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We do see the votes. Publicly posting them sounds like poor form, but then what do you expect from crypto bros?

Pick a trustworthy instance or better yet, host your own.

Running your own instance isn’t going to hide your votes.

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It (www.wired.com)

For facial recognition experts and privacy advocates, the East Bay detective’s request, while dystopian, was also entirely predictable. It emphasizes the ways that, without oversight, law enforcement is able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable...

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Next thing you know this will be the new expert witness pseudoscience.

davel,
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Remember this article when you end up on a jury.

davel,
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Maybe the real tankies are the comrades we made along the way soviet-bashful

davel, (edited )
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Whether there should be right wing comms is up to an instance’s admins, and whether other instances should federate with it is up to the admins of other instances.

As for freeze-peach absolutism, consider the paradox of tolerance.

The USian obsession with free speech comes from the over-application of a first amendment right. That freedom is in fact a restriction on the State to abridge speech, and not a restriction on Lemmy mods or admins.

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The way it plays out is bugs-no

I don’t know what mental model someone is working from to draw such a conclusion. A free speech absolutist one? A consumer rights one? 🤷

davel,
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Perhaps you are not aware that some instances already do, and that some—for example hexbear & lemmygrad—have done so since their inception.

davel,
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If you don’t understand that anti-Zionism is antisemitic, then we’ll throw you in the hasbara gulag until you do, even though:

davel,
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I don’t see a typo. Perhaps my satire was too convoluted for its own good.

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Antisemites hardly need to hide behind anti-Zionism when there are plenty of antisemitic Zionists. It would be counter-productive if they did, because antisemites would love to see Jews removed from their country, and why not removed to Israel?

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Libs need to understand that calling out the hypocrisies of Trump supporters does fuck-all. Not only do they do not care, they get off on triggering the libs in this way. They’re not the least bit interested in facts or consistency; they’re interested in getting their guy in office.

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Trump’s real power base has never been the white working class “basket of deplorables”:

The Nation, 2017: Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the “upper middle class” or “small-business owners.” FiveThirtyEight reported last May that “the median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000,” or roughly 130 percent of the national median. Trump’s real base, the actual backbone of fascism, isn’t poor and working-class voters, but middle-class and affluent whites. Often self-employed, possessed of a retirement account and a home as a nest egg, this is the stratum taken in by Horatio Alger stories. They can envision playing the market well enough to become the next Trump. They haven’t won “big-league,” but they’ve won enough to be invested in the hierarchy they aspire to climb. If only America were made great again, they could become the haute bourgeoisie—the storied “1 percent.”

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You just described the exact same people the article described, so I don’t know where you’re getting “really affluent corporate types” from.

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You’re right. I can’t photoedit my way out of a paper bag 🫤

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gulag

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There’s apparently at least one temporarily embarrassed billionaire who disagrees.

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FYI “temporarily embarrassed”: en.wiktionary.org/…/temporarily_embarrassed_milli…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_LvRPX0rGY

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I’ve never seen so many downvotes fidel-salute Parasociality is a fuck.

davel,
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I’ve only seen the old old one, not the old new one or the new new one, because I am old old.

that's how it works, right? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Description: A three panel comic often referred to as “No take, only throw.” The first panel is a dog biting a toy with the caption “I want to be good at my hobbies.” The second panel is the dog looking angry and refusing to let go of the toy when a hand reaches out to throw it for the dog again, and it has the caption...

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7584b9f4-881b-4d72-8f66-2621577fd9cc.jpeg

davel,
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That is mean, and we’ve all thought it.

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First of all history began in 2022 not 2014, and second of all those children are Untermensch and don’t count.

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“Choosing” is doing some heavy lifting here when gen-z ain’t got no money.

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Won’t somebody please think of the porky-scared-flipped

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