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by verisimi 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240111130315/https://www.nytim...
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by verisimi 3y ago
My theory is that this is by design. Unhappy people buy things to make them feel happy - this is beneficial to corporations and governments. The answers are within, but the won't be found in this or that product, government, teachers
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by verisimi 3y ago
KYC! Child abusers! Terrorists! It is perfectly right that moral, legal citizens share all their online data, all the time, with our ever-loving government. /s What could possibly go right?
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by verisimi 3y ago
'verisimi' is a shortening of verimisimilitudinal (too long for HN) where the meaning is that we are all very similar.
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About Your Handle on HN
6 points by verisimi 3y ago|10 comments
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by verisimi 3y ago
Fair enough... but its not like these numbers are actually that clear. The EWG say: > The Department of Agriculture has spent almost $50 billion in subsidies for livestock operators since 1995, according to an EWG analysis. Analysis is
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by verisimi 3y ago
Even now, I thought most tuna were farmed. There are certainly lots of large farms in the Mediterranean.
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by verisimi 3y ago
Can you give an example of a 'meat subsidy'? I'm unaware of any.
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by verisimi 3y ago
With the next bit... > Oneself is the only thing important in one's life. Every individual is infinitely valuable. Is that narcissistic too?
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by verisimi 3y ago
Its not a game of aggregation, despite everything you have been told. Oneself is not humanity at large. Ignore the jumped-up, self proclaimed authorities, the things they have taught you, the servile mentality and mental structure you are
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by verisimi 3y ago
If you think parasitical behaviour is wrong or if you think killing other creatures is wrong but also think that you have to get your hands dirty, then yeah, this place is a mess. But, if that is your sense (re killing, parasitical behavi
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by verisimi 3y ago
Some CBT, quick!
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by verisimi 3y ago
> The worst part is the chronic thinking that I could've/should've/would've done something amazing, if a single shit had been given at any point along the way. Like what? Define amazing. Become the founder of s
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by verisimi 3y ago
What else can you tell us about the historicity Jesus? And how is it you are able to say anything about this person that is purported to have lived 2000 years ago?
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by verisimi 3y ago
have an upvote!
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by verisimi 3y ago
Dissenting opinions are welcome with me, I appreciate them. What I don't appreciate is casual downvoting. I suspect I must have some of the highest downvote stats on this site. And I would love to be able to search HN users using t
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by verisimi 3y ago
The web isn't un-fun because of a lack of Geocities or crap websites. The web today is at least partly a trap, and people are flies to be tranquilised, liquidised and digested from the inside out by governments and corporations. At le
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by verisimi 3y ago
All those lovely whispered Dutch accents that the Chinese will be deprived of.... Life is cruel sometimes.
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by verisimi 3y ago
From https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_enclosure <enclosure url=" http://example.com/file.mp3 " length="123456789" type="audio/mpeg" />
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by verisimi 3y ago
I think it's the enclosure tag
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by verisimi 3y ago
It looks good.. and I'm looking for a simple rss feed. But I don't think it displays all the tags - eg I know some entries in my subs reference a file that should be downloadable.. but there's no reference or visibility of t
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by verisimi 3y ago
I see the vacuum issue with societies. But this talks to the heart of the issue - who has authority over the individual? Is a social structure (laws, convention, the understood history provided by that society, religion etc) superior to an
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by verisimi 3y ago
Yes. Do you think it wouldn't/doesn't hand over your data, if requested to do so by, say, a secret court? I use ff btw.
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by verisimi 3y ago
> Those of us that, for whatever reason, see it coming, should keep calm and steady and keep ocasionnaly presenting our view in a non-confrontational way Yes. > and support groups or legislative efforts which may be allies. No. Legis
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by verisimi 3y ago
> Microsoft Edge wants you to do things its way Should be > Microsoft wants you to do things its way It thinks it owns your data, owns any interactions with you, like all corporations do. This is all supported legally. Once it has a
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by verisimi 3y ago
Well, the internet is not what it was. It was an explosion of individuality, new information - I found this highly beneficial to personal growth. It is now a series of corporate sandboxes connected by steep-walled corridors, with each in
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by verisimi 3y ago
Say no more, thank you.
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by verisimi 3y ago
Now you mention it, I only really see police cars around here - quite rare to see police walking. I guess this is an effect of having built a digital panopticon. As pretty much everything we do leaves a digital trace and as one is obliviou
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by verisimi 3y ago
> “It seems like while they make fewer of the kind of mistakes that we see from human drivers, they make interesting new kinds of mistakes,” Raicu said. “It has the feel of a human subject mass experiment, right? Without the kind of cons
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by verisimi 3y ago
Professor Oppenheim? Dr Šoda? Professor Bose?

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