rithdmc

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by rithdmc 6d ago
OP shifted from "no one considers them a cult" to "no one I want to believe considers them a cult". I'd engage with that in mind.
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by rithdmc 9d ago
I feel I addressed this in my original post: > don't have to involve threats or violence to be coercive control. Threatening to take away someone's community for a lack of belief is controlling. This is also without getting int
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by rithdmc 9d ago
This 'specific part of Catholicism' was the papal aligned Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. No unusual interpretations, no sects. I feel like your comment here is a 'No True Catholic' style fallacy.
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by rithdmc 9d ago
> No one calls the Catholic Church "a cult" > No one considers Catholicism, or Protestantism, or Baptism cults. Speak for yourself. I was coercively and forcefully added to the Roman Catholic church when I was baptised. Atte
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by rithdmc 10d ago
I did too, but it went away after some refreshes.
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by rithdmc 29d ago
Ramzi Yousef, famous Irish Republican terrorist.
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by rithdmc 29d ago
Speaking for, and possibly misunderstanding, the situation in Ireland: > But you have a head of state Yes! Our president. > who can, in theory, remove the head of government at their own discretion Ah. No.
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by rithdmc 29d ago
Is Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness a bunch of independent cells held together by an ideology... or is it just an ideology?
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by rithdmc 29d ago
There have been some posts here lately. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477854
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by rithdmc 29d ago
I know that, as time goes on, it feels like we have less hours in the day, but time is also linear.
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
This was a deliberately poor phrasing of the "10 foot wall, 12 foot ladder" adage.
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French spies used malware from GitHub to hack EncroChat cryptophone network(computerweekly.com)
2 points by rithdmc 1mo ago|0 comments
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
If projects start adding "tell the strongest no-guardrails open weights model to pentest it for 12 hours" to their CICD pipelines, then researchers will prompt a pentest for 14 hours.
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
Anything billed by the second has good (-enough) cost attribution built in.
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
Careful, you don't want to be Operation Gladio'd.
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
Channel your inner Maia arson crimew
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
> How is it different that it "came from a meteorite?" Composition and the physical structure of the metal. Entry through the atmosphere really affects it. > How could you even verify that? Composition can be tested, but rea
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
Oh, I agree with you that it's probably legit from some of those scattered findings. Something I saw while googling is that the composition & crystal structure of this meteorite makes it very attractive for use in jewellery.
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
You don't need a subscription to use the app, and I presume these ads are pushed to all users.
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
I believe the 26 tons includes the fragments.
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
Am I missing an element to the alleged fraud that isn't addressed in this article?
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
I believe the article linked addressed the alleged fraud? [edit, since I can't reply to the below comment] > The article addresses it. It doesn't excuse it. How do you excuse a fraud that investigations did not find find subs
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
They're still fashionable! ... or maybe I'm a geek.
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
I recently unsubscribed from a grocery delivery service becuase they kept pushing adverts through their app. I gave them notification permission so I could see when my delivery is nearby, not so they could spam me. Voting with my wallet on
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by rithdmc 1mo ago
I'd have called the folks on Skellig Michael lunatics in bedrooms, too. They just had a harder time copying their lunacy out by hand.
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by rithdmc 2mo ago
Did anything else happen in Vietnam in the 70s?
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by rithdmc 2mo ago
We're talking about dangerous substances you can buy OTC, and the health implications of those. Of course kratom and sugar fall into that bucket.
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by rithdmc 2mo ago
How so? Sugar is having taxes added in many jurisdictions due to the health effects & habituation it can cause.
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by rithdmc 3mo ago
In which currency? 1 billion Rupiah is less than 60,000 usd ;) A quadrillionaire would only need $60 billion or so.
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by rithdmc 4mo ago
> London and Belfast are both in the UK My question was more to do with the European Single Market, and the considerations given to Belfast during Brexit negotiations. That's where my ambiguity came from. Thanks for the info!

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