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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

DAE animal farm?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

~~post-hoc~~ post-Hogg rationalization

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

I tried to read it Frenchily

 

Has anyone ever woken up and decided to drop their klan robes and become a Marxist? Or quit the SS and a year later joining worker picket lines?

 

that’s it. Just a friendly reminder.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I watched a recent interview in which Weiner defended congressional stock purchases and insider trading. His argument was that it isn’t how congresscritters get rich; that they get rich through connections instead.

So his new angle seems to be: “I’m a politician, I know the game, and I will use my experience for good and not evil”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nitpick, but Tallinn has two n’s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oprah has been charged with involuntary manslaughter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Yea, it’s not great. I believe he had in mind a certain objective measure of societal development, in terms of the advancement of the productive forces. An aroma of racial science persists; but I don’t think he was exactly saying that certain peoples are biologically under-evolved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Truly the Max Stirner of our time

stirner-cool

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

A TikTok creator with ~100k followers blocked me because I left a random comment disagreeing with their take on Trump’s new portrait. Wasn’t even that interesting tbh, I just thought it was weird that they blocked me for having the gall to not clap and cheer just because they said Trump Bad.

It’s especially annoying because it’s the kind of person who constantly preaches open discourse as the solution to our problems - but in reality they only want that if it means their views get to suck up all the oxygen in the room.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Not likely while they have nukes.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

At least Putin is a liberal. One could make a coherent argument that Putin belongs in the category, the same as any other liberal world leader. But objectively Mao does not belong in that same category.

 

I hear that there are power users not unlike Reddit mods. Does that make it impossible to meaningfully change the content on Wikipedia, or is it just difficult in small numbers?

Given the integration of Wikipedia into assistants like Siri and Google AI search, it seems that removing some of the Red Scare NAFO nonsense on English Wikipedia would be a worthwhile endeavor - even if one has to deal with frustrating power users fighting edits

 

That’s it

 

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Meet Juan Carlos, the embodiment of the American dream. He came to this country with virtually nothing and now owns a car collection that includes a Ferrari F40, a Michael Schumacher kart, Insane sleepers, and limited-edition vehicles that can never be replaced. Tune in to see what he owns and how he got here.

Fortunately about half the comments are roasting the guy

 

You should assume that large employers are running your name through some software to see what things you’re posting online. You should at the very least think about public posts and comments under your legal name. Not sure what other services are out there, but I’m sure there are some that can dig deeper than that e.g. attempting to find social media not registered under your name but linked to a known email address. This is the consequence of your data being sold by the Fuckerbergs of the world.

 

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Yes it’s Jubilee debate brained clickbait, but admittedly it is funny to watch JP get increasingly frustrated over nothing and his arguments spiral into meaninglessness

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