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by lores 2y ago
I use it for creative inspiration. I'm bad at working without constraints, but I can take a rough idea or design and run far with it, learning a lot in the process of doing. I wouldn't get quite as many chances to without a templa
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by lores 2y ago
Well, Jones knew the parents were getting death threats and being severely harassed, and yet continued to incite his crowd with lies, so I guess we agree he caused harm and was rightly punished for it.
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by lores 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand your argument. It can't be proven either that someone didn't die of a heart attack right before the bullet hit them, but we draw a line at "really, really likely".
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by lores 2y ago
So... we agree that not all speech is suitable at all time with all audiences?
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by lores 2y ago
There is no slippery slope here. Harm was actual, demonstrated, and a direct result of the speech. No subjectivity in this case, and in fact a cast-iron proof that absolute free speech would lead to very nasty outcomes.
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by lores 2y ago
I'm arguing with the canned sentence because it's stupid and mealy-mouthed. I think some speech should have consequences. I'm not hypocritical enough to think it's still free speech, though.
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by lores 2y ago
The speech/action duality, where one is pure and the other earthly, is very American. I'm really curious whether it mirrors or stems from puritan beliefs. But no, speech isn't entirely free then. That's not a bad thing.
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by lores 2y ago
Causing harm is illegal, "free speech!" is not a magical incantation. Would you say that a mafia boss who only issues orders is protected by free speech?
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by lores 2y ago
I am far from a free-speech absolutist, but yes, free speech means free from consequences. What else could it mean? Even the worst dictatorship can't stop you from speaking... the first time.
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by lores 2y ago
Causing harm is illegal. Words are not magic.
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by lores 2y ago
Being in a news report is a fatal bias, though, since there won't be one for a bruised knee. It's not possible to derive any accurate knowledge from that.
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by lores 2y ago
You go to a fancier class of restaurants than I do :)
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by lores 2y ago
There is a lot of value in experiencing other cultures, especially away from tourists. If nothing else, it's easy to say "bomb Sanaa" because Houthis attacked a US ship, but a lot harder once you've been waiting for a wh
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by lores 2y ago
That is a very insightful comment, thanks.
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Why would you think that is the case?
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Sure, but the point is that it's not their intelligence that's valued. You'd often praise a great professor by saying they're very smart, but very rarely a great cook.
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You can have a community in the neighbourhood who aren't ruling the HOA.
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by lores 2y ago
Printing menus only costs about 2 minutes of a dev's time, anyone in the restaurant can do it, there's no need to involve a third party who may not be responsive, and the fact it never fails to work is huge. We tech people often i
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by lores 2y ago
Not a dig on you, but I find it telling that in discussions about the freedom of upping up and leaving, money is always mentioned as a limiting factor, but never community. For many, moving means losing the social ties they have, and that c
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by lores 2y ago
I don't think that's true. While it's a valued characteristic, society also respects athletes, cooks, nurses, or businessmen, none of them because of their thinking capacity. The people who assign the most worth to intelligen
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by lores 2y ago
At this point I'd instictively disbelieve him if he said the Pope's Catholic. The man is such a heinous sociopath I'll first assume he's lying for fun, profit, or both.
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by lores 2y ago
Miami is something else. I had an officer threaten to deport me because I answered his question "do you have alcohol with you?" with "no, but I have some in my check-in luggage", which was apparently a great show of disr
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by lores 2y ago
Despite widespread belief, the cookie pop-ups are not related to GDPR, but to a law passed several years earlier, ePrivacy: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
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by lores 2y ago
The article spends a lot of time pointing out that's a fallacy, though.
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by lores 2y ago
Vangelis elevates the movie from a notably pretty noir to a metaphysical epic. For my money it is the most extraordinary and moving soundtrack of all time.
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by lores 2y ago
Companies have teams upon teams of people desperate to justify their continued employment despite existing products being more than adequate. See: constant UX redesigns, 3-blade razors.
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by lores 2y ago
Interestingly, what most people think of as "truffle flavour" is fake truffle. Only two types of truffle have any flavour of note, the French black Perigord and the Italian white. They taste milder than you have been led to believ
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by lores 2y ago
Economics ignore anything that's uncountable like life enjoyment or community ties. People who have lived somewhere long enough for prices to have spiralled out of control likely score high on those measures. Kicking people out of a li
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As far as I know that's purely a Dutch thing, I've never seen them elsewhere.
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Most toilets in Western Europe, at least new ones, have two buttons for low and high flow. Low flow is not an unalloyed good, though, it leads to sewer lines getting clogged, which can be a pretty expensive thing to fix depending on where t

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