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> What people really mean when they talk about censorship is first amendment rights. I don't agree. The snarky and smug "nuh uh, cuz it wasn't the government" responses [often mali…

I'd never trust it with any data I care about. HN doesn't even let you delete your account with post history.

So yes.

Another word for basically the same thing, yes. Excommunication is top-down directed shunning.

> I mean are they being forced to do it and not being paid for it Slavery is forced labor, which is orthogonal to being paid. If you are forced to work but are also paid (perhaps r…

"Do with them" ? That's a truly chilling way to speak of people .

Cancel culture isn't that either. Cancel culture is a rebranding of 'shunning', which I bet predates humans as we know them. I bet our social monkey predecessors had such tactics f…

You're only feigning surprise.. right?

Correct, but Chomsky wanted people to believe it was lies.

If a body, then why not an egg?

It doesn't matter. YECs would say god created it to test them or the devil created it to trick them, it doesn't matter how precisely or imprecisely you word headlines about dinosau…

Quantity has a quality all of it's own. Wiretaps against a specific individuals is a lot different than dragnets covering an entire nation.

Wind turbines in cold climates also require deicing. If you don't deice them, the performance drops dramatically. Deicing takes power too though, a few percent of the total turbine…

With construction or moving? I'd rather keep my home the way it is, thanks.

I guess I got lucky then.

Yes well, open office plans and cubicles are awful, no argument there. But a real office with a door can be attractive relative to the situation many people have at home.

That assumes your town has such coworking facilities. Maybe a safe assumption in cities, but definitely not in all towns nor for people living in more rural areas. And if you're go…

It's also important to consider that many people don't have homes that are conducive to working, because there are many other people in the house, or because they don't have the sp…

Incidentally, the F-117's fighter designation was a misnomer; they were only armed with bombs.

It's probably easier to list the invertebrates that aren't commonly called bugs than those that are. Squid, octopus and jellyfish get a pass. The immobile ones like corals and spon…

If you're speaking colloquially, earthworms are bugs but they aren't insects. If you're being pedantic, houseflies are insects but they aren't bugs.