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by smcl 3y ago
Can't really see how my comments suggest I'm "rail[ing] against" something
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah there's definitely better ways to go, but regardless the main thing is the CEO has no business being anywhere near this kind of functionality.
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by smcl 3y ago
I'd personally hide or delete them. But I can see why someone might argue for this functionality, it's not totally absurd. What's absurd is a CEO editing posts to troll people
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by smcl 3y ago
I can see why they might want someone with the ability to edit posts (removing extreme TOS stuff - racism, hate speech etc). But that's probably not for the CEO and certainly shouldn't be used simply to "troll the trolls&qu
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by smcl 3y ago
If you like the idea of teenage game ideas becoming reality years later, you may enjoy “Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer” - https://youtu.be/dBrAcCXoH0Y The concept is that a game was created in the 90s
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by smcl 3y ago
I think a lot of the comments where people casually dismiss salaries in the hundreds of thousands a year as too low are just attempts at flexing.
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by smcl 3y ago
He got into this situation because they were waving their guns around, and got out of it through the courts. You're suggesting there should have been a threat of gun violence against the prosecutor and that this somehow would've h
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by smcl 3y ago
Yep that's the one, doesn't seem like a very nice guy as evidenced by his Wikipedia page having a special "Racist Comments" section. Reading that page a bit more suggests that he's actually pretty lucky to not be in
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by smcl 3y ago
I am 100% in support of what you've said, but there is one case where someone surprisingly got away with armed resistance against the government: Cliven Bundy[0]. The guy just stopped paying the government to graze his cattle on common
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by smcl 3y ago
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. I think we both know this person isn't supporting TNR for humans, don't be s
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by smcl 3y ago
> TRT World explained the decision in an article earlier this year, saying Googling “Turkey” brings up a “a muddled set of images, articles, and dictionary definitions that conflate the country with Meleagris – otherwise known as the tur
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by smcl 3y ago
Is that the reason? I thought it was just more of a Erdogan nationalism thing
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by smcl 3y ago
Oh man, that's a clbuttic mistake!
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by smcl 3y ago
The issue in question here is that many in the west will unquestioningly accept an account of true hardship and just presume that this was the case for every one of hundreds of millions of people across an enormous bloc of countries. You do
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah someone I knew in university was so hard up and malnourished he contracted scurvy. Therefore surely that is what life is like for everyone in the UK - just an entire nation of people living on the breadline with preventable diseases. Y
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by smcl 3y ago
The point is that rather than looking with curiosity at what life was actually like it is common for, say, a Brit or an American to picture a mental image of the most deprived community in a given Warsaw Pact country and project that over t
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by smcl 3y ago
There is plenty of documentary footage available of life in the USSR and in the Warsaw pact countries. It’s just most people won’t have seen it because it’s rarely that interesting, it doesn’t portray some dystopian nightmarish hellworld[0]
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by smcl 3y ago
You do realise you’re saying “when I think of the worst aspects of a country, I am not thinking about the better parts of them” Not trying to “whatabout” you here but you could construct a similarly dystopian view of most countries by only
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by smcl 3y ago
Right, and most of the footage of Russians being miserable that we are familiar with is from after the introduction of “shock therapy” (ie during the ruthless, sudden introduction of capitalism). This is always a hard topic to discuss wit
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by smcl 3y ago
Ah don’t worry they’re claiming they only used it for coffee orders and such ;)
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by smcl 3y ago
I think even there the value of things denominated in USD is a bit more stable, it's the local currency that is plummeting in value
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by smcl 3y ago
The whole point of this thread was that you wanted to change our behaviour to suit you. We were already following "you do you" and you didn't like it :-/
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by smcl 3y ago
If seeing a pretty innocuous comment triggers this kind of response, then you might need to take a breather from the comments. Or click the `[-]` button to hide the reply if you don't want to. But engaging like this is about as product
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by smcl 3y ago
The topic involves a political party, so no it's never going to be "completely apolitical". But that's not what I said - I said that you're the one who seemed keen to kick off an argument about politics. Also yo
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by smcl 3y ago
As a non-cartographer, but someone who loves maps (who doesnt?) and programming is there anything in particular that makes R more suitable than Python? Not trying to start a Python/R flame war, genuinely curious as an outsider if there
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by smcl 3y ago
I guess it's voted up because people found the comment interesting. It could have just been "I found a route following a given rule and wrote a blog on it, here's a link if you're interested" but your comment seems
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by smcl 3y ago
I think you're taking "underground railroad" a little bit literally. The commenter seems to be claiming they work in politics and that their job has recently involved putting together some materials to work around some newly
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah if finishing bottom caused you to be relegated rather than rewarding you with better draft prospects it'd definitely cause a more exciting end-season for lower-ranked teams. I don't think a single team has ever wanted to fini
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by smcl 3y ago
It's a good question but I don't think there's any good answer other than "1-0 or 2-0 doesn't feel like punishment enough". Interesingly, for two-legged cup competitions a forfeit likely won't result in a
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by smcl 3y ago
The user also made another comment detailing some interesting reasons why some rules may have come about. Definitely some interesting stuff, even if I don't think it'd be too palatable back home.

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