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by simpletone 3y ago
> I think the other poster is pointing out that China already did this No china didn't. That's my point. You and the poster's assertion is an outright propaganda lie that's been repeated ad nauseum. China has the same
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Or, TikTok has been banned in India since 202 Exactly. I'm surprised that tiktok has been able to maintain its top spot for so long. The biggest headscratcher is why india didn't ban facebook, instagram, youtube, etc along wi
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by simpletone 3y ago
You should read Dune. 'Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.' Hence... 'Thou shalt not make a machine in th
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by simpletone 3y ago
We are somewhat agreed. It's insane that any country should allow foreign control over their media. And hopefully, china and the rest of the world will follow up with similar laws. Not sure why facebook, google, netflix, youtube, etc a
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by simpletone 3y ago
> We respect artists enough to give them intellectual property rights that persist even after the death of the artist It isn't their rights. They are dead. It's a very simple concept. The rights belong to whoever gets the prope
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by simpletone 3y ago
Nope. Facebook and Google would be available in china if they agreed to chinese laws. Tiktok is following american laws.
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Really shocking to see so many comments here arguing we have a right to see/read/hear private, unpublished work that a deceased artist left clear instructions to destroy in the event of their death. What's so shocking ab
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by simpletone 3y ago
10% would be considered an extremely high death rate for soldiers involved in the fighting. Even 2.5% for healthcare workers is ridiculously high. Would be interesting to see what the death rates for journalists, medics, soldiers, etc was i
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by simpletone 3y ago
> because genocidal movements are corrupt well beyond the "power of science." Science was central to the genocidal movements in the US and Germany. In many ways, science was the cause of the genocidal movements. Eugenics was a
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by simpletone 3y ago
> There was an incredibly stubborn post-Cold War "end of history" It's hard to tell whether all these comments are part of online propaganda or people regurgitating propaganda they watched on youtube. Like clockwork, the s
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by simpletone 3y ago
> These columns are an accidental historical source Since when were newspapers and magazines considered to be accidental historical sources? They were part of the war effort. It was literally state war propaganda in an ongoing war.
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by simpletone 3y ago
Yes. Facts are often used as propaganda and in fact can serve as the most potent form of propaganda because they often lack context and humanity. The rise of science and statistics in the 20th century was accompanied by the most racist and
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by simpletone 3y ago
That's better than browsing youtube for videos about woodworking. Something so satisfying about watching people cut trees, use sawmills to create lumber and make a table out of it.
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by simpletone 3y ago
> I wonder if it's fair to call the hodgepodge of localized wars WW3 now? No. It would take direct nuclear strikes between major powers and hundreds of millions in casualties for anything to be called ww3. Would you call the korean
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by simpletone 3y ago
Which every sane scientist and individual predicted a few years ago. But were shouted down by climate change zealots as blasphemy. I remember climate change lunatics used to post pictures of 'bare' mt rainier. Now, not so much...
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by simpletone 3y ago
> you have one single customer Who has no credit limit and is willing to spend like their life depends on it. That's what makes war profiteering so profitable.
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by simpletone 3y ago
> but you don't get a say on how the university is managed. Depends on how big and important of a donor you are. If you are a billionaire donor, not only do you have a say in how the university is managed, you have a say on who does
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by simpletone 3y ago
> The fact that Anglophone countries don't have language regulator bodies id mind-boggling. Sure we do. It's the people, culture, elites, etc. It's survival of the fittest. > Basically schools marking down your work for
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Russian Orthodox church today is openly run by russian state officials, military, police, fsb members, etc. Official state churches are part of the state. > They are also openly supporting invasion of Ukraine as a kind of "holy
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by simpletone 3y ago
> I guess I'm braindead. Lets see shall we. > None of those things would necessarily make it a net-good thing Who is talking 'net' here? The commenter simply questioned whether social media added any value to society. T
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Life is long, provided you don't just waste your time with nonsense. Life is short whether you waste it on nonsense or not. It's the nature of human life. > Even eternity wouldn't be long enough for the compulsive pro
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by simpletone 3y ago
> reviewing old entries provides a feeling of history that makes life feel soooo long and so rich. This doesn't sound right at all. For me, and I suspect for most people, it has the opposite effect. It makes life feel short, fleetin
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Do they even add value to society? Your presence here is your answer. Why are you here if social media doesn't provide any value? You'd have to be braindead to not understand the immense value social media has added to societ
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by simpletone 3y ago
> The ~$10B OpenAI investment by Microsoft is roughly 6 weeks of Azure revenue. Revenue isn't what is important. Profit is since profit is the money you have after costs to invest. But since cloud is highly profitable as it is, the
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by simpletone 3y ago
Now? It's been horrible for a while. And this being an election year, the search result is littered with political news and garbage that has nothing to do with what is being searched for.
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by simpletone 3y ago
First time? Hasn't it already been established that male and female skulls and brains are physically different. As in an anthropologist could look at a skull and determine the gender. Or a neuroscientists can look at a brain and determ
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by simpletone 3y ago
> One of the reasons groups like the USSR The 'USSR' starved in the 90s after the fall of communism. > Serious Communist China ended with everyone starving Oh this nonsense. Serious Communist China had to deal with nuclear t
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by simpletone 3y ago
> How do you suggest limiting donor influence, as a practical matter? Harvard, Penn, etc is far more important than bill ackman, trump, etc. > How can they be forced to donate to organizations whose actions they oppose. They don'
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by simpletone 3y ago
What you choose to teach and how you choose to teach is innately a form of activism. It's impossible to separate teaching from activism. The problem with activism in universities isn't with the professors, it's with the admin
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by simpletone 3y ago
The general public likes warrior things too. To think the iliad was 'written' ( or sung ) for warriors is naive and simplistic.

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