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A perfectly safe panopticon and freedom & privacy will always be at odds.

Don't let a classic "think of the children" appeal to emotion short circuit your reasoning.

You read along with the text and things seem to be going fine until all of the sudden it starts arguing against a position that no one has actually taken and which doesn't feature elsewhere in the text at all. Then it drops that and goes on for a while before doing the whole thing again about a totally different tangent.

This just sounds like a typical wikipedia article to me. Where it describes something, and then some editor who disagreed chimes in, "However...." and completely contradicts it.

Learning that Nile Red reads wikipedia articles to sleep made me realize that's why he constantly says it in his videos. Love the dude's content, but lol

Many here mistake passive aggressiveness for civility. So does the rule enforcement.

I once ham-fistedly tried to allude to a similar concept. That slaves were at least "kept" while today's wage slaves have more responsibility, and de facto less freedom due to 'The Matrix' that is our financial and legal system that benefits so few.

We have lords of land. A monetary system based mostly on trickery hidden behind boring math that inexorably erodes the purchasing power of what we receive as compensation for our finite time alive.

So let's just jump to the interesting bit: how do we fix it? Got any ideas?

I meant ublock origin. I use firefox and brave pretty interchangeably. Firefox is better in some ways but utterly infuriating in others.

Fun fact: internet speed tests have been reliably faster in firefox for years for whatever reason. And the volume boost extension I use there doesn't work in fullscreen on brave for some reason, which is mostly why I watch videos predominantly in firefox.

o7

I use Ublock on Brave (chromium). Ublock is supposed to be unnecessary with brave alone, but I use it all the time to delete annoying UI elements mostly permanently.

Why anyone still uses vanilla Chrome for personal use is beyond me while brave exists and is actively maintained. It's essentially youtube premium for free even on mobile.

The fact that lawyers dreamt up the notion of "Imaginary Property" called it "Intellectual Property" and built a business around the scam for themselves, and other people take it seriously is some of the most compelling evidence that humans suck.

In the digital age where the cost of copying itself is functionally zero, we're supposed to pay people over and over again for a thing created once is like the human race taking advantage of itself.

I get making money for labor, novelty, and producing things but repeated payments thereafter would feel like a scam to any reasonable alien.

'Copyright' is humans at their most greedy and selfish.

Why is that better?

I wrote an email to my titanically incompetent leasing office mostly to vent emotions, then sent it anyway so I could receive proof that they had read it in writing for any future issues. It was quite cathartic.

Nothing but ad hominem attacks. Go back to farLeftSky.

The 'curated collection in a light bulb' in your strawman fallacy contains books you could find prominently displayed in every mainstream bookstore's entranceway. Hardly banned by any reasonable definition. Pilpul not withstanding.

The opposite of 'banned books' making it false advertising.

Are there black, Asian, jewish supremacist, or zionist books that are banned? If so, which ones?

There is one reason someone would do that. You're a white supremacist and a Nazi. There's no in-between here. How about you fuck right off with all that? No tolerance for Nazis and racists.

And good faith is straight out the window. Are you afraid because non-banned books and films told you they were bad, or because the people who produced those were afraid they were right and didn't want you to know that they were right?

You're advocating censorship. The good guys have not once in history ever needed to do that.

Less than 8% of the English speaking world has heard of the Bolsheviks' genocide. And we know that's not an accident because Mossad's Robert Maxwell owned the dominant textbook publishing company in America for years.

If that simple, easily checkable fact doesn't get your hackles up I would know why that it doesn't.

Y'know, there's really only one reason to be coy about whether you agree with Neo-Nazi propaganda.

Straight to the ad hominem attack on taboo thoughts. Transparent. If the books are true what is your problem with them? Not me. Not the other poster. Not a strawman fallacy. What is your issue with the content of actually banned books? Be specific.

- The Camp of the Saints

- Culture of Critique

- The Turner Diaries

Actual banned books. So of course your comment is flagged. Groupthink censorship is still censorship.

Relying on the ultra mainstream wikipedia for a banned book would be hilarious if it weren't so deeply disappointing. They'll list nothing interesting.

I'd be interested in the banned book list. A glance at the socials with the biggest one missing suggests there will be no interesting books on it. Just the ones you can find in "banned books" stands at mainstream bookstores. Absolute mediocrity of thought free of meaningful diversity.

Deflection + ad hominem attack + outright lies. Local maximum of bad faith dishonesty. Impressive, really that you get away with it here. This isn't reddit, twitter, or farLeftSky.

'islamo supremacists', but not jewish supremacists? The ones just spontaneously moved into a land where people already lived 75 years ago aren't responsible?

Literally DARVO.

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Show me a single article about "antisemitism on the decline".

If our press was honest, every story you heard about Russia would have been about Israel instead. Israel is overwhelmingly America's worst enemy and they distract from that by pretending Russia/Iran/China/Qatar is. No other country blackmails our politicians or steals so much of our money, military resources, soldier lives as much as Israel. There's no close competitor even.

Yet we're never told that explicitly and it's never framed as the abusive relationship that it is.

Makes you really wonder who the press works for.

I wish we had more (or maybe better yet one) software engineering union in America.

The trouble seems to be that it's so easy to scab (outsource) or hire foreign competition (H1b et al) which is a pretty broken program even according to some of the people whom I've talked to who are on it.

One multi-team architect I know working for a brand you've definitely heard of was making like $65K and doing a $250K job of it. Brilliant guy. The H1B program hurts everyone except employers' vast bank accounts and their shareholders.

I've been using Brave for years. And I'm in the process of moving off of gmail. Why bing of all engines?

It is privacy with respect to your ISP. A lot of ISPs are pretty shitty. Some will rat out their own customers to copyright mongrels and threaten to disconnect you - which is important when there's a local monopoly.

Things you connect to or log in to are clearly going to be able to ID you at least with in the context of the login that you use regardless of what the VPN does.

I'm logged into HN through Mullvad as it happens. I usually leave it on regardless of what I'm doing because what I'm doing isn't my ISP's business even though I'm pretty happy with them.

I don't go to McDonald's at all because not even the fries are gluten free. They used to be glorious beef tallow fried, and now they're seasoned with a wheat based flavoring.

Basically the only fast food left to me is Taco Bell, which as you may know earned its place by surviving the franchise wars.

News isn't watched, it's read. There's extraordinary convincing power in having a talking head say things to you. You're way more likely to believe it regardless of truth. It's why they all do it.

I was delighted to find that "expand selection" was a supported function, doubly so when I noticed that it was ctrl+w (what I'm used to and this may be from the IntelliJ defaults), but it... doesn't do anything.

Even selecting it from the menu does nothing.

An internet search turned up nothing useful. And oddly 'expand selection' is not listed in the keymap?

None of this makes any sense. And if expand selection doesn't work I'm simply not going to use it.

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edit: I found that (possibly my intellij mappings) remapped ctrl+w to "close editor" and I deleted that and now it works.

It's weird that it's not to be found in the keymap editor though... I had to manually insert it as a binding AND why would it show up as "Expand Selection Ctrl+W" in the select menu when it isn't? That's got to be a bug or two.

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Excuse me?

We simply don't need online age verification. It's not the state or private business' job to parent children. It's their parents job.

This is not only unnecessary, but will with 100% certainty lead to negative downstream affects, either via leaks, or the state being able to find people for things that aren't crimes once they're adults.

There's simply no good reason for it that outweighs the bad. But what it really boils down to is completely unnecessary.

Anecdotal evidence is weak (not) evidence.