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For anyone curious, the account was created on Dec 1 2020, and last connected this October 13th.
Am I the only one sort of bothered by the fact they shared that specific information with the world? It may not seem like much, but that was user data.
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You prevent them from gaining power by winning debates against them and demonstrating to everyone why they're wrong. I mean have you actually seen the "science" used to claim even the existence of different races? It's all misleading statistics and pseudoscience. You group a bunch of people together based on geographical origin and then observe some differences in the averages between the two groups, ignoring that th…
>There are probably more trolls pretending to be Nazis than there are actual Nazis. "We are what we pretend to be." --- Kurt Vonnegut
And to the extent that it is true, it implies that we should stop using Nazis as the boogeyman. Because trolls are going to use whatever will get a rise out of people. Best not have it be this that they summon up.
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The first time the Nazis imposed censorship so that people couldn't do that. We should be wary of following in those footsteps.
Pretty sure millions were already in Soviet gulags with Pravda and Izvestiya cranking out official propaganda before anyone became a Nazi. If you want to understand the terror of total state censorship practiced "the first time", then look to Lenin specifically and communism more generally. Alternately, one can argue this climate of fear and systematic repression was present during the French revolution, but not loca…
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I don't think any quotes are required around the research performed by Rushton & Jensen (2010)[1] and others that they build on. Doesn't it seem perfectly plausible that, much like other physical characteristics (height, body composition, heat tolerance, etc.) the meat in our skulls also varies between ethnic groups? Shouldn't this be researched and investigated like every other observation? Once you start studying g…
You're talking about the differences in averages. But that's meaningless. If the median Asian man is 5'8" and the median European man is 5'9" (or whatever the numbers are), this tells you nothing about any individual Asian or European males, because like 40% of Asian males will still be above the European median and half of Europeans will be below it. And it's a completely arbitrary line. If Swedes are on average tal…
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>If Swedes are on average taller than Austrians, are they different "races" then?
But Swedes can be still considered a different ethnic group than Austrians. Does the exact terminology matters? Various groups of people have both differences and also things in common. So what?
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> The United States has been a stable democracy with absolute freedom of speech for two and a half centuries. The United States has had plenty of limits on free speech throughout its history. Letting Nazis or the KKK or whomever speak their mind and publish their literature doesn't mean we have absolute freedom of speech, just fewer restrictions on speech than elsewhere. And it's worth pointing out that the paradox o…
Communist regimes made orders of magnitude more victims and forbid free speech for much longer for much more people than nazis ever dreamed of. And yet all the countries who forbid and condemn nazi speech tolerates the communist speech. Source: I spent part of my childhood in a communist country.
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It tells you a whole lot about the composition of either end of the bell curve. It means that in a given population the shortest people are much more likely to be, say, Taiwanese (average aheight 5'3"), and the tallest Dutch (average height 6'½"). Edit: To your point about group taxonomy, usually precision is only available to a level where genetic markers are present and distinct. This in turn comes from groups not…
There are two adult brothers somewhere in New York City. They have both of the same parents. One of them is 5'3" and the other one is 6'½". What's the probability that one of them is Dutch and the other one is Taiwanese? If your answer wasn't zero I would like to see your work.
And there are two trees with different height from the same species. Both make the same kind of fruits.
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This is why there should not be a single entity that runs the network. Make it fully decentralized with economic incentives for node operators. some projects trying to do this now are Status, Session, Sylo
> This is why there should not be a single entity that runs the network. Make it fully decentralized with economic incentives for node operators. Just make the network work based on open protocols, where anyone can run a server that interoperates with others. (Matrix.) For the non-developer end-user, they can use one of the existing servers, who in theory could charge their users. Yes, it would be hard to maintain br…
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There is no paradox. You either support the right of everybody to peacefully assemble or you do not and if you do not, you don't support freedom of speech.
If those assembled people are armed and dressed for fighting, must I support them to be considered a supporter of freedom of speech?
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If they are brothers then I suppose they could be mixed Taiwanese-Dutch. But that really isn't the point is it? I'm talking about trends in populations. It's an answer to the question of "Why do we see different representation of these groups on the height spectrum?", not "Explain the difference between these two individuals". Edit: Also to assert that, given two random people on opposite ends of the height spectrum,…
> It's an answer to the question of "Why do we see different representation of these groups on the height spectrum?" But we already know that, by and large. It's genetics. And the thing we know about genes is that they align very poorly with "races". It's like grouping animals by color. Then you discover that brown animals are bigger than red animals, because bears are brown and bears are big whereas cardinals are re…
What about "ethnic groups"? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_peoples
>It's like grouping animals by color. Then you discover that brown animals are bigger than red animals, because bears are brown and bears are big whereas cardinals are red and cardinals are small.
Are the grizzlies the same with pandas?
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There is no paradox. You either support the right of everybody to peacefully assemble or you do not and if you do not, you don't support freedom of speech.
If those assembled people are armed and dressed for fighting, must I support them to be considered a supporter of freedom of speech?
"The 4–3 ruling, overturning a Court of Appeal decision, upheld a San Jose injunction that barred the gang members from "standing, sitting, walking, driving, gathering or appearing anywhere in public view" with each other in a four-block radius. "Liberty unrestrained is an invitation to anarchy," Justice Janice Rogers Brown(appointed by Bush)"