alacombe

> There's zero reason to defend Stallman

As much as I hate the man, I do.

> ... and has been since the French revolution

Even before.

> ... his directly ties into the idea of the state as an institution in French culture in a lot of subtle ways aswell.

Especially in the parisian elites disdain toward pretty much anybody else in the country.

ps: exiled french/parisian speaking.

Calgary/Edmonton seem to get about 2x as much snow as Bergen (~48" vs ~24"). Also, temperature fall much lower in Alberta than in Norway...

> Is this really true and known empirically? Could the body be better at accessing calories in some foods and not others?

Of course, 2000cal worth of HFCS is gonna have a different biological impact than 2000 cal worth of kale. CICO is a gross over-simplification.

> Goes to show that no one really wants "free speech".

Especially not on HN, where the SV/SJW group think prevail.

Argument I often get is "you are free to voice your opinions and we are free to massively downvote you", well, same happened with 9/11, the US elites have been cunts to the whole world (including to "The People" and still are), they are totally free to be, by then 9/11 came as a big slap in Wall Street America face, maybe they deserved it...

> My employer can fire me for severe misconduct that occurs away from the office.

I'm certain it would be considered wrongful dismissal in many jurisdiction.

> They are still subject to regulation

Not according to Section 230.

> Your 2nd source links to Hasan saying "America deserved 9/11".

Maybe it did.

Be careful, it's almost as if Twitch was to qualify as a "common carrier"...

Did you hear of the concept of "due process" ?

Amen, bro.

I will also state that there isn't much difference between Mafia/Organised crime/Goverments, and Sects/Religions.

Taxation is theft, coerced by the threat of violence.

Argument can be made she never had to work and never actually made any money, other than inheriting the work of her grandfather Roy O. Disney.

She is as privileged and self-entitled as can be.

Budgets can't be planned at all when there is no more "{m,b,t}illionaires" to steal from either.

Or this is just virtue signalling.

The beauty is that they can give their millions WILLINGLY and LEGALLY to the IRS. No need from coercion... unless this is all virtue signalling.

According to https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/flu..., there has been pretty much no flu season this year compared to ~any other year (which in itself is highly suspect).

Last week of January reported 55 vs 23,972 on average any other season.

This is DHS being paranoid and inventing scenario to justify their paycheck.

If that's so easy, why hasn't been done yet.

This is standard behavior.

When someone publish a +10kloc patch in an area maybe 1 or 2 other developers are competent in, nobody's gonna read it in details. Heck, I probably couldn't even review my code from 1 year ago without lots of metadata/comments attached to it.

> If you could remove the inflammatory tone from your posts and just state the facts there might be an interesting discussion to have.

One comes with the other, not my fault if you can't deal with it ;-)

> Why the binary approach?

It has nothing to do with a binary approach. The anti-masks arguments were very much a red-herring argument really being all about on anti-hoarding and anti-panic arguments from unprepared institutions (despite hoarding taxpayers dollars for years). A couple of month earlier, just mentioning the damn thing was enough to get you banned from social media. I was even arguing about the difference between test positivity rate and actual cases (including asymptomatic ones) early on, especially wrt. seasonal flu numbers, being treated like a complete fool (and still am).

The amount of layers upon layers upon layers of ass covering about all this has been staggering.

No it wouldn't, especially if energy to convert it skyrocket.

Which is not necessarily untrue.

Those with wealth and power will never be on cctv camera, only their minions will be.

> I think payment of road tax according to road usage is eminently sensible

That's what fuel taxes were for

The only problem to get there is the lack of "I".

Right now, AI is mostly "fugazzi".

> Good, let's try to convince anti-vaxxers, Q people, Covid-deniers and what not of that, it will surely work!

You don't seem to understand. Don't tell them on Day 1 that mask are useless, and on Day 2 that mask are mandatory under threat of jail. Tell them on Day 1 that you fucked up and destroyed mask supplies a few years before and that you're not prepared anymore. Though, that will never happen as these people want to get re-elected and do-no-wrong.

If masks are useless on Day 1, they are useless on Day 2. If not, it means that people making these statement are full of shit on potentially ANY subject and thus can not be looked upon to (including vaccination).

Texas was 5 minutes away from a total grid failsafe collapse if the grid frequency had continued to drop, and it just happened that pretty much all of North America was undergoing high usage. Uncontrolled energy are not sustainable at scale.

> Terrorists are not known to be the most logical people, to be honest

Terrorists want blood and guts on national TV, not a statistical raise in cancer over 30 years.