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Also remember, Cloudflare is de-facto the moderator of the internet. Whatever you may think of Kiwifarms, we all saw how that narrative unfolded from a technical perspective.
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It has provided me endless entertainment in meat space because I cross my arms to form an "X" every time I talk about X. Tim Apples even saw this coming and had an emoji in place, Man Crossed Arms.
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And it's not just a trademark matter. I haven't looked in detail at how the Twitter acquisition was structured, but somewhere there's a spreadsheet with the words "goodwill" and next to those words there's a h
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> generative AI can help solve cp On a side note, there was a very good film about this last year called The Artifice Girl . Think indie, very theatrical with only three settings and three very clear acts, but thought-provoking and with
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From the Youtube comments too: > My Amazon “community privileges” got suspended for “racism” after I correctly told a Chinese air filter company that their product was garbage. They false-flagged my review for racism. My review was not r
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> The US having data on me by itself isn't a huge deal; there's no fucking way I will ever want to live there and factually: I don't know how anyone can say this with certainty about any country these days unless you have
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> if any miscellanous billionaire can start a competitive service? Can they really? At least on Zuckerberg's side Threads' competitiveness would have been impossible without piggy backing on the back of Instagram. He was willi
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The parenting factor is actually quite interesting because while I think most of us would agree that parents look older faster, the overall trend is that they make up for it by living longer than their non-parent peers. It's not a huge
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And a little check box with the initial claim form: [ ] Check this box if having your claim rejected will make it your life's mission to appeal, cost us exponentially more money in customer services resources, and you're broadly
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Next step "due to incredibly good reception, we are auto-creating a Thread account for anyone signed up in any of our other platforms - saving our users billions of minutes!".
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My hope is that some comparatively insignificant Western country passes it first, makes international news when it cripples its own technological capacity and infrastructure, and then that becomes the cautionary tale. My money is on Canada.
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> Double lifespan sounds like a nightmare if we don't dramatically change all of society first. See I'm not worried because odds are this won't be a simple intervention. It won't be "take this pill daily to 2X y
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> You conviniently left out all the good parts of the economy: unemployment is at all-time lows, inflation is down (but still not at 2%), consumer spending is at an all-time high. Ah yes, the fruits of Bidenomics! Real wages are stagnant
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The really annoying thing is that when you bring up the generational decline of testosterone in men no one really cares. Then RFK Jr brings it up - quite validly - and now you have the entire Democrat-pharma industrial complex lumping it u
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Pablo Rodriguez, is that you? For those unfamiliar, Pablo Rodriguez is the Minister of Canadian Heritage under whose auspices all these censorship and control schemes are being pushed forward. Ironically, Pablo Rodriguez is the son of an
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Actually the quarterly numbers came out today. Year over year, Canada grew by 1.2 million new residents. That's 20% higher than Trudeau's already absurdly high target of 1 million new residents. This is an engineered crisis in th
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> there is a huge entrenched interest in keeping the property bubble going higher and higher. Just to paint the picture, in Canada: * Prime Minister Trudeau is a trust fund kind with rental income * Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Mini
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The plan is financial repression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_repression
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I do wonder what fresh new health conditions we will learn are caused by that "engineered" fire-resistant wood in a couple of decades. I'm also not fond of "engineered" as a form of sanitising what is really happeni
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The whole handling of Species 8472 was a let down. For once, the Borg had a credible challenge that had arrived at a higher technological capability through completely different means. Then, in the span of an episode, the Voyager crew not
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The fact that this isn't some mod or fan effort either, but a 100% no-malarky release from the actual developer, along with a manual, template, and tutorials; is absolutely amazing.
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To be honest, the other problems are that almonds are more of a luxury food, rather than a major staple food item. You could feed many more people with higher yielding trees, like apples or even citruses. But then again, the almond is such
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Sure, but I look at it this way: if billionaires wan't to spend money on something , these technological long-shots aren't the worst they could do. I'll take infinite amounts of these long-shots over a single WEF-esque attem
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Mods are being "encouraged" to not be "inactive" because inactivity is a violation of the Mod Code of Conduct[1]. The last two paragraphs are the most relevant. From https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupp
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An interesting point regarding Catholic Canon Law is that there is a distinction between validity and liceity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_and_liceity_(Catholic... To a casual reader, it may seem the "v
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It's more than being imagined, it seems it might even be tested, we just won't know about it for a while: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33339/x-37b-space-plan...
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Realistically, the CIA will not release full details on MK-ULTRA for another couple generations, so we will never get official confirmation of the alleged names in our lifetime. There is a starting list here under "Notable subjects&qu
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His published works aside, it seems he was corresponding with people and answering letters until fairly recently. Many of these letters (or quite convincing forgeries) are archived in your favourite 4chan archive of choice. Also worth ment
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But to my knowledge, no one has ever been able to triforce on HN. It's like a perpetual summer.
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I suspect that most Redditors just had rapid expertise emergence (REE) in the subject of international law, with a specialty in Canadian libellous extradition. Let's review the facts: Spez is an American citizen in the United States -

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