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by phatskat 3mo ago
I disagree on the “nazification” point, your main point, because fascism is the kind of insidious thing that can’t be allowed a foothold. To your point 2, even if the Nazis were allowed in to be the butt jokes, it’s still allowing them in a
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by phatskat 3mo ago
1) I did say “obvious Nazis” 2) letting a Nazi be at your bar is decency imo 3) “most” is doing some heavy lifting, and even so, you are showing the shades of communism. Nazism expresses an ideology of hate and racial superiority, it’s a co
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by phatskat 3mo ago
That’s a false equivalence and imo disingenuous - Nazis are understood by the broad majority to be “bad”. We, the public, don’t want nazis around - period. If I go to a bar and there’s a handful of obvious nazis there, I’m leaving because s
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by phatskat 3mo ago
That’s a wild take tbh. In a different comment I did say that ideally the community would’ve taken action before MS had to step in. I don’t want to make the world “foam padded”, and in particular when it comes to fascism it should be stompe
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by phatskat 3mo ago
> That said, I think it is inevitable for any anarchist server that gets large enough to end up in this exact situation. Agree, and I think it’s the community’s responsibility to decide what is and isn’t tolerable - even within anarchy.
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by phatskat 3mo ago
Sure, kids will encounter a lot of things, but there’s a difference between coddling and having conversations when the time is right (well, better - there’s rarely a correct time in any exact sense with kids). Our kid is old enough now to h
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by phatskat 3mo ago
Indeed this was a pleasure to read! For someone who’s biology schooling largely culminated in a high school presentation of “how a virus works” rendered in a pirated copy of 3DS Max, it felt both accessible and informative without coming of
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by phatskat 3mo ago
Huh. Arc had an interesting AI use where pinned tabs would get renamed automatically to be more informative - about 50/50 in my experience. The best part of this though was the ability to opt-in on a per-use basis - pin the tab, click
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by phatskat 3mo ago
> I would counsel not using the word "meaningful" in the context of BI. We already have a way of evaluating "meaningful", it's called "money". If society gets to judge what is meaningful or not, well, t
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by phatskat 3mo ago
Ooo ooo don’t forget the US’s hand in the South American drug trade, or toppling numerous South American governments because we didn’t like who was in charge, even if it had been done democratically! To think “the west” could make so many m
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by phatskat 3mo ago
> People who failed so spectacularly that the country became the rape capital of Europe and has more crime than El Salvador today. > the rape capital of Europe I’ve read that this is because Sweden changed how rape is counted - instea
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by phatskat 3mo ago
They should! It’s genuinely nice. I know to some this all probably comes off as corny and to that I say: I hope those folks can hug a tree someday, it’s nice.
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by phatskat 3mo ago
What bullying? The forum banned the user and DMCA notices removed the content, seems fine to me and an actual reasonable use of DMCA.
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by phatskat 3mo ago
I wanted to drop some of my favorite bits about sovereign citizens here, but honestly most of what they believe requires a lot of explanation to really grasp. A quick glance of this seems a good place for the curious: https://www
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by phatskat 3mo ago
Do they have a choice? Obviously one choice is “just don’t participate” but for anyone that _will_ participate, the choice is pretty much to tolerate it.
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by phatskat 3mo ago
I’ve never once given a second thought to declining the “opportunity” to upgrade to Netflix 4k - nothing I want to watch requires that kind of quality because none of that content is necessary to begin with. We’ve been considering axing som
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by phatskat 3mo ago
Right, this is the only reason I’d go for one if I ever had a reasonable opportunity. My Bravia is a nice TV, it’s solid in many respects, but the UI pushing ads and generally being unstable makes me not enjoy it. It’s wild to think people
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by phatskat 3mo ago
I feel like the long dashes in comments as dividers is something I’ve seen more in machine-generated code, eg templates, WYSIWYG editors, etc. No doubt I used to be pretty l337 back in my day, and I think I’ve seen it more from tools. I won
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by phatskat 4mo ago
I was, as was gp, confused by “complacent” as I haven’t typically used it or thought of it to include a smugness and immediately went to the ol’ Google only to find that “smug” appears in Oxford Language’s* definition as well. The key thoug
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by phatskat 4mo ago
I’ve done this both on and off psychedelics, and both are lovely experiences. I also dated someone who wasn’t a particularly “crunchy” hippy type, but she did like to randomly hug trees on our walks to show appreciation. I do it now too, th
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by phatskat 4mo ago
It doesn’t need to be profitable if it’s cheap - political manipulation by unsavory parties is worth a cheap botnet if it means they can keep power and keep grifting. I will agree with a sibling up there that the political part is pure spec
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by phatskat 4mo ago
There’s not much to back this up, at least that you’ve included as reference. The bigger issue that comes to mind and that you can actually look in to is the practice of teaching police departments about “Killology”. This is (or was) a kind
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by phatskat 4mo ago
The answer to immigration, for those that view it as a problem, is to make the places people are leaving more desirable to stay: social welfare, sustainable energy, affordable food and housing, and security - both physical and financial. Th
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by phatskat 4mo ago
Yep, and even when the majority of protests don’t turn violent, the media does an amazingly good job of making it seem like they did. I remember multiple family members posting about, and even talking about in our group chat, how multiple U
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by phatskat 4mo ago
It seems more like you’re exhibiting “redditor behavior”. Ostensibly, the comment you replied to was about TFA, and you replied flippantly with a statement of fact “you can’t walk to a data center” when the discussion is about an article re
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by phatskat 4mo ago
The average user might see a Siri-AI + Spotify integration as “I can ask Siri to make me a playlist”, while under the hood, Spotify would have access to _all_ of the user’s data and the ability to act upon installed apps. I can understand w
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by phatskat 4mo ago
That’s how I read this too - I specifically use Apple because I can get what I need to done with little hassle, I can routinely use the same phone for _years_ and not even think about upgrading (my last upgrade was “forced as my iPhone was
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by phatskat 4mo ago
I personally would never have thought to go the Domain route, so I suppose you technically -can- have a local user but they don’t seem to surface the option.
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by phatskat 4mo ago
That was a fun bit of trivia I learned from Balatro - the Gros Michel has a one in six chance of being destroyed after a round. However, if it is destroyed (the game displays Extinct! when it perishes), then the Cavendish can appear randoml
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by phatskat 4mo ago
I’ll never miss an opportunity to plug a very relevant Behind the Bastards - at this point it feels like an Xkcd for Very Bad Things, but I digress - [Part One: The Deadliest School in History]( https://open.spotify.com/episo

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