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by xdennis 4y ago
> "Crime sure is hard to stop." > "Well, just make everything legal." It's a bit of a straw man to say that GP meant we shouldn't enforce the law in the real world. GP wasn't very clear what he meant
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by xdennis 4y ago
The queen of Britain is not elected. Many monarchies have been elective[1], and in some, the monarch is often picked from the same family. Even that is a better system than "first-born child". [1]: https://en.wikipedia.
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by xdennis 4y ago
Why does every post with Russian-apologia have you in it and why do you always pretend to be Romanian?
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by xdennis 4y ago
The Azov Regiment has 900–2,500 members and 10% to 20% of them are believed to be Nazis. You think that makes it okay to call Ukraine "full of Nazis"? A single city in Russia has more Nazis than that.
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by xdennis 4y ago
If you just want to try, get a good Zeiss Ikon Contina. It's the cheapest camera (20-30 dollars for a good model) of a great quality that I have. Fully mechanic, no battery.
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by xdennis 4y ago
Most of what you're describing isn't necessary for a bike. A fixie bike doesn't have a derailleur or freewheeling. And you can slow down without breaks. You can even remove the chain. A penny-farthing bike is a surprisingly s
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by xdennis 4y ago
> This is not a free speech issue. Please be precise with your terminology. Let me take a stab in the dark: you think "free speech" refers only to the United States' First Amendment, and not a universal principle, which: *
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> And let's be real. DDoS attacks are acts of digital terrorism. No, it's not. Not everything that's bad is terrorism. Terrorism is specifically about using violence. Don't water down terms.
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He's one of the most entertaining guests though.
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In those days Rogan's audience was very small and he wasn't making much off of the podcast (if at all).
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"Base your morality on internet quotes and don't accept that people and times change." — Mark Twain
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> TBBT actually doesn't use canned laughter I don't believe that one bit. Just because they have an audience, doesn't mean they don't edit the laugh track. And just because the laugh happened in real time, it doesn&#x
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by xdennis 4y ago
When I clicked on it (4 hours after you posted this comment) it was in the 12th place on the first page. It goes up and down. Don't assume malevolence. Sometimes people flag posts. You can click "vouch" after a certain karma
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by xdennis 4y ago
I know you're being facetious, but you'd be surprised how many people think scientists shouldn't be questioned. Recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32358662
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by xdennis 4y ago
I wouldn't know, but if I were to guess it would be this article: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2207323 ("Overall, 98% of the persons with infection were gay or bisexual men")
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by xdennis 4y ago
Yes, but see what you did there? You're comparing an individual case where you have personal information to a general vibe promoted by the media. The general public has been led to believe that thousands of unarmed black men are killed
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> individuals or groups whose goals are contrary to the good of the human race These types of exaggerations are part of the problem. It would be fine if by that you meant supporters of totalitarian regimes, but I often hear this type of
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TERF and transfobic are both terms used to smear people who don't agree with some changes. They're rarely targeted at bad people. Instead, the terms are used to bully people into agreeing with unwanted changes. Take the word &quot
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Copyright is a privilege granted to man. It would be ridiculous to treat tools as people.
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I don't think there's anything to criticize about the press here. Many articles mention the calls for his assassination and bounties placed on him by Islamic extremists. But without learning more about the attacker it would be wro
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Unless he said something as he was attacking, there's no way to find out right away.
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by xdennis 4y ago
GP is saying "out of the many commonly used OSes, Windows is the only one which doesn't hide dot files", not that "Windows is an uncommon OS". But it all makes sense, Windows is CP/M based, not Unix based.
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Multics, the predecessor to Unix, was the first OS to use a hierarchical file system. Before that, file systems were typically flat: a single long list of files. I don't know how the original Unix was, but presumably flat.
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Spanish Socialist Workers' Party has been in power since 2018.
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Is The Times acceptable to you: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-criticised-over-ar...
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There are so many cases of people (especially professors) saying things like "whiteness is an incurable parasitic condition", "gas white people", "white people are villains", "abolish whiteness", etc
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Arresting people for retweets is fanning the flames.
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That's not accurate at all because stealing is a physical action. The police were there to investigate feelings. It's literally in the title: 'causing anxiety'.
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I don't think it's a joke at all. Americans may be overzealous in claiming to be number one in many things, but when it comes to free speech they are 100 % right.
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> because in British society they're willing to trade the right to say grossly offensive things to people, for protection against hearing grossly offensive things I doubt it represents British society's desire. It's more l

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