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That's a social credit score for businesses, not individuals.

It's weird being a 90s/2000s anti-war, anti-globalization, and pro-labor Democrat in a 2025 world.

It's a simple question in my eyes. Do people indigenous to a land have the right to defend their lives and property from a foreign, occupying force with violence, if necessary? It'…

I've followed The Cradle for a couple of years. For what it's worth I've been able to corroborate much of what is published against other sources, and I believe it's entirely funde…

>Human breast milk is very bitter Aggressively incorrect.

I believe it was Germany's constitutional court, which given the experience of East Germany is understandable.

The boomers ate the seed corn.

You mean to tell me the dirt ISN'T magic?

My grandfather was tenured, published voraciously up until he retired at 73, and was sorely disappointed when I chose not to follow in his footsteps and go into academia. Why? Prim…

No fellow citizen- as long as it's in the name of Liberal Democracy and the Open Society™, the means in question are rather ephemeral.

My wife enjoys telling the story from her time living in the Hague of watching drunk girls in mini skirts all attempting to ride side-by-side to keep each other upright, and...some…

"Protectionism for me, but not for thee."

I don't think there can be a resolution on a fundamental level, unless you count some therapeutic attempt at "we're going to pretend like we can grasp truth for the sake of conveni…

All you've accomplished here is to repackage the tired "there are no absolute truths" meme

>"I think the majority of these people joined to uphold law and order or to protect all people in-general" What delectable naivete.

To my knowledge emulation is illegal in Japan, as is modding consoles. Edit: I looked into it a bit more. As it is against the law to dump ROMs from games you have legally purchase…

People sure love to embody the "leave the multi-billion dollar corporation alone" meme.

Having sailed the high seas since middle school I suppose it was only natural that I continue to build upon my multi-terabyte horde of movies, archived websites, books, music, and …

Discovery is always going to be an issue, but for those who want to get away from doomscrolling their life away for the algorithm-god, it’s a rather comfy way to enjoy content.

It was around that time that I stopped watching cable television altogether. If you want to back down memory lane, search on YouTube for old recordings of network TV ad breaks from…

I gave up and wrote a script to scrape the channels I like with yt-dlp into my Plex server.

> TV ads never did these sorts of utterly shitty, tedious things. Until the CALM Act was passed in 2010, networks actually did increase the volume on advertisements. https://en.wik…

Searching for “Israel” and “downvotes” and “flagged” in the HN search shows a steady stream of people complaining for years about an apparent coordinated campaign to silence critic…

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