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by traviswt 4y ago
This is far longer than it needed to be. It’s a rant. A borderline incoherent one. There is a massive confusion here between anonymity and the physical/online distinction. Anonymity is always hard, even in real life. There’s a reason c
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by traviswt 4y ago
Maybe losing faith and selling out?
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by traviswt 4y ago
Perhaps the key here is the cat saw only its ears first, which looked like two potential targets. Then it had to reprocess after it realized they were attached.
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by traviswt 4y ago
You can choose it at time of either sending a new email or replying. From the sending identity drop down, pick *@kingcharles.tld, and then it will populate the From field with <@kingcharles.tld> and you type in front of the @ sign wha
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by traviswt 5y ago
In practice, this becomes “good intentions prevent punishment of bad behaviors.” It becomes a way for kind incompetence to belittle wise disagreement. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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by traviswt 5y ago
It is an answer to the question “Why is free speech important?” Nobody questions the importance of individual thought. Collective thought might even be more important. By squelching free speech we lose the ability to think collectively. Fre
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by traviswt 5y ago
Wow I didn’t realize it but you’re very right about those two. Can’t even remember the last time I saw anything related to them. So, does banning individuals from social view preferentially on one side actually shift the Overton window, or
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by traviswt 5y ago
Speech is the mechanism of collective thought.
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by traviswt 5y ago
There is one belief everyone must share for western society to function: humans are special. If you disagree and equate owning a chicken to owning a human, then I have no reasoning which will satisfy you or your hypothetical. Our entire wes
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by traviswt 5y ago
Just think through the “levels” of chicken life: 1. Let die naturally of old age 2. Slaughter after a productive life 3. Slaughter mid life because disease 4. Slaughter mid life because money (e.g., price of feed) 5. Slaughter/cull you
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by traviswt 5y ago
Animal welfare should not focus on if an animal dies if the alternative is for it to never live at all. Any amount of time, even a day after hatching, is greater than zero. Instead we should focus on quality of life and how humane the death
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by traviswt 5y ago
You don’t slaughter a chicken to get its eggs. On a more serious note, why do ethical vegan proponents feel it is better for an animal to never live at all? To be devoid of purpose due to lack of existence?
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by traviswt 5y ago
I worry this coupling will make it harder for laws to evolve. What would GDPR look like if the EU had to coordinate with the US? Probably some muted, compromised version. I don’t think this is wise.
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by traviswt 5y ago
With the internet and Google translate, you can easily go read for yourself. And it’s still pretty nutty with no western filter applied. The accidentally published victory unification speech is particularly crazy: https://web.arc
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by traviswt 5y ago
You are absolutely doing the right thing! Ignore the hate here. People in the comfortable tech world have trouble with uncomfortable truths, and Russians right now are facing a harsh uncomfortable truth: citizens are collectively responsibl
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by traviswt 5y ago
You’re very correct. The most illogical position to take is that Russia will stop with Ukraine. It is true that Putin has genocidal wishes against the people, but just like Hitler what he really loves is power and conquest.
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by traviswt 5y ago
I have family in this exact situation. Four on the call a few days ago, two defending in Ukraine and two preparing to invade. My Ukrainian family was trying to educate them on why what they were doing is wrong, and show them all the lies. T
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by traviswt 5y ago
“Let me do whatever I want or I’ll nuke you.” If we do not save Ukraine due to our own fear, then that’s the effective precedence Putin will have just set. Russian conquering Ukraine is an _escalation_ from NATO perspective.
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by traviswt 5y ago
You are writing as if Putin is a rational actor. That presumption could not be more wrong. Russia invading Ukraine is already so illogically asinine that nobody should claim to have even the slightest idea what Putin will actually do in the
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by traviswt 5y ago
Why did you just fact check hyperbole?
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by traviswt 5y ago
Disclaimer: I am a very happy Starlink customer that has no other option for internet besides terrible LTE. Starlink never originally advertised the ability to transfer service or even sell your hardware. It was very clear from the beginnin
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by traviswt 5y ago
Which is why when social policies are adopted, they must be implemented as a minimum, not a maximum. You should be allowed to have whatever private health care or sharing, etc you want, while having some basic amount of care commonly availa
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by traviswt 5y ago
Is it just this specific situation that causes you to feel that way? Or should all diseases which have some amount of preventative protocol be treated the same, perhaps STDs? And what about other choices that impact emergency care? Obesity
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by traviswt 5y ago
While historically quite useful, I swapped to Photopea.com and haven’t looked back. It continues to amaze me how well it works and how broad its feature set is.
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by traviswt 5y ago
I don't know much about codecs, but I just did a screen recording and checked it out with VLC: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
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by traviswt 5y ago
So what’s stopping them from doing that now?
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by traviswt 5y ago
Or they could be allowed to show whatever but are required to allow users to opt-in/out.
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by traviswt 5y ago
The replies here seem to be ignoring the point I was making, so I guess I was unclear. I'm going to try once more, hopefully this helps: The effects of the virus at play are irrelevant... long term, short term, sniffles, death. None of
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by traviswt 5y ago
> Vaccination is a moral obligation Only if the mechanism of its action contributes to herd immunity. If it provides symptom abatement without lowering infection and transmission, then vaccination of those not at risk can prove counterpr
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by traviswt 6y ago
We are seeing more competition over time in social media, which is a good thing in my opinion. But fragmentation of messaging options seems far less beneficial. I am not yet feeling compelled to pay for Matrix server benefits, but if I was

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