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by verisimi 5mo ago
Their watching is about control not care. It is covertly adversarial; "care" is a justification, not the reality.
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by verisimi 5mo ago
> If you demand arbitrary whiteness for a film thats about people who were considered black until the 60s or so, when you arent also demanding greekness of the whites, you are just here to grind your culture war axe. You think greeks wer
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by verisimi 5mo ago
Yep. My aspirations about how the internet was going to enable a brighter, better future for people, were instantly transformed, and instead we saw the power of tech corporations acting in their own interests. How naive I was.
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by verisimi 5mo ago
You care about the historical detail of the boats and armour, but don't care about the person (sex or colour)? And people who disagree with you need medical help? Do you realise all the contradictions in your position? And then to su
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by verisimi 5mo ago
A black or white swan?
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by verisimi 5mo ago
I think it was always about the left-leaning answers - while sharing right-leaning concerns, the consensus answer is always more legislation, closer administrative control.
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by verisimi 5mo ago
No one is an omnipotent owner of anyone, not even the community, not even the government. If you strip away conventions bound in law, governance the idea of community, and go to basics: if I see something going on that troubles me, I should
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by verisimi 5mo ago
Why? I certainly don't think as highly of my community as you seem to. But really, what is the value you personally get from opening up your life to your community?
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by verisimi 5mo ago
The previous poster said: > When these models fail, the community will often enforce the model and censor the opposing facts. I have encountered several such conflicts. Censoring opposing fact to enforce the wrong model is religious dogm
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by verisimi 5mo ago
Is your child my child? Should I involve myself in how you choose to bring up the child, if you espouse ideas I disagree with?
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by verisimi 5mo ago
> It is like a religious dogma. It is religious dogma.
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by verisimi 5mo ago
Which are the clean jobs? Is coding 'good'? Pretty much the only honest ones I can think of are things plumber, carpenter.
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by verisimi 5mo ago
Yes, left is right, up is down.
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by verisimi 5mo ago
Apparently, this guy doesn't get that RSS is a problem to Google, that they already tried to kill. Of course the neglect is by design. The only reason they keep RSS going is that there is a return on it and it does bring in users - s
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by verisimi 5mo ago
Principles and law (that determines 'crime', a legal word) are not the same thing.
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by verisimi 5mo ago
where ER = Extended Range EV
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by verisimi 5mo ago
Here is your google brain on your device, whether you want it or not.
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by verisimi 5mo ago
> this is not a neutral summary of the context Where do you prefer to get neutral summaries from?
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by verisimi 5mo ago
If some entity is stating themselves to be an arbiter of truth, it's not unfair to critique other actions by that party, even if it's not directly relevant to the topic. Whataboutism can provide an indication of the underlying pr
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by verisimi 5mo ago
> It's not an easy thing, but some of the histrionic claims about child raising on the internet are really out there. It's no wonder kids are horrified by the thought. Could 'the horrors of parenting' be something tha
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by verisimi 6mo ago
I'm genuinely glad you have new treatments and its improving your quality of life. The point I am making is that you are a/ not getting cured, and b/ paying a lot of money. The reason for this, is this is best strategy for m
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by verisimi 6mo ago
Which illnesses have been cured? Diabetes, cancer? > From the human perspective, researchers are people, and they do have their incentives. Making a breakthrough, of any kind, is important for them - even if for their career (but many d
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by verisimi 6mo ago
> Pharma’s burned billions chasing this as it’s possibly the biggest market imaginable. To be clearer, Pharma is chasing a nice long treatment plan, that will require expensive drugs till the end. Pharma does not heal - this is not good
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by verisimi 6mo ago
Side point, re this: > Automatic downloads are turned off Isn't it funny that we're so used to the misuse of language (ie lies) that this isn't even a point? I'm talking about software flags to represent your choices
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by verisimi 6mo ago
hEDS - Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, I think. "Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) is a heritable connective tissue disorder that causes generalized joint hypermobility, joint instability, and chronic pain." HSD - Hyp
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by verisimi 6mo ago
Do they do cars?
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by verisimi 6mo ago
My opinion (probably an unpopular one) is that tracking for advertising is merely the excuse to justify widespread surveillance. I don't think all the advertising revenue that is purported to be in play stacks up. I personally do n
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by verisimi 6mo ago
The difference is the intention. A corporation maybe tracking. The same data, once given to the governance surveillance teams, is then used to surveil. Same info and mechanisms.
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by verisimi 6mo ago
It's fine, nothing to see. Just focus on the intended meaning not the underlying delivery. Mere words don't really impact communication. Right?
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by verisimi 6mo ago
Empty out a glass of water and blow the floating blobs towards the fire.

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