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AggressivelyPassive

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  • Americans, how do you feel about being stored in a database by government agencies like the NSA?

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  • Hitler was inspired by the US exterminating it's Native population and by the US reservation system.

    Don't act like being American gives you some unique perspective. Wow, that looks stupid, right?

    There's a clear difference between living in society and ruling that society.

    Sure, but you're implying that not being part of the ruling class absolves you from any guilt or responsibility. And that is literally what all Germans said after the war. What was I supposed to do?

    And you're living in a democracy.

  • Americans, how do you feel about being stored in a database by government agencies like the NSA?

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  • Are you perhaps under the impression that all Americans in 1776 were Founders

    Are you perhaps under the impression that us stupid Europeans don't know what you're talking about?

    Comparing that to bystanders and voting and buying local and being complacent is absurd

    Again, I'm German. I've heard that excuse before.

  • Americans, how do you feel about being stored in a database by government agencies like the NSA?

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  • The Founders were among history's monsters and you need to stop trying to protect their legacy by painting us with their brush. Chattel slavery was a uniquely horrible institution and its end mattered.

    Dude, I'm German. I know a thing or two about facing the past. So don't act like I'm defending anyone.

    I didn't choose to enslave anyone and I have no power to free them.

    As far as I know, only about a third of people in the US back then ever owned slaves. The other two thirds didn't choose that either. Yet most of them got complacent for a pretty long time.

    Also, you do have a choice. You can buy clothes that are maybe not morally pure, but at least better. You could buy a Fairphone. You could become politically active or at least vote for the better candidates/parties. Sure, that won't turn the world into utopia over night, but at least you can make it a bit better.

    We all have to face the fact that our actions and inactions cause suffering, and some of that is indeed not in our power to change. But your stance of essentially giving up and pointing at the other crime as ever worse is hypocritical.

    As Adorno said: there's no right living in the wrong. And we are so wrong currently the slave population in this world is higher than ever in the US: https://www.un.org/en/delegate/50-million-people-modern-slavery-un-report

  • Ukraine to Protect Its F-16 Fighter Fleet by Basing Planes ‘in Other Countries’

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  • They also stated they won't attack Ukraine.

  • Americans, how do you feel about being stored in a database by government agencies like the NSA?

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  • Of course it is. Today's slaves get raped and tortured as well. Just not by us directly.

    Essentially we outsourced the cruelty so we can live in blissful ignorance.

  • Americans, how do you feel about being stored in a database by government agencies like the NSA?

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  • We do too.

    We just call it outsourced labor and are happy about cheap clothes.

  • Americans, how do you feel about being stored in a database by government agencies like the NSA?

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  • It's fine, since we're also stored in countless private databases for advertisement purposes, and statistically speaking at least one of those is so insecure, that it's practically public knowledge anyway.

  • The OpenBSD folks are working on their own version control system, Game of Trees

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  • SSH, OpenSSL, LibreSSL, pf ...

    There's not a single web server without some code from them. Every single phone, every Linux machine, and probably even Windows (citation needed) ships with some of these tools.

    And you didn't hear a thing, because the OpenBSD guys just sport a smug smile and don't care about our plebian fame.

  • Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports - The Verge

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  • I don't think it's validation in the sense we normies felt. For regular, sane men it's more of a fitting in and being desirable kind of validation, women do the same in that age.

    For him and other powerful people (but also some regular men) it's a power thing. Many powerful people are narcissists, and they live constantly under the dissonance of illusion of grandeur and inferiority complex. Essentially forcing their will onto others is a way to mitigate the latter.

  • Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports - The Verge

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  • Especially in terms of "legally not rape" charges, even the average man has to face terrifyingly few consequences. So many women report assaults, unwanted aggressive advances and "not exactly consensual kinds of intercourse" without the men ever facing anything serious, not even stigma. Banging blackout drunk girls is a sport for some people.

  • Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports - The Verge

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  • Truth is, it works often enough that they'll keep trying.

    Whether it's fear, greed, or actual attraction doesn't matter to them, in their world they scored a win.

  • Apple surpasses Microsoft as world's most valuable company after unveiling AI plans

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  • The AI will take care of it.

    No humans, no hunger.

  • Programming as a hobby means I can do whatever I want!

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  • Well, yes, but the underlying issues still persist, so it's not exactly a sustainable strategy.

  • The OpenBSD folks are working on their own version control system, Game of Trees

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  • The OpenBSD folks are a weird bunch. Literally the entire Internet is built on top of their tools and libraries, and they just ignore the fame and keep dwelling in their basements.

  • Programming as a hobby means I can do whatever I want!

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  • I have to say, I'm getting more and more frustrated by the bad code I have to write due to bad business circumstances.

    I want clean, readable code with proper documentation and at least a bit of internal consistency and not the shoehorned mess of hacks, todos and weird corner cases.

  • This is a real threat :(

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  • Sometimes natural lights comes in at "uncomfortable" angles or simply leaves some corners relatively dark.

    So the artificial light acts as a counter light to reduce shadows and create a more even lighting.

  • Summer is the worst season of the year, isn't?

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  • Yeah, no.

    You can almost always add more layers, so unless we're talking about literally Siberia in winter, you should be fine.

    But if it's too warm for shorts and shirt, there's nothing I can do. I can't run around naked or remove my skin (not in an easily reversible manner at least).

  • What a time to be alive

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  • They re-invent everything for no reason. Every mundane device has been "re-invented" using big data, blockchain, VR, now AI and in a few years probably quantum-something.

    The entire tech world fundamentally ran out of ideas. The usual pipeline is basic research > applied research > products, but since money only gets thrown at products, there's nothing left to do research. So the tech bros have to re-iterate on the same concepts again and again.

  • What a time to be alive

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  • Summary: nothing of value