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I think there were multiple ways Nazism could have been prevented or dealt with. It's just regrettable that it ended in so much violence. Probably what happened was neither the best nor the worst conceivable outcome.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Neither the notions of nonviolence nor autonomy are absolutes. We always have to struggle to make good choices.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Most successful enterprises of any nature had elements of violence - "every fortune is built on a crime". I'm not questioning their success, just asking if we can do better.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I'm aware of this, and it goes back even further to the New Testament. I'm questioning the part about employing violent tactics Alameda Malcolm X.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Exactly. So employing violent tactics should not be necessary.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
My point is if you want to defend blacklivesmatter, do so on the basis that they reject violence, not because some historical movement was also associated with violence.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
Yes, less violence is the goal.
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I see, so this is the "trolling" theory of social justice. Are you saying Malcolm X and BLM act to bait the system into discrediting itself through violence? One would think if the system were violent enough, it could be be baited
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
"if the suffragettes got justice without firing a shot, why can’t everyone else?" We should indeed seek to get justice without firing a shot. I take exception to the implication that we should condone violence because there's
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
All of these instances of violence are regrettable. The aims of the American War of Independence and the Civil War almost certainly could have been achieved without firing a shot. The Nazi regime could have been prevented if the victors of
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
This assumes it was the bomb-planting that led to concessions for the suffragists. Violence usually prompts a violent counter-response, or at least for the "adversary" to become more entrenched. Consensus is the answer, which is w
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
I used to get frustrated reading clickbait journalism and say "this isn't real news, the kind I used to watch on major network television in the 20th Century". Then I realized there never was any such thing as real news. It
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by loggedinmyphone 8y ago
http://www.osteopathic.org/osteopathic-health/about-your-hea... says "If a plastic product is determined safe for microwave use, then you will see either a microwave-safe symbol or written instructions indicating

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