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by moistly 4y ago
And money escaping from China and other regimes.
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by moistly 4y ago
This seems to be a rant from someone convinced beyond all doubt that the virus was lab-developed. Which I think is fine. Let’s say it was developed in a lab. Now what? How does it change things? My best guess: maybe bio labs take safety a l
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by moistly 4y ago
People should not elect governments that allow such inane profit margins on products subsidized by taxpayer money. But y’all do.
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by moistly 4y ago
North Korea has been printing US banknotes of indistinguishable quality for decades. There is a huge volume of counterfeit money and of black market money.
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by moistly 4y ago
Elon Is Wrecking the Musk Aura That Fueled Tesla.
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by moistly 4y ago
And after the way it is used in airports, on airplanes, or in other crowds where everyone’s stuck for a while. (Which is to say, foist porn on unsuspecting victims.)
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by moistly 4y ago
The Onion wrote an excellent thesis about parody, submitted as a brief in a trial against a kid who made fun of his local police department. Labelling parody goes against everything The Onion argues. On the other hand, some people liter
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by moistly 4y ago
Because it's a tiny, infinitesimal part of their porfolio, a fraction of a percent, but one that has a many orders-of-magnitude potential gain. When dealing with as much money as the OTPP has, you have to form a very broad risk profile
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by moistly 4y ago
That is what aggravates me the most: that there is so much money sloshing around out there, desperate to be spent , and it goes to obvious bullshit instead of building bio-sand water filters for every off-grid community in the world, or
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by moistly 4y ago
The killer feature is "saving democracy." I'm only semi-serious. But this is a thread about how social media needs to die in a fire. And Twitter collapsing would be a big step in the right direction. Now if the brainworms tha
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by moistly 4y ago
> "activists" ran advertisers off For that definition of "activist" that means "people dropping the n-bomb all over twitter," I suppose. In all seriousness, though, it is in fact hate speech that has driven
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by moistly 4y ago
The thread ran that-away >>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33514804
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by moistly 4y ago
> Those cameras make traffic less safe, because once they're in place, municipalities shorten yellow lights to collect more revenue from them. Only in your world, not mine. We don’t allow that here. > If other countries that have
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He was so successful at real estate that he spent all of his life selling talks to the gullible at $200 a pop. You know, like successful retired people do. Every day on the road, selling his pitch. Because, you know, he was so successful.
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by moistly 4y ago
Are you telling me that you live where it is legal to possess, let alone publish/distribute/“free speech”, photographs of children being raped? Because that is literally what happened circa I’m going to say 1992ish on Usenet, an
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by moistly 4y ago
> Though you're probably too young to remember it, Usenet had unmoderated free speech for about 25 years. To the point that it became dangerous to use a Usenet browser that would automatically download & display attachments beca
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by moistly 4y ago
The root question is “How was the moderation unfair?” Examples were provided. If you do not doubt their honesty, then you agree that unfair moderation took place.
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by moistly 4y ago
It would probably help Mastodon a lot if they contacted some of the smarter celebrities and set them up with their own personal server. You’d subscribe to Stephen King or Ryan Reynolds by subscribing to their server. They can afford to run
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by moistly 4y ago
IMO, I should be directed to a federal-level or provincial-level provider for my primary id. And it should be easy to select a “better” one later, as I learn about the service. Or better if I could buy a plug-n-play wall wart that would pro
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by moistly 4y ago
It’s a win-win for Putin. Gets rid of people he doesn’t want, and their meatbags deplete Western ammunition. The man is straight-up evil.
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by moistly 4y ago
It looks like the Mastadon org also has one. Both products claim no usage/data collection. I spotted other clients, but haven’t checked their policies. https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/mastodon-for-iphone-and-ipa
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by moistly 4y ago
> and now he can do what he wants Honest to gods I do not understand how you can think like this. Elon is not a medieval King. He can not just do what he wants. There are laws. Elon isn’t operating in a full-on cartel environment quite
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by moistly 4y ago
You have gone to the mat, arguing with industry professionals, while evidently having little or no industry experience, and making obviously incorrect statements like “the CEO can make employees do anything.” Like, come off it man, you don’
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by moistly 4y ago
> I see few other people on this planet that are tackling the same problems that he is Literally hundreds, if not thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands of scientists and engineers are tackling those problems. For one thing, he is not
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by moistly 4y ago
I suppose if everyone is fleeing the service, less infrastructure is required.
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by moistly 4y ago
It desperately needs a plug-n-play option that even granny can use. It should Just Work. A lot of twitter users are stumbling. The service that removes that tripping hazard will dominate. Might as well be mastodon.
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by moistly 4y ago
I just DDG’d “brand safety conference”. Turns out to be an executive-class professional role. > The Brand Safety Institute was founded to professionalize and advance the executive capacity needed at every company to protect their brands.
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by moistly 4y ago
Because feels before reals is how so many people live their life these days. Reality doesn’t let them blame the people they want to blame, or reality doesn’t assuage the fears they fear, or reality doesn’t let them feel smarter than everyon
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> Any change to an already running system requires careful consideration, small scale testing, gradual rollout, the ability to roll back if bugs appear, etc. You are driving down the highway when an oncoming semi truck pulls out to pass…
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by moistly 4y ago
It’s not a trust mark, it’s an authentication mark: this person is who they say they are. It really is Stephen King. Your grandmother doesn’t need an authentication mark because you can call her up and ask “Hey, granny, did you really twe

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