lostjohnny

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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> If Europeans are too weak for freedom that is their perogative We can legally drink before the age of 21 because we are able to control ourselves. We can have sex between 14 and 16 years, because we are able to control ourselves. We do
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
You have it, but it's not pure free speech US style, everything is good because it's the constitution, like bearing arms and whatnot, you have the right to your opinions, but some opinions could lead you to jail. Which is slightly
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
that's spot on. I had the same conversation trying to explain that in Italian there are "male" things that have "female" names and vice versa. For example "car" (automobile in Italian) or bulldozer (ruspa
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> who denies that the virus HIV causes AIDS That's understandable. He supported an alternative theory. But he was already 50 years years old when he published his first essay on HIV, and over 60 when he started the campaign against
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> many men will not miss a chance to jump to conclusions like "we are better at this", which is a malignant construct that science never implied nor supported Exactly. And there is no amount of social construct that can change
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> Are you sure about that? Yep, the right to be forgotten (or to oblivion) predates GDPR. > The implications of what's been said here will on some level impact how EU law will apply to countries outside of the EU. Not really, eac
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
I know little about him personally, and I shouldn't have quoted the last bit, because it wasn't related to what we're talking here. The point is sex differences exist and are framed in a way that culture or nature have really
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> hormonal differences rather than sex differences it wouldn't be as intrinsically controversial. it is controversial only if you assume that - we can control sex differences more than hormonal differences (in fact it's quite
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
And yet... I've read this[1] yesterday on a complete unrelated topic, and I must say that "I don't buy" it's another form of not understanding statistics. Biology is what it is and controls major aspects of our live
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> He has been accused, by several independent parties, of, among other things: Who, exactly? > -Asking female coworkers to lay down topless on a mattress in his office. > -Threatening a colleague to kill himself if he/she didn
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> it worked out fine. If for "worked out fine" you intend "self-destructed", yeah, it did. UK is dead! Ireland will stay in EU, Scotland will vote to stay in EU, even London is looking for a way to stay in EU, what&#x
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> He has been fired. I don't much care for people like him but he is not part of the problem with Vice. He left on his own, at the top of his career, while he was still admired as "the godfather of hipsterism" He turned fr
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
It is as odd with the self claimed moral high ground. If you write a piece titled "remove Stallman and all the other toxic people" and you build weapons, I understand better why you build them and what you really meant by "re
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
it has nothing to do with GDPR thanks for trying
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> She doesn't matter, and any attack on her will be seen as petty at best by those who only read the articles. I don't care about being being popular. And I don't even care of being judged by internet nobodys, I'm ove
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
Gavin McInnes is really a misogynist and founder of Vice. She's really building weapons for the US department of defense. I'm not doing anything, just doubting of her qualities as a spoke person of a movement that targeted RMS for
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
You're not in charge of deciding what's inappropriate or not. Talking about dicks is inappropriate, but if you are an urologist speaking with other urolgy students, it makes perfect sense. Stallman was writing to other students ab
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
or that another nobody who actually worked with him? https://archive.is/https://twitter.com/thomas_lord/status/11...
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
That's why US needs a job protection law. In Italy you can't be fired for your opinions. Never!
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
Selam G. builds weapons for US Department of Defense... That's not really feminist, isn't it? > • Co-Principle Investigator for a U.S. Department of Defense SBIR Phase II research contract, prototyping autonomous ground vehicle
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> "women" to be discouraged and counted as collateral damage this never happened though. According not to me, but to Thomas Lord (if you don't know who he is, go and check) > One remarkable thing about the FSF at that t
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> Is it okay for someone to murder a person if they saved more than one life before ? Murder is a crime. Where is the crime here? It is ok to let go a "fuck you" if that persons did good before.
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> RMS alienated so many women [citation needed]
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
There a TL;DR; on the bottom. I'm very sympathetic with people (over)reacting to what Stallman said and did. I'm from a family where my parents and most of my uncles worked in healthcare. Specifically my dad worked in oncology and
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> If that's true, then Stallman has completely failed as a leader He's been under constant attack for the past 40 years. Nobody wants to be friend with the smart friend who's also unpopular. And that's what he failed,
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
if you can be accused for keeping a door closed, US society is way more fucked up than I thought and these people are much more scary than italian mafia.
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
fun fact: Selam G. the author of the post on medium builds weapons for the US defense department.
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
> The complaints about stallman aren't a matter of thoughtcrime, they're a matter of entirely inappropriate behavior Who are you exactly to think you can decide what is - without doubt - "entirely inappropriate behaviour&q
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
Or that we fight the person to destroy or weaken the idea.
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by lostjohnny 7y ago
it already happened. As usual, not trying to be prejudicial here, it happened in the U.S. where different 501(c)(3) formed to attract donation capital, but that actually have been an enemy of large part of the FSF community. There can'

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