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>Just 100 years ago, people were being forced to work on ships, in factories, on farms, You know those jobs are still necessary, right? Still exist? People are just as forced into …

> often there is no net neutrality Hold up, what does this mean, even? I thought "net neutrality" meant classifying ISPs in such a way that they are regulated by the FCC instead of…

It's still a completely new thing. something can be surprising just because it's undiscovered previously, despite our knowledge that there's more out there to be discovered

Widely reported doesn't mean anything. It just means mainstream journalists thought the story fit their narrative. Were other confounding factors controlled for? Most of the studie…

Careful, you're starting to sound like a COVID denier. Next thing you'll know you'll be saying restaurants shouldn't be closed for a year and families should be allowed to gather f…

#emacs on Freenode is full of those people, including the author of the talk in the article. Friendly fellow. It's really one of the best IRC channels left.

The article is from 2012. Neither of those laws existed.

The words conservative and liberal are both completely overloaded to the point of being meaningless in the context of their use in comments on an international internet forum.

How do you stop "freedom of association" from becoming segregation?

Violence is speech if you're smashing the fash. Silence is violence if you're white.

That game isn't even modern anymore. It came out for the PS3 era. We're getting old fam

"You have been terminated as a customer of Expensify because of how you voted"

Not even remotely similar. First of all, the CIA is primarily concerned with foreign intelligence, so you mean to be concerned with the NSA and the FBI. With a warrant, the FBI can…

Seems strange to me too, when I had my wisdom teeth out they just gave me ketamine.

I see you saw my presentation for university Freshman English ten years ago about the drug war and it had a big impression on you so you could make this insightful comment. Did you…

I have a sibling with a degree in early childhood development and what you're describing is what she told me is called, colloquially where we're from, "cry it out" parenting, and i…

Lol, I joined Twitter around 2013 because it seemed like everyone in tech was there and it'd be a good way to keep up. Then I saw cross talk between radical Left Twitter and people…

In Emacs, add (start-server) to your config. Then in your shell rc file: alias vim='emacsclient -a/usr/bin/vim -nw' Now if emacs is running you'll get emacs in the terminal when yo…

I've had similar experiences on Windows and Mac. Computers are finicky and they break sometimes, especially during upgrades.

I know how they sound, I'm a software engineer and users are whiny little bitches, especially on public forums. A professional wouldn't even engage with me, they'd note my feedback…

Don't worry, those emails are pretty much already down the memory hole.

> that sounds like something with whatever identity server you're using. The relationships between the home server, identity server, and client on Matrix are not made clear in any …

Was it actually half the country? Is that by area? Or area of wooded land? A lot of Australia is desert. Or half of the cities? Or is this just a hyperbole? Fake news?

My wife has multiple sclerosis. She was diagnosed while we were dating. It's extremely insulting that you think I, her abled partner, would ever be ashamed of that fact. Fuck you v…