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> imagine a wholly for-profit police force.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...

Am i missing something here? You're saying someone selfharming justifies criminal punishment?

I'd love to have this conversation in a suburban mall food where the average bmi is >30

> news isn't religion

Anecdotally it feels that way in modern society.

Ask a random person if they believe Fox news.

> verbal announcements

At this point the foreigner is more Japanese than the local friend.

> Taxi Driver formed part of the delusional fantasy of John Hinckley Jr.[26] that triggered his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, an act for which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity

Its great to be an optimist and think movies don't cause harm, clearly not everyone got the memo, there's some really crazy people out there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#John_Hinckley_Jr.

Can anyone elaborate on [3] or at least copypaste it?

Twitter links seem to rarely work without having the app on mobile, it's disgustingly blatant dark pattern stuff.

While I agree with the sentiment feel the urge to note that where I live but you will face punishment for having blackberries growing on your property similar to what you would for selling marijuana.

Blackberries are a national pest, and yet sell for $80/kg in supermarkets. The average person could collect over $50 worth from the side of the road in under an hour.

Australia is not known for its efficiency nor logic.

> Glasgow council is selling land like its going out of fashion to developers

Guessing the sentiment here is that this is bad? Why exactly? Is Glasgow not growing and ever more people needing roofs over heads?

I've never once heard a person hate on farmers for producing too much food for consumption but the moment developers come even close to meeting demand for housing they are considered on par with criminals.

Both are essentials for life. Yet an abundance of one may reduce an individuals personal wealth.

In my country developers are banned from political donations, bikie gangs (organised criminals) are not.

https://dark.fail/ for market and forum links. Dread and Avengers are the forums.

Browse around or ask questions on the forums. Reputation is everything on darknet markets, a reputable seller from your own country is highly unlikely to do you wrong.

What news does reach "the majority of people in China"?

The children of senior officials routinely study overseas, it's painfully mundane.

As for China "ramping up anti-western rhetoric", I'm truly struggling to see what you mean being in a unique position between the two, would actually say the opposite. Are you sure about that or is it more a localized viewpoint far removed from statements made by the Chinese government and media arms?

Just to clarify because it's a tad vague, you support Blizzard's right to both remove a winners players prizemoney and future ability to compete because of one sentence on a livestream?

Or perhaps less inflammatory and antagonistic, would you support private property even if it were levelled against oneself?

While keeping the population well-fed, secure and with wages growing at 5% a year? Not possible.

The masses will beg for more oppression if you can keep that up.

The greying of this only comment here despite not a single reply ironically only proves my point further.

I guess the "anti-censorship activists" aren't here to save me today. Oh well, trivial problem for me, tad bigger issue for HK.

Is censorship bad my friendly digital co-inhabitants?

Or did the my comment just hit the scraping regexes in the right spot?

> News travels faster than ever before. Everyone has a camera on them.

I too am watching the ever-loyal Kurds get slaughtered by a NATO member with the overt approval of the US military.

I wrote a comment on the internet in response.

Problem solved?

Actually spent quite a while going through the list of banned subs to eliminate contentious ones, gotta make commenters work for it :)

They are a US based website subject to those laws, even if those words posted on their site didn't violate laws, it's entirely legal for them to censor at will for any reason they deem ok.

> the Blizzard controversy indicates just how badly the company has screwed up here, and the level of pressure that the community and anti-censorship activists are going to apply against it.

Got a good chuckle at "anti-censorship" activists. Last I looked that was the alt-right. Free speech is a dirty word associated with Nazis for many people today (especially outside the US). Find it terrifying how many of my enlightened friends consider blanket censorship and deplatforming a legitimate way to deal with unpleasant types.

Guessing the author is aware of that modern anti-censorship fervour is almost entirely isolated to a group of people not exactly popular with the audience.

Fixing negative connotations with a vague rebranding is the pinnacle of marketing and the antithesis of journalism.

> I’d be hard-pressed to name one that I felt contributed to free speech.

As in US Constitution free speech? I can think of dozens.

r/SanctionedSuicide

r/DarknetMarkets

r/shoplifting

r/gore

r/watchpeopledie

This strikes to the heart of what my comment mentioned though: the vast majority of people don't care, Western consumer people especially. Not supporting it, simply saying it.

Make them care and things might change, truly. Don't bother with CEO's or governments, we all know who they serve.

How much money did private enterprise make from the Arab Spring? Hundred billion or so?

To pretend like it was a moral issue is insane. Most people don't care in the slightest in democratic countries. Virtually every country involved in sending troops couldn't point to it on a map nor talk about the region with any sort of knowledge. We walked in and replaced Hussein with ISIS. It will go down as 21st century Vietnam.

China has nukes. Absolutely nothing will happen regardless, just like 30 years ago. Perhaps some more outrage on twitter I guess?

it's just plug and play hey?

So why does Boeing end up paying compensation in court?

Airplane parts are intertwined believe it or not, their engineers spend years working together.

May as well start 26 shell companies named BoeingA to BoeingZ and pretend it was all someone else's fault.

Eh, such generalizations, I've lived and worked in very racist homogenous societies for years and still never struggled to find local friends.

There's always cool folks to befriend, unless the insinuation here is no foreigner should move to Japan until a hundred million people change their ways?

My opinion is _we_ all should change, and waiting for that to happen may take a while.

This is pro-China propaganda at it's best, they'll milk it for years. It's hilarious how naive the West is about these matters.

> Well unless you use a one time pad but nobody does

Was under the impression intel agencies and militaries use OTP's regularly and the keys are carried in diplomatic pouches around the world.

There's thousands of dollars on offer for each large one and a somewhat related millennium prize.

Guess scaling is down the track for this "business"

Japan is actually getting quite friendly lately, as a full-time remote worker have been investigating moving there for a while.

First sentence, yeah undeniable.

Second sentence entirely ignores the reality of regional Australia and it's overwhelming influence on politics to make terrible decisions that is a burden on the nation as a whole. A single marginal electorate left out of the final station decision will mean it's a nonstarter. And I can name 3 right now.

Also ignores how hard it is to build infrastructure in Australia today, the entire landscape is full of parasites. As much as I enjoy commenting about American lobbyists and it's negative outcomes, the reality is our lobbyists are infrastructure behemoths who probably do more damage to society keeping the status quo. The entir tender process is broken beyond a few million on offer.

You simply can't build big infrastructure projects in Australia anymore, the entire process has been hijacked by corporations.

You would be saying the same thing about China 30 years ago.

It's completely wrong in my opinion. Massive failure of cultural projecting by westerners to actually believe this.

Many people just want to be well fed and have safety for their small circles, they truly don't give a shit about politics. What's the US federal election turnouts again :) ?

Pay brokers for zero day exploits.

Have a small team of highly paid well off young people with little incentive to take a "moral" stance.

Profit.

Also consider that perhaps they aren't living in the "dark ages" while right on the doorstep of one of the most technologically advanced nations on Earth? These events are happening 200km away from Seoul.

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