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by word-reader 7y ago
The Trump administration actually did this with bump stocks with an administrative determination that bump stocks constitute an automatic weapon. Granted, it wasn't millions, but probably at least tens of thousands of people had a few
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by word-reader 7y ago
In US cities it seems the norm is to never say a word to strangers about anything, ever, so it then follows that anyone who does talk to you is more likely trying to grift you. Which makes you even less likely to talk to strangers in the fu
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by word-reader 7y ago
When I moved to NYC, I was used to walking around with a pleasant and welcoming face, "without armor" as you say. Unfortunately, this caused me to be accosted multiple times a day by beggars, scammers, or just crazy people. After
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by word-reader 7y ago
"8chan committed mass murder" is really stretching guilt-by-association in my opinion.
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by word-reader 7y ago
yospermtest.com sells an at home test that is basically a magnifying lens and collection tray that attaches to your phone, and an app to analyze the sample. edit: Yes, the referral thing is absurd. People answering the phones at medical off
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by word-reader 7y ago
I am kind of upset there is no commercial way to test your blood or urine for endocrine disruptors. You can test your hormones for $100-300 depending on how comprehensive you want, and you can test sperm quality directly for another $100-20
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by word-reader 7y ago
Cloudflare is the gateway to 20% of the internet. Their CEO is harping on a vague term he calls "Rule of Law" as he capriciously and personally terminates a customer's account, demonstrating lack of knowledge of key facts in
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by word-reader 7y ago
Matthew Prince could have just said "per our terms of service we don't provide services for websites that violate US law and 8chan allows posts that in our opinion incite imminent lawless action, therefore we're terminating t
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by word-reader 7y ago
Drug markets and terrorist groups are against US law while racist speech and broadly advocating the necessity of violence are not. Cloudflare had previously drawn the line at providing services for any US-legal content, then they suddenly c
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by word-reader 7y ago
It had already been against Cloudflare's ToS to transmit unlawful content, like child pornography or sex trafficking. These things do not exist on 8chan. I am suggesting that Cloudflare could have clarified or expanded "unlawful c
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by word-reader 7y ago
I would say that Matthew Prince and associates just wanted to feel better about themselves, avoid further bad PR, and not have things be awkward around town.
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by word-reader 7y ago
This post repeatedly refers to 8chan as "lawless" and "unmoderated" but it is neither. As a whole, it is a public website subject to US law, complete with DMCA and search warrant contact forms. The sitewide rule is that
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by word-reader 7y ago
In developed countries most HIV transmission is due to anal sex between men who have sex with men, where the odds of transmission per single act are more like 1 in 30. The transmission is much more heterosexual in Africa however, where most
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by word-reader 7y ago
You can get it prescribed online. I think you just video chat with a doctor, then they prescribe. Plushcare and Nurx are 2 sites I found just by searching.
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by word-reader 7y ago
The actual fact is that YouTube has publicly committed itself to doing exactly that (building levers to raise and lower the profile of individual videos and channels), and continues to face media pressure to keep doing so as corporate polic
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by word-reader 7y ago
Countdown to the domain being seized. You'd think there would be some alternative to DNS by now for the pirate crowd.
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by word-reader 7y ago
This might be frequently true of travel qua travel, but people also go places for other reasons, like business, meeting & having fun with friends, specific activities that can't be done at home, or just relaxation sans broadcasti
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by word-reader 7y ago
Not nearly enough has been written about "travel as status-seeking". It is for some a way to portray that you're not materialistic, but still dunk on all the poors and other outgroup members while blowing thousands of dollars
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by word-reader 7y ago
I think DDG and Qwant basically use Bing as a backend, potentially augmenting with their own crawlers. Yandex and Mojeek use all their own stuff, as far as I can tell. The query is "alex jones". At least put the garbage website at
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by word-reader 7y ago
Just as an example: a controversial political figure's popular website is buried on page 5 of Google results (underneath a mountain of criticism) when you search for his name, despite being in the top 3 results of page 1 for all of Qwa
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by word-reader 7y ago
This isn't the same thing as the copyright directive. There is some ambiguity in the proposal about whether they would have to filter things that are shared privately (as opposed to posted publicly). But it repeatedly uses phrases like
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by word-reader 7y ago
Right, every (x86) CPU sold since 2008 is already backdoored by the US. Honestly as US citizen who will never go to China, I'd rather be backdoored by China, since they can't throw me in jail, seize all my assets, or generally rui
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by word-reader 7y ago
It looks like something similar is going to be legally required in the EU [1]. For encrypted chat apps like WhatsApp, the content filtering database can simply be baked into the client application [2]. [1] https://torrentfreak.co
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by word-reader 7y ago
Ah, true. But they had lots of family sources and court records for Williams, and I suppose no spokesperson from the insurance companies wanted to talk, so most of the article is just about him. I wish journalists would develop some more so
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by word-reader 7y ago
The guy is a grifter, no doubt. But the general tone of the article implies that I should be concerned about some random sleazeball for raising my healthcare costs, rather than the insurance companies themselves (who in this case basically
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by word-reader 7y ago
The scammer ended up with $4M in his pocket, for providing personal training services to 1000 people. Now, it sounds like he would also fraudulently bill the insurance companies for exercise sessions that didn't happen. But let's