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by smsm42 3y ago
Abnormal - certainly. Unnatural - not a good term, since it implies connection to the philosophy where "natural" somehow implies good. Cancer is natural. Losing a leg to cancer would be "natural" too. But that term is us
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by smsm42 3y ago
That's not science, that's scientism, which replaces traditional religion for many, and usually not with better results.
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by smsm42 3y ago
I see it all the time. Even more annoying is when the API exists, but in a different class or with different parameters and outputs than you need, and the model would claim it does exactly what you need right until the time you try to use i
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by smsm42 3y ago
Who is banned and who is not is determined by that consensus.
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by smsm42 3y ago
Why not believe it if it's true? Twitter was systematically working with the government to ban people they (and sometimes by weird comedy of errors, also Russian FSB) want to ban. They were also systematically banning and suppressing p
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by smsm42 3y ago
I have a strong suspicion that from the fact that managers of most major social networks were openly political and all of them to one (the left) side, many people decided this is how the normal situation is - you can only use a service if t
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by smsm42 3y ago
I call bullshit on "if you're authentic nobody will care". I've been blogging for over 20 years (not on Twitter, Heavens forbid) and never did any promotional stuff and I am fine with amount of engagement I get. If liter
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by smsm42 3y ago
I'm not going to debate your ignorance and your hate. The proof that Murray supports terrorism is in his own tweets, which are quoted many times here. You are free to remain blind to it, as you are obviously blind to many other things
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by smsm42 3y ago
Stop with this cheap "all Palestinians" baiting. He explicitly and directly endorsed Hamas and Hezbollah on his social media. And directly said he endorses any action by them right after Hamas murdered 1400 people, so there's
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"Here's my unlocked phone, officer!" - "There are no calls, emails or any history in this phone. Are you claiming you have not used this phone to call anybody or interact with any social media?" - "Yes, officer
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by smsm42 3y ago
I think there's a big difference between "Israeli leaders call for expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza" (presenting it as if it were an official governmental policy, which it never was), and a single paper by a think tank - n
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by smsm42 3y ago
> Apparently the american media is particularly pro-israel. Is it the same media that reprinted without any checking Hamas claim that Israel bombed Al-Ahli hospital and 500 people were dead and over 600 wounded (the real situation was an
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by smsm42 3y ago
The guy also seems to be industrial-grade nutcase: > Murray questioned the official UK government account of the Skripal poisoning in Salisbury, March 2018, writing on his blog that Israeli security services were more likely to be behind
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by smsm42 3y ago
What are you talking about? About 20% of Israel population are Arabs. Only 7% of them self-identify as "Palestinians". Regardless of that, they all enjoy same rights as every other citizen. Which is more rights for the vast majori
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by smsm42 3y ago
Somehow every time somebody goes out to prove "it doesn't mean pro Hamas" it turns out it does. Maybe there's some pattern in it - like if a guy goes to pro Hamas rallies just days after Hamas brutally murdered 1400 peop
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by smsm42 3y ago
He said every act by Hamas is justified, a week after Hamas murdered 1400 people. As terrorism support goes, you can't be any clearer. He's not "human rights activist", at least human rights of murdered Israelis don&#x27
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by smsm42 3y ago
If he goes to pro Hamas rallies days after Hamas started war with Israel it's kinda hard not to make this conclusion.
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He cites "support for Palestine" in his first paragraph. It's not "zero ties to anything violent" if you didn't sleep through the last month. I mean, he probably isn't a member of Hamas or anything like t
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by smsm42 3y ago
He is not likely taken part in terrorist activities personally, but he admitted to supporting terrorists, so it's not out of the realm of plausible he also provided material support and aid to them. I'm not saying it necessarily
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by smsm42 3y ago
Don't English lawyers still wear the wigs?
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by smsm42 3y ago
One industry I would not be shedding any tears over if it disappeared is the SEO. Can't think of any non-toxic consequences of it existance.
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by smsm42 3y ago
That sounds like if I called the police to report something I think isva robbery, now I'm "police informant"? That's not usually what it means.
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by smsm42 3y ago
They don't have enough human moderators to be able to handle it, and they don't want to hire more. You can't hire a moderator just for an hour - you'd have to recruit them, train them, continuously employ them, manage th
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by smsm42 3y ago
It's more complicated than "big portions". Anecdata: I very rarely eat in the restaurants (less than once a month), I eat pretty small portions, I am physically active at least 5 days a week, still have extra weight which is
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by smsm42 3y ago
I still remember when Google, in a fit of one of the many moral panics, decided to ban everything related to guns from their shopping site. Which, of course, lead to banning of all the Burgundy wines, because they have a "gun" ins
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by smsm42 3y ago
Technically IIRC there's only one vampire in space there?
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To be honest, I'd take that over about 90% of what I get on offer now, at least the new stuff. With one condition - no one ever tries to "improve" or "modernize" it.
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One of the plot lines deals with Miles getting a divorce and temporarily having to live like a normal non-rich person, driving a hatchback (which he calls a hunchback) and living in an appartment. Before (and soon after) Miles is quite affl
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by smsm42 3y ago
Well, they ran whatever calculations they run, and it came out that they need to reduce spending. They decided the best way is to lay off people. It's not like there's a special story each time - it's pretty much always the s
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Would it feel better if they hired a talented writer to write an heartfelt eulogy about how the loss of every single one of these 700 people makes their heart bleed tears of eternal sadness? Nobody would believe it. Everybody knows what it

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