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autoexec

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    Comment #49216789

    I've got plenty more if you want them. The fact that any exist at all is enough to prove that the statement "women dont create whole networks of sexual abuse" was a lie.

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    Comment #49216737

    What's going on is that a company was caught doing something deplorable and dangerous and because they couldn't deny their actions were a problem their spokesperson just pointed to…

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    Comment #49216575

    The internet existed and thrived long before the advertisers infested it. The internet was different, but in many ways better. It was still useful and amazing. That was why they ca…

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    Comment #49216031

    > What are you doing to fix the issues though? You can't always expect to be able to fix everything yourself, but you often can take steps to help or at least protect yourself. It …

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    Comment #49215349

    I'm sure that ignoring all of the very real problems we have and the ways we're being harmed can make some people feel better, but burying your head in the sand doesn't make any of…

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    Comment #49215259

    > If you want to ban profiting from the failure of clinical trials, you would start with the stock market It's not really a winning argument to say "We should be allowed to make mo…

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    Comment #49215205

    It's the same company culture you see everywhere. A desire to make money at all costs with zero concern for who gets hurt as long as it'll be profitable.

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    Comment #49215179

    Right now a very limited number of people have a huge stake in how clinical trials turn out. Gambling markets open the field up for all kinds of people to make a bunch of money by …

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    Comment #49214307

    It's probably a pretty common misconception that websites should have total control over how their content is viewed, but it's strange to see that on a website like this. Part of t…

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    Comment #49214090

    > The social contract for putting a website on the public internet was built on the assumption that browsers would be used to access those websites, and that most browsers would ge…

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    Comment #49213948

    Paywalling off the site solves the problem of monetizing bot traffic, any bot crawling your pages paid you to be there, but it can't fix the plagiarism/copyright infringement probl…

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    Comment #49213842

    The actual paper never uses the phrase trickle-down economics and just covers how tax cuts for the rich don't improve the economy but does increase income inequality

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    Comment #49213255

    You take your site off the public internet and paywall it off. Websites on the open internet should be accessible and ideally the goal should be to share something cool with the wo…

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    Comment #49213198

    The social contract for putting a website on the public internet involves following standards and making your website accessible. You SHOULD make sure that your website is readable…

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    Comment #49212913

    > If I run a local script or an LLM that needs to fetch a web page from your site and you block that script or LLM as being a bot, you hurt me, the user. People trying to block bot…

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    Comment #49208656

    I guess "superior" is subjective

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    Comment #49208623

    > And yet, women dont create whole networks of sexual abuse That explains why women like Ghislaine Maxwell or Kat Torres don't exist I guess.

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    Comment #49208598

    Size doesn't matter all that much in the modern world. Even toddlers can murder people with a gun. Tiny people can kill very effectively with knives, poisons, cars, etc. The smalle…

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    Comment #49208537

    While they wait decades for the court cases to resolve they can take the amount of money they were fined and invest it. They have so much money they wont even notice it and they'll…

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    Comment #49204620

    > So why are Fitbit users’ profiles able to be searchable in Google? It’s not really Fitbit’s fault. When you create a profile, the default privacy setting allows profiles to be fo…

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    Comment #49204523

    If the cartels had more military fighting power and training than the entire Mexican army, air force, and navy the entire country would have been overthrown by now. If Mexico's ent…

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    Comment #49203754

    > This is a reaction to an overwhelming force of criminal gangs killing citizens and the government being powerless to stop them. Is the Mexican government, with their tens of bill…

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    Comment #49203690

    He fought a war against unsanctioned drug trafficking. Drugs are not an enemy you can defeat. He should have gone to war against the cartels, but then I guess that's hard to do whe…

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    Comment #49203509

    > At some point when your government is so corrupt, you got to take weapon and organize yourself. It's sad. At that point you might as well point those weapons at the failed govern…

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    Comment #49203360

    They should send in the army. How is what's happening there now not already a war and a humanitarian disaster? The only difference is that the civilians are the ones forced into fi…