No one is saying this is a genocide at the "hands of the Jews". Jews are not a monoculture, and while there are Jewish people involved in this genocide, this is clearly at the hands of the current state of Israel (and…
> The consumers’ 2021 lawsuit said Amazon violated antitrust law by restricting third-party sellers from offering their products for lower prices elsewhere on rival platforms while they are also for sale on Amazon. Holy…
Curious, what makes that not safe for work? It's a discussion about a handgun manufacturing error, and the manufacturer's failure to respond adequately to it.
> many of Americas regions are effectively uncivilized I suppose America does have a lot of undeveloped land and national parks that are left wild, but I don't see how that could ... > ... the real number of Africans…
Because English language news sources aren't particularly interested in developing the relationships necessary to report on Chinese scientific breakthroughs. It undermines the prevailing media narrative that China is…
Just out of curiosity, what do you think an ion is?
You are describing people misusing the expression "Dog Whistle" and then saying that's the definition. It's fine to say people overuse the term, or apply it incorrectly, but like, the definition is unambiguous here.
That's not what "dog whistles" are, lol. Dog Whistle means "coded language" basically. Dog whistles are where someone says something that their audience will understand to mean a specific thing, but will be inaudible or…
> I wouldn’t really care how someone got to the end result that is a PR. I can generate 1,000 PRs today against an open source project using AI. I think you do care, you are only thinking about the happy path where…
China is expected to have hit peak coal consumption this year, and within 25 years it might not be burned as a base generation fuel any more. The trend line there is clearly renewable energy (particularly solar) taking…
Would reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere reverse current problems? On it's own, it would start to, yes. It would reduce global temperatures, reduce weather irregularities, begin to cool the globe back down.…
That's needlessly complex. It's means testing for CO2. Means testing is a huge waste of effort, imo. If the US, Europe, Russia, India, and China stop burning fossil fuels, we'll be well on our way. I'm not really…
Stop burning fossil fuels, build infrastructure to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Extract the minimum number of fossil fuels necessary to serve non-fuel uses. The solution is not easy. But it is known.
It has nothing to do with "white guilt" or fetishism. It's not a race thing at all. It's a "my nation recently and currently systematically exploited people. I would like my nation to try to make those people whole"…
That's not a generalization. That's a totally separate argument. Making someone whole for the loss of a phone does not require you to provide them housing (which is significantly more valuable than the phone was.) It…
Generalize this line of thought. "A thief stole an iphone and dropped it on my doorstep. I kept it, despite knowing it was stolen, because I did not ask the thief to steal it for me". It's very silly on the small scale.…
I've been to plenty of Food Not Bombs events where people are being fed and the prevailing attitude was, "If there are people needing to be fed, let them come and we'll feed them." The same folks were handing out harm…
> no police officer would simply walk by You and I have very different experiences with police officers. Police Officers may walk by someone overdosing is hardly a claim that needs any evidence in my experience because…
Plenty of big thinkers out there think nations and citizenship are outmoded concepts, or they are concepts that provoke needless violence. They find their own nationalities an embarrassment.
You've demonstrated the problem with good ideas, and the vulnerabilities they have quite well. The parent poster said nothing of the sort, but you've: * inserted a bunch of words into their mouth * engaged in a…
No, but they benefitted from the colonialism and fight efforts to return those benefits to the colonized. We're not talking about something that happened thousands of years ago here.
Open Source was always a collection of anarchist experiments in different ways of working. It turns out that it's quite effective and popular, and people will organize themselves naturally around projects they find…
> The only time democracy works incorruptibly is in small groups where everyone knows each other and everyone knows what's going on. This is demonstrably untrue, there are plenty of cases of stable democratic systems.…
Many such cases. The Democrats, (in)famously, conflate the two. Ask Democrats about direct democracy and you'll get a whooolllle lot of hemming and hawing.
A whole of stuff here feels... emotionally loaded in a way that's designed to be manipulative rather than heartfelt. Saying "A gun craves to be shot" is a clear example -- guns don't crave anything. I'm a pro-gun…
No one is saying this is a genocide at the "hands of the Jews". Jews are not a monoculture, and while there are Jewish people involved in this genocide, this is clearly at the hands of the current state of Israel (and…
> The consumers’ 2021 lawsuit said Amazon violated antitrust law by restricting third-party sellers from offering their products for lower prices elsewhere on rival platforms while they are also for sale on Amazon. Holy…
Curious, what makes that not safe for work? It's a discussion about a handgun manufacturing error, and the manufacturer's failure to respond adequately to it.
> many of Americas regions are effectively uncivilized I suppose America does have a lot of undeveloped land and national parks that are left wild, but I don't see how that could ... > ... the real number of Africans…
Because English language news sources aren't particularly interested in developing the relationships necessary to report on Chinese scientific breakthroughs. It undermines the prevailing media narrative that China is…
Just out of curiosity, what do you think an ion is?
You are describing people misusing the expression "Dog Whistle" and then saying that's the definition. It's fine to say people overuse the term, or apply it incorrectly, but like, the definition is unambiguous here.
That's not what "dog whistles" are, lol. Dog Whistle means "coded language" basically. Dog whistles are where someone says something that their audience will understand to mean a specific thing, but will be inaudible or…
> I wouldn’t really care how someone got to the end result that is a PR. I can generate 1,000 PRs today against an open source project using AI. I think you do care, you are only thinking about the happy path where…
China is expected to have hit peak coal consumption this year, and within 25 years it might not be burned as a base generation fuel any more. The trend line there is clearly renewable energy (particularly solar) taking…
Would reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere reverse current problems? On it's own, it would start to, yes. It would reduce global temperatures, reduce weather irregularities, begin to cool the globe back down.…
That's needlessly complex. It's means testing for CO2. Means testing is a huge waste of effort, imo. If the US, Europe, Russia, India, and China stop burning fossil fuels, we'll be well on our way. I'm not really…
Stop burning fossil fuels, build infrastructure to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Extract the minimum number of fossil fuels necessary to serve non-fuel uses. The solution is not easy. But it is known.
It has nothing to do with "white guilt" or fetishism. It's not a race thing at all. It's a "my nation recently and currently systematically exploited people. I would like my nation to try to make those people whole"…
That's not a generalization. That's a totally separate argument. Making someone whole for the loss of a phone does not require you to provide them housing (which is significantly more valuable than the phone was.) It…
Generalize this line of thought. "A thief stole an iphone and dropped it on my doorstep. I kept it, despite knowing it was stolen, because I did not ask the thief to steal it for me". It's very silly on the small scale.…
I've been to plenty of Food Not Bombs events where people are being fed and the prevailing attitude was, "If there are people needing to be fed, let them come and we'll feed them." The same folks were handing out harm…
> no police officer would simply walk by You and I have very different experiences with police officers. Police Officers may walk by someone overdosing is hardly a claim that needs any evidence in my experience because…
Plenty of big thinkers out there think nations and citizenship are outmoded concepts, or they are concepts that provoke needless violence. They find their own nationalities an embarrassment.
You've demonstrated the problem with good ideas, and the vulnerabilities they have quite well. The parent poster said nothing of the sort, but you've: * inserted a bunch of words into their mouth * engaged in a…
No, but they benefitted from the colonialism and fight efforts to return those benefits to the colonized. We're not talking about something that happened thousands of years ago here.
Open Source was always a collection of anarchist experiments in different ways of working. It turns out that it's quite effective and popular, and people will organize themselves naturally around projects they find…
> The only time democracy works incorruptibly is in small groups where everyone knows each other and everyone knows what's going on. This is demonstrably untrue, there are plenty of cases of stable democratic systems.…
Many such cases. The Democrats, (in)famously, conflate the two. Ask Democrats about direct democracy and you'll get a whooolllle lot of hemming and hawing.
A whole of stuff here feels... emotionally loaded in a way that's designed to be manipulative rather than heartfelt. Saying "A gun craves to be shot" is a clear example -- guns don't crave anything. I'm a pro-gun…