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Re:An engineer fighting Texas’s ban on Israel boycotts on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @08:32AM (#29472243)
ah yes, of course, the notorious evangelical christian lobby whose only goal is unquestionable bipartisan support for Israel.
yeah, and that's the reason why most of them have stupid names
Re:Courts block two Biden administration Covid vaccine mandates on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:05AM (#29405161)
did you vote for Ajit Pai?
I love how mask-off this comment is.
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google on Monday November 29, 2021 @06:10PM (#29386558)
holy shit, what did the other dude who replied to this 15 minutes ago do?
Re:I resigned from Twitter on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:42PM (#29382695)
>If you really want to post about how vaccines make your blood cells broadcast 5G radio wave

oh, that's a great example, actually. as far as I vaguely recall from the times before the pandemic, expressing skepticism or criticism towards the government and corporations was not against the rules.

>Twitter's rules enforcement is historically EXTREMELY casual

yes - for the privileged class, twitter does indeed "let some of that slide".

Re:I resigned from Twitter on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:27PM (#29382512)
there's no way I can be more specific without getting [flagged][dead]. this isn't my first throwaway.
Re:I resigned from Twitter on Monday November 29, 2021 @11:45AM (#29381951)
remarkably, those who bash him are the same people twitter has done everything to bend over backwards for. same on reddit, facebook, twitch, etc.

people on the opposite side of the privileged class are barely allowed to exist on those platforms - only if they police their speech very carefully to avoid breaking a myriad of vague and unwritten rules, and even then they're still subject to being unpersoned for some perceived offense committed off-platform.

Re:India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence on Saturday November 27, 2021 @01:55PM (#29362438)
satellite internet is not a new technology.

come on now, you've been a superpower for over a year. get with the times.

Re:The melancholy decline of the semicolon on Saturday November 27, 2021 @09:34AM (#29360440)
english is not esperanto. it happens to be the native language for a significant part of the world population, and they have no obligation to accept its bastardization for the sake of inclusivity.

in every non-western country with its own language, those "some" would get rightfully ridiculed.

book burning is just one manifestation of restricting the freedom of thought and expression, and it sounds you aren't against that.
>Well then make it a law

cool. but let us not stop there. there are so many more public health hazards that we can solve that way.

Re:Rust Moderation Team Resigns on Monday November 22, 2021 @03:24PM (#29311183)
>More so in Rust than in many other communities was my perception

not just yours :)

Re:Rust Moderation Team Resigns on Monday November 22, 2021 @03:17PM (#29311130)
that's the one, thanks
Re:Rust Moderation Team Resigns on Monday November 22, 2021 @02:37PM (#29310711)
so those quotations would be unacceptable if they were aimed at any other group, regardless of context and without statute of limitation, correct?

I could make a point by citing some examples here, but I would probably get banned.

Re:Rust Moderation Team Resigns on Monday November 22, 2021 @01:06PM (#29309620)
>overreacted to, and/or taken out of context.

change the race and/or sex in those quotes

Re:Rust Moderation Team Resigns on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:46PM (#29309332)
you've missed the shitshow about renaming GIMP a year or two ago.

I tried looking for it now, but it seems the threads got purged

Re:Rust Moderation Team Resigns on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:11PM (#29308770)
>gender

sex - sure, but gender? we got plenty of females in OSS!

Re:Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020) on Friday November 19, 2021 @10:13AM (#29277968)
>without stating what the correct ratio should be, and why

oh, they don't really hesitate to state that the lower the ratio of a certain group of people is the better. not just in the "melting pot" of the US, but everywhere in the world, including the countries where that group of people is the indigenous population.

Re:Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020) on Friday November 19, 2021 @10:02AM (#29277859)
you got outdated info. "learn to code" gets people unpersoned on twitter now
freedom of speech is not considered a human right in Europe though
Why should China give a damn about European laws?
Re:World’s first USB-C iPhone sells on eBay for $86,001 on Saturday November 13, 2021 @10:23AM (#29210353)
I'm sure water is a grave concern for middle+ class cosmopolitans that are the target market for 1000+ $ apple products
Re:Try charging on the right and not on the left on Friday November 12, 2021 @12:19PM (#29201887)
it is a product notorious for severe heat dissipation issues, so I'm picturing extensive tests being done in development, and yet nobody noticing it
Re:Finland Divided: The Finnish Civil War 1918 on Friday November 12, 2021 @12:13PM (#29201799)
>Many of the Finns deported by the Lapua Movement were later caught up in Stalin's Great Purge and executed; while persecuted in Finland as communists, Stalin accused them of being "Nationalists".[9]

heh

Re:There’s a queue coming for Tesla charging on Friday November 12, 2021 @11:56AM (#29201544)
and that's a good thing, here's why
Re:Google: Auto-translated content not indexed on Friday November 12, 2021 @08:09AM (#29198908)
>If I were them, I would keep some kind of hash of any stuff they have translated, so that when they index it they know if its the output of their own translator.

that would be trivial to work around

>These types of comments constantly come up

because triple++ digit margins enable cloud service providers to allocate vast amounts of money towards marketing.

a drunk bike rider can cause a sober car driver to swerve into the opposite lane or pedestrians

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