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notankies

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    Comment #24963314

    Fine, but then you have to answer the question "what does that justify?" Abolition of the Colonial government and establishment of a new more diverse and inclusive BIPOC-led anarch…

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    Comment #24963171

    It's incapable of conveying anything if the civilization is lost. Maybe the mound builders had an incredible understanding of the land, maybe they didn't, but we can't say they doc…

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    Comment #24962934

    It also plays nicely with tiling WMs; you can replace the default with i3 or Awesome or whatever and enjoy mate-settingsd and having a nice GTK3 panel that looks nice, but also til…

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    Comment #24962745

    > Which then begs the question: why are you upset that we're criticizing ourselves? I'm not, I'm annoyed with yet another half-Woke 'net commentariat pretending that pointing out t…

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    Comment #24962708

    How would they document it? In North America no tribe had writing until after encounters with Europeans. They only had oral tradition, which is helpful for preserving myth and litt…

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    Comment #24961921

    Yes, the article is written from the Colonial perspective. Whenever a citizen of the US says unexplored they mean it from their cultural positionality. Shocking! The analogy presen…

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    Comment #24959750

    OK, so read your mainstream press, owned by the likes of Bezos, and enjoy your feeling of moral superiority or whatever. Pick your poison. I'm thankful Substack allows a place for …

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    Comment #24959687

    No, because alt-right is just a slur from someone on the left for anything they don't like. If you want hard evidence you'll have to wait for a real claim.

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    Comment #24953331

    It's dangerous to think of people in terms of "the rest of us" and some other group out there plotting evil, against which one must be vigilant, for it is the case that the evil is…

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    Comment #24942570

    Most programming tutorials are effectively ads for the author. "Want to get hired? Write a programming blog" is advice I've received many times.

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    Comment #24896047

    Can someone explain profit motive to him? I'm too tired to be constantly educating people

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    Comment #24889025

    It was in fact extreme sarcasm

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    Comment #24887624

    It's a real good Java

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    Comment #24887483

    Apologies; I misunderstood one of your links and thought sway had been renamed to wlroots. To be clear the "adventure" I'm talking about is for replacing desktop environment niceti…

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    Comment #24887152

    Regardless as to whether Gnome "does well" in the regard of performance, you must admit that for some of us choosing a competitor like wlroots over one like Gnome introduces a whol…

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    Comment #24881676

    That's right, we need to end fossil fuel usage right now. If we don't switch solely to solar and wind worldwide in the next ten years there's going to be an apocalyptic ecological …

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    Comment #24848279

    Uhh, famously, Sweden? Where have you been?

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    Comment #24819289

    That's intentional, especially with CNN. The major news sites have essentially been tabloids since the death of print. Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassio…

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    Comment #24794848

    > it creates a civil liability shield for interactive computer services and states who that applies to and how it is to be used. Right, and the limits of that liability shield are …

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    Comment #24793864

    You clearly don't understand how [Administrative Law]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_law ) works, which is understandable, because it's a complex morass. We have, la…