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trackflak

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    It doesn't matter whether I write a module in Fortran, fold laundry or sell a kidney on the black market. It's all morally equivalent!

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    Comment #39918185

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party

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    Comment #39459046

    When Jesus said this: "What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent?" (Luke 11) He was actually foretelling the future. He saw Gemin…

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    Ah, I remember when such things were mere jokes. If AI 'trained' this way ever has a serious real world application, I don't think there will be much laughing.

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    Comment #39458945

    Tell me you take this seriously: https://twitter.com/napoleon21st/status/1760116228746805272 It has no problem with other cultures and ethnicities, yet somehow white or Japanese ju…

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    Comment #39458858

    From one of the Twitter threads linked above: > they insert random keyword in the prompts randomly to counter bias, that got revealed with something else I think. Had T shirts writ…

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    Comment #39129613

    All hail our beneficent global bureaucracy! Filled with smart people who care deeply about our freedom and individual wishes. Now if I could just contact one of its accountable ele…

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    Comment #39129592

    Finally someone else will do the window twitching snitching for me.

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    Comment #39106877

    "Inclusive" but meaningless. The Georgian calendar (at least in the numbering of years) is a Christian construct, and it therefore makes sense to name year 0 after the year of Chri…

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    Comment #39028379

    You underestimate how much frustration is boiling at the amount of ad breaks on YouTube videos. It only takes one political opportunist to channel it...

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    If I open a forum and see it is Discourse, I immediately close it. What was wrong with distinct boards and clear categories? And you can leave your endless scrolling on facesbook w…

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    Comment #38243856

    That 'everyone online is a predator' act has been going on for a while hasn't it? Its current snake head is the UK's online safety bill.

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    Comment #38243790

    Bizarrely I find a certain notorious imageboard to be much more sociable than anything that calls itself 'social media'. Even though everyone is anonymous, I come away feeling like…

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    Comment #37752421

    > nonsensical and dishonest. Or what some of us refer to as 'humour'. It's worth getting into, a lot of people say good things.

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    Comment #37751853

    My desired method of muting them might require a bit more clean up. It may also involve a trip to the ER ward for burn treatments. But I would at least look back and say I enjoyed …

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    Comment #37751572

    'Please sir, control and regulate the contents of our speech' - smacks of astroturfing to me

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    Comment #37751544

    I'm not too bothered about their loss, given that gas pumps now have advertising screens installed. Let the ad revenue make up for it.

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    Comment #37595812

    This is what I was getting at - it is impossible for us underlings to imagine what it is like to have the grasp of power over millions of individuals and innumerable resources. We …

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    I think the point was - if the BBC (closely tied with the political establishment) cared so much about children's safety they would have acted against Saville before they were comp…