taolegal

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by taolegal 4y ago
It's curious that "ideological battle" of one sort is largely permitted while the hammer so reliably falls on "ideological battle" of another sort.
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by taolegal 4y ago
which means we've reduced fossil fuel consumption much less since most electricity is not "renewable"
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by taolegal 4y ago
> It’s why the ruling class keeps importing people from the third world this is the definition of a conspiracy theory
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by taolegal 4y ago
> "Improving human wealth" is hardly the point of anything at all. Human wealth enables to do anything beyond the natural course of events where most people die after a very short-lived and miserable existence. Where we're
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by taolegal 4y ago
I have a hard time believing that the same crowd that is paranoid that there's a conspiracy to hunt down women seeking abortions through digital technology wouldn't also take issue with live location sharing. But maybe people are
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by taolegal 4y ago
They lost all their power from completely squandering whatever esteem they had by being so egregiously corrupt and abusive with their power.
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by taolegal 4y ago
> I guess the main point of this library is to use HTML as the protocol payload between serve and client, instead of JSON HTTP is named Hypertext Transfer Protocol after all. Exchanging schema-less JSONs is conceptually pretty lame. It&#
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by taolegal 4y ago
It doesn't have to be, everyone is already fat. Vaccinated people still spread the virus. In fact, they still spread the virus the most in society (just in pure aggregate numbers).
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by taolegal 4y ago
This isn't "textbook whataboutism" which to you seems to be just a thought-terminating cliche. They also never ignored "Musk's hypocrisy on free speech." Simply because he isn't being hypocritical here.
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by taolegal 4y ago
https://www.axios.com/2020/12/25/fauci-goalposts-herd-immuni...
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by taolegal 4y ago
The focus on masking and vaccines is really just cope that the average person in the first world is so atrociously unhealthy. You want to reduce strain on the healthcare system? Mandate exercise and outlaw fat people. Passports for restaura
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by taolegal 4y ago
why don't we have passports to restaurants that track our exercise and diet status? that would have reduced mortality so much more than vaccine passports
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by taolegal 4y ago
Fauci clearly committed malfeasance. He's never been more defensive than when he had to respond to the GoF allegations in congressional testimony. The strong emotion & prevarication indicates to me that he's lying. The emails
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by taolegal 4y ago
So it's wrong to be vocally anti-censorship cause it's so heavily used on HN? Is it truly hypocritical to not want your location publicly available? Downvote me into oblivion censorious fools!
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by taolegal 4y ago
> There's no constitutional right to make companies carry your voice Ok so it's fine to start carte blanche censoring liberals?
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by taolegal 4y ago
And what's worse in my opinion is that we're harassing a minority in society over something that seems much less significant (at this point) than the truly beneficial things (universally - not just covid, and that address things t
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by taolegal 4y ago
> but smart people are less likely to practice self deception Smart people are better at contriving complex justifications that seem right but are in fact wrong. People don’t usually set out with the intention of deceiving themselves.
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by taolegal 4y ago
> Why does big tech, including HN all have the same auth-left wing bias? I think intelligent people are abnormally capable of self-deception.
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by taolegal 4y ago
Let's extend the metaphor even further, when you turn on the force field many people get hurt or sick sometimes even for days.
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by taolegal 4y ago
Except those were vaccines that weren't used in such a rushed manner.
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by taolegal 4y ago
nah in this case all those pedestrians have an anti-car force field
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by taolegal 4y ago
> As a follow up, how do elon's boots taste? aren't you just proving my point that you're blinded by hatred?
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by taolegal 4y ago
Color me surprised it was all bluster. Clear as day that Trump pretty much stopped being able to sustain liberal outrage and now the Borg has decided Musk is a Republican (he's certainly not) in order to continue the perpetual heroin d
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by taolegal 4y ago
Love Vivaldi and (although I don't use Mastodon) happy for integrations like this.
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by taolegal 4y ago
If everyone in an organization is liberal isn’t that organization systemically biased?
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by taolegal 4y ago
You're saying that when people are outnumbered they should be at the mercy of the majority. Even worse that you're apparently ableist saying that it's better if it's on the basis of skill rather than race.
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by taolegal 4y ago
He's upsetting people who think they're morally superior to everyone else - saints that walk among us. That group really came into being under Obama, Trump solidified it, and then they got absolutely juiced up during the pandemic
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by taolegal 4y ago
As much as you abhor bloviating, sounds like you're bloviating too.
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by taolegal 4y ago
> Political violence is currently a big problem on the right Political violence was pioneered by far-left terrorists, famously when they bombed Congress. More recently, Rand Paul got violently attacked. And a Bernie supporter committed a
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by taolegal 4y ago
> a majority of people so minorities should be abused?

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