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It applies even more, as the 4th amendment limits specifically government searches.

Ironic, isn't it? The same people that will sing "They paved paradise to put up a parking lot", are also against any effective measures to prevent that turn of events.

A few tourists doesn't mean the community itself is transient. Even a great many tourists doesn't mean that, if the locals are mostly static. They form a community, and watch the t…

This is like proposing to dig a bigger basement to fit more flood water. No matter how much you dig, there will always be more water in the ocean to flow in. In the case of New Yor…

> Is that bad? Yes. A home is not an economic asset like any other. It is the biggest link to one's community and people. Healthy communities cannot form from transient populations…

I think the best issue raised is: Why would I, as a user, want this? https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

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Should it? Such liability inevitably results in only "verified" content getting "promoted" - an extremely vague term. First it's the home screen, then related videos, then 1st page…

> Just so we're on the same page, could you give me a definition of what a fake refugee is Someone who travels across one or more safe countries before claiming asylum.

> it's beyond the scope of this book to address the history of the Islamic conquest to the extent that you desire You misunderstand me. If the author simply did not address it at a…

> And how do we strengthen the system? According to the founder of the migrant sea rescue NGO Mission Lifeline [1], by importing more immigrants and giving them voting rights, to o…

I see. So the only allowed anti-immigration position is "we want to stop immigration for no reason whatsoever". As soon as a reason is given, like, "there's too much immigration, w…

> What's the point of having a system of shared values if one member goes "Hey, let's, umm, [stop immigration]!" and your system can't defend itself against such actors? Corrected …

> Sabotaging people’s private property is a criminal act. That's what happened here. Refusing to scan without ink is sabotage. > If it was from a private individual plantiff, then …

What does that have to do with allowing casual lies about history to go unchallenged? Let's say they do have a place - does that mean we have to whitewash the history of Muslim con…

On the other hand, there are laws against false advertising and (in this case) sabotage, where the action is illegal regardless of what a plaintiff thinks. If I went around offices…

To elaborate: "nothing to hide" ignores the benefits to society that others, who do have something to hide, bring. Whistleblowers, various lawyers, activists, investigative journal…

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> your antipathy toward the Islamic conquests of Europe While I'm certainly not a fan of them, I'm not particularly outraged about them either. Wars of naked conquest were simply t…

> Don't think anybody even implied such a thing. But they could have, thanks to imprecise usage of "equality". Therefore the difference is not of interest only to pedants. > I thin…

> That is an extra helping of pedantic. People are equal So if someone is more successful than someone else, since they are "equal", the only explanation is discrimination?

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"Equal rights" is not the same as the broader and less-defined "equality". If this conversation is to go anywhere, it behooves us all to be very specific in which meaning of "equal…

> Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, Europeans are increasingly airbrushing from history their cultural debt to the Muslim world. It is all so tiresome. A discussion of Arabic inf…

Thankfully every single one of the contributions is independently sourced, so we don't have to rely on their reputation.