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by the_why_of_y 1y ago
> By the way, this all started because elites like Hillary openly showed contempt for working class folk with her “basket of diplorables” statements. What Clinton actually said: https://www.npr.org/2016/09/10&#x
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
> I also don’t see how foreigners (or “aliens” as US law seems to prefer) can claim protection under the US Constitution. https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8... Eventually, the Supreme
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
They do not have that option. You know who died by the thousands in meat wave attacks on Mariupol, armed with decades-old rifles? Citizens of the "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic" who
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
Elsewhere we can read: > The Bavaria resident is also accused of posting Nazi-era imagery and language earlier in 2024. According to prosecutors, this post may have violated German laws against the incitement of ethnic or religious hatre
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
The CIA did not cook up the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction hoax. Paul Wolfowitz had to create an entirely new intelligence agency with hand-picked analysts to get that result, because the existing agencies refused to make that claim. ht
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
You did miss this Rossiya 1 broadcast: https://www.thesun.ie/news/8513264/russian-state-tv-discusse...
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
I'm arguing that there's a qualitative analogy of an increase in rates eventually leading to a plateau, and you're turning it into a quantitative argument? The point here is that if there's discrimination against certain
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
For historical precendent, rate of people in US identifying as left-handed went from 4% in 1900 to 12% in 1950, and remained constant since then. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FChMzOFVkAAKsgp?format=jpg
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
Ironically(?), Russia's racism tends to dehumanize Caucasians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechen_genocide
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
TFA: Also, it is somewhat misleading to call Section 230 “a snippet of law embedded in the 1995 Communications Decency Act.” Section 230 was an entirely different law, designed to be a replacement for the CDA. It was the Internet Freedom a
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Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Threatens Inst. Autonomy(pen.org)
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
The Biden administration did no such thing. The Biden administration assumed office in 2021, and the Hunter Biden laptop story was published in 2020.
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
The argument against NaCL was that it was the browser API, PPAPI, was poorly documented and exposing implementation details of Blink/Chromium and thus very difficult to implement in a non-Chromium browser, so it's no surprise that
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
> Yeah you clearly haven't read the Twitter Files. It shows. Oh, the Twitter Files! Oh my, how I haven't read anything related to the Twitter Files! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a597e6Wv_xg https:/&#x2
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
Civil disobedience means breaking a law in order to argue in court that the law is bad, thereby deliberately putting yourself at risk of serious consequences. This is not civil disobedience, because Elon Musk is not in Brazil, nor a citizen
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
Twitter routinely complies with censorship demands by foreign governments, especially right-wing authoritarian ones. https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or... Since Musk took ownership, the compa
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/07/hello-youve-been-referre... Firstly, Twitter took that down because it violated their long standing policy against doxxing/posting hacked materials, not for any politi
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
Indeed, one wonders which adjective the puppies in this latest effort would prefer.
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
> This article refers to something occurring in 2014 with State Department email credentials and somehow loosely connecting that with the 2016 DNC email leak. Thanks, that's a good point, I was motivated to read a bit more about it;
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
SVR/Cozy Bear were fans of Bernie? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/dutch...
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by the_why_of_y 2y ago
Good to know that our reliance on fossil fuels is a result of "central planning". Globally, fossil fuel subsidies were $5.9 trillion in 2020 or about 6.8 percent of GDP https://www.imf.org/en/Publications&#x
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
OpenSSL is very portable, but it has never used GNU autotools; its Configure is Perl.
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Armenia was invaded in 2021 and Azerbaijan occupies "at least 215 square kilometres (83 sq mi) of internationally recognized Armenian territory." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Azerbaijan_bor...
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
The mythical biolabs are trending again? https://agora.echelon.pl/notice/AWHLxjJzNg2olbuy3c https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/06/25/ex-soviet-bioweapon...
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
When Fidesz won their first election in 2010, they changed voting laws and even the constitution; now elections in Hungary are heavily gerrymandered and Fidesz routinely wins super-majorities with less than 50% of the votes. https:/&#
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Finland realized that Finlandization does not work any more, by observing what happened to another country that tried to Finlandize for the last 3 decades: Ukraine.
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Current versions of Gnome allow setting a fixed number of workspaces in Settings, Multitasking. To configure hotkeys, you have to set some dconf entries manually, with dconf-editor or gsettings from a terminal: > gsettings set org.gnome.
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Thanks, so it's clear from the article that Krugman didn't endorse any bubbles here. The sentence you quote is obviously sarcastic in context; particularly the second to last paragraph, which blames the stock market bubble that ha
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
No, the financial crisis was created by private financial institutions securitizing sub-prime mortgages, without considering that failures can be highly correlated, which is what happened when the bubble burst and prices fell across the boa
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
There are other reasons than being vocally left-wing [1] or being a journalist [2][3] that get you suspended or banned on Twitter these days. Musk is grandstanding about "free speech", but what Twitter actually does now is fold an

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