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Re:Signal's president vows to reject UK law on message scann... by vasco on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:59PM (#36741689)
Only dummies think in classes. People are people.
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Re:Signal's president vows to reject UK law on message scann... by immibis on Saturday July 15, 2023 @07:22PM (#36741846)
Only dummies are unable to taxonomize.
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Re:Signal's president vows to reject UK law on message scann... by throw47474777j on Saturday July 15, 2023 @08:32PM (#36742244)
A smart person who systematically mis-categorizes the world is worse than an idiot acting at random.
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Re:Signal's president vows to reject UK law on message scann... by PartiallyTyped on Saturday July 15, 2023 @07:36PM (#36741919)
A class defines a set of people with some shared characteristic. In this case, this class contains about > 99.99% of the humans that have ever existed.
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Re:Signal's president vows to reject UK law on message scann... by hkt on Sunday July 16, 2023 @04:24PM (#36751070)
Some people find this helpfully confusing: it allows them to remain in denial of the obviousness of how horrendous the ruling class is.
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