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by test098 3y ago
there's "forced emphasis" because controlled burns which had been occurring for 1000s of years were outlawed by european settlers, leading to the current catastrophic wildfires that we experience every year in california. his
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by test098 3y ago
the people who were doing the harassing and assaulting included law enforcement. Philando Castile was famously killed when he revealed to the officer that he had a (legally) concealed weapon. do you have any other suggestions? my point here
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by test098 3y ago
have you ever lived in a major city that didn't have dangerous neighborhoods? at any time in the history of the united states? i'm a minority who has been harassed and assaulted in certain parts of the united states (hint: in rura
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by test098 3y ago
> No one is having issues with police if they aren't breaking the law yes, they are. that's why there's "animosity of the left-wingers about police." > 1. You are not allowed to setup a tent on the street. You
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by test098 3y ago
> so-called child labor laws acts like a deranged preacher barking sermons of protection and virtue uh yeah? because children are the most vulnerable in our society and need to be protected from people who are trying to exploit them? do
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by test098 3y ago
reddit the company doesn't produce any content. they rely on people creating communities, cultivating them, and actively moderating them (for free!). i'd say that gives those creators more of a claim to ownership than the platform
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by test098 3y ago
> Ignoring the objective fact that disarming legal citizens does nothing to quell armed crime citation needed. what's the one unique thing about the united states that makes it #1 in mass shootings? banning bump stocks or other band
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by test098 3y ago
except echo chambers usually lock out dissenting voices and prevent repugnant views from being called out. they can also be breeding grounds for disinformation and indoctrination, so allowing them to propagate (and become normalized) doesn&
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by test098 3y ago
> The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) documented that the debris cloud deposited material as far as six-and-a-half miles north of the launch pad. The agency said in a statement that the debris cloud was made of pulverized concrete
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by test098 3y ago
> Silver was named one of The World's 100 Most Influential People by Time in 2009 after an election forecasting system he developed successfully predicted the outcomes in forty-nine of the fifty states in the 2008 U.S. presidential
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by test098 4y ago
> You really think Governor DeSantis going to start throwing random teachers in prison Democracies don't function on the basis of a single person saying "trust me, I won't actually use this law that I enacted." And he
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by test098 4y ago
Wow, you seem to know a lot about running multibillion dollar companies in completely different industries! So let's imagine you run Twitter and you're operating in every western country on the planet. Now, all those countries hav
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by test098 4y ago
> If you count all the programmers who wrote all the libraries, platforms, operating system's that Twitter is built on, that would also be over 100k. Again, OP didn't do that. In the article, Elon Musk's quote didn't
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by test098 4y ago
These are valid criticisms and I totally understand your point of view. Thank you for the response!
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by test098 4y ago
> Firstly, I haven't "dismissed" their entire project > It seems that not only has "community of leftist[s]" given up on free speech (as is the vogue), they've given up on real federation too. This... see
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by test098 4y ago
> Who was questioning that? No one, thanks for noticing. You're welcome! I'm pointing that out because apparently you haven't noticed that, hence your criticism. > It is not, however, any protection against criticism ab
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by test098 4y ago
> Yes, I have a problem with overtly hostile responses to reasonable and polite requests Again - this means that you probably don't want to use this project, then. > More importantly (for our discussion), why would I have to shar
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by test098 4y ago
> As to the limits of free speech, they're not just limiting what they hear/see, they're deciding to do that for others too It's their project, they can do what they please with it. This is the premise of FOSS, which
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by test098 4y ago
That was a reference to your line, "It seems that not only has 'community of leftist[s]' given up on free speech (as is the vogue)..." You seem to place quite a bit of value in free speech, yet are bothered when the crea
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by test098 4y ago
Because you don't seem to share their values and have a problem with the way they choose to collaborate with others.
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by test098 4y ago
It sounds like you wouldn't want to be part of Lemmy's federated network in the first place. Maybe use a network that you find more palatable? Why do your preferences trump theirs?
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by test098 4y ago
Like someone exercising free speech?
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by test098 4y ago
> The problems that affect LA County are vastly different than RI - we should never cater the Federal to local aims Except now it's reversed: RI - with a fraction of citizens of LA county - is catering Federal to local aims. Not sur
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by test098 4y ago
> Sharing quotes from a book is not copyright infringement. It is if I take those quotes and publish them as my own in my own book.
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by test098 4y ago
Here's the thing - the US has well-established laws around copyright that don't consider learning from books a violation of those copyrights. This lawsuit is intended to challenge Copilot as a violation of licensing and isn't
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by test098 4y ago
"Completely change you application stack and learn a new language so you can parse 3.9e3" is not really an option for most people.
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by test098 4y ago
Quite literally references climate change in the third sentence of the letter? > "As we began to witness the extent of global warming and ecological destruction, and our own contribution to it, Patagonia committed to using our compa