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by lurk2 2y ago
This reads like the sort of self-congratulatory articles journalists were fond of writing about themselves in the late-2010s, just as public trust in journalism was reaching an all-time low. I suspect the same thing is happening with librar
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by lurk2 2y ago
> We'd often have "banned book week" where our librarians and English teachers would encourage us to read books that have either been banned in the past or were currently banned from our schools. These titles are invariabl
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Same thing with climate change, i've come across a pile of random definitely-not-climate-science papers The author describes herself in these terms: > While I’m an archaeologist, I consider my research to be directed at the mod
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by lurk2 2y ago
I understand what you’re saying. I’m not sure that the distinction is all that important, however. Culture is just a form of technology. > Perhaps we can learn lessons from ancient cultures about how we might be able to efficiently manag
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by lurk2 2y ago
I touched on this in my own reply to the grandparent comment [0]. I realized a while ago that lots of competitive games I played regularly were making me feel animosity towards the people I was playing them with, and it led me to think abou
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by lurk2 2y ago
> pacifist ideology One of the things I like about Minecraft is that it isn’t structurally adversarial. Most conventional multiplayer games are fundamentally about outperforming another player. Even when a game is not explicitly violent,
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Can you point to an engineering feat in modern times which is still functional after hundreds of years of neglect? Off the top of my head: 1. Various aqueduct systems constructed by the Roman Empire are still in use today. 2. Persian q
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How the ice stupas of Ladakh bring water to the Himalayan desert – DW News [video](youtube.com)
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by lurk2 2y ago
During the winter, melt water is piped from mountain springs. This water is gravity-fed into a vertical pipe, forming a fountain. The water is forced through a narrow nozzle, spraying water droplets into the air. These droplets cool down ra
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by lurk2 2y ago
There was a lot of insistence that the indigenous method was better, but no actual evidence that it was, nor even arguments as to why it would be (besides some vague allusions to it being “more flexible”). A lot of these noble savage narrat
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by lurk2 2y ago
He could be right, I have no idea what search costs.
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by lurk2 2y ago
So they charge you an additional $5?
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by lurk2 2y ago
Do you mean that they charge you an additional $5 (so in a 12 month period, exceeding the 300 search limit would result in 13 payments instead of 12), or does the next month’s subscription payment get moved up to the day that you ran out se
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by lurk2 2y ago
I suspect that Kagi’s price point might be a close approximation of what these services actually cost to provide without being subsidized by ad services and data harvesting; free search can only really sustain itself under those conditions.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> I've been "lurking" on 4chan since it was 2 years old. This doesn’t establish credibility because you opened with dead memes from 8 years ago.
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by lurk2 2y ago
There is case law which establishes a legal precedent obligating (usually divorced) parents to provide tuition for post-secondary education. I’m not aware of any such case law obligating a child to care for his aging parents.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> The genocide in Rwanda stemmed from whispers and hushed conversations in rooms with closed doors. This isn’t true. Radio played a huge role in coordinating mob activity during the Rwandan genocide. Several radio hosts were prosecuted f
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Even in that one topic (tech, software, engineering) we still have these bizarre status quo opinions that you dare not buck. This line might exist, but I have yet to see it. I have seen users on this forum advocate for eugenics and mur
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by lurk2 2y ago
> People aren't banned elsewhere because they have nothing to say, not because moderators are better. I don’t understand what you mean.
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by lurk2 2y ago
Take your meds.
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by lurk2 2y ago
I’ve stated my argument plainly. You are being evasive because your argument is unconvincing. Review the site guidelines; you are violating several of them.
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by lurk2 2y ago
Another interesting cultural development here is that the scope of parental responsibility has started to extend into what is conventionally considered adulthood, obligating parents to pay for their child’s post-secondary education. By cont
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by lurk2 2y ago
> The argument hinges on what you mean by "avid," which you have opted not to define. Tiresome. > which after all is just that I've seen what I've seen and it's interesting to talk about that. My argument is j
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Because it doesn't harm anyone. Threats don’t harm anyone physically. Similarly, conspiracy to murder isn’t an actual murder until the murder is carried out. Calling for a genocide isn’t an actual genocide, but it’s hard to see wh
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by lurk2 2y ago
> you're an "avid user" now, but "I saw plenty of content from Tumblr in 2014 despite not actively using it," you said upthread just a little while ago. I was an avid user of 4chan, not Tumblr. > I'm spea
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by lurk2 2y ago
> There are retarded posts about genociding whole groups of people, but while that's totally retarded, it shouldn't be censored Why should it not be censored? You can go from vague sentiments to active perpetration faster than
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by lurk2 2y ago
> "Most avid users," I believe I said. You seem to exclude yourself from the category, so it isn't surprising you should have a perspective other than that I seek to describe. I was an avid user and I read your post correc
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Also known as thoughtcrime Is conspiracy to commit murder an unfairly persecuted thoughtcrime that we should permit on the off-chance that punishing it would lead to Orwellian outcomes?
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Still, both cohorts' language and behavior evince continuous cultural cross-pollination from around 2012 (at least; I wasn't paying serious attention much sooner), at a rate and scope both well in excess of broader culture&#x
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by lurk2 2y ago
> but outsourcing that decision to a reddit mouth-breather whose only qualification for moderating is that he showed up to r/whatever back in 2013 before anyone else is not the way to detect those differences. Spez once compared the

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