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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Can you share your light one? I've never been able to find a white background scheme I actually love, rather than tolerate...
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> Using the military to kill civilians in Eastern Ukraine was definitely the start of the war, you can save the attempt at cleverness. I mean, you just made this up out of whole cloth. It's fiction, no it's worse than that, it&
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
I mean, at some level, every single human is different, at another level we're all the same. I'm not sure what we're proving here. The original claim was something about liberty and security and no one in this chain seems int
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
I hope I wasn't coming off as quoting/endorsing that book, but easy access to a major fuel source has got to be at least somewhat relevant
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> People should fully understand that their actions reflect their character As if "character" was some kind of immutable attribute you are born with.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> The Western Roman Empire has nothing to do with "the West". I think it's fascinating that that's even suggested. I got that bit from wikipedia, it amused me. As for germans, if they do not share such a viewpoint (an
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Ah yes, the "culturally russian civilians" that... were mostly part of the ukraine army or the russian sponsored rebellion. Boy. How awful. > I count a war as started when someone starts murdering people w the military So sadda
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Things people did, sure, but not why they did them here and not there is a bit trickier. There's a variety of theories, easy access to coal is my favorite, but some people like to blame the magna carta or something.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Well, my comments got more upvotes than yours did, and this is a democracy, so I guess I win?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
I mean, nobody knows why "the west" (whatever that is) leapfrogged anyone, and this is a fairly small period in terms of total human history.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
If you'd said "isn't just a western thing" I would have definitely agreed, but this claim seems a bit unlikely.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
What even is a "nato apologist"??? > Where have you seen it used outside of Americans Well, there was this minor thing called "the western roman empire" for a few years, so that might be a starting point. I am fasci
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Perhaps we can work on what is called "media literacy" where we understand text based on its context and authorship and other such clues.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Did I miss the news of ukraine joining nato or something? More to the point, this is some hardcore "she was asking for it" victim blaming. You know who started the war? THE COUNTRY THAT LAUNCHED THE INVASION.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> don't need any more of the latter, especially the ones who commit violent crimes and are otherwise a threat to society Weirdly we're fine with the legal citizens who do that though
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
It would probably help if you made a more specific point rather than just ranting in very vague terms. Grouping terms like "the west" can be broad enough to include over half of all living humans or so narrow that it applies to a
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
But we're not criticizng him for not registering for the democratic national convention or the republican one or whatever you think "belonging to a political camp" even means (what does it mean, exactly?) He's being crti
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
People here are making arguments about what should be. Either as interpretations or created laws. We all know that the actual interpretation is up to 5 republicans on the supreme court and whatever they feel on a given day will increase
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
"pursuit of the truth" is an ideology. What are you trying to say here? Glenn is, essentially, hypocritcal because he ignores things that go against his predetermined narrative. Does he post true things sometimes? Sure, but is i
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
> AFAIC we started the whole conflict. Is this talking point still being paid for? I haven't seen it in a while, but I guess I don't keep track that closely. What are the other russian provided talking points these days?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
You make a really good point I think, if the government just leaves us alone then we can solve all of our own problems with the friendly assistance of ma bell/standard oil/google/facebook.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Rfk the brainworms guy?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
If you or I had complete knowledge of all of apple's activities, this would be a more relevant point. Instead we have to make judgements based on what limited information we possess and sucking up to trump is a real bad sign for things
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
We're talking about trump, try to stay on topic?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
If we're nitpicking, is it queue or cue?
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
>The whole benefit of text-based interface is that search, filter and transformation is always available That's the point about TUIs, they remove this benefit. You can't (practically) grep the output of btop or vim or whatever.
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
I'm not sure it's the worst attribute you can have, but I definitely agree with the sentiment. As I've gotten older, I've become less fond of slippery slope style arguments. People love making them for censorship-relat
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
Sometimes code review is so fast it's literally instant (because people aren't actually reading the code). I think it's one of those sort of, dunno, wink wink situations where we all know that doing real in depth code reviews
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
I mean, it's even easier to just not read the code in the first place, I'm not sure what that proves, other than perhaps an implicit collorary to the original quote "reading code is quite hard (so people rarely bother)"
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by wredcoll 8mo ago
I can read a line of code and tell you that it's storing a pointer in this array cell and removing this other pointer and incrementing this integer by 6 and so on. None of that tells me if that is the correct thing to be doing. Detec

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