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by viccis 10mo ago
I'm not sure how common this is in other countries, but Americans would rather add another definition to the dictionary for the misuse before they'd ever tolerate being corrected or (god forbid) learning the real meaning of a word
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by viccis 10mo ago
Again, they could just nuke us. Because if they did what you're suggesting, we would absolutely nuke them in response.
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by viccis 10mo ago
It doesn't help that a lot of the graduates I've talked to or interviewed seemed to treat a compsci degree as nothing more than a piece of paper they needed to get to be handed a high paying tech job. If you're motivated enou
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by viccis 10mo ago
Socialization usually involves corrective action and nuance. A platform that will give you an AI issued permaban for saying "Say that again and I'll knock ur block off pal" about some silly topic makes people too aware of the
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by viccis 10mo ago
My experience is that most forum style social media has been devoured into the reddit world, and furthermore that any attempt at making an offsite version of reddit or similar forum-like functionality is either locked down with rules that w
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by viccis 10mo ago
It's clearly a tongue in cheek joke about the progression of projects with similar goals that reach imperfect outcomes, with the implicit assumption that Nostr represents the ideal solution.
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by viccis 10mo ago
Sure but you could just nuke us too, given that the response to a mass civilian death event would be the same. Same reason the US would be foolish to destroy the Three Gorges Dam.
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by viccis 10mo ago
>Israel did not exist in 1947. Doing the pushes up glasses "Ahem well ackshully it was Mandatory Palestine" shtick doesn't really give your terrorism apologia narrative any more legitimacy. >First-hand evidence would
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by viccis 10mo ago
I actually checked HN's comment data corpus to see if em dash usage rose after AI adoption became more widespread. I was kind of shocked to see that it did not. Its overuse is definitely a marker of either AI or a poorly written body
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by viccis 10mo ago
Yeah my first thought was that this already existed, was doing great work, and got canned by DOGE in favor of what appears to be a MUCH MUCH more expensive version of it here.
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by viccis 10mo ago
I didn't accuse "Jews" of trying to assassinate a US president, I accused Israel of doing so. >You started with a claim you probably genuinely believed in, realized there was no evidence for it, and instead of admitting to
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by viccis 10mo ago
If you know history, it's quite obvious. The Holodomor is an alleged genocide with no absolute evidence that it was planned and intentional, just a great deal of credible hearsay and correlating patterns of behavior. Much like there&#x
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by viccis 10mo ago
>The “20th century atrocity denial” comparison is disgusting and transparent I was talking about the Holodomor, obviously.
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by viccis 10mo ago
Just another step towards Russian style naked oligarchy.
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by viccis 10mo ago
This reminds me of other 20th century atrocity denial I read online. There is adequate evidence of the Truman bombing attempt. Regarding Lehi and Irgun, they were small because terrorist cells usually are. They operated with the permission
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by viccis 10mo ago
In the same way literally is defined as "not literally", yes. Dictionaries are descriptive and capture colloquial usage, but "factoid" is a recently defined word with a specific definition that can be traced to a specifi
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by viccis 10mo ago
Dictionaries are descriptive and do not prescribe what definition is correct. I am basing my definition on Norman Mailer's definition and I am defining "incorrect" as differing from a word's explicit definition. From the
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by viccis 10mo ago
FYI "factoid" means it's an incorrect piece of information passed off as a fact.
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by viccis 10mo ago
Ok, so I see you're taking a denialist approach. At best you will have to settle on "well they sure did send them to a bunch of British politicians, and ya know, they did carry out the King David Hotel bombing that killed 91 peopl
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by viccis 10mo ago
This reads to me bit like Baudrillard's general points (he took a semiotic view on this phenomenon). The author might (or might not, 20th century French philosophy can be intimidating) benefit from reading Simulacra and Simulation. The
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by viccis 11mo ago
Fortunately, it was well documented. Per the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/02/archives/letterbombs-mail...
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by viccis 11mo ago
If you're registered to vote, you are. Congrats.
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by viccis 11mo ago
That doesn't really distinguish it from Israel's government. s/Lebanon/Palestine/g, s/IRGC/USA/g, and s/Shia/Jewish/g
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by viccis 11mo ago
That would apply to Americans and Israelis too.
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by viccis 11mo ago
Would you call it terrorism when Israel sent mailbombs to US top brass, including our president?
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by viccis 11mo ago
Of course not. The IDF aren't civilians. Hezbollah officials, unless they are part of its military sub-organization, are civilians. A better comparison would be if Hamas pulled off this operation against the members of the Knesset (or,
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by viccis 11mo ago
>Afaik they intercepted a shipment for Hamas members only Ignoring that it was Hezbollah, not Hamas, I would point out that many of Hezbollah members are civilians.
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by viccis 11mo ago
Did it only focus on Hezbollah military officials? Hezbollah is a political party. This is like package bombing US congressmen, Presidential cabinet members, etc. Which would be considered a terrorist attack obviously (and was when Israel s
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by viccis 11mo ago
>understand the essence of views put forth by AR I've talked to quite a few objectivists (at one point I lived near Austin, which has one of the only, maybe THE only university in the world that treats objectivism as a serious subje
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by viccis 11mo ago
Yep, this is a classic acquisition story. You go from a hungry company out there to fight to succeed and join a big corp where most projects are just endless series of meetings people have about what they want to do without any real timelin

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