In my area there was a fight between two groups that both claimed to be "antifa": one group was against fascists because they don't like fascists, the other were nazis who were against being "merely" fascist!
One of the groups was definitely calling for genocide. But after getting their assess kicked a few times, they stopped calling themselves antifa and just put (literal) nazi flags in their yard. I saw "their yard" because it turned out that the whole group was one guy and a bunch of homeless skinheads he was boarding! lol
Even the historical Black Panthers, who were black nationalists, weren't supremacists! There is a big difference between fighting for your rights, or wanting to hold yourself above everybody else. They're not trying to hold themselves above me.
So... now there's no way to verify that a white supremacist actually said that racist thing?
False! There is just no way to verify which specific moron supremacist said that racist thing. We can still verify that some moron said the thing, and if he was a moron supremacist or not.
I've been saying for this for years: War with North Korea is unavoidable, and waiting until the very last possible day for it to happen will result it many more lives lost than if we can see it is unavoidable, and get it over with. And I'm a Democrat at least, we don't have any group that is actually "The Left."
I also believe that war is probably necessary to bring peace to parts of East Africa that have been overrun by armed non-governmental groups.
I'd also rather support war in Kurdistan than to see it conquered.
Or, when they became that rapid (Stalin) they ended up being replaced personally before the system collapsed. Might not end up saying anything comparative about the ideologies!
Hitler was nearly assassinated from within, Germany could easily have ended up replacing Hitler with somebody more moderate, signed peace treaties, and maintained something slightly-less-horrible for a long time.
Perhaps also if Stalin hadn't been killed, the Soviet Union would have collapsed much earlier!
The part that is more clear is that in all these cases, as long as mass murder is ongoing there are forces that remain opposed to it, and those forces tend to become more powerful over time.
Stalin killed around 5 million people just to try to goad the US into war, openly comparing what he was doing to what the nazis did. The reason many of them didn't die in gulags is that they didn't put enough food on the trains for everybody to survive the trip. And it was a long trip.
I tend to agree with you about Moa, though. The Maori probably killed them all off in response to famine. Or did you mean Mao? If so, maybe. But also, China deleted most of the history. So not sure.
North Korea isn't communist in any form at all; they are very clearly a traditional Confucian dictatorship! They adopt the language and iconography of communism because their sponsor is China, and China used to be Communist before switching to a mix of Representative Democracy and Representative Confucianism.
In Communism,everything is collectively owned by the People, and there is some sort of government that purports to represent the group based on concepts of Social Ownership; Communism rejects the idea that a class of people can be inherently better suited to governing than the others. So the authority to govern is based on dynamic social factors. Authority to govern is to be decided by meritocracy of some sort, not on membership in a class, or inherent ability.
North Korea doesn't have anything of the sort; leadership is based on the inherent superiority of the family that leads, and the belief that they have more inherent merit to lead based on Confucian ideas of inherited merit.
Exactly! I never heard people say, "Oh, that's a really horrible thing to say, won't you please be more political with your speech?"
Instead what I always heard was, "Wow, you're a real asshole, why don't you shut the fuck up you racist prick?" And then instead of shutting up, the asshole just starts lying about their views, followed by whining about "having to" be "politically correct."
No, there was never anything political about telling people their offensive words were offensive! They could also just have kept being honest, and accepted the social consequences. I have more respect for the nazis than for their sniveling sympathizers who sympathize while denying it! Honest nazis at least deserve a last meal and a clean death.
Misrepresenting people's politics is not very persuasive; though I'm sure people who already agreed with you will nod their heads at your words.
The pendulum will yet swing, and when it does, those so extreme they deny even the existence of opposing views will be swept away.
"The Left" is surely capable of forming their own opinions, I really doubt they check with you to make sure they match up with your absurd AM-radio stereotypes.
The Fairness Doctrine was not about private spaces, it regulated the public airwaves. It was an FCC regulation that only applied to people making a licensed public broadcast!
Who are these Democrats that want it back, or are you just lying? As a Democrat you're the first I've heard about it, and you don't even sound like you're a Democrat, so how is it you know I want things I don't want?
As an aside, Ayn Rand was opposed to the Fairness Doctrine as implemented, but she advocated adopting it in public universities; requiring 5 minutes at the end of lectures for opposing views!
I often use the mouse for things, but in emacs I hit M-x and then type out the command. I can't be bothered to memorize shortcuts. I might even reach for the mouse to use the menu if I don't remember the option name.
In vim if I need an option, I just quit and load the file in emacs.;)
As with almost all binary actions on the computer, I use both. If I'm already typing or have been typing recently, I'll use the keyboard. If I'm only switching between documents or reading something, I might sit farther away and use a mouse. If I'm using a mouse to scroll through a PDF viewed in the browser, and the rendering hangs, it seems silly to change positions to use the keyboard instead of clicking the little icon.
Oh fuck this, gamers in general will not be lumped into the basket of deplorables over one incident
No, they were(note tense) lumped into the same basket as all the other deplorables who say the same shit over a whole bunch of incidents and the widespread claims from the gamer community that rejecting deplorable behavior was somehow an attack on gamers.
"Gamers" who aren't deplorable stopped being gamers, and went back to being humans who enjoy playing games.
I'm sure twitter supports the "free speech" of the people they ban from their private service.
There is a giant "underpants gnome" in that comic where it jumps from understanding the difference between government and business, to at end not understanding the difference and seeming to want to nationalize twitter as "infrastructure" because they're a popular publisher. That isn't what the Supreme Court was deciding when they said that distribution is part of speech; they were talking about distribution by people who would agree to distribute for you! They were saying the government can't interfere with distribution if they don't like the content.
It isn't about patience, it is about if you want to decide the source of content is low quality and switch to another source!
If I do a web search, I usually choose three results from the first page and open them in new tabs before even looking at the first one; one in three is about what I expect to be reasonable and sufficient quality. The ones that appear tedius can just be closed rapidly, no need to spend time there. It seems to me that I actually save time this way.
If you're willing to turn on whatever they want to make you turn on to use the site, then you can't expect to actually have the protections or conveniences from blocking because the bad actors can just throw extra marbles on the floor and you'll instantly turn off the protections to restore convenience.
I use noscript and also uBlock Origin and uBlock Matrix and very very few sites are intensive, even the ones I let run some small percentage of the JS they wanted to run!
Right, when you have just a couple sites open FF has long used more memory, because they optimized for a different case; when you have lots and lots of tabs open! And it does really well at that, best of class.
Personally, I don't care if it uses a small or moderate amount of memory when I'm not asking very much of it, I care how much it uses when I ask a lot of it!
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Can we all agree that Muslims at this point are producing a disproportionate share of terrorists?
No, but can we agree that if a Muslim shoots 50 people we'll call it "terrorism," and if a Christian shoots 50 people we'll call it "mass murder?"
In my area there was a fight between two groups that both claimed to be "antifa": one group was against fascists because they don't like fascists, the other were nazis who were against being "merely" fascist!
One of the groups was definitely calling for genocide. But after getting their assess kicked a few times, they stopped calling themselves antifa and just put (literal) nazi flags in their yard. I saw "their yard" because it turned out that the whole group was one guy and a bunch of homeless skinheads he was boarding! lol
There are no "black supremacists."
Even the historical Black Panthers, who were black nationalists, weren't supremacists! There is a big difference between fighting for your rights, or wanting to hold yourself above everybody else. They're not trying to hold themselves above me.
So... now there's no way to verify that a white supremacist actually said that racist thing?
False! There is just no way to verify which specific moron supremacist said that racist thing. We can still verify that some moron said the thing, and if he was a moron supremacist or not.
Specifically who is calling for war?
I'm a mouse, and I'm stirring!
I've been saying for this for years: War with North Korea is unavoidable, and waiting until the very last possible day for it to happen will result it many more lives lost than if we can see it is unavoidable, and get it over with. And I'm a Democrat at least, we don't have any group that is actually "The Left."
I also believe that war is probably necessary to bring peace to parts of East Africa that have been overrun by armed non-governmental groups.
I'd also rather support war in Kurdistan than to see it conquered.
Or, when they became that rapid (Stalin) they ended up being replaced personally before the system collapsed. Might not end up saying anything comparative about the ideologies!
Hitler was nearly assassinated from within, Germany could easily have ended up replacing Hitler with somebody more moderate, signed peace treaties, and maintained something slightly-less-horrible for a long time.
Perhaps also if Stalin hadn't been killed, the Soviet Union would have collapsed much earlier!
The part that is more clear is that in all these cases, as long as mass murder is ongoing there are forces that remain opposed to it, and those forces tend to become more powerful over time.
Stalin killed around 5 million people just to try to goad the US into war, openly comparing what he was doing to what the nazis did. The reason many of them didn't die in gulags is that they didn't put enough food on the trains for everybody to survive the trip. And it was a long trip.
I tend to agree with you about Moa, though. The Maori probably killed them all off in response to famine. Or did you mean Mao? If so, maybe. But also, China deleted most of the history. So not sure.
North Korea isn't communist in any form at all; they are very clearly a traditional Confucian dictatorship! They adopt the language and iconography of communism because their sponsor is China, and China used to be Communist before switching to a mix of Representative Democracy and Representative Confucianism.
In Communism,everything is collectively owned by the People, and there is some sort of government that purports to represent the group based on concepts of Social Ownership; Communism rejects the idea that a class of people can be inherently better suited to governing than the others. So the authority to govern is based on dynamic social factors. Authority to govern is to be decided by meritocracy of some sort, not on membership in a class, or inherent ability.
North Korea doesn't have anything of the sort; leadership is based on the inherent superiority of the family that leads, and the belief that they have more inherent merit to lead based on Confucian ideas of inherited merit.
You might want to double-check that history.
Bad things did happen in history, but not the bad thing you claimed.
Exactly! I never heard people say, "Oh, that's a really horrible thing to say, won't you please be more political with your speech?"
Instead what I always heard was, "Wow, you're a real asshole, why don't you shut the fuck up you racist prick?" And then instead of shutting up, the asshole just starts lying about their views, followed by whining about "having to" be "politically correct."
No, there was never anything political about telling people their offensive words were offensive! They could also just have kept being honest, and accepted the social consequences. I have more respect for the nazis than for their sniveling sympathizers who sympathize while denying it! Honest nazis at least deserve a last meal and a clean death.
Misrepresenting people's politics is not very persuasive; though I'm sure people who already agreed with you will nod their heads at your words.
The pendulum will yet swing, and when it does, those so extreme they deny even the existence of opposing views will be swept away.
"The Left" is surely capable of forming their own opinions, I really doubt they check with you to make sure they match up with your absurd AM-radio stereotypes.
The Fairness Doctrine was not about private spaces, it regulated the public airwaves. It was an FCC regulation that only applied to people making a licensed public broadcast!
Who are these Democrats that want it back, or are you just lying? As a Democrat you're the first I've heard about it, and you don't even sound like you're a Democrat, so how is it you know I want things I don't want?
As an aside, Ayn Rand was opposed to the Fairness Doctrine as implemented, but she advocated adopting it in public universities; requiring 5 minutes at the end of lectures for opposing views!
I gotta say, he clearly understood the point.
You said, "and you may not refuse it," and he corrected you.
If it is still bad without the lie, maybe you could make the case again, but without the lie?
Their main competitor is funding the development. I don't think they need any time machine to change how that is expected to work out.
I often use the mouse for things, but in emacs I hit M-x and then type out the command. I can't be bothered to memorize shortcuts. I might even reach for the mouse to use the menu if I don't remember the option name.
In vim if I need an option, I just quit and load the file in emacs. ;)
As with almost all binary actions on the computer, I use both. If I'm already typing or have been typing recently, I'll use the keyboard. If I'm only switching between documents or reading something, I might sit farther away and use a mouse. If I'm using a mouse to scroll through a PDF viewed in the browser, and the rendering hangs, it seems silly to change positions to use the keyboard instead of clicking the little icon.
Oh fuck this, gamers in general will not be lumped into the basket of deplorables over one incident
No, they were(note tense) lumped into the same basket as all the other deplorables who say the same shit over a whole bunch of incidents and the widespread claims from the gamer community that rejecting deplorable behavior was somehow an attack on gamers.
"Gamers" who aren't deplorable stopped being gamers, and went back to being humans who enjoy playing games.
I'm sure twitter supports the "free speech" of the people they ban from their private service.
There is a giant "underpants gnome" in that comic where it jumps from understanding the difference between government and business, to at end not understanding the difference and seeming to want to nationalize twitter as "infrastructure" because they're a popular publisher. That isn't what the Supreme Court was deciding when they said that distribution is part of speech; they were talking about distribution by people who would agree to distribute for you! They were saying the government can't interfere with distribution if they don't like the content.
...it kinda sucks when someone takes information you thought was yours alone and sells it to the highest bidder, eh?
Why did you think it was yours? Are you the one who collected it?
Oh, right, that's why I don't let browsers update themselves! Thanks for reminding me. ;)
It isn't about patience, it is about if you want to decide the source of content is low quality and switch to another source!
If I do a web search, I usually choose three results from the first page and open them in new tabs before even looking at the first one; one in three is about what I expect to be reasonable and sufficient quality. The ones that appear tedius can just be closed rapidly, no need to spend time there. It seems to me that I actually save time this way.
If you're willing to turn on whatever they want to make you turn on to use the site, then you can't expect to actually have the protections or conveniences from blocking because the bad actors can just throw extra marbles on the floor and you'll instantly turn off the protections to restore convenience.
pre-57 NoScript -> 57 uMatrix (it even imports a NoScript backup)
done!
Personally I won't touch most of the `web without both!
Exactly! I always have a few hundred tabs "open" but as long I restart the browser once a week, no problem.
I use noscript and also uBlock Origin and uBlock Matrix and very very few sites are intensive, even the ones I let run some small percentage of the JS they wanted to run!
Right, when you have just a couple sites open FF has long used more memory, because they optimized for a different case; when you have lots and lots of tabs open! And it does really well at that, best of class.
Personally, I don't care if it uses a small or moderate amount of memory when I'm not asking very much of it, I care how much it uses when I ask a lot of it!