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by smsm42 2y ago
Well, US is still a somewhat free country, so anybody can publish any opinion they want to publish, anytime they want to. I have nothing against that, in fact, I must admit I am guilty of it myself - I have a blog where I publish my opinion
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> they literally spend all day every day absorbing, summarising and writing about context as their full time job. I have no idea what "absorbing" means and how it's different from any random dude spending his day sitting o
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The idea that editorial team has some kind of expertise, unavailable to general population, that allows them ecxlusive ability to properly understand current events, seems to have no factual support at all. They are professionals in giving
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It would take way more for WaPo to not be in a position where mentioning it in one phrase with "impartiality" wouldn't sound like an absurdist joke. They can walk this road, but so far there's absolutely no indication th
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"No, I didn't post my drunk photos all over social media last night, it's the that AI made them up and posted them!"
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Journals are not some natural resource that is only found in certain places but not others. People create journals. With current technology, a barrier for establishing a journal is quite low. Nothing prevents people in academia from creatin
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Their parents' basement, usually. Low skilled jobs are frequently stepping stones or temporary respites on the way to better jobs. But if you yank them out of their reach, by jacking up the pay and so forcing the employers to either hi
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So, the question is: "What can be done to put democratic entities back in charge" - supposedly wrestling control from the hands of "companies". And as an answer, she talks about war in Ukraine, as performed by US governm
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Scientists can choose to publish in open access journals though. But they don't.
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It is one pissible solution - just as one possible solution for theft is abolishing private property. If there's no property, nobody could steal anything. But it's not the only solution. There are many other ways - such as not emp
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No I should not. That's like saying if I support free speech, I must welcome lying and insulting others. Supporting free speech means allowing people to speak without being persecuted, but that does not mean I must value all speech equ
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No it is not. There's nothing in the capitalist model that mandates academic community to maintain a zero-valued-add gatekeepers. It's just an extremely lazy dunk, which happens each time somebody discusses any rent-seeker setup -
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In latest move against WP Engine, WordPress takes control of ACF plugin(techcrunch.com)
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Unfortunately, democracies have their downsides. One of them is that "properly containing" things is extremely hard. Soviet spy network was vast and infiltrated all tiers of US society, and without instituting some extremely draco
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> Could Hirohito (Suzuki, etc.) have been convinced by bombs dropped elsewhere? Not likely, Tokyo was firebombed to ashes and it didn't move him to surrender.
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They were allies by necessity, but I don't think there were a lot of illusions about where things age heading. After all, the official doctrine of the Communist Party has always been that every non-communist regime has to be violently
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Fluoride Exposure: Neurodevelopment and Cognition(ntp.niehs.nih.gov)
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> Got it, encouraging people to execute gay and trans people is completely fine, Please stop it. Nobody advocated executing gay and trans people here, and nobody said it is "completely fine". Stop lying, please. > on the one
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Well if it turns out to be true, it's not a "conspiracy theory" anymore, so mission accomplished.
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> he has to allow <all the people you disagree with and despise> because otherwise it would be censorious and an attack on free speech Yes. Because all these people, however unpleasant their speech may be for you or me, have the sa
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> I wonder if that's precisely the sentiment that has been part of the reason the USA has become the country with the highest % of incarcerated people. No. We don't have hundreds of thousands of billion-size crypto fraudsters.
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The vibe I am getting here is that if somebody enables people who criticize government decisions and policies in a way that the government considers "dangerous", he's an evil idiot and doesn't understand what "free
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Did they ask Williams how the laptop got there? If yes, what did he say? If not, why not?
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My personal blog is over 23 years old now. I am sure I wouldn't do it this long for anybody but myself. I haven't checked the readership figures for years, though I know some people read it, because they comment. I think it's
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With the same long-term health benefits.
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I was always surprised why it isn't the case. I mean, if I can see the messages without login, why "blocking" would suddenly hide them with the login? That makes zero sense.
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You're saying it as if there's something evil in it. What's wrong with paying people who want to see ads for seeing ads? I mean if you personally don't like it, sure, don't do it, but I do not see why you are implyi
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Most tech positions don't have fixed work hours, beyond what's required by the law. The salary, position, benefits, etc. are the part of employment offer that you do sign, and there are employment handbooks etc. that you also ackn
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But this is not wifi, this is mobile antenna, they are usually significantly more bulky. I have no idea if it's justified on the sum of all things, I'm just saying it's a viable idea.
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I don't think it needs to be fully invisible. There are a lot of places in the building where slightly darkened glass panel would not look too out of place, as opposed to a bulky ugly opaque plastic box. Especially if architects really

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