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Is it the ADHD or the treatment for ADHD that correlates with shorter life?
The one president in decades to keep us out of war loves war. Your logic is infallible.
Re:The internet's “town square” is dead on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:24AM (#36664823)
People != censors.
Re:The internet's “town square” is dead on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:21AM (#36664806)
I see that you’re intimidated by flat earthers.
Re:The internet's “town square” is dead on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:15AM (#36664747)
Why would such transcendent elites sully themselves with we unwashed fools wallowing in our cesspits of dopamine soaked fora? Surely such angelic figures mingle among the gods with their levers moving worlds. Can the most high not suffer us peons the fleeting comfort of our ignorant commiseration in our own vulgar impotence? We cattle promise to return to productive obeisance to your wise direction when our brief respite in collective reverie is through, if only we might be allowed to say our piece to our ugly equals.
Re:The internet's “town square” is dead on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:32PM (#36658573)
Presupposes a monolithic marketplace. Locker rooms and scientific journals self-sort. Who decides which ideas are “worthwhile”? We are what we are, indeed what we were meant to be, deplorable as we may be in the eyes of the “elite.”
Re:The internet's “town square” is dead on Sunday July 09, 2023 @01:12PM (#36656328)
Contrarians run against the grain of common thought, not censors. It is precisely the value of censored ideas which necessitates their censorship. That is, were they allowed to persist they would become accepted but for the censorship.
Re:The internet's “town square” is dead on Sunday July 09, 2023 @01:10PM (#36656313)
Cryptocurrency scams aren’t ideas in the sense of the marketplace of ideas. Vaccine efficacy, election integrity, causes of unrest in France, traditional analysis of gender - those are examples of topics around which we discuss ideas. Try to discuss them in a simulated user forum. As an experiment, vary the viewpoint of your remarks, pro-X vs. anti-X. Observe what happens. You can learn from the censorship profile what the censors are worried about.
Only path to voting our way out of this is with a populist like Trump or Kennedy. Neither wants us in that war.
Are we not already in WWIII? What is the leading cause of death among military service age-eligible men in the US? Would war increase or decrease that death toll? There is a rational case for war, but not in the Ukraine.
Re:The internet's “town square” is dead on Sunday July 09, 2023 @12:32PM (#36655923)
In forums for simulated user interaction, it’s important to recognize the conversations as inauthentic and censored. The ideas that are censored are deemed by the censors to be likely to prevail in a free marketplace of ideas and thus threatening. So, the censored ideas are the ones more likely to be true.
The Algerian administration has not commented on what other measures it might employ to restore order in its northern colony.
Re:Who Is a Woman: Sex, Gender and Policy Making on Saturday July 08, 2023 @07:36AM (#36643445)
Gender is an immutable quality of the soul. Sex is one aspect of gender manifested in the physical body. Persona is the set of outward expressions we choose to show others. Right or wrong, those are my beliefs, which I am free to hold and to express.
Re:Ask HN: Why paid apps are not popular? on Saturday July 08, 2023 @07:26AM (#36643386)
Fine with paying for apps. Refuse to pay for subscription.
Re:ChatGPT's User Base Shrinks for the First Time Ever on Friday July 07, 2023 @10:11PM (#36640695)
They were assimilated.
Objective truth is a casualty of the culture war. Pervasive censorship precludes reliance upon the scientific method because it’s impossible to have confidence results are truthfully reported. Faith and tradition are the most true among what’s left.
More interesting than the content of any given video is whether YouTube censors the video. This is an approved video.
Exposure to evil helps some realize evil truly exists and indirectly points the way to God.
Re:France set to allow police to spy through phones on Friday July 07, 2023 @06:12PM (#36638955)
Does Algeria become part of the EU like it’s colony, North Algeria?
Terrible idea. Weirdo lawyers have done more for poor and marginalized than silk stocking lawyers ever could. You reduce lawyers to divorces and traffic tickets and you cut off access to justice for the masses.
Anthropogenic global warming is fake
Thanks for heads up. I’m too scared of COVID to read this without my mask.
Re:Macron suggests blocking social media during riots on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:16PM (#36610170)
North Algeria adopting similar civil rights to Algerian colonial power.
Re:When companies have more influence than countries on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:13PM (#36610152)
Please antitrust Blackrock
Won’t buy Disney, Bud Light or Target at any price, if that’s what you’re asking. Some companies have behaved so contrary to the vendor-consumer relationship that price is irrelevant.
Re:Ask HN: Where is this world heading? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:01PM (#36610041)
Taking my honest response to this question, removing all political and religious aspects, and filtering out all of my unacceptable beliefs, what remains: Feel free to eat all the fast food, soda pop, and anything else you like. It won’t matter.
Start a Porn Party. Have Stan’s dad from South Park after his big porno session S12E6 be the mascot.
Get young people to use it.
Re:My Conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:57AM (#36597666)
I like Kennedy because I don’t feel like killing us all is one of his goals.
Anthropogenic global warming is fake

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