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by troad 5mo ago
The X-Files didn't presage it, the X-Files were inspired by it. Conspiratorial "do your own research" style thinking long predated the X-Files (both in existence and in popularity). If anything, the 90s were the one era where
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by troad 5mo ago
On the contrary, if you wish to learn about Chomsky's views towards the Khmer Rouge, the onus is entirely on you to investigate Chomsky's work. Failing that you're entirely at the mercy of intermediated secondary sources of i
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by troad 6mo ago
Why is it the job of the kernel to notify the distros? Why isn't it the job of the distros to keep up on upstream security disclosures? Expecting a FOSS project to go track down all of its (millions of?) users seems like a very unreaso
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by troad 6mo ago
Firefox took an awfully long time to get that global setting. It was clear that Mozilla Corp hoped they might be able to push AI services as a revenue generator, before the AI pushback.
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by troad 6mo ago
Only on the Internet would someone so bombastically demand you do their homework for them. :) Thus far we have your claim v. mine. Not sure why an absence of evidence would somehow make you right and me wrong, nor am I sure why I bear any
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by troad 6mo ago
> You've yet to refute any of my arguments, focusing only on optics. Really? I suggest re-reading the exchange. > Of the two of us, only you have resorted to personal attacks That's a little rich, given all of your posts abo
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by troad 6mo ago
I've read Chomsky's work (more extensively than most people here, I'd wager, given I have degrees in both polsci and linguistics) and his sympathy to the Khmer Rouge was pretty clear. Chomsky was about as pro-Khmer Rouge as T
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by troad 6mo ago
> I'm sorry, you seem triggered by this discussion, it doesn't seem productive to continue on my end. I suppose shall have to make do without 101-level instruction in Chomskyian anti-Imperialism, woven through with whataboutism
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by troad 6mo ago
That seems rather Whataboutist to me. I never claimed this only ever happens in the Middle East. We are, however, talking about the Middle East, so local examples would seem apposite. You seem to desire to make this conversation so abstract
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by troad 6mo ago
The NYT reported recently that the rollout of more impermeable ticket gates have noticeably reduced the proportion of unstable people on the subway. Not everyone who fare evades is unstable, obviously, but the article suggested that a high
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by troad 6mo ago
Yes, there are a lot of bad options in the Middle East; Islamic theocracy has no monopoly on awfulness. I think the broader point is that a democracy is unstable when the electorate just votes for their favourite warlord / cleric, who
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by troad 6mo ago
Because every Islamic theocracy to date has been profoundly destabilising for its neighbours and the world, and always ends up imprisoning and immiserating its own people. No one wants more Irans or Afghanistans. (Or Saudi Arabias, though t
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by troad 6mo ago
You may get good bang for your buck out of neovim. With only a very minimal set of plugins, it has replaced all other IDEs for me. (They're also making good progress Sherlocking their core plugins, so the future is bright for those of
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by troad 6mo ago
> My hope is I convince passersby That's just it, you don't, when your arguments are poor and your tone hostile. The only people who support you are people who already agreed with you; everyone else (the passerby moderate) is a
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by troad 6mo ago
I was also surprised by this. The post appears to contain next to no actual information. The facts: Apple put a warning in macOS 15.5 that AFP support might be dropped in the future. The claim: AFP support will be dropped in macOS 27. I jus
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by troad 6mo ago
> Addressed: Friedersdorf fails to address similar arguments against drug laws. In particular, this is an argument against all laws, which is reductio ad absurdum, and the type of faux intellectualism we've come to expect from the r
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by troad 6mo ago
It's also worth remembering how little money goes into archaeology in general. I can think of two nationally-significant archaeological sites in Central Europe - both were partially excavated about fifty years ago, to varying but fairl
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by troad 6mo ago
I live in none of those places. I enjoy a (free) public healthcare system consistently ranked much higher than Sweden's, and smoking has been banned virtually everywhere except for designated areas for several decades. (There is much
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by troad 6mo ago
> It's craven and pathetic. The nicest thing I can do is deploy hyperbole. The only one taking things to such extremes is you. You've largely ignored the content of the article, countered with barely coherent counter-argument
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by troad 6mo ago
So you're a religiously-tinged nationalist. I'm happy that you're happy, but is that really meant to be particularly unique or interesting? Or even germane to the topic at hand?
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by troad 6mo ago
What you said is "it's not even discriminatory". Now you're moving the goal-posts to "protected class" (ie illegal discrimination versus legal discrimination). I note that the US concept of "protected clas
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by troad 6mo ago
Not OP, but I'm not American, have been to Sweden (and lived most of my life in countries with better public healthcare than Sweden), and I also think yours is an aggressively conformist take. I'm not sure what value it is meant t
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by troad 6mo ago
> Here's something else that's argument-destroying: the ban doesn't apply to the people born after 2009, it applies to anyone trying to sell them tobacco or vapes. This falls under the aegis of regulation (can't sell
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by troad 6mo ago
It's been incredibly spotty, it seems to be up for only a few hours each day. It's surprisingly difficult to add a new YouTube feed to an RSS reader when it returns a 404 or 500 for most of the day. NetNewsWire just refuses to add
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by troad 6mo ago
Very neat! I tried to drag left to get to Asia / Oceania, and got stuck on the International Date Line. Would be neater if it wrapped around, and didn't put Samoa and Australia on the opposite ends of the Earth. :)
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by troad 6mo ago
I'm sure all the small authors trying to feed themselves will be very impressed about your brave anti-Altman stance. What better way to stand up to Sam Altman than doing exactly what he did?
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by troad 6mo ago
Don't mistake media narratives about small percentage point swings for mass momentum. Especially when those swings are probably not even real: e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/05/gen
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by troad 6mo ago
I enjoy your contrarianism, tsunamifury, but I'd enjoy it more (and I think you'd get more thoughtful engagement) if you weren't quite so spiky about it. (This goes for a couple of your recent posts.)
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by troad 6mo ago
> So, if I had to compress its philosophy into one sentence, it would be this: >> Simple, reliable, UNIX-native fundamentals — no feature bloat, just solid engineering. This isn't the author's summary. This is AI's.
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by troad 6mo ago
I have a MacBook Pro from 2016 and an M4 Pro from last year. There is a night and day difference. I think "M series chips are no better than ten year old Intel chips" is a take that would be somewhat difficult to sustain, given th

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