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The city is expected to police all crime regardless. The car manufacturer might (or might not) have some duty to the customer in this area, but certainly not the city for contribut…

I wasn't claiming that they're literally ponzi schemes. Clearly they're sanctioned by law, obviously I wasn't arguing otherwise. I was simply using "ponzi scheme" in the more casua…

It's a Ponzi scheme when it's not sustainable. Social Security in the US, for example is not financially viable in its current form. Either the retirement age will need to be raise…

"The notorious doxxing site might have been the last stand for free expression online"

> dogpiling a single person based on their gender identity Now that's the real dishonest euphemism. You don't seem to actually know what was discussed on the site. The material for…

Bullying is the realm of children, or maybe adults in a workplace scenario. Certainly not an argument to raise when being criticized for one's public behavior. That's wholly inappr…

There's no reason to believe Near is dead. Near's friend is the only source for the claim and the Japanese government's death listing for US citizens for the alleged time period sh…

Who, Elizabeth Waite? She never had a Kiwi Farms thread. She was briefly mentioned in a megathread about silly public trans behavior. Elizabeth was bemoaning the general concept of…

In the world at large (not just a schoolroom or workplace situation), everyone is subject to being criticized for their public behavior. That's not bullying. That's holding them to…

> the fact that the people under discussion were almost universally subject to seemingly coordinated harassment campaigns Almost universally? I don't think I can think of a single …

> Doesn't that same logic apply to KiwiFarms itself though? They too have historically lacked any kind of regular moderation. Actually, I think there seems to be a misunderstanding…

> The harassment, which is the critical context behind the decision, is literally thousands of pages. By definition, you cannot harass someone by talking about them.

> But it seems you're fine with Kiwi Farms literally posting SSNs, bank balances, passwords to accounts, and much more. Small correction, this doesn't happen on Kiwi Farms. Kiwi Fa…

I think the enforcement is way more imbalanced than you realize. Here's an example, how about instead of "X should die", it's "lol, can all X just die?". They give it a little jocu…

I've started businesses. When I start a business, it's mine (and my partner's). Like a car or a house or a website. I'm trying to do something specific with it, with plans that I'v…

The only thing the democracy index gets right are the broad strokes. But then again, so could a high schooler with wikipedia and a free afternoon. It's not implemented well enough …

Western democracies with hate speech laws are less democratic because the range of legally permissible opinions is smaller. If mere functioning is your goal for the country, then c…

Sweat.

They took samples after/during seizures.

Possibly, but I feel behavior is probably the biggest tell for dogs. Their owner starts acting funny right before a seizure comes on.

Yeah... that website is a scam. Seizure alert dogs have not been established to be effective yet. A claim of "100% reliable" is guaranteed to be woo.

This study doesn't establish that an odor precedes a seizure. They took the samples from someone who was in the middle of a seizure or shortly afterwards.

> In the future, should someone wish to become a core developer of SQLite and is in every way qualified except that he or she does not feel comfortable with some details of this ru…