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by vimacs2 5y ago
As if anyone needed even more incentive to execute war criminals like pigs in a slaughter house.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
The exact same thing could be said for the American Republic. There are millions of people living below the poverty line, a stratified society in both financial and political terms, and widespread racism and sexism. Also, common to Rome is
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by vimacs2 5y ago
The only objection I have to this post that I have is the notion that there was a democracy there to begin with. Before Julius Caesar attempted (unsuccessfully) to monopolise power in the Old Republic, there was already a ever widening chas
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Cute attempt at establishing a completely made up dichotomy but generally the politeness of a police force is correlated with how effective it is, not inversely.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
If being an exporter of terrorism is all it takes to be disqualified to possess nukes, then the USA and Russia should have lost theirs a long long time ago.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Except the difference is the Americans never had to deal with a hostile next door neighbour with the personal financial and arms backing of the world's largest military superpower so this is a laughable attempt at equivocation. You mig
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by vimacs2 5y ago
You sound like somebody who's sampled a grand total of 1 tiling wm and now thinks they know the field. You do not. By your reasoning, i3 is a copycat of ION or wmii and shouldn't have even bothered. There is plenty of room in the
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Maybe fascist is a little extreme but nationalist definitely fit the bill. Not every American thinks America as a geopolitical entity in itself is a positive thing. Hence helping them in an arm's race would be outright immoral unless i
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Seems a bit of a weird double standard there. Why exactly should Libya and North Korea not have nukes? They have powerful hostile forces against them as well. India also absolutely required nukes because Pakistan definitely does act the agg
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by vimacs2 5y ago
You mean his damage to American hegemony, right? They tend to hate it when they can't bully countries with their oversized military so no surprise that they villanise their deterrents. The hypocrisy is pretty sickening if a little amus
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Except there are already anti-anti-adblockers out there like REEK which work very well. Their campaigns might escalate but so would the efforts of the adblockers and in a fight between an established tech player like Mozilla and even a very
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Regardless of your feelings on crypto, it absolutely is superior than the default. With Brave, you only need to trust them. With Firefox, you need to trust every Tom, Dick, and Harry with access to Google Analytics. Also, you can choose to
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Considering the fact that Firefox has had less than 5% coverage of the browser market for years now, this is not very reassuring. It's also quite frankly missing the point. It shows a clear case of mission statement in conflict with bu
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Nearly every company is authoritarian inherently. It's a small group of people or even one person leveraging capital to exploit the labour of a much larger group of people for profit with zero democratic process. I'm not disagreei
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by vimacs2 5y ago
While I don't necessarily buy the panpsychism you're outlining, I appreciate the fact that you actually make the distinction between experience of qualia (the hard problem) and self-awareness, which we arguably already are capable
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by vimacs2 5y ago
You mean via nuclear transumation? That's not chemical nor particularly practical in a pre-fusion powered economy The problem with your third assertion is even if we accept that there is no way to prove the consciousness of others, you
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Considering the Taliban were from their inception an alliance of wealthy landlords and mullahs funded by the US to deal with the socialist and secular revolution underway in Afghanistan during the late 70's, it's no surprise. One
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Some of your linked comment was valid but your "negative natural selection" take was just nonsense. Superbugs have nothing at all to do with vaccinations. It's the result of overly zealous use of antibiotics that gets cut bef
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by vimacs2 5y ago
His comment contained information (namely that the FDA process is not particularly strict compared to European standards) whereas your comment had zero information. On an objective level, he had a higher quality contribution. Go easy on the
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I don't see much connection there. Anti-vaxxers were (and in fact still are) predominantly wealthy white people but that's a function of having an excess of free time and lack of first hand experience with much death or infectious
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by vimacs2 5y ago
You are in fact wrong. It was the CIA and the military-industrial complex invested in plundering Iraq that pushed the WMD theory and the resulting war was something with bipartisan support in the USA - liberals and conservatives alike. Not
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Framing the EFF's position as being against browser safety or spam protection is disingenuous.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
But the effort required to build such a structure, even if physically possible is far more than building the equivalent in a swarm and the utility of such a swarm is greater especially when you consider that the typical sci-fi trope of livi
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by vimacs2 5y ago
This comment demonstrates both confusion of the Dyson sphere concept with it's sci-fi bastardisation as well as a lack of understanding of scale, and especially of the mechanics of black hole power production. Dyson spheres (or Dyson s
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by vimacs2 5y ago
This comment is like saying to somebody explaining the increased rate of car crashes with people talking on phones as a consequence of divided attention as saying that has nothing to do with that and it's because we're genetically
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by vimacs2 5y ago
For me, this was the true dealbreaker as otherwise, this ticks a lot of boxes for me. It seems like such a clear cost saving move without any benefit to the customer and makes the already steep price unbearable.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
A lot of excellent points though it's completely inaccurate to frame the fall of the Soviet Union's scientific progress due to their hierarchy replacing the "prior capitalist one" when the former lead to the mass industr
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by vimacs2 5y ago
"easily disproven lies", what lies exactly? Even a Jew stuck in a ghetto in Nazi Germany enjoyed significantly better privacy at home from both the state and capital than a wealthy citizen in a typical western liberal nation today
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Power which was extended through the use of said technology. I'm fine with focusing on regressive hierarchical systems as the fundamental root of oppression but pretending like the information and mechanical technology introduced in th
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Thanks for sharing your story and it was definitely relevant. I find that many people demanding solutions with complaints are not really looking for a solution, they just want you to shut up. I see this a lot actually in politics as well. T

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