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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
I agree that targeted strikes which miss or take out adjacent areas is not carpet bombing. However, the above commenter suggested the U.S. has phased out carpet bombing, and while I'm suspect of that, we know with certainty that Israel
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
This instruction set should be linked in the Urbandictionary definition for Kafkaesque
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
I'm struggling to understand the point you're trying to make well enough to know how to respond, other than to say vegan cooking traditions continue to exist and existed before the internet (though there were fewer vegans at the t
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
Adonis is over 10 years old... that's like 3 generations in software years, and 20 generations in web/Javascript. The reason it's lacking features is because it's not very popular and hasn't gotten much outside cont
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
Convincing people something is scare or artificially creating scarcity.
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
Iran may have killed more people on January 12. Assuming the killings weren't instigated by American or Israeli operatives
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
People are certainly arguing this, and it's something I've come to believe as well.
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
This is a perfect example of when I think freedom of speech restrictions (such as laws criminalizing Holocaust denial) are a net positive. My grandparents were holocaust survivors, so I know directly from them what they went through, and I
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
The response was to someone commenting the discourse on Bluesky was "off putting" so they went back to Twitter. I wasn't touching on freedom of speech, just the relative quality of speech in both platforms. As a centralized s
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
I used this one called "Gooey" in 1999 that let you have a realtime chat with people on the same page as you: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/maker-of-goo...
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by pcthrowaway 7mo ago
> As one of the first 10k beta users, who was fairly active, then moved back to twitter, I agree with this. The userbase is extremely off putting from the get go Very surprised to hear this... the few times I've visited Twitter in t
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
> I ended up building my own alternative and was going to OSS it but like… there’s already a bunch out there. I'm not aware of anything besides Zulip.. what am I missing?
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
I didn't say it was logical, I said there was some kind of rationale.
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
90% of Canadians live within 100 km of the U.S. border, it's not much different than traveling elsewhere in Canada. Granted, as someone who lives ~40 km from the border, I'm broke and can't afford to travel, but I'm als
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
I suspect the reason Trump is talking about annexing Canada is because of our vast swathes of land which have historically been too cold for settlement, which are going to become much more temperate in the near-ish future.
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
What about people who don't maintain many close friends and still haven't learned independence?
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Nazi Germany had great regard for some human life.
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
> Because yes this is rare and yes this is a step in the right direction ehh.. I'd say it's a smaller step in the wrong direction than it could be.
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
I don't think it's easy to compare how this might affect their bottom line. Anthropic may gain customers, but OpenAI may lose customers also (or they may even gain customers). Maybe OpenAI also has to pay their employees more now
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
> the alternative is be OK with their product being used for surveillance. Their statement didn't indicate they object to their product being used for surveillance, just for domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
In the repeater callback, you're both calling the stop argument and awaiting it. Is it somehow both a function and a promise? Is this possible in JS? edit: I found where stop is created[1]. I can't say I've seen this pattern
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
> While the US certainly isn't pure, its scale of surveillance intrusion is light compared to China I assume that for someone to believe this, they either have to believe the U.S. has poorer surveillance capability than China, or, m
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
Wars are bad, but sometimes the only way to end an unjust status quo. Is that a defense of war? Up to everyone to decide. The American civil war occurred, in part, because Lincoln decided to end the institution of slavery. I know this is an
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
This is a fair criticism of the U.S., though I'll also point out that millions of Palestinians have lived out their entire lives under occupation now, and history didn't start on October 7. To me, all of the evidence going back to
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
> 2) Christians and Jews absolutely can live in Palestine. They were afforded that in the Ottoman empire (the Dhimmi) and they are afforded that now. Add to this, Amira Haas (Jewish, anti-Zionist Haaretz journalist) lives in Ramallah. Th
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
Hamas also doesn't endorse genocide of Jewish people. In 2018, after the deadliest attack of Jews in the U.S. (11 killed during an attack on a synagogue), Hamas condemned the attack: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news&
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
Since 2005, Israel has aggressively settled more and more people in the West Bank, to the point where more than 10% of Israel's Jewish population (read: first-class citizens) now live in West Bank settlements, so Israel's right wi
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
Nothing justifies the attack on civilians because collective punishment is a war crime and a crime against humanity. The military objectives were entirely justified though (taking out IDF bases, attempting to capture IDF soldiers, and att
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
Presenting evidence has a point besides getting people to change their opinion on matters. However, peoples' opinions often change, and when that happens, it has to happen somewhere. Mine wasn't on reading this article, but I beli
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by pcthrowaway 8mo ago
And WW2 only has more journalist deaths because some number of the genocide casualties had been journalists before the Holocaust. Being a journalist typically provides you some protection in times of war, but for journalists who are part of

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