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Re:Voat Is Shutting Down on Monday December 21, 2020 @10:17PM (#25502475)
I've said this before and got downvoted for it.

But if companies allow extremists on their platforms then the moderates will leave. It's not so much a paradox but a cause and effect.

Yes. It's so bad.

It's really disheartening to see the complete lack of decency from some people here.

Aside from human narcissism, the space race is motivated by it's militarily strategic importance.

Outside of a black swan event, humanity is not ever getting off this rock in any colonial capacity.

Space, it turns out, is a really shitty fucking place for life.

Elon's Mars fantasy is a red herring.

But if Twitter allows radicals, the moderates will leave.

Any shareholder would agree that the choice is clear - ban the radicals.

This is a private company and they are exercising their free market rights.

Maybe you think this is wrong, and the government should interfere by forcing Twitter to publish all content.

Well, good luck with that.

Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:33AM (#25276169)
It's strange how we immediately take pride in stuff we had nothing to do with just because we identify in some way with the developers/creators.
Re:Whose Land – Indigenous Nations of North America on Saturday July 11, 2020 @08:06AM (#23801497)
> caucasian!

There is no evidence Native Americans originated from the Caucasus regions. We have remains that have been dated to as far back as 12,707–12,556 years BP. Accordingly:

> Paleogenomic analysis of the remains revealed Siberian ancestry and a close genetic relationship to modern Native Americans, including those of Central and South America.[1][3] These findings support the hypothesis that modern Native Americans are descended from Asian populations who crossed Beringia between 32,000 and 18,000 years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzick-1

Re:Your statement is correct but misses the point on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:18AM (#22855557)
This comment will play extremely well on this website, which engineers frequent. And it's admittedly a great joke. But only tangentially relevant to the author's point.

The author's point is closer to the old adage of not shooting yourself in the foot. That is, however true your statement is, if it denies further thought it becomes a useless point.

Re:Who Goes Nazi? (1941) on Sunday February 25, 2018 @12:22AM (#16457281)
I think it's that people tend to just go with their group. And when good people don't rise to oppose evil it snowballs into tragedy.