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by ss108 4y ago
? This is just dumb. Who cares whether they were armed? The point is that they had the motive to do wrong and they took action in furtherance of it. They don't deserve leniency for being various forms of incompetent. It's pretty d
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by ss108 4y ago
> But I think you should recognize that there is a good chance you'd have the same beliefs if you had the same life experience. What's the point of this line of thinking? Ok, maybe we'd also join the Taliban if we grew up
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by ss108 4y ago
Not all of the people who stormed Congress believe in QAnon, nor did I even cite that as a reason at all, so who cares? Can't really see why you brought it up except to try to strawman. > QAnon nuts aren't all conservatives, ju
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by ss108 4y ago
You want to exit big tech, but don't want to give up the comp? I think you may have to make a tough choice.
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by ss108 4y ago
I understand your perspective, but I do not think that they do not understand that the things are bad. From what I can tell from conversations those people, they, for the most part, just don't give a shit about what's good and bad
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by ss108 4y ago
Yes, unfriended in real life. Your examples are so many degrees removed that I do not think they are apposite. For example, people who supported Trump did so with full knowledge of his attitude towards immigrants, asylum seekers, etc., his
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by ss108 4y ago
I had friends who became Trump supporters, and I unfriended them. I believe in morals. I believe in God. There's no way I can be friends with people who, at best, only pay lip service to those concepts while using them to further paten
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by ss108 4y ago
> You just classified 46% of voting Americans as bad people So? You judge the moral and intellectual merits of things by how popular they are? That's your call. I don't. > Both sides have outspoken nut jobs stealing the spot
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by ss108 4y ago
There is a non-zero chance that angels and magic are not real, and the chance of aliens being real, while perhaps greater, still relies mostly on conjecture, and is ultimately pretty close to those two things.
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by ss108 4y ago
Leaving Iraq earlier would have been fucked up. We would wrecked the country, destabilized it, raised the problem of sectarian warfare, and then bounced. We still basically did that, but at least helped it with ISIS before leaving. As it is
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by ss108 4y ago
Not sure what you think is "propaganda" about concerns about Russian aggression in Ukraine or about China's evils. Even Afghanistan wasn't a matter of propaganda so much as other flaws/isaues, such as overreactivity
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by ss108 4y ago
Ehh, why, in the 80s and 90s, should anyone have assumed that an economically advancing China would continue to be authoritarian and illiberal? Genuine question. It's easy to say globalization and free trade didn't deliver on the
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by ss108 4y ago
I'm a China hawk, but I hope it doesn't come to that. Would like to point out something relevant: China and India kill each others soldiers fairly frequently. I find it rather remarkable their issues haven't escalated.
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by ss108 4y ago
In biglaw, people at most firms are paid this way up until, IIRC, the 8th year. I think there are many ways in which it is fair. As far as dev jobs, who can usually say, at a big tech company, for example, that one dev adds 200k of value, a
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by ss108 4y ago
Noooo this is all I use Edge for and now they messed it up
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by ss108 4y ago
GitHub seems to be doing fine/the same, IMO. What negative consequences have there been for you as a user as a result of MSFT acquiring it?
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by ss108 4y ago
Not sure what you missed about Zoom. It's works, but doesn't feel smooth and seems to have a very big footprint for something with a specific use-case. In particular, my day job is at a big corpo office space style place, and the
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by ss108 4y ago
Thanks
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by ss108 4y ago
I want to, but it's tough. How have you been filtering things?
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by ss108 4y ago
Yh I'm gonna say it's not irrational propaganda to say the country engaged in a genocide and which enforces covid lockdowns in draconian fashion, including by killing pets, is a baddie.
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by ss108 4y ago
...where is the link to it
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by ss108 4y ago
Sounds like this guy didn't "learn" anything. He just wasn't acquainted with the internet before. Also, his referring to the Irani person's tweet as "ethnonarcissism" is telling as to the author's own
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by ss108 4y ago
Gundams when
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by ss108 4y ago
In my social mileu (highly and elite educated, coastal, etc) that's not accurate at all. I am literally the only one of my friends who adheres even partially to a traditional organized religion and believes in traditional values. My fr
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by ss108 4y ago
As someone who has grown more traditional and religious over the years (I'm 32), I agree.
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by ss108 4y ago
I dislike it greatly and accumulated 200k+ in extra student debt. I am trying to switch back to software engineering now.
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by ss108 4y ago
Yes. Also, can you imagine how Trump and right-wing media would have bitched if these moves by the Fed occurred during his administration? DEep StatE Fed bureaucrats trying to win election for socialists, etc
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by ss108 4y ago
? For one thing, the Fed isn't really part of the administration. So the executive branch can attempt to take credit for the statistic even while the Fed tries to destroy it.
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by ss108 4y ago
This is quite accurate.
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by ss108 4y ago
Relevant username?

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