>anyone stating to be "proud to be a/an `nationality`" is just another simpleton, it's the belief that someone, because they just so happened to be born where they did, are inherently better or more than someone who arbitrarily was born somewhere outside some geographical area.
This is completely absurd. Cultural differences do not need to be in a hierarchy to be valuable. Pride in one's heritage or taking joy in the cultural artifacts of one's own culture doesn't imply superiority -- that's some Postmodern "everything is power" bullshit.
The differences between cultures aren't something that we SHOULD simply 'stop doing,' in part because this means some culture will remain, and be actually dominant, and eradicate the rest.
The differences between cultures should be celebrated and intermingling should be encouraged; they can be of equal value without being all the same monoculture.
How is it that this is the case but Amazon and Twitter aren't facing antitrust action for teaming up against Parler? Amazon protects a huge account and the huge account takes down a competitor.
>a retaliatory move by a regime trying to silence the opposition. I don't think this has too many parallels with the current US events
You're right, in the US the government doesn't have the right to shut down private businesses because of the political beliefs of the users, so the hard left gets Big Tech to operate as a cartel to do it for them.
I'm fine with this if we can agree that this is the same thing Antifa-BLM has been doing in countless cities, most notably Portland and Seattle where they attack Federal buildings and civilian homes and business almost nightly "in the pursuit of political aims", is the same thing.
The "PacNW Youth Liberation Front" Twitter account is still active. They frequently call for overthrow of the government and organize violent direct actions.
Rose City Antifa is still active. They do the same.
Salon's Tweet calling for more violence this summer and calling the violence that had already occurred against Federal properties by Leftist activists "justified" is still up, as is Salon's website.
Khamenei's Twitter is still active, calling for the elimination of all Jews and Israel.
I'm sure this will get downvoted. Probably flagged.
But since the government can't shut down companies due to the content their users post, because of Section 230, I guess a small, colluding cartel of corporations can step in to silence people when the government will bend knee to the Leftist mob instead.
It's only a matter of time before the people wielding this power find it turned against them, if they do not recognize what they are doing to discourse on the Internet.
LOL let me get this straight, you implemented 1 type of threading in your old "reference" homeserver, and a second type in the new one that's been incomplete for years?
How is this supposed to be supported by all clients, and how is Matrix supposed to be an open protocol, if you can't even maintain feature parity among the first party homeservers? Neither is supported by Element, as you point out, so which one is the "correct" model that a second implementation of the homeserver protocol should follow? Which one should new clients follow?
Also, when is Dendrite actually going to be a usable replacement for Synapse?
Also, when will you hire an actual professional to represent your company on HN instead of sticking your head into every thread on your product? It makes it seem like you don't have better things to do than be on HN all day.
Matrix is an amateur-hour project. I don't understand why it is so popular on HN. I'd rather use Jabber, full stop.
LOL have you ever run Synapse? When I tried it out, it took like an hour on a dedicated NUC back in 2017 or so to join the network and provide connectivity to the main channel for ONE USER, and this was on an i7 with 16GB of RAM!
RUN IT ON A PHONE?! LOL
Maybe it's been heavily optimized since then. I'm sure Arathorn will come out of the woodwork to correct me.
$800M isn't all that much when it comes to sovereign budgets, I mean, Slack is apparently worth over 30x that amount.
If Colombia's arm is being twisted on this regard by the US, it would probably behoove them to just forgo the foreign aid. A lot of foreign aid is counterproductive, anyway. In the long term they'd be better off, more independent. They could probably make back the $800M from tax revenue from their legalized coca trade alone.
This is the real reason I use Emacs instead of whatever is popular right now (VSCode today, Sublime yesterday, Atom yesterday, JetBrains as long as they will support it, Borland in the 90s) -- it's been around for over 30 freakin years! I'm sick of investing in tools that change faster than I can learn them.
I hope this one works out; I've been ignoring everyone and living off of almost entirely animal fats and carbs for ya know, my whole life.
I'm either gonna die in the next couple of decades (I'm in my thirties) or live forever. Also, maybe this is why my BMI is so low (I am very lean and always have been)? Who knows! Could be that, or it could be a thyroid condition!
Isn't this just pointing out that farms follow a Pareto distribution, like a lot of creative domains? It's a really common emergent pattern. It doesn't diminish from the observation the article makes, but it does make it somewhat less surprising when you're used to seeing Pareto curves all over the place.
>This is rarely about the apology itself, but about establishing that something wrong has happened to begin with
Feh, don't even give these struggle sessions and the petty tyrants that perpetrate them that much credit. It's about establishing that something ideologically condemned by those demanding an apology has occurred, and nothing more. Morality is secondary to ideological purity among the types demanding apologies.
This article totally misses the point of what subscription fatigue is: the administrative burden of keeping track of recurring payments to various services which may no longer be wanted, needed, or can be afforded, and the fear of the renewal of one of these services causing sudden and surprising financial strain.
As such, subscriptions DO compete with each other, although the author contends that they do not.
When I buy any single good in a normal transaction, I pay and then I forget about it and my relationship with the vendor and the transaction. It's complete. It's over.
When I purchase a subscription I must remember to cancel it at which time I no longer need or want it, and I need to remember to keep an eye on the charges to make sure that they are what was agreed to at the time the subscription began and have not risen due to a rising sticker price or fees which were not advertised to me. This has a mental cost.
In personal practical terms, this means I'll only subscribe to a few streaming services at a time. I can't watch more than one or two VOD services in a given month. If if my VOD desires change, since I want to mentally track as few subscriptions as possible, I will cancel one of the existing subscriptions to make room for something new.
In this situation, I have e.g. Netflix competing with Amazon for a "subscription slot" in my mind, but Netflix doesn't deliver toilet paper. Guess which account I cancelled six months ago, and which one I still have?
Why does the permission of their parents matter, even in the slightest? Do parents have the right to marry away their pre-pubescent daughters in our society?
In addition, a large portion of sexual abuse is from family, and the parents of child actors don't exactly have the best reputation when it comes to not abusing their children, and show business in general doesn't have the best track record on this either. Remember Corey Feldman?
> You really think the actresses are traumatised after this?
Yes.
> Why?!?
I think children being told to perform sexually explicit dances while in revealing dress for the enjoyment of adults (the nuances of such enjoyment will be lost on the child) will likely have a negative effect on their mental health later in life and yes, is a traumatizing experience, because they are being coerced into performing a sexual act, the likes of which they cannot understand or consent to due to their age. It doesn't matter if the coerced sexual act is stated to be in opposition to coerced sexual acts: the child has no choice! I shouldn't have to explain this!
If Taxi Driver could make a movie about sexual exploitation of young women without forcing Jodie Foster to literally dance in undress I think we can hold other filmmakers to the same standard.
>If you make a good movie denouncing dog mistreatment, that is good. The fact it may sexually excite some people mistreating dogs is not really relevant...
You've missed the point. If you kill puppies to make a movie denouncing dog mistreatment, the puppies are dead.
If you exploit children to make a movie denouncing exploiting children, the children are still exploited.
It has nothing to do with the subjective reception of the film at all.
Specifically to this point, the actresses that played the young girls in the film all auditioned in front of the director, doing the sexually explicit dances behind closed doors, along with many others that didn't get the part. The creator of the film was a victim of sexual exploitation like this at a younger age.
Additionally, it is very common for victims of various traumas to inflict those traumas on others, and it's also common for them to be in denial about their motives for victimizing new victims in the same way they were victimized themselves.
The rich are better off in every way than the poor, every day. That's the nature of life. It isn't fair. Life being unfair doesn't mean something unethical is happening. Ostensibly, those that have the money to pay more either worked more for it, got luckier, or someone else who worked harder or got luckier loved them enough to gift them their wealth. Why should people be punished for luck or receiving a gift (inheritance) because it's 'unfair' to other people who weren't so lucky?
It isn't the rich peoples' fault, or the poor peoples', that there was a sudden surge in demand for these goods, or that the market did its job in adjusting the goods to their new real price in order to keep them on shelves. That's exactly what you want. Otherwise, no amount of luck or hard work will allow you to get that good even if you really, really, want it, and are willing to sacrifice other goods in order to pay the elevated -- but worth it, due to the circumstances -- price, because that elevated price was banned by people crying about "price gouging."
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