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by pksebben 4y ago
No, no no no no no no. Perhaps this made more sense in 2008, and I was there for the 4chan and the glory days of Usenet and all that magic jazz and in my early twenties, sure, you could have unironically called me a libertarian and been alm
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by pksebben 4y ago
Whatsapp has no legitimate uses, being an encrypted app owned by a company that gleefully shares data with like, everybody.
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by pksebben 4y ago
a comparison between the us and somalia making about as much sense as it appears to at face value.
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by pksebben 4y ago
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/australi...
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by pksebben 4y ago
"general downward trend" is light years away from "gun grab". they did the latter in Australia and I hear it was pretty great. https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/australi..
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by pksebben 4y ago
"legal" != "legitimate". the Iraq war was legal. banks turning a profit off the 08 crash was legal. slavery was legal. The constitution was written in the dark ages by folks that thought slavery was A-OK and it's a
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by pksebben 4y ago
frankly, I'd prefer more money laundering and less guns in the world if I had to pick one. fewer dead kids that way.
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by pksebben 4y ago
is there? what's the difference?
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by pksebben 4y ago
not a terribly significant dent, considering their pre tax profit is in the billions https://www.experianplc.com/media/latest-news/2022/full-year...
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by pksebben 4y ago
I think that's kind of the point. If they have to give up control of the industry it can move in better directions.
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by pksebben 4y ago
I believe that's part of the point. one doesn't get the sense from Watterson's work that clarity is high on his list - the lessons of Calvin and Hobbes are very interpretive, and a lot is left to the reader.
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by pksebben 4y ago
> there seems to be a lot of anger or rage in their music this... this is sarcasm, or irony, right? The 'R' literally stands for rage. Against the machine. to wit, the capitalist machine. So, to put the finishing sauce on you
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by pksebben 4y ago
to add to this, if there are things the speed bar doesn't do that you wish it did, the chance that there's no package for {specific thing you want} is vanishingly small. The primary difficulty is in being able to find exactly what
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by pksebben 4y ago
paying developers to do it. Electron vastly cuts down on the amount of time to product with apps like signal. To replicate the results native would require a engineering team.
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by pksebben 4y ago
Whilst I agree with your sentiment regarding violence, I think that what's identified as crime in this case is not necessarily just. It should be criminal to sell faulty equipment and do nothing to fix it, but it isn't. Ergo, the
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by pksebben 5y ago
Do you not think it affords anything at all, though? I agree that being well medicated is essential, but it's not like it makes it go away; there are for sure still differences in how I think, and when harnessed properly through meds a
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by pksebben 5y ago
for me, it's the lateral thinking that really comes in handy. I can catch weird bugs a lot quicker, and my tenancy to yak shave has led to a pretty awesome kit of tools for every occasion. I've managed to fix a lot of the organiza
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by pksebben 5y ago
birds are just government lidar systems.
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by pksebben 5y ago
Then it shouldn't have been couched in those terms for the first few paragraphs, and especially not by blithely staking such a claim. Imagine being told your problems aren't real as a prelude to making a point. Just for clicks. Sc
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by pksebben 5y ago
came here to say it, but you said it better. If the first legitimate-sounding resource mentioned is cherry picked from the early oughts, you might be reading garbage.
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by pksebben 5y ago
right, so, if we assume that the rule is "if pubic school cannot teach x subject, then books about x subject ought not to be in their library" (which is the inference in your comment) then you must mean that's for both books
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by pksebben 5y ago
but you mentioned creationism, specifically. and religion. I meant specifically by those terms.
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by pksebben 5y ago
I've had a suspicion, and it's only a suspicion, that since sometime around the pandemic there's been an effort to astroturf HN. There was such a dramatic shift in what content bubbled to the top - I recall that arguing and d
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by pksebben 5y ago
So, these libraries should then also avoid stocking things like the bible, in your opinion. Do I have that right?
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by pksebben 5y ago
thank you for posting this, made my day. I'm still cracking up over: > A typical MTU is 256 milligrams
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by pksebben 5y ago
it's less about knowing what the details are, and more about gestalt perspective. great artists notice not just which details are present, but how they affect the consciousness of the viewer. Take the highlights of the beads - it'
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by pksebben 5y ago
You either used a bad example, or don't understand your terms. There's nothing pertinent about non-binary you could possibly glean from studies, because it's cultural. What someone feels about their identity isn't the so
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by pksebben 5y ago
yeet { }
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by pksebben 5y ago
I don't know, this resonated deeply with me. I had a crippling game addiction that got turned into a very productive programming career, and giving up that dopamine hit was critical in making the change. I've had this discussion w
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by pksebben 5y ago
It's the God-focus that immediately turned me off to Eckhart. I've had plenty of people recommend him, and own a copy of the power of now, but I can't get past the feeling that there's a hidden agenda. I'm all about

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