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RedFrank24

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  • I'm fine with conservative media in theory, but the problem with conservative media these days is just the constant blatant lying.

    I think there's definitely room for conservative voices, like:

    • Conserving the environment.
    • Putting checks and balances on AI and technology in general
    • Maintaining non-harmful cultural traditions (Morris Dancing is cringe, but it should still be around)
    • Promoting an emphasis on local community and family rather than individualism fuelling the capitalist system

    Even traditions that have been harmful can be recontextualised and maintained and used as a means of teaching, rather than thrown out entirely in the name of progress. People are so drawn to places like Japan (at least partially) because they maintain their traditions and seek to conserve what they have rather than constantly push forward and bulldoze everything old because it's old. Obviously not everyone believes in the traditions, but they keep them anyway.

    Nowadays though? Conservatives have basically tossed all of that in favor of allowing capital to completely bulldoze over traditions and then blaming the ensuing misery on the gays.

  • Resentfully done

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  • Software Terminology

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  • What's the difference between an application and a program?

  • The sharp edges and lack of crumble zones do additional damage

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  • Does Superman often throw cars at people? Why throw a car when a punch does more damage when you're Superman? Hulk would, but that's just because he likes to throw and smash things, not because he's being logical about it.

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    Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal.

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  • In the UK you can quit before you sign your employment contract, but by accepting the job offer, your contract with your new employer has already started, and so you're protected. They can't legally pull out without compensating you.

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    Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal.

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  • Would you not be able to sue the employer on the grounds of promissory estoppel? You bought a new house, you quit your old job, and incurred financial harm as a result of the job offer, and so by rescinding that offer (assuming the offer was unconditional), they have harmed you, and you have grounds to sue them.

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  • I wonder if someone could make an ADA or CVAA complaint on that basis? Technically the dub isn't matching the captions, and as a result, someone who is hard of hearing isn't getting the same experience. Someone who is completely deaf won't have a bad experience, but someone who has a disability where they can't hear very well, or have problems comprehending spoken words might have a problem.

  • Finland to criminalise Holocaust denial

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  • The Nazis found all sorts of excuses.

  • Finland to criminalise Holocaust denial

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  • My point is the genocide of the Palestinians is more than just Gaza. The bombing of Gazans is a war crime, yes, but that in and of itself is not genocide. The settlements in the West Bank and overall encroachment on Palestinian territory is genocide, and that's been going on for decades. If Israel and Egypt suddenly allowed people to leave Gaza and go to the West Bank, it wouldn't stop the genocide, nor would stopping the bombing or the killings in Gaza, because the fact that Israel is allowing their colonists to displace Palestinians at all is enough to say that their intent is genocidal in nature.

    You're so caught up in the emotive rhetoric about Gaza that you're ignoring the actual issue at hand. It's like if the bombings weren't happening at all, you wouldn't actually give a shit.

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  • You're ignoring the West Bank. Palestine is not just Gaza.

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  • That’s not entirely matching what I learned from history books. The German Nazis absolutely commit robber/murders. They just extended their murder spree to those of the same ethnicity and other “out-groups” who didn’t own anything to steal.

    It wasn't "Those people have money, therefore we shall rob them" though. It was "Those people are Jews, therefore they deserve to get robbed". They were an acceptable target because they were Jewish, not because they had any money.

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  • Doctors do still work more hours than someone in an office, meaning their pay is much lower than their salary would first tell you. Also considering the hours they have to work, and the way shifts are operated, their pay needs to be much, much higher. There's a reason doctors are fleeing the country to Australia where the pay is better and so are the conditions.

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  • The 'relocation' wasn't based on anything the Jews had that the Nazis wanted though, not in terms of physical land anyway. Wealth, sure, but the Nazis weren't going after Jews because they had money. The Slavs were gone after for land, definitely, because the Nazis wanted all the land to the east and were happy to just murder anyone and everyone living on it, but even that was based on genetics because the Nazis believed the Slavs to be an inferior species.

    Again, what Israel is doing is definitely genocide, there's no arguments there, but it's not the same as the Holocaust. There's a reason the Holocaust is seen as more evil than the Holodomor, and it's because of the sheer industrial evil of it all. A systematic extermination of a people based purely on genetics has some extra weight to it.

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  • It's a really important distinction if you're not a moron. The Nazis rounded up undesireables and killed them. There was no 'loyalty', there was nothing those undesireables could have done that would have changed what, in the eyes of the Nazi regime, should have happened to them. They were rounded up, shipped off to camps and exterminated, based purely on their genetics or even perceived genetics.

    What Israel is doing is genocide, but it's not the same as The Holocaust. Israel has a Palestinian population inside its borders, they have voting rights, they have seats in their Parliament. The Nazi Regime would have never allowed ANY of their chosen undesireables to have any representation, because the entire purpose of the undesireables was to be killed.

    Now, compare what Israel is doing to Palestinians to what the US Colonies did to the Native Americans, and suddenly it's a lot more comparable. The Colonists showed up, took land, forced the Native Americans out, and if the Natives resisted in any way, they were murdered. Any attacks on Colonists by Natives were met with overwhelming force and wholesale massacres of Native populations. Sounds a bit similar to Gaza, doesn't it? Americans just don't like to make the comparison because then it suddenly puts them in the genocidal hot seat.

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  • I'm not sure they're really comparable. The Holocaust was industrialized murder on racial grounds. Gaza and the West Bank are more like the genocide of the Native Americans. A sort of "Give us the land you're sitting on, or die. I don't care where you go" as opposed to "I'm going to kill you. No there's nothing you can do. You are the wrong race and must die"

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  • How does that apply to things like computers? My personal PC can also double up as a server from which I run the applications that I sell to people. The PC is the means of production, and it is mine, but I don't necessarily write all the code myself.

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  • I think it should come paired with a heavily unionised workforce, otherwise you end up like the UK where the minimum wage keeps going up, but salaries of people who were previously not on the minimum wage stay the same, so now everyone else is actually earning less because prices are rising but salaries are only rising at the top and bottom, eliminating the middle class entirely. A doctor is NOT a minimum wage job, and yet doctors in the UK are earning almost below the minimum wage, given the number of hours they actually work.

  • Woman declared brain dead being kept alive to continue pregnancy under state law, family says

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  • Adriana Smith, a registered nurse at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, was about 9 weeks pregnant when she started having bad headaches in February. The 30-year-old went to Northside Hospital for help but was released after being given medication, according to her mother, April Newkirk.

    From the headline I thought it was a situation where she was brain dead and it was 6 months in and the foetus only needed a little while longer to become viable and, so long as she wanted the child, they could maybe have kept it going until they could prepare for all the necessary care a severely premature baby would need. 9 weeks though?! That's absurd. That's just pigheaded stupidity!

    Someone should sneak in and pull the plug, or the family should withdraw consent to treatment or something (I don't know the laws).

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  • I am never spending 20 minutes on any comment ever.