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Politics are like medieval royalty. A complex inter-generational web of influence, alliances, and quid pro quo. Support of these influencers was required to earn votes, and policy …

There is great irony here. These supremacists are the same type of bully they are seeking to correct for: people who abuse socially acceptable ways to oppress others. In the Middle…

I'm thinking 'telephone network' rather than 'newspaper'. Phone companies were built as monopolies and faced strict regulation. Imagine your phone only working for company approved…

> I think it's fine for large web companies to apply their own morals. This is rather like saying you think it's fine for libraries to only carry books in line with their morals. O…

voat has users?

It's not just about money, but the appropriate application of money. Sure the Dems may have bought some likes and upvotes, while CA applied information warfare technique normally r…

irrelevant. In fact, knowing just four random pieces of information was enough to reidentify 90 percent of the shoppers as unique individuals and to uncover their records, research…

You can also commit crimes in novels or roleplaying games that are illegal. That's different from supporting a market that causes child abuse. Possessing digital/virtual informatio…

SMS 2FA replaced nothing for many people, but better solutions such as hard/soft tokens existed already - they're just unpopular.

"Liberal western-style democracies" were only the best option at the time to maximize productivity. So was the thinking that they are the "natural end-state of human societies".

Actually this attribution - internalizing success and externalizing failure - is important for mental health. Discussed in 'How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use'

We clearly eat far more meat than we need and produce/harvest meat in ways that create unnecessary damage and suffering. However, not everyone is like you. Some people develop defi…

This isn't about gender, race, political affiliation, or whatever attribute you use to separate people into 'us' and 'them'. This is about bullies and assholes. Bullies and asshole…

I shared the impossibility of making such a decision with any degree of certainty. But we have to eat. I'm no longer sure what's more ethical: eating something dead meat or vegetab…

We could connect a nociceptor to a computer. Does the computer now experience pain? Just because the mechanism exists for sedation or pain does not imply the experience of consciou…

Further delay in advanced countries. The biological clock puts an upper limit on how long women can delay childbirth now. Groups that breed without control will continue to do so.

I, too, used to think conservative values were an old people thing, but it turns out that's not always the case. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/07/white...…

> it's UNETHICAL to discriminate in the name of diversity. I think Amazon disagrees with you. They include this in their job postings: >Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative A…

Yet this is the same type of work people are using to argue that that crabs/fish can feel/experience pain. Proving or disproving consciousness is basically impossible. E.g. I feel …

I wonder how the profit/risk ratio compares between the poor, slightly better off, and wealthy. How much of these costs are appropriate economics (e.g. due to defaulting, managemen…

You fail CAPTCHAs and get flagged as a robot. Are you sure you're not a robot? I have the same problem. To pass Google CAPTCHA you have to perform like an average human. This is di…

I suspect that in a society without an endless convenient supply of sugar, the body is much more accustomed to using ketosis to generate fuel. We find it very difficult to turn on …

As much as I'd like to turn this into social commentary about the patriarchy, this is the result of women like her buying these items. The return on investment for bra ads to her c…

Yes, it's homicide for both parties. Considering that this is the first swatting death, I have to disagree that it's an _attempt_ at homicide, which would imply premeditation/first…

Reminds me of http://programming-motherfucker.com/ Entertaining but a bit sad. Clearly had bad experiences with collaboration and believe they are unique rockstars who only have to…