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663karma·81submissions·May 6, 2026
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He really shouldn't be dancing anywhere given that he imprisoned a male prostitute and beat him with a chain: https://www.newsweek.com/boy-george-imprisonment-assault-cha... …
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> What would we lose? You'd lose the ability to work on and distribute software not approved by your and various other governments. For example, if the UK makes BitTorrent illegal, what happ…
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I would trade my US "superpower" (aka committing war crimes across the globe) status for free healthcare in the blink of an eye. I currently pay >$1,500 a month for "health insurance…
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Calling people "useful idiots" is pithy?
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I'd start with some German guy calling native Canadians who are actively civically engaged "useful idiots" and his suggestion that the unemployed and retried shouldn't have a voice…
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I'm sure the people who would have their right to vote stripped from them would consider that malicious, and they would be correct. That's not democracy.
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I don't think "citizens have a right to vote" is anywhere near the realm of ideological purity or "Brooklyn based journalist" thinking. It's literally just democracy. Fre…
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Yep, a lot of toxic investors in this. Not touching it with a ten foot pole and lost a lot of respect for Mitchell. A couple of the other investors: * https://x.com/rauchg/status&…
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How so? First of all there aren't many leftists you can actually vote for. Second, nothing is stopping men or women from voting for leftists, and indeed both do in the rare instances they're…
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This is itself a 4chan meme. They also view neo-liberals as "the left", while most leftists definitely do not. Worrying about "woke", "no place for a young man", trans an…
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Outrage is freedom of speech. Stripping votes is fascism. > If you import third world and give them the right to vote what prevents them from voting in the third world? What does import the third…
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Thank you but I'm no saint. I joined Microsoft knowing that they were incompatible with my values. I just told myself that I wouldn't work on those types of projects and try to stick to my…
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AI is the end of the funnel and I actually think the mass surveillance at the beginning of the funnel is a bigger issue. The concentration of power is the problem. If you or I could defend ourselves a…
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AI helps people scale. If being "on target" means that you find people when they're eating dinner so you can kill their entire family, then using AI to scale that up is a terrible thing…
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Props to the author. I left Microsoft due to their work with Israel to spy on Palestinians and record all of their phone conversations (in addition to other IDF collaborations). They ended up walking …
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Anyone who's impact is more than just rampant financial fraud. Human's are the product of their environment and mostly just in the right place at the right time, but there's no criteria…