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aestetix

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About aestetix

email me at aestetix [at] aestetix [dot] com.

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    Comment #49241459

    There's an interesting point hidden here. A lot of people claim that 2600 is obsolete because it is still in print as opposed to going full digital like a lot of places did. 30 yea…

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    Comment #48911390

    For some reason the form chopped it off, so the direct link is: https://www.hope.net/talks/#What%E2%80%99s-Your-Age-Again?-T...

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    Comment #48658742

    How about applying political pressure to countries like China and India that do not care about emissions control and pollution? :)

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    Comment #47427144

    I'd argue this is too expansive of a view. It's a debate specifically coming out of the English Civil War, and specifically focusing on the tension between Parliament and the Monar…

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    Comment #47363294

    There were a few news outlets (I think maybe the Washington Post?) that got copies of recordings of these insane lectures when Peter Thiel did them in San Francisco. I think it wou…

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    Comment #47336494

    Oh wow! I hadn't seen that. That's really great! All of them should be listed there, and should have been public all along.

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    Comment #47336470

    There are two stories here. One is the alleged wrongdoing. The second is the fact that the Washington Post has a name of a former DOGE employee. I'm far more interested in the seco…

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    Comment #47336362

    > The Post is not naming the former DOGE member or company because it has not independently confirmed the accusations in the complaint. Why not? Shouldn't the public be allowed to …

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    Comment #47115971

    Yes, it feels like another round of the same old tired "force everyone to use legal names online to save the children" that has been pushed continuously since the Internet driver's…

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    Comment #47102376

    Peter Thiel knows about the anti-christ...

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    Comment #46974314

    Here is another idea for how to solve this: Why not produce a second kind of phone that is for kids. Maybe have it linked to their parents accounts on a hardware level. The kidphon…

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    Comment #46635162

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

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    Comment #46530716

    Don't forget the extremely loaded context surrounding Alcibiades.

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    Comment #46057909

    I was not moving goalposts. I was saying that the way we interpret the words has changed over time, and therefore we are taking words that meant one thing in 1957 and reinterpretin…

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    Comment #46057270

    That treaty was established just over a decade after Hitler surrendered, when there were two Germanys, an Iron curtain across Europe, and a lot of other things which changed signif…

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    Comment #46057138

    Honest question. The EU was created as an economic and trade institution. How has it morphed into a wierd political institution, which NATO was already supposed to be? The root que…

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    Comment #45948942

    It's because he knows about the Antichrist.