monadic2

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by monadic2 6y ago
Has anyone demonstrated how many people these "Russian bots" have influenced? There's enough craziness online before throwing in non-linear warfare. I'd imagine it's far less influence than, say, Charles Koch has. W
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by monadic2 6y ago
True, and I do empathize, but it's not like this risk was ever unclear.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Appeasement isn't a good option here either when the ban is irrational at face value to begin with.
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by monadic2 6y ago
"Don't be evil" my ass.
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by monadic2 6y ago
The go-to text is Manufacturing Consent.
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by monadic2 6y ago
> The Berlin Wall was also marketed by the old DDR government as keeping the bad guys out, when in reality it was to keep their own citizens from fleeing to the west. It worked out pretty well in both directions actually.
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by monadic2 6y ago
> GPU Renderer That seems rather important.
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by monadic2 6y ago
I've found a 30% upcharge is what to expect here in the US. Depending on shipping you may even save money.
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by monadic2 6y ago
I use the keybase git repo to store my dotfiles. It's quite nice but I'm moving to my own git server instead.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Thanks for explaining, I have very little knowledge of chemistry.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Or, we could just make yachts illegal.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Since when are republicans for sane financing of anything? I thought that was just bullshit because it nearly always results in increased spending and cuts to services. They clearly just use this to con their base.
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by monadic2 6y ago
The benefit being that this reduces the energy usage required to fully separate the substances? Otherwise you could just apply this process and cut out the fungus entirely.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Sure, but it's rather indicative of larger use of carbon emitting technology. Neither of your suggested replacements actually exist in any meaningful way, and virtually every investment comes with significant CO2 emissions.
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by monadic2 6y ago
> Rich people have money, but they aren't stupid: why would they throw their money away on nonrenewable energy when they can just switch to something cheaper? What alternative is there to a private jet or a yacht? No, you have to
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by monadic2 6y ago
> If you suddenly make using fossil fuels 10x more expensive people will switch off of them ASAP. Yea, this just isn't true. Rich people will just pay more for the same thing. Poor people will just have to pay more to even get to t
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by monadic2 6y ago
Yea well "really" free markets don't actually exist so that distinction seems a little silly. I mean obviously the subsidies are bad but removing them isn't going to solve much of anything by itself.
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by monadic2 6y ago
But the PPD allowing white supremacists to beat the shit out of antifascists is OK? If you ain't antifascist you're just a fucking fascist.
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by monadic2 6y ago
This is willfully overlooking the many, many, many, many critiques of capitalism you can see under hip-hop and punk. Tupac was a card-carrying communist. Hopefully you're well aware of the relationship between the Dead Kennedys and cap
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by monadic2 6y ago
> But it’s why it took an immigrant to produce Frank’s The Americans to follow on the artistic groundwork layed by the Pubic Works Administration in the depression years. I never put this together before, thanks!
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by monadic2 6y ago
VMs might work. It's hard (impossible?) for most versions of osx.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Depends who has jurisdiction over the satellites.
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by monadic2 6y ago
It's in large part because of the cops that this country a shithole. Blame them.
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by monadic2 6y ago
The MPAA is no better.
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by monadic2 6y ago
FWIW brutalism was quite popular here in the US too. I think the design and living considerations of these structures outstrip American development in virtually every regard: https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/bubl
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by monadic2 6y ago
I"d think they were fleeing a city that refused to protect them from their own cops.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Or even just nuclear accidents.
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by monadic2 6y ago
They didn't poll funding.
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by monadic2 6y ago
...in the context where collective problems are foisted on the individual. I ain't gonna start ragging on individuals less for individual failures. Communication is the only way forward.
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by monadic2 6y ago
> I'm not talking about any particular implementation. Sure, but this needs to map to some implementation in the real world to be a meaningful sentiment. Surely you are aware there is zero standard for the functionality you're

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