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by lom888 4y ago
In the USSR it wasn't enough to have art that was apolitical, it was seen as vital that art acted to actively support the creation of a socialist society, and those seeking to create art in a neutral space were viewed as being reaction
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by lom888 4y ago
I am a DF obsessive. Many thousands of hours spent playing the game over the past 12 years, it is my favorite game by far. I've also had numerous abortive attempts to learn how to code. It humbles me to think that people find the UI so
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by lom888 4y ago
I recall two-liter resealable glass bottles of Coca-Cola before everything switched to plastic. A quick search shows that these could be returned for a deposit.
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by lom888 4y ago
In the 1930s a large section of the country was undergoing an ecological collapse that caused mass migration. There was a sustained occupation of the capital by an army of former soldiers that was dispelled by force of arms. Unemployment wa
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by lom888 4y ago
I handle social media customer service for a medium-sized US based company. We only sell to US customers. About one out of every fifty contacts we receive via Facebook are from people in the US.
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by lom888 5y ago
I lament that a whole generation has come of age only knowing gamified and astroturfed search.
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by lom888 5y ago
Here's the 1996-vintage vanity page that goes along with this site: http://blank.org/memory/oldweb/home.html
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by lom888 5y ago
>The last time we saw a consumer price index value this high or higher was 30 years ago! Yes, but from 1968 until 1991 there were 24 months out of 276 when the CPI was lower than today. Perhaps what is remarkable isn't that inflatio
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by lom888 6y ago
They want the first amendment repealed as they say it protects racists, homophobes and transphobes. They say that liberal free speech laws led to Trump and free speech should be curtailed for that reason. They openly say that they are oppos
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by lom888 6y ago
These friends overtly say that free speech should be limited, in those exact terms. Not some speech, "free speech". Please let me know how you perceive me to be misunderstanding them willfully.
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by lom888 6y ago
The argument I've heard from friends on the left opposed to free speech is that barely-moderated forums inevitably turn into "white supremacist" sites.
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by lom888 6y ago
I know this experience. For me the fear was that if I put the thought onto paper that somehow it would be more real, but the result was that the thoughts ended up burning away at me and taking up more headspace than if I just put them on th
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by lom888 6y ago
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
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by lom888 6y ago
> The “super follow” feature, which lets users charge followers for access to exclusive content, will launch this year, a spokesman said. Twitter now wants to be OnlyFans.
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by lom888 6y ago
tldr: she logged in with the wrong password 20 times in order to get locked out of her account.
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by lom888 6y ago
And then the question being immediately closed.
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by lom888 6y ago
> 2. More companies will adopt stances on current societal and political debates. Smart companies will need to figure out the way to alienate a minimal amount of customers while appeasing the mob.
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by lom888 6y ago
The amount of people seeding the archive.org torrent has spiked since you posted this comment
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by lom888 6y ago
> The obvious hypothesis as to why homicides increased while burglary decreased is people were home more and under a lot of stress. In places like Toronto and London homicides decreased in 2020 while they increased in major US cities.
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Sudo Vulnerability CVE-2021-3156(access.redhat.com)
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by lom888 6y ago
This is a common theory. https://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209/study-most-plastics...
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by lom888 6y ago
It is not censorship, these platforms are making editorial decisions, and since they are making editorial decisions they should be held liable for content published on their platforms.
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by lom888 7y ago
Shoutout to http://blank.org Used to have this set as my homepage.
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by lom888 7y ago
Not to be flippant, but so is alcohol usage, should we encourage students to drink at school? Smartphone applications are designed to be addictive and have demonstrably negative effects upon the mental health of adolescents. Their usage sho
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by lom888 7y ago
In postwar France the PCF had a large swathe of support after the war due to the Communist role in the resistance (among other reasons). At this time the PCF was a very pro-Soviet party and this support for the Soviets may have translated i
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by lom888 7y ago
There is an article in this week's London Review of Books by John Lanchester which covers a similar theme: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n19/john-lanchester/document-numbe...