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by pierat 3y ago
You ignored my other comment regarding how clean water is indeed a Constitutionally mandated power. Having a safe and secure access and usage of water is definitely part of the "general welfare" within Art 1 Sec 8. And no, water d
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by pierat 3y ago
Perhaps, but arguing who's political sportsball team is better is a losing strategy in a discussion, no matter who plays. I prefer to go back to the primary topic and discuss from there. It more often than not provides a different path
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by pierat 3y ago
Given that in Article 1 Section 8 is the following: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but
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by pierat 3y ago
> Mastodon and now threads aren't going to fully coopt that community -- And they need to fully coopt it to win. And that's the problem with end-stage capitalist thought. Mastodon isn't trying to "win". Never has
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by pierat 3y ago
In the end, it's not the individuals who are greedy to the extreme. Instead, it's the companies that are pathologically greedy to the point of killing off what they need to survive. These companies could throw $10k or more at the
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by pierat 3y ago
I'd say a union is how you start getting back power to the workers, but given tech's ignorant libertarian bent of "I can do better on my own"... Let's just say I'm not holding my breath.
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by pierat 3y ago
I'd think it would be hilarious if a 10 minute hack was done to politicians on the subcommittee that endorsed and/or legalized this, as a demonstration why this tech is horrific. Bonus points if every politician who voted for th
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by pierat 3y ago
Uhh, going from corporate gated community where the inmates and head are wacko, to another corporate gated community sounds like..... Well, it sounds completely stupid. Do the plebes never learn that soon enough, their own community will be
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by pierat 3y ago
I mean, you cant just have Pepsi being advertised in a r/wtf deadly bus crash with people wearing coca cola, now can you? I mean, think of the chil... advertisers!
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by pierat 3y ago
"Suprnova", but definitely point taken!
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by pierat 3y ago
hn sez 30x plz?
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by pierat 3y ago
Im a systems engineer who works with 5 geographers, and a director who is a double PhD geographer. The geospatial engineering we do is a thing of art, and affects over 11 million people. I get it!
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by pierat 3y ago
Tapping on the tech pulse and information control/access is the "business model". Remember, this is a VC firm that runs the joint. We're paying with our data, and that gives them early/first mover advantage.
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by pierat 3y ago
I pay $10 a month to my masto instance. They do a superb job. Is that the best way? No clue. But I'm glad to chip in.
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by pierat 3y ago
Well, then let's play the prisoner's dilemma best solution thus far, and do "tit for tat". That's a nice EPEL you got there. Sure'd be ashame if it went away or if it got left-pad'd!
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by pierat 3y ago
So... $375 for 500 karma and permission to downvote? Why am I not surprised?
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by pierat 3y ago
If I have to, I change the link from www.reddit.com/r/stuffgoeshere to www.reveddit.com/r/stuffgoeshere It's what I used as a undelete viewer, with power tripping mods and admins. I'm guessing it'll quit w
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by pierat 3y ago
By that definition, any roguelike should be banned. And, well, we're not seeing that. I'll watch, but I disbelieve the reddit poster. Probably a CEO bot drumming up obvious bait comments over current computer events.
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by pierat 3y ago
Bunches I know are fleeing Mullvad due to their 'no port forwarding" policy now in effect. ProtonVPN still allows forwarding and is what quite a few fellow pie-rats are now using. Mullvad is dead.
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by pierat 3y ago
CSAM's going to get a lot weirder with AI image manipulation and autocompleting and nudify-ing images. And combined with this ruling about Japanese hentai with depiction of minors is legal to possess and sell: https://en.wik
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by pierat 3y ago
Microsoft's cramware is always "inexorably integrated at the deepest of levels", all the way back to Windows95 when they shoveled IE in OSR2 And it's always a 100% complete lie, and abusing their monopoly position.
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by pierat 3y ago
> I feel that much of the anger from our recent decision around the downstream sources comes from either those who do not want to pay for the time, effort and resources going into RHEL or those who want to repackage it for their own prof
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by pierat 3y ago
My dad did the following when I was growing up: At 5yo, he threatened to take me to the sheriff's and adopt me out because I was "horrible". Was told constantly to "man up", and ignore any sort of emotions I was hav
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by pierat 3y ago
Nowhere did I state anything about the law, or otherwise rules enforced on others. Nor did I say anything about suing people. I was talking about personal responsibility in not harming someone else. If your ethical guidance is so broken, yo
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by pierat 3y ago
Simply, because it directly causes someone harm. "My rights end at the end of my fist." is a common phrase. And it's demonstrable, due to "christian" society, that nude women are punished socially for it. We even ha
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by pierat 3y ago
She may be a horrible person due to her actions and choices she made. And damn straight I'll judge someone on their actions. But if you look, the deepfake porn scene is to pornify women's pictures. If you look for the similar for
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by pierat 3y ago
You're nice. I replace them with "HaCKed" videos from YouTube. Obviously a YT vid doesn't hack anything, but it does scare the companies out of complacency when it's trivial to swap to real malware.
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by pierat 3y ago
It's makes a lot more sense when you realize that /usr doesn't stand for "user", but "user software resources".
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by pierat 3y ago
Indeed. And unfortunately, unmoderated and less moderated subcultures have this in spades. It's also why I chose to link to the ADL in this description, rather than other meme sites. It provides the much needed context that the initial
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by pierat 3y ago
> That's just kind of... bleh? Especially when, yes, you consider the ethnic stereotypes "culture of sneering traders who will cheat you" evokes. But even without those stereotypes, it's just kind of childish. I get o

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