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by zpeti 5y ago
So, why don't Solarpunk advocates just move to China? Seems like an ideal place with less and less capitalism over the last few years, 90% of the world's solar panel production, lots of futuristic skyscrapers. I mean seriously. Ju
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I'm pretty sure in US law authorities can stop you from doing that, that's why these services have warrant canaries which are legally sound. Not sure what swiss law is like, but I can imagine they might not be allowed to notify th
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I agree with you, that the majority are not like this. The trouble is the people setting agendas in culture generally, mostly the media, are basically the extreme woke types you say are the minority. And these people actually have power, as
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To give you the perfect example, I think all the types of people who were protesting (100% correctly) at the Occupy Wall Street movements have been completely neutered and neutralised with this woke movement in corporations. These bankers a
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These two paragraphs from Glen greenwald are my favorite and very relevant to your post: “But they [GCHQ] want you to know that they absolutely adore gay people. In fact, they love the cause of LGBT equality so very much that, beginning on
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If a group wants to organise a non property right town or city or country, that’s fine by libertarians. If everyone is making that choice freely. So freedom is the core. What you are talking about is more Austrian economics.
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The ACLU supported the rights of neo nazis to protest in a Jewish neighborhood. While not strictly a libertarian organisation, that is exactly the attitude. And libertarians would support that too. The rights of others to be free just like
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Unfortunately this laissez fair approach is the exact opposite of modern wokeness. It’s their way or it’s attacks and cancellation. If you’re an oppressor class you have almost no way to be forgiven. The easiest way to show this is just ask
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Funny how you are getting downvoted, I can guess the thinking behind it. But you are right. The way rape is being treated now is like saying an accidental traffic accident manslaughter should be punished like a serial killer. It’s just not
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> the entire reason Maybe it’s a teeny weeny more complex than that? Plenty of cultures and religions that did the same don’t exist any more. So I don’t think killing heretics and taking their children is a guarantee to success for a rel
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That reasoning is interesting because I know most people think it’s true, yet actually governments almost everywhere have progressively gotten larger and more powerful over the last 100 years. Yet these “global issues” are getting worse. To
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> Contemporary art is an excellent place to observe this phenomenon; there is very little connection between "aesthetic value" and "market value." There's something very strange I've noticed in contemporary
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As opposed to which news outlet that isn't a propaganda outlet for someone?
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Good point. Another issue is how many people outside the US have gotten disposable income over the last 50 years. Those people all can now invest some of their income, creating massive demand for investments. Like what robinhood did, but at
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This to me is a nice distraction from the fact that since 2008 most western governments have bought an insane amount of bonds from banks, including their own government bonds, with printed money, creating artificial demand for the very prod
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They are probably too busy pretending to be activist and on the side of minorities in the western world, ie taking zero risks pretending to be virtuous. In the meantime the actual authoritarians who are persecuting religions and minorities
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Isn't is total subscription revenue divided by number of songs played? How is that coming to $0.004 per stream spotifies fault? What are they supposed to do?
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As a comment already says, this was due to meeting targets agreed 10 years ago. Now a lot of that is due to share prices, and my opinion is share prices are not set by the market any more, are massively inflated to make the US government lo
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Not just ML, with everything moving to cloud services, while consumers still use phones plus laptops, the number of chips used per person more and more.
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Try retalk.
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Many pro vaccine people basically attack people who have had the infection and don’t want the vaccine, and call them anti science and anti vaccine, and judging by your tone you have similar views. Yet from a science perspective they have a
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It’s literally called human rights. Not society rights. A comment above is amazing, we should call these new human rights citizenship rights, because that’s what they are. They’re not human rights which should be undisputable rights that ev
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And this is what Americans usually believe, Europeans not so much. And as a European this makes me sad. I hate living somewhere where most people believe government allows them to do things rather than tells them what not to do. It’s a smal
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You are right. It’s a sliding scale. But that scale has tilted completely to one side in the last 50 years, as I said. Everything has moved towards more generalized human rights and not towards less. I'd like to understand how you woul
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If one human or group of humans can’t force another to do something, that is freedom. It’s pretty simple really.
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Laws should not be mechanical. I agree. That’s what they are for. Human rights by definition should. Of course they haven’t been for a long time. I’m not American btw. Just someone who understands how ridiculously fragile our current politi
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This hijacking of the definition of human rights in the last 50 years is a catastrophy. A human right should only be a negative right, something that I cannot be forced to do. It is a human right that I can't be forced to do anything y
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Your only legitimate point about them being really stupid is that they are slow. But this evolving and improving. It's the only hurdle to crypto having all the properties of a real currency. And it will be fixed. On the other side you
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If there aren’t ever any consequences to making huge mistakes that kill millions of people, what are the incentives in the future to not do it again? The CCP knowingly hid information about infections. This whole thing could have been conta
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Things like this usually come down to incentives. And right now I don’t see how almost any major power’s leaders have any incentive to push an investigation forwards. We are too dependent on China to piss them off, and so far experience sho

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