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by swebs 6y ago
In The Bell Curve, they report that Asian Americans have a higher mean IQ than European Americans, who have a higher mean IQ then African Americans. Wouldn't that make him an Asian supremacist, if anything?
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by swebs 6y ago
>I want to OPT-OUT this information sharing I was NOT aware of! Welcome to the world of Microsoft products.
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by swebs 6y ago
Where are you getting this bizarre assumption that the average Republican commentator would side with Intuit here?
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by swebs 6y ago
That's just an ad campaign for a jewelry store. https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/22062/why_does_some...
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by swebs 6y ago
There were the huge Nintendo leaks last year, but those were mostly for firmware and older games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nintendo_data_leak
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by swebs 6y ago
They recently released a game called Cyberpunk. I haven't played this game myself, but the genre usually involves hackers as protagonists fighting corporations as antagonists.
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by swebs 6y ago
700 sounds like a pretty decent sample size to me.
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This is a poorly written article coated in the author's hamfisted rant on modern US politics. The Wikipedia page is much more straightforward and in-depth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquire
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They could just check Glassdoor.
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by swebs 6y ago
>I don't remember local or small-town papers to [generally] being toxic or cesspools of hate. My local paper used to publish Tom Tomorrow, which is the most toxic and vitriolic comic I've seen outside the internet.
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by swebs 6y ago
Are you asking a question or making a statement?
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Stong disagree. When a handful of tech companies that form an Oligarchy on modern communication decide to systemically oppress members of one political party, that's the antithesis of free speech.
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>The author assumes that "the media" are some homogenous lump that all thinks the same and pumps out the same content. If only you knew how bad things really are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList
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I don't see the downside of UV sanitizers if they're out of sight deep in the ductwork.
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by swebs 6y ago
It probably won't. I love my Pinephone just like I love desktop Linux, and both are great choices for people who keep up with tech, but neither will reach more than a few percentage points of marketshare without a $100m+ marketing push
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by swebs 6y ago
>the only solution as far as I see it, is to extend the First Amendment to social media I would love this, personally.
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Important stories hidden in Google's 'experiment' blocking Australian news sites(theguardian.com)
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Alex Jones was the test. Trump was their show of force. If you can "cancel" the president of the USA, you can cancel anyone. The big tech cartel sent a message that they're the new dictators of the flow of information.
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by swebs 6y ago
As far as I know, its not illegal to use bitcoin.
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You can post from a VPN or Tor if you have a pass. https://www.4channel.org/pass
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by swebs 6y ago
Don't know about now, but it was hosted in a basement as of 2012. https://i.warosu.org/data/g/img/0689/86/1545245294211.jpg
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by swebs 6y ago
Which is doubly ironic since, aside from gamergate, 8chan was mostly famous for hosting /leftypol/.
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We've finally entered the age of illegal memes.
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Roma begging in Europe is a lot more aggressive compared to the US where people usually just sit against the wall with a sign. They usually stop you from walking down the street and refuse to take no for an answer the first few times. And i
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by swebs 6y ago
>Still, in a small, wealthy country to which few poor people move, it appears that homelessness is solvable. I think this is the main takeaway of this story.
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by swebs 6y ago
>This stuff might make you feel good, but it is at the expense of the people you are exploiting for your good feelings. Stop being so selfish and accept that the solution to this problem isn'g going to be happy and fun and worthy of
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by swebs 6y ago
>interact with local keyrings which aren't compatible across all platforms? Yes, that's how git does it.
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by swebs 6y ago
So should we also cancel sites like Twitter that don't ban far-left conspiracy?
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by swebs 6y ago
>In Italian it was originally narancia, and in French narange, though the word in both of these languages eventually dropped the “n” at the beginning to become arancia and orange, probably from a mistaken idea that the initial “n” sound
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by swebs 6y ago
>Any kind of governance requires some consent from people Well no, the whole point of totalitarianism is that the people aren't even allowed a choice in the first place. A lot of people did speak out in Tiananmen Square and it didn&

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