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by lurk2 1y ago
I am reading “potential citizen” as “a detainee who claims to be an American citizen whose citizenship status was not ascertained.” The article doesn’t really give a good indication of if these cases had any merit. Since officers are suppos
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by lurk2 1y ago
So far as I can tell, the girl left with her parents (who are not US citizens). This has been the pattern in all of these cases that I have heard about so far. It’s completely disingenuous to suggest that these situations are equivalent to
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by lurk2 1y ago
> we're even sometimes deporting legal US citizens. When has that happened?
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by lurk2 1y ago
This is conspiratorial nonsense.
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> The US and Israel, when they realized they didn't either, publicly withdrew so they'd remain honest. This seems like an incredibly charitable reading of the US withdrawal given the ASMPA. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by lurk2 1y ago
I’m not seeing how this causes human rights abuses like you originally claimed. Your post has also left me with two more questions: > Any government is allowed to ask the ICC to not sue anyone for things either they did, or that happen
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by lurk2 1y ago
> The implementation pretty much causes human rights violations. How is that?
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Who is the target market is for Grammarly? Working professionals who speak English as a second language?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> the racist backlash starting in 2008 I’m denying that this was a significant force in American politics until the latter half of Obama’s presidency. These people existed; they were not influential. > McConnell tried to spin all of t
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Ferguson was 2014 Obama was president in 2014. > but the white identity politics was on display before the first time he was elected. Among klansmen. These are the people I alluded to who were dying out. Young people and the general
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> In Amsterdam there's been countless examples of this exact thing. Anything by way of peer reviewed empirical evidence?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> I think you are mad because they are right, and your only refuge is to recycle hipster memes of the 2010s. They are a particular variety of policy wonk that conflates positive claims with normative beliefs. Normative beliefs are a matt
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by lurk2 1y ago
> but trying to dispute that the Tea Party was founded and fueled by an intense racism laser focused on Barack & Michelle Obama The statement I replied to was: > It was a visceral emotional response to the most powerful man on ear
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by lurk2 1y ago
Polarization seems more like an organic reaction to post-nationalism. There is no pre-political identity in any of these countries anymore, so the idea that you could be satisfied with dissatisfaction in exchange for being a member of a gen
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by lurk2 1y ago
> It was a visceral emotional response to the most powerful man on earth being a black man. This is exactly the sort of mentality that led to Democrats thinking Hillary Clinton was a viable candidate. Leftists all over the world spent th
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by lurk2 1y ago
I’ve been hearing about the dangers of influence campaigns like Russian bot farms, deep fakes, and LLMs for the last ten years now. While these sorts of papers go out of their way to use the word “democratic,” it always seems to be motivate
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by lurk2 1y ago
The bathrooms become too expensive to maintain because they are being used by people who need to be institutionalized. When this is suggested the Civil Liberties people get into an uproar. You could build one wall and keep people who suffer
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by lurk2 1y ago
Mid-40s amateur urban planner YouTube is the worst social media trend to have come out of this decade bar none. They all look, sound, and think the same. Their worldview is fundamentally conspiratorial in that they believe there is a utopia
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Everyone who can now safely walk to the shop (who couldn't / wouldn't before for multiple reasons) starts walking there. There are a lot more people who can now safely walk to and patronize the shop, and they do. You’re
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by lurk2 1y ago
> checks notes This is obnoxious.
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by lurk2 1y ago
The only reason people use YouTube is because it has had a de facto monopoly on video distribution for the last 15 years.
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by lurk2 1y ago
Minecraft might qualify per this definition but that really comes down to whether you’re considering the game as a form of “content.” (e.g. FPS games would typically not qualify because they aren’t primarily intended to be a medium of exp
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by lurk2 1y ago
Smugness is definitely a problem on Reddit, but I think in the case of Hacker News you’re often dealing with older guys who grew up on either traditional forums or BBS. When you try to tell them that what they are doing is also social media
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by lurk2 1y ago
> I don’t consider an anonymous link aggregator with a forum bolted on top to be social media You are describing Reddit.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> we’re pseudonymous Reddit and 4chan are different from Facebook and Instagram, but they are still social media. Wikipedia: > Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content
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by lurk2 1y ago
I know I’m being pedantic here but take a look at Wikipedia: > Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst v
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by lurk2 1y ago
> All of these are overpriced, have unmanageable risk, and will lose people money; even the best traders out there will lose money on these. You’re not supposed to trade the index fund, you just buy and hold it confident in the knowledge
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by lurk2 1y ago
Interesting. I know Instagram’s demographic is aging but I had assumed Threads would skew younger.
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by lurk2 1y ago
Fair point.
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by lurk2 1y ago
I think that’s what most people thought it was for.

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