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  • Columbus did not in fact do that, nor is that "the reason" the modern world exists. Broken window fallacy, slaughtering people and generally doing colonialism is not an effective way to create technological progress.

  • It has everything to do with tech literacy. Understanding how to use technology includes the consequences of that use.

    Sure I'll take the discussion more seriously: I don't know what your experiences were and im sure you have valid reasons to be upset. But your comment makes no indication of these experiences, and I'm not expecting you to share them, you make no indication of wanting to.

    Projecting those traumas into a cudgel with which to judge strangers harshly on a whim however is going to be behavior that gets pushback. I don't think that child has unloving parents, nor deserves to be taken to a new family because the parents made a mistake they clearly learned from. I think they broadly reacted well to the situation in a system (surveillance capitalism) which does a poor job, possibly an actively malicious job, of educating people about the downsides of existing in and using features of that system. Maybe they, if digging deeper, have failed to learn or are in fact unloving. But based on the information available, I don't think that's a fair assessment.

    I hope you are doing well and wish you luck handling your past and your goals related to it.

  • I'd more likely agree that it's a cold way to put it. Hardly flowery, and hardly is someone trying to convince you to vote a certain way voter suppression. That's just called politics. That's like, the core conceit of an election, no less.

    If you're going to protest vote at least be honest about what it is, "it's not a spoiler vote, I'm just intentionally not voting for the candidate I [most likely] prefer on this candidate I know won't win."

  • "Civilians want to stop being bombed en masse, more open to demands of bombers" isn't exactly the argument you think it is.

    Your comment also fully assumes that the goals of Israel are to reduce war sentiment in Palestine.

    Among other odd issues in this comment, ultimately you're not addressing the core issue people are taking with Israel's choices by taking a hard-line 'realism' stance.

  • Spoiler votes are hardly smoke or even a controversial concept. They are a natural consequence of first past the post elections.

    Star voting would solve almost all of these issues.

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  • It's both, and comes with a lot of historical baggage with systems slow to change. These arguments about the role of education are neither new nor were they settled decisively one way or another historically.

  • It's bold, at least. You should have asked before you did that, many people view sharing drinks as about as intimate as kissing. I could see it working in some circumstances and being playful, but in the future if it doesn't work you should probably buy the guy a replacement beer lol. Live and learn.

  • They can use it to impose sanctions. Breaking international law, as much as contrarians like to claim otherwise, can come with consequences. No I don't think blue helmets are going to be deployed but these things aren't toothless.

  • Being your own bank is 99% of the problems crypto runs into. It turns out being your own bank is hard and makes most people into marks. This is of course, by design, and most of the space, the vast majority of the space, is scams.

    Also bitcoin has kept its promises just as much as USD has. That's not really a useful metric.

  • The actual problem is that the language of the bill is looking to make it far easier for a president to ban any given potentially foreign influenced video platform. That's not fantastic and it's been masked under these compounding layers of absurdity.

  • Not only is the noise ratio low, this seems like a good lesson in "encyclopedias are not primary sources nor arbiters nor authorities on information." Yes, people use Wikipedia that way anyway. No, baking in an even lower trust system does not seem like it's actually a fix to any of Wikipedia's problems.