mellow2020

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by mellow2020 6y ago
> I'm fairly certain if a judge haf given him his job back he would have accepted it. From that doesn't follow that one should just say nothing (that isn't utterly benign and impersonal) on the web. This would leave someth
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> How much do you care about what potential employers/co-workers/business partners/romantic partners think of you? If someone judges me based on some randonm old comment without even talking to me, I absolutely do not want
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> You’re on shaky ground there. Would you accept prison or murder as counter-argument to this or other opinions of yours? If not, you prefer free speech. > The US isn’t the moral beacon it was billed to be. Who billed it thusly? In my
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by mellow2020 6y ago
"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" is a Chinese proverb, if I'm not mistaken.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Yet old.reddit with RES runs circles around it. Maybe not on mobile though.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> Do you think Americans are using free speech well? I think that's irrelevant, since being a free individual is the main reason being alive and healthy is desirable, not the other way around. If people just existed to keep an abs
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Even taking what you said at face value, what you're describing is a strong body with no mind. If you could get a lifespan of a million years, but had to spend it in a coma, would you want to? If you could live a million years, but onl
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> An important factor to watch is how that phrase "defund the police" gets defined--see peer replies here for examples of how people can interpret it positively. Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=234
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by mellow2020 6y ago
I don't agree with the comparison of dying of a natural cause, which Covid is, to being murdered in some cases, killed carelessly in others, by people you and fellow citizens pay and give special privilege to so they would prevent cr
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Golemiprague, you're shadowbanned, but you can watch the full 16 minutes of this video to get a feeling for the tip of the iceberg of this issue: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Byk2axDVNHE https://en.wik
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by mellow2020 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Byk2axDVNHE These are the people you are defending. > Where are news reports of protesters throwing rocks at riot police? Yes, where are they? After all, you have to have this from som
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> If the totalitarian conqueror conducts himself everywhere as though he were at home, by the same token he must treat his own population as though he were a foreign conqueror. - Hannah Arendt > This drug thing, this ain't police
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by mellow2020 6y ago
That's not even "I was just following orders". Actions have consequences, too, and people are responsible for their actions.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Where do your expectations come from though? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> It's not though, not being peaceful is pretty much one of the core defining features of the black bloc. If the black bloc was all of antifa, it would just be called antifa. Outside the black bloc, direct action covers a lot of thi
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by mellow2020 6y ago
The only mail provider I ever heard of this working with is Google. And if you already support multiple usernames per email address, why not support using the same username for different email addresses? It's not like leaving it blank
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by mellow2020 6y ago
So like usernames, except very awkward and Google-only.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> You can think antifa is a terrorist organization but also be against fascism. Without a clear argument as to why antifa is a.) an organization and b.) as such terrorist, I don't think you can. It's like saying "Jews star
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> "you can't use some individual actions to project on the group they chose to be part of and that chooses to accept them" You certainly can't cherry pick them (one instance of violence versus billions of instances of
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by mellow2020 6y ago
You're just doing the same thing again, using a vague "they" to extrapolate from cherry picked examples onto an amorphous mass, without even bothering to dress up the dissonance between that and "bike lock", singula
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by mellow2020 6y ago
What you're quoting is in turn a response to someone basically saying the military should be deployed because "antifa" has been "designated as a terrorist organization". In this context, "designating as enemy&q
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> Criticising antifa does not imply support of fascism. We're not talking about criticizing antifa, but calling it a 1.) terrorist 2.) organization. > Many of those proclaiming to be antifa have committed acts of violence And man
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> > and many people spouting them don't really want to roll up their sleeves and turn this ship around > I don't know if I agree with you here. Would it help if "many" was changed to "some"? I was thin
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by mellow2020 6y ago
I'm sure that even if we lived in (or better: actively maintained) a much more sane and just world, some people, because they're sick or for other reasons, would still try to find fault with it. But it wouldn't spread like a
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the m
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by mellow2020 6y ago
That doesn't make it magically impossible for the PRC to do nefarious things of their own, which I'm sure you'd agree the FBI would gladly publicize.
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Google, Amazon and Microsoft power Chinese surveillance firms on USG blacklist(top10vpn.com)
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by mellow2020 6y ago
It's not open source, but as counter-example I would offer Directory Opus: loads of features, totally customizable, extendable, complete documentation, while somehow managing to not get bloated (they've been at it for decades, aft
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> After a few posts like that, it starts to to feel like maybe a big chunk of the problem might be her. I don't really blog, but I occasionally write lyrics. All of them are bitter and critical, so over a the years I accumulated a c
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> a startup that needs to get shit done quickly Stuff like "name a dog in our org"?

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