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by yew 3y ago
I dunno, every incel I ever ran into was a fedora neckbeard. The power of atheism!
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UTC is not Your Saviour(blog.nytsoi.net)
7 points by yew 3y ago|0 comments
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by yew 3y ago
Ah, Stross has the TESCREAL brainworms. I'd been wondering how long that would take. (I'm starting to really feel the point of demanding justice through violence. Some people are only willing to let others live at the moment their
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by yew 3y ago
Guessing from the comments? Don't see a publication date...
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Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist – "Withdrawing"(orionmagazine.org)
5 points by yew 3y ago|5 comments
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by yew 4y ago
What is there to talk about? I can't imagine I'm the only one who mostly cut out after everything that happened in the 2010s. Too dangerous, too unwanted, too toxic. (Fewer creeps in private communities too, of whatever kind of pe
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by yew 4y ago
One can only hope regulators keep grinding Apple's face into the ground until we have an acceptable phone. (Though the more competition the better, I say! It would only be bad for Android in a certain sense.)
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by yew 4y ago
Eh. It can happen. I know someone who's paid to moderate [1] a "grassroots" brand subreddit. It's just that "you're not real" is easier to believe than "you genuinely think Donald Trump is the proph
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by yew 4y ago
Some of them probably are effectively paid advertising teams. That doesn't really explain some of the people you used to get on forums though. Why pay someone to write 24/7 micro-serial "Transformers" fan-fiction?
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by yew 4y ago
The entire article is an extended definition of the headline term mixed with discussion of the implications of presentation bias. It's also quite concise. To the point that I almost can't believe this isn't trolling.
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by yew 4y ago
Given Wikipedia's influence on society I think I agree. Misinformation can reach at least as many people as on Facebook, and cause injury and death to real people. It's only a matter of time before Wikipedia's Myanmar genocid
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by yew 4y ago
There's no argument here. Just reactionary noises pretending to be about "human rights."
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by yew 4y ago
> Atheism is steadily growing. > The legitimacy of government follows from the consent of the governed. Here, your neckbeard is showing.
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by yew 4y ago
It's not my job to educate you about why you're wrong, but only to raise my voice as part of the chorus saying that you are. Hate and your sad support for it will always be met with refusal. You are finished.
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by yew 4y ago
As per the paradox of tolerance, targeting fascism is never harassment but always a necessary act of compassion. There's no contradiction here.
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by yew 4y ago
Eh, there's nothing wrong with banning both. A pluralistic world has no room for the kind of toxic, offensive material that comes out of these antisocial (asocial?) spaces. Voltaire was simply wrong about what an enlightened society lo
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by yew 4y ago
Ovarit took part in the harassment campaign, so hopefully they go next. Don't know if Cloudflare hosts them though. Edit: And 4chan is always bigger but more diffuse. Hard to say who's more of a pest. Edit edit: I think the import
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by yew 4y ago
Good. Now that we've finally established that Cloudflare isn't impotent after all, it's time to go down the list. No more faux "conversations." This isn't the only site they already know they need to drop.
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by yew 4y ago
Sorry, I meant the links in the article you submitted. They're all archive.today links. It's an archiving service (like the Internet Archive) that seems to run on one person's money, PayPal, and advertising ( unlike the Inte
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by yew 4y ago
But the author says a partial number is revealed? Edit: I just tried logging in. It's exactly as the author describes - I enter my email and get a "Log in with a one-time code" page with my partial phone number. The code is s
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by yew 4y ago
Weird. What's with all the archive.today links? Isn't it run by some random anonymous person? It's definitely plastered with advertising.
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by yew 4y ago
Exactly. Demanding that Facebook upend the law for personal benefit has never been a real political position. It's just animals making a mess all over the democratic system.
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by yew 4y ago
They're not the government. They've no obligation to platform anyone at all, whatever sort of extremist they are. Get used to it, examine why the world will be a better place, move on.
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by yew 4y ago
Wouldn't've thought of that. Seems like a good way to raise awareness around campaign season.
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by yew 4y ago
Fandom types and 80s hackers have that in common - mostly white neckbeards roleplaying diversity and thinking it's for real. (Most of the people who called themselves "anarchists" back then too. Feels like political spaces ha
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by yew 5y ago
I make no objection.
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by yew 5y ago
Probably worth noting that it's a metaphor for why the government can criminalize opposing a wartime draft. (Probably worth noting why they can't.)
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by yew 6y ago
This article really deserves more attention. I hope you repost it at some point. The Datacultr app mentioned is a particularly barefaced example of efficiently extracting small amounts of money from many users through hardware control. Th
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by yew 6y ago
I mean, he has started spreading TERF propaganda on Twitter (because those particular brainworms always infect the new converts, for whatever reason). That and the Trump thing aren't minor ideological differences - they're funda
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by yew 6y ago
I hate to break it to you, but Greenwald is just another "I was a teenage leftist" Republican getting ready for his book tour. He's been pandering to Trump supporters for a few years now... He's a terrible example to cit

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