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by vik0 2y ago
>I suppose that's why a silly Canadian like me wouldn't know much about other countries. We just don't have free speech. You're speaking of Canada, the same country where the (Canadian) Bill of Rights can be suspended
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by vik0 2y ago
>> Unfortunately outside the US and a handful of other places free speech doesn't seem to be valued that much, often it's even viewed as a threat >Can you convince me of this? Because it's not my impression. In my co
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by vik0 2y ago
Sure, and superficially what you're saying does make sense... except that it's using deductive reasoning. There are plenty of cases where people with academic credentials vote for the same people you say dumb people do. Dumb peopl
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by vik0 2y ago
Mind sharing where you moved and how that prevented you from going to the road, from as you say: "just as bigoted and close minded as most of my family.", to whatever you became afterward? Do you think had you moved to another pla
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by vik0 2y ago
>It's not surprising that this push comes amid the understanding that the less educated one is, the more likely they are to vote R [2]. I saw the article, and it does indeed show this, however, I'm not sold that education is th
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by vik0 2y ago
>If you're rich, powerful and an unethical asshole those are two things you definitely do not want. This smells like a half-baked conspiracy theory. It's not like the overwhelming majority of people want to get smarter in their
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by vik0 2y ago
Wouldn't the US government banning tiktok be unconstitutional?[1] I'm genuinely asking. What kind of forum would tiktok be categorized as?[2] Nonpublic forum? In which case, it's legal for the government to ban it? "in a
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by vik0 2y ago
Oh wow, it's been a while since I've seen a vimeo link. Can't believe it's still a thing
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by vik0 2y ago
I suppose it's a matter of preference at the end of the day. I can't imagine myself holding a kindle or any other tablet-like reading device and reading books that way, unless a book I want to read is somehow prohibitively expensi
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by vik0 2y ago
I never understood why, barring lack of money, people would rather read something on a screen (even if it is e-ink) instead of holding an actual book in their hands and reading it that way. The smell alone of any book (used or new) is worth
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by vik0 2y ago
I wonder what browser you're using. Some fork of Firefox, I assume?
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by vik0 2y ago
Oh wow, this is a fun website. Thanks for sharing!
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by vik0 2y ago
I am extremely glad engineers are not in charge. Only an engineer (with a teeny-tiny dash of mid to high levels of egoism because of presumably how smart he thinks he is; the keyword being "thinks") thinks of humans as nothing els
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by vik0 3y ago
>why is it that there has never been a black pope? There were a few popes of African descent, though; don't know if their skin color happened to be black Still, I don't get why it would matter to any Catholic (I'm not Cath
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by vik0 3y ago
The first sentence of the article reads: >*Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results* This was never about articles, it is about books, though. You can't retroactively publish a boo
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by vik0 3y ago
Sounds good, but it's not like it has been passed. It's just a bill >While the bill is still a draft and has not yet passed the German Parliament, there is reason to celebrate: For once politicians want to strengthen encryption
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by vik0 3y ago
>In the case of humans and animals, consciousness is a way to adapt to the environment to protect their lives, fulfill their needs and eventually reproduce. Consciousness is useful for life. But in the case of the sun, what is it adaptin
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by vik0 3y ago
>Taleb really has a high opinion only of himself That's not true though. I can name at least two other people on whom he has a high opinion (a.k.a he's praised them in his books): Karl Popper and George Soros. There are others
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by vik0 3y ago
May he rest in peace
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by vik0 3y ago
Yup, exactly this
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by vik0 3y ago
>It appears the ship lost power twice before hitting the bridge. https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/baltimore-bridge-collap... Too early to tell Still, the captain should make sure the ship is operational to
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by vik0 3y ago
>I don't see any reason why anyone living in or <100km near a city would ever want this. Because not every country has widespread consumer-grade 5G and fiber-optic infrastructure set up? I swear some of you here live in a bubble
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by vik0 3y ago
I can spot the satellites (sometimes) if I look up at night, but it's not like I see anything more than a bunch of dim lights beaming across the sky. So I don't think that counts as light pollution
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by vik0 3y ago
Alright, thanks
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by vik0 3y ago
>widely thought I would say this is an appeal to majority logical fallacy, but can we even quantify how many people actually believe in this, who have heard of this relatively obscure war in the first place? Even at-the-time US Deputy Se
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by vik0 3y ago
And what are you implying exactly?
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by vik0 3y ago
> Every country that has done these things has seen its fertility drop. And this result is somehow supposed to be a good thing? Every country that has this result, no matter how we theorize that it got there in the first place, is now fa
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by vik0 3y ago
Thanks, will do
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by vik0 3y ago
>I read the whole thing. Alright > It's literally a showcase of all the mental tics and obfuscations involved in the construction of artificial national histories as I described in my earlier comment. I agree, all nations are art
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by vik0 3y ago
You didn't even bother to read the comment, did you?

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