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by toofy 5y ago
If there is ever a good excuse to use fossil fuels its to build something which will deprecate them.
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by toofy 5y ago
I can list *many* cases where echo chambers are not a bad thing at all. Of course this will depend on your definition of echo chamber, however, if any community doesn’t begin with “we hold certain things to be self-evident” then that comm
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by toofy 5y ago
yeah, i think he kind of peaked shortly before the period where he was so obsessive with his attempts to outrage people over pronouns. i seemed to stop hearing about him around that time other than the headlines surrounding the spotify dea
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by toofy 5y ago
> I do think he genuinely is looking for the best ideas. I lean more towards he’s looking for affirmation to be contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian. If he was looking for the best ideas, he would of had a completely differen
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by toofy 5y ago
Yeah, that’s why I brought up the network effect that OF brings. I’m sure OF will be fine, I just hope they feel it a bit because this has to have shaken the foundations for a lot people who relied on them.
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by toofy 5y ago
I think what the sibling to this comment has brought up is important to understand. These groups are entirely trying to alter the definition of “sex trafficking.” Or rather, attempting to make the phrase so broad as to be meaningless. Sex t
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by toofy 5y ago
I could see why this might be your first thought, but I suspect this move might have hurt OF more than helping, simply because most of the people who formerly/currently call OF home have now lost any sense of stability. Tho, as we’ve s
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by toofy 5y ago
Im sure we'll see the end-of-days stuff a bit--a lot of the "this degeneracy, this porn, it is proof that civilization is falling apart and the end is near." only packaged in a way that will resonate with the puritanical type
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by toofy 5y ago
They're open about it, but its been written about pretty extensively. One of my other comments [0] has a number of links. Including a couple which discuss their involvement in PornHub takedown as well. [0] https://news.ycomb
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by toofy 5y ago
I don't like copy and pasting my other comments directly, so ill just link to it [0] but the short answer is, they're pretty open about their pressure campaigns towards payment processors. There was also quite a lot of exposing d
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by toofy 5y ago
NCOSE pressure campaign was heavily directed against payment companies. They're quite open about it. [0] The first link is directly to NCOSE (Morality in Media) but heres a few other articles with quite a bit more information. [1][2][
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by toofy 5y ago
White this is temporarily great news for sex workers, its worth keeping a couple things in mind: This would seem to be in large part an extension of the wider religious right and groups similar to the Moral Majority's push from previou
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by toofy 5y ago
OnlyFans. OF is what it’s called often in common conversations. “What’s your OF?” “I setup an OF at blahblahblah ”
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by toofy 5y ago
Dont really know enough about this to do anything other than wild speculation but Id lean towards something like: If a trade crosses a certain risk score threshold it would trigger some kind of preliminary investigation looking at limited i
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by toofy 5y ago
It absolutely is a straw man. There are many ways to combat something without resorting to —as you strawmanned their comment with–“authoritarian means.” We combatted the ridiculous notion when masses of people thought they could cure disea
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by toofy 5y ago
I didn’t say or imply any of that. I’m beginning to question if any of you responding even read my comment.
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by toofy 5y ago
I think your reading of what I posted is both pulling things out of the context of what I actually said and a bad faith reading. Please dont pull things out of context when you’re trying to have a discussion, when you do this, it implies
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by toofy 5y ago
I’m not sure where or how you inferred something akin to “No one should do anything.” from my comment, but it is absolutely not what I said and absolutely not what I implied.
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by toofy 5y ago
It could be much worse. Much much much much much much worse. Some things are incredibly complicated and messy. And not just with the current publishing issues–even getting them to the imperfect stages they reside in now was game changing on
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by toofy 5y ago
Regardless of your feelings on Bellingcat, none of that changes the fact that, us (the community) having access to more information and more tools at our disposal to analyze this information is a far better outcome than governments locking
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by toofy 5y ago
> … who amongst us will do UX… imho, we have everything in the foss world working tightly except great UX/UI. in my experience in the open source world – which is not insignificant – great UX is the only thing stopping us from a pa
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by toofy 5y ago
We’re still incredibly limited in what behaviors do and don’t increase a teams productivity. I’ve worked in groups where some of the least productive people were also maybe the most valuable. Very strong in keeping cohesion and moral up
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by toofy 5y ago
I would be incredibly concerned with facebook banning the researchers regardless of whether or not Google donates money to Mozilla.
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by toofy 5y ago
We should all be concerned about what’s going on here. A company such as facebook, who’s entire existence is built around vacuuming up as much information about us that it can manage. A company who’s ethics tell itself this is totally OK f
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by toofy 5y ago
> …it also makes me feel weird that the first bulk of the argument is dedicated to they reviewed their own code and it totally checked out. Are you referring to Mozilla reviewing the Ad Observer code? If I’m not mistaken that was built b
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by toofy 5y ago
> I do worry it's a bad sign for union organizing if these are the types of issues they are focused on. I read an article a year or so ago which talked about how the south is one of the hardest areas to organize. I was super perple
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by toofy 5y ago
> When these big companies start to get older they always seem to prioritize the organization itself instead of the value they provide to customers. Do ya think this is an age issue or a size thing. (or maybe a bit of both?) I don’t have
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by toofy 5y ago
Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking too. Wild though!!
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by toofy 5y ago
I suppose people could quibble over what “large” means, but there is unquestionably a not insignificant portion who want cryptocurrency for the express purpose of keeping the government out of money. And another not insignificant piece who
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by toofy 5y ago
This is wild. I can’t believe I haven’t heard anything about this until now. Some of this stuff is pretty dark. Mailing them spiders was bad enough but then mailing a married couple books on how to deal with the death of a spouse? jfc. Bu

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