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by thrance 9mo ago
> Independent of your views on immigration, or law and order, or anything. Juvenile shit like this does absolutely nothing to advance any policy goals. You should stop appealing to some kinds of higher principles that are provably inexis
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by thrance 9mo ago
Christian ethics? What is that exactly? IIRC, "Christianity" used to be very much tied to monarchy in Europe, as well as feudalism. Then it was used to justify slavery. Then apartheid. And now it's sometimes used to justify s
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by thrance 9mo ago
People on HN got to stop blaming social media for everything wrong in society. "Small creators" are no more outrageous than the morons parading on Fox News 24/7. The 20th century had its fair share of fascism too, all without
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by thrance 9mo ago
Putin and Trump wouldn't be where they are without their respective oligarchical classes' supports. You can't have democracy when some private individuals are able to hold unto so much wealth and power, buying media and polit
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by thrance 9mo ago
> I don’t think we can assume that the presence of violence automatically indicates that society isn’t fair. I think it does, actually. The more unequal the country, the more violent it is. Which is why the best way to get rid of crime i
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by thrance 9mo ago
Vance has none of whatever Trump used to entrance 50% of Americans. MAGA dies with Trump, although I'm sure something else will come end replace it, if the issues that led to it aren't fixed.
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by thrance 9mo ago
It is very obnoxious, the sound should just be enough for pedestrians to notice there's a car behind them (happened to me a few times now that there was an electric van one meter behind me that I hadn't heard at all). Tangentially
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by thrance 9mo ago
Ain't gonna be any diesel in the future. Peak oil has passed, now it's only going downhill.
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by thrance 9mo ago
Fraudsters usually don't resort to violence once they get caught. In your contrived example, the guy would probably end up paying what he owed and that would be that. Violence mostly emerges from people who feel that they are treated u
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by thrance 9mo ago
Well, you should hold them in contempt for their awful 2024 campaign, their staunch pro-Israel position in the face of internal polls begging them to at least acknowledge what was going on in Gaza. You should hold the Democratic establi
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by thrance 9mo ago
You're acting like Democrats are as deep in the cult of personality as Republicans are, yet outside of the most corporate liberal circles, Harris and Biden are heavily held in contempt by most of the Left.
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by thrance 9mo ago
We really should share his writings/speeches more. The sanewashing of his mad ramblings or Truth social posts is omnipresent in media. Once you notice it, you see it everywhere.
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by thrance 9mo ago
If you want food security, beef is one of the worst options. It is extremely land-inefficient (not to mention very polluting as well).
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by thrance 9mo ago
I definitely exaggerated with my "two braincells". Even the french president said about the guy "we need more people like him" (although I wouldn't say he's that smart himself...). But even without being knowle
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by thrance 10mo ago
None of the good things you described requires the existence of powerful private actors. The internet was created by public funded researchers, it is fundamentally decentralized. Wikipedia is a non-profit, video call could be p2p, etc.
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by thrance 10mo ago
In this case, he was actually spreading misinformation. Anyone with two braincells could see it at the time.
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by thrance 10mo ago
No, the USA is very vulnerable to reactionary ideas that stymie real progress.
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by thrance 10mo ago
Eeeeh your definition is as good as mine. To me, slop is used to convey the fact that whatever it is applied to was made with quantity/efficiency in mind rather than quality/purpose, like what is fed to pigs. Indeed, ultimately sl
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by thrance 10mo ago
Yes, it's cheaply made en-masse, like actual slop.
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by thrance 10mo ago
You can flag comments after reaching a certain karma threshold.
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by thrance 10mo ago
Restaurants will charge what people are able to pay. My office is on the third floor of a century-old parisian building, in the heart of the city. The street is filled with tiny restaurants, some of which serve these "healthy lunch bow
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by thrance 10mo ago
Except Larry Sanger still has a Wikipedia page[1], that even starts so: > Lawrence Mark Sanger (/ˈsæŋər/; born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia It's actually
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by thrance 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument A fun thought experiment, but only that.
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by thrance 10mo ago
> You say Trump is 10 times worse than Obama, I see nothing that even remotely suggests this is true. If you have any articles to show that back this up, please show them. This is hopeless. I don't think there's anything I coul
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by thrance 10mo ago
Do you condemn Trump's use of ICE, that is 10 times worse than Obama's? Yes or No.
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by thrance 10mo ago
FFS stop talking about Obama. Why are you acting like Trump didn't make the situation 10x worse? We already told you we didn't like Obama's ICE. That is completely irrelevant to the conversation. I think you made your point,
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by thrance 10mo ago
And the moderators are nowhere to be seen. I'm really tired of this bullshit, I wish they would clean this website of these obviously bad faith actors who only bring negative value to the table.
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by thrance 10mo ago
> That’s why I keep throwing this out there. The truth must be acknowledged. You can’t call Trump a monster without calling Obama a monster, too. Except no one is disputing this "truth". You're making up a strawman. Clearl
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by thrance 10mo ago
You've used this Obama deflection half a dozen time already, and everytime you do people will answer that they were never fans of ICE, even under Obama. Yet you continue to use it, again and again and again... The real question is why,
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by thrance 10mo ago
Instantly thought about Mao too, we'd play it with friends in-between classes in college. Good times. Making players say "thanks" after receiving a penalty (or keep receiving penalties) never got old.

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