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Well, there's other sources for this, becauses it's actually true. I wonder what "armor" you think HN even has as inane tripe like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426407 is …

As a counterpoint here's something Franz Kafka wrote in a letter to Elli Hermann 1921, badly translated by me. > Parents have an animalistic, senseless love for the children, which…

For the totalitarian claim to rewrite history all territories are ultimately problematic. > We don't know a perfected totalitarian power structure, because it would require the con…

Well, there's any kind of person anywhere, anyway. I think it's not wrong to be pre-emptively wary of that (and prepare arguments for it), considering the way F.U.D. about "cookie …

Yes, I know, that's still shifting goal posts from > "being put in jail because you say publicly that tibet should be free" and if merely pointing that fact out is getting me downv…

So what you're saying is, when I post that Catalonia should be free and go on holiday in Spain, no spooks would follow me around, and no pressure would be put on German companies t…

Maybe to people who made "rapey" part of their vocabulary because of internet "humor".

If you remove "in a post-911 world" from that comment the point stays exactly the same.

> The last guy who touched upon it On the other hand, people like Chomsky aren't being persecuted. Though all in all, I would also say they get ignored very efficiently, Chomsky st…

> The rationale behind that statements leads to the attitude of not even attempting to be objective. What is "the rationale behind that statement", other than intellectual honesty?…

Sure, but that has nothing to do with the comment it was in response to, which does in fact not say that.

Nobody said you shouldn't try. But part of that is calling out those who talk of being "unbiased" or "objective" not as a shorthand, but as something they seen think is actually wi…

It's easy to explain -- just not to people whose salary whose salary depends on not understanding it, who keep shaking their heads as the predictable results of the boat they won't…

The less agency people have, and the less expertise is teached to them and expected of them, the less capable and the more exploitable they become.

The majority of people is fine living their lives as to ensure to destruction of all organized human life on the planet, just when it comes to the climate. Thinking of history, all…

We couldn't otherwise build, light and tear down walls with just our minds. Learning how to handle and accept emotions is possible with our minds and the help of each other, but in…

> The answer is simple, protection from them taking it by force. No force can stand against an infinite amount of drones, to name just one thing. Those who own the means of product…

> Non-repairability is not planned obsolescence. You already acknowledged that 6 year old phones are obsolete. And you also claimed claimed that "only someone who didn't work on Ap…

> The only people who buy the idea of planned obsolescence are the ones who haven’t worked on products like that. So, how many Apple products Apple said could not be repaired have …

She was arguably a bit careless in the moment that lead to them getting caught, and since pushing that stack of fliers wasn't really useful for their greater aims, that kinda prove…

> I just sometimes ask myself if people in previous centuries thought and lived as superficially as today. Or if, piece by piece, as times fade, their bad aspects retreat to the ba…

> People pay huge overhead to apple exactly because apple makes choices for them - regarding what settings are reasonable to have, what software they want you to use etc. Well, the…

Sebastian Haffner warned of it as early as 1940. Not of the internet itself of course, but still. Note the bit about a microphone in every house. > Yet another circumstance must be…