wilsocr88

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by wilsocr88 6y ago
What I mean by that is that Stalin-descended (or maybe it should say "Marx-descended") ideology is, by the raw death toll numbers, FAR worse than the Nazis (who were also unbelievably bad, just to be completely clear). I use the p
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
And, additionally, the same tactics were called "mostly peaceful" by the news media (until the other side followed suit, of course).
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
"Centuries of European oppression" is a very easy anti-White dog whistle because it's often fairly accurate, so it's easy to toss it in to bludgeon a person into submission in a discussion. How unfortunate for the commen
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. If there's one thing the last 5 or so years should teach us is that newspeak isn't a language, it's the entire technological communications apparatus of the West.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Weaponized is the correct word. The word "racist" is morphing into a racial slur. It's now just a bludgeon to shut up someone with the wrong views. I believe this comes from the idea that the only possible way to be moral is
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
The Times and many other supposed gold-standard papers have shown themselves to be unforgivably biased and politically compromised over and over and over. It's a sad thing that the entire communications apparatus of the West seems to b
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
My kids are desperate to go back to school and see their friends. We don't realize how much damage the desire for safety over freedom is doing long term.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
My question on dark mode is, will it become a standard feature across most apps, or will it be seen as a craze that faded away as quickly as it came? It seems amazingly useful to me, but I've spoken to people who can't stand it.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Pattern recognition leads me to believe that this will not serve its intended purpose, but will instead be misused as a bludgeon.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
This strikes me as an alarming defense of the most destructive parts of our current epoch. The culture in question usually does not take the form of speaking truth to power. More often it is unreasonable people destroying the lives and liv
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Addendum: "The Fed" that you rightly mention and the headline's "America's 1%" are, for all intents and purposes, identical.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
You're searching for the worst possible motivation in those you think you may disagree with, and insisting that it's the only real motivation. That's a very easy trap to fall into, and it leads to habitual hate against "
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
When a person tells you their own lived experience, the thing to NOT say is, "nah, that's probably not true."
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
You are associating something unrelated with what I was saying.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
You and I have been assigned opposite worldviews by the failed communications apparatus we are both subjected to. We cannot begin to have a conversation. Thank you for taking the time to reply.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
That very plainly was not the users' wishes. The users' wishes were "go away, window, I want to see my feed, yes whatever, click." That was something that ill-informed users were effectively tricked into doing by a malic
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
If Facebook can't maintain a business model without selling their well-trained and dopamine-addicted userbase like a commodity, then their business model does not deserve to be maintained.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
The angle nobody ever mentions on this issue is that nothing mass-produces racism and extremist political views more than treating an entire generation of young men as though they are automatically racist, regardless of their actions, or la
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
I love the phrasing of the headline. At first it sounds almost accusatory. Caught red handed! :) MySpace was in Coldfusion, I'm pretty sure, so maybe they were playing with that at some point.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Anything designed to "increase user engagement" is actually effectively spiking emotions as much as possible. It's a much bigger problem than anyone currently realizes.
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Reddit essentially gets users addicted, then surrounds them with what appears to be an environment driven by a kind of democratic consensus (everyone can vote!) but which is actually very tightly curated and edited toward political and soci
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
The decision to partially "let go" of Rustlang as an asset on some level makes Mozilla something like the anti-Google. If Mozilla make this a habit, they'll come closer to achieving their mission, and the spirit of FOSS. It&#
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
> ...if money is allowed to pool like this, devils grow in it. If you don't fucking govern , if you don't moat these things in a circle of salt, they will invariably become something uncontainable - something too big to fail,
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
I'd hazard a guess that the four years of similar violence from antifa blackshirts also had such metadata available to law enforcement. If FAANG and their downstream media pawns had painted that violence as an insurrection, as was it
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
Did the blackshirt antifa arsonists have phones? What about the more violent among the BLM protestors? They were called "mostly peaceful" for doing exactly this, but now that same conduct is an "insurrection" and we&#x27
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
How do you kill an idea? You remove the ability to communicate about that idea. Social media is Newspeak. The fucked up part is, we all assumed it would be the government who was doing it. In reality, Big Brother is firmly in the private se
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
This is legitimately terrifying. >In a way, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
It is an unfailingly strange cultural experience for me to hang out with someone who enjoys wrestling. A big fan of pro wrestling is deeply aware of the realities of the performances, both in and out of kayfabe, how and when things in the l
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
As always, there is a relevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/1439/
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by wilsocr88 6y ago
This makes me think of how Python coders say that code is or isn't "Pythonic" So what would Rusts equivalent be... Rustic? Namespaces are not Rustic.

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