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throwjd764glug

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    Comment #28386642

    If it's okay to point out they're white, then it's okay to point out they're Jewish, regardless of if you consider Jews to be white.

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    Comment #28382763

    > I’m sick of this framing. Tired of it. Many people have tried to explain, many scholars. Listen to us. You can’t just reduce harms caused by ML to dataset bias. Is pointing out t…

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    Comment #28375763

    > Sell a property, get an equity loan, etc. I believe this is how hedge funds are planning to become renting quasi-monopolists: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/02/business/family-homes…

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    Comment #28358049

    Let me rephrase that: this case of one-to-one messaging between friends is not amplification.

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    Comment #28357865

    Related: The NY Times have their own hidden site on the TOR network: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/

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    Comment #28354436

    There's nothing childish or hysteric about caring about principles. > How could you be this naive? Especially after the Snowden revelations. You make a good argument, but you're wr…

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    Comment #28349852

    > They disabled the security cameras and did something with election equipment If it was a technician inserting an infected USB key under the guise of maintenance, how could you te…

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    Comment #28346423

    If a lone clerk can compromise the machines, should we really be using them? Do we know and trust everyone who had (legitimate or otherwise) access to these machines, including the…

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    Comment #28345364

    It's hard to decide which part to highlight, as every sentence is more farcical than the last, starting with the premise that the code that counts American's votes is kept secret f…

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    Comment #28343478

    One-to-one messaging is not "amplification". Without Facebook's network effects, they would probably be using a different messenger, so you can't even claim that Facebook is enabli…

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    Comment #28343439

    "It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war." Alternatively, I wear a seatbelt despite never having been in a car accident.

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    Comment #28339948

    The items on that list that are technical achievements did not come from a vacuum. There are also countless works of art and literature I could have included, but I wanted to keep …

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    Comment #28339450

    You mean inventing the ECMO machine currently saving lives from COVID? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygen... Or inventing the transistor? Walking on the M…

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    Comment #28338407

    Do you have a source for this claim? It seems you're right about OnlyFans, majority-owned by Radvinsky [1], but I don't know about the payment processors. [1] https://en.wikipedia.…

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    Comment #28338384

    So the Guardian also has a comparable number of Opinion pieces decrying the financial censorship of sites like amren.com? Since, as you claim, what they choose to publish under Opi…

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    Comment #28337906

    Yes, proprietary systems are so accountable. It only took "the prosecution and conviction of hundreds of [innocent] sub-postmasters for alleged theft, false accounting and/or fraud…

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    Comment #28337703

    It affects more than just sex workers. Amren cannot accept Paypal or credit cards due to deplatforming (or even draw attention to this through Youtube or Facebook, as those also ba…