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>Remember when people said "it's only extremists like Alex Jones" and "white nationalists", yeah well now Twitter has banned the president of the United States.

The president of the United States is in fact an extremist like Alex Jones and a white nationalist.

If you make it excuses for any and every instance of police brutality—which you’ve demonstrated you’re willing to do—you are effectively supporting police brutality. That is obvious, and for you play naïf when someone points it out is an act of bad faith. Please stop doing that.

Title is “ How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing off Gullible Trump Supporters”

The part that was left out explains why the oddsmakers were able to make a killing and is therefore necessary.

This entire thread is just “are my opinions unethical? No, no it must be the entire team of professional ethicists who are wrong.” Only without the even momentary modicum of self-reflection that implies.

Work to elect politicians who will mobilize the apparatus of the state to fight climate change. It’s as simple as that.

Oh for God’s sake—-attempting to execute a coup to end democracy in America is pretty darn unamerican too, don’t ya think?

I’ve been using some form of Firefox or its ancestors for 20 years, and I just cannot understand its decreasing popularity. In terms of performance, feature-richness, customizability, etc it seems to be superior to the more popular browsers. Can it really all be explained by the fact that it isn’t “pushed” by being an OS default (Edge, Safari) or by being suggested by the world’s most popular search engine (Chrome)? I don’t know what I’d do without Tree Style Tabs and the ability to irresponsibly open hundreds of tabs without worrying that the RAM usage is going to crash the browser!

Food banks and shelters might be in good shape wherever it is that you live, but in many parts of the country they’re stretched to and beyond their capacities. Food banks are simply not a scalable solution to poverty. No form of charity is. Government aid programs are a proven solution to getting resources (like food) into the hands of folks in need.

As to your argument that poor people are morally corrupt, it’s laughable, below contempt, and not worth responding to. Someone is morally bankrupt, but it ain’t the poor.

It literally begins “Congress shall make no law...”

You gonna change this one to say she “resigned” too?

Timnit Gebru is very clear that she didn’t resign. The actual headline at the link doesn’t say that she resigned. The moderator editorialization of headlines (and occasionally outright substitution of completely different urls than the ones that were submitted) on HN has gone way beyond disappointing, it’s outrageous. Shame on you dang.

Truth isn’t really a “narrative”

Because events other than crime can be newsworthy? Pro athletes make the news for winning games every week.

But the survey wasn’t conducted among “we humans”, it was conducted among lesswrong readers. Lesswrong is normally pretty worthless, but this gentle lampoon if its own readership’s dumb opinions is actually pretty funny

Speak for yourself “Captain Barf”, plenty of us millennials have been adults in every sense of the word for almost 20 years. Nothing’s keeping you from growing up if that’s what you want. In fact, if you’re from a poor family in America you don’t have a choice—it’s sink or swim.

Dude, do you really want more HN posters on SA?

The whiz-pow fun explanations for phenomena are great for the first 101 class in a subject, but any subject—especially biology—is so huge that at some point you must buckle down and learn quickly and efficiently, without so many fun little anecdotes.

There are a lot of poor and lower middle class people struggling under massive student loans.

Always count on HN to provide plenty of arguments against empathy

Alright then, since some idiot insisted on downvoting me instead of googling it for themselves, here: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/31/viral-imag...

Can’t be bothered to find the source, sorry, but this is fake.

What you want to accomplish here is one of the most basic tasks in Live. If you can’t commit to learning at least this small thing you might as well not even attempt to use Live.

Don’t really understand why they gave him special treatment during his presidency. He should have been banned the first time he violated the TOS like anyone else

In before this one gets flagged too haha

Well, no, Twitter users are correctly calling Trump a loser, so the algorithm is correctly returning Trump’s account when that term is searched for.

Should have called it “Vorg-mode“

lmao