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  1. Comment on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wore brownface makeup to a party at the private school where he was teaching in the spring of 2001 in ~news

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    I have problems with the article. Which is utterly useless garbage.

    I have problems with the article. Which is utterly useless garbage.

  2. Comment on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wore brownface makeup to a party at the private school where he was teaching in the spring of 2001 in ~news

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    Yeah, that's some big league journalism here. Thank you for bringing the highest quality reports to tildes.

    Yeah, that's some big league journalism here. Thank you for bringing the highest quality reports to tildes.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~talk

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    I need to get to work and home Please no more people Population control

    Why

    I need to get to work and home

    What could get more people riding?

    Please no more people

    How could your experience be more pleasant?

    Population control

    9 votes

  4. Comment on Stop mocking vegans in ~food

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    It's not an excuse, it's the reason for flagging. This is facebook tier post.

    It's not an excuse, it's the reason for flagging. This is facebook tier post.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Stop mocking vegans in ~food

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    Well, they kinda should be, although not necessarily. HN is definitely not the place for columnist opinions that start with statements like 'They’re right about ethics and the environment'.

    Well, they kinda should be, although not necessarily. HN is definitely not the place for columnist opinions that start with statements like 'They’re right about ethics and the environment'.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Stop mocking vegans in ~food

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    The article is neither hacker nor news, there's no mystery here.

    The article is neither hacker nor news, there's no mystery here.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Potential new groups, and general discussion about the purpose and organization of the group hierarchy in ~tildes.official

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    I like how it is right now, to be honest. ~comp is like hackernews, and ~tech is like reddit boards. But I support the idea of migration - we already have HN, but nothing similar to ~science.comp...

    I like how it is right now, to be honest. ~comp is like hackernews, and ~tech is like reddit boards. But I support the idea of migration - we already have HN, but nothing similar to ~science.comp idea.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Potential new groups, and general discussion about the purpose and organization of the group hierarchy in ~tildes.official

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    I think ~hobbies is too broad, that's why it's unpopular. For example, let's assume I am a wood/metal worker or a musician. Every post will be hit or miss, with nothing inbetween, so it makes...

    I think ~hobbies is too broad, that's why it's unpopular. For example, let's assume I am a wood/metal worker or a musician. Every post will be hit or miss, with nothing inbetween, so it makes sense to separate the groups.
    Not a fan of ~arts, ~hobbies and ~creative - a better solution would be something like ~arts/~creative, ~crafts and smaller categories.
    I agree that ~socialsciences is a better fit than ~science.social.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Privacytools delisted Brave from their website in ~tech

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    No they don't. They used to spend their time with that service. What do you think they would do after they stopped using the service? When someone is in a state where they believe any bullshit...

    They most often, though, just stop using the service, however.

    No they don't. They used to spend their time with that service. What do you think they would do after they stopped using the service? When someone is in a state where they believe any bullshit they encounter and they get banned on some platform, they don't change their views - they change a platform.

    Deplatforming works.

    Unless you care to explain what 'works' means, that's a moot point.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Privacytools delisted Brave from their website in ~tech

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    The word “fediverse” (federated universe) refers to the network of all Mastodon servers and other projects, users of which are able to talk to each other seamlessly. Fediverse does not create code...

    It's relying on the code and clients created by the fediverse.

    The word “fediverse” (federated universe) refers to the network of all Mastodon servers and other projects, users of which are able to talk to each other seamlessly. Fediverse does not create code and clients, that's just not what the word means. Gab absolutely does not rely on fediverse in its current form.

    And, Gab says it's growing. I'm not one to trust an untrustworthy source, though.

    Well, okay?.. it's only tangentially relevant to your initial premise,

    I hear gab is doing so good, that they cannot even make a mobile app, and instead are relying on the fediverse.

    which is outright false.

  11. Comment on Privacytools delisted Brave from their website in ~tech

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    There's a lot of people using tor browser and onion services. Do you have an idea what happens when you force someone to use onion services? They stick to echo chambers where their ideas are...

    There's a lot of people using tor browser and onion services.
    Do you have an idea what happens when you force someone to use onion services?

    1. They stick to echo chambers where their ideas are unchallenged and encouraged. This creates a feedback loop that leads to easy radicalization of an individual. Not exclusive to onion services obviously, the same process goes on *chans, Gab, Voat, Reddit, albeit much slower.
    2. They gain a lot of great knowledge about things that are forbidden to talk about. They learn how to hide their actions properly, how to get and use drugs/weapons.
    3. They become incredibly dangerous, when all you had to do is debate them like a normal human being capable of understanding that people make mistakes.
    6 votes

  12. Comment on Privacytools delisted Brave from their website in ~tech

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    Nothing? There's a myriad of *chans that aren't going anywhere, not even including big resources like voat. Gab seems to be growing pretty fast, so not sure what your point is. It certainly isn't...

    Yep... let's look at what happened to them.

    Nothing? There's a myriad of *chans that aren't going anywhere, not even including big resources like voat.
    Gab seems to be growing pretty fast, so not sure what your point is. It certainly isn't relying on fediverse, if we're talking about the same fediverse that denied them federation. They had a mobile app for ages.
    Maybe you should spare a minute and check if what you heard is right.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Ask Andrew W.K.: My Dad Is a Right-Wing Asshole in ~misc

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    You are not supposed to 'fight them'. In what is called democratic establishments, you are supposed to exercize power by communicating and voting to elect representatives that make general...

    You are not supposed to 'fight them'. In what is called democratic establishments, you are supposed to exercize power by communicating and voting to elect representatives that make general decisions and create laws. The laws are a set of rules that imply a punishment for breaking them. The punishment is usually carried out by law enforcement organizations, which, in turn, are supposed to be controlled by people.
    The racial supremacist groups are nice examples of proper minority groups (racial 'minorities' are not by the way, the ridiculous formal division of people into 'races' is, quite literally, racism and has nothing to do with political minorities). What are you supposed to do when you do not agree with their views? You are supposed to not vote for representatives that share their views (shouldn't be that hard if they are a minority; if they are a majority, well, that's democracy for you). Those members who break the law are supposed to be punished by LEOs accordingly.
    You feel powerless because you are trying to treat the symptoms instead of the cause. People will always make mistakes, but different political systems offer different feedback loops - some of them dramatically amplify the impact of poor decisions.
    Assume that whatever you call bad people (that you dont consider humanizing, whatever that means) don't exist anymore - they just disappeared in a blink. This time for real, not just officially like in 1945, for example. Do you think that without significant changes to the way of thinking and living people wouldn't arrive in the same spot?

    4 votes