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    YouTuber Arlo claims the stock market isn't real

    Is, uh, is he under the impression that stockholders get paid the whole profit of the company as dividends? It kind of sounds like it, but no one can actually think that, right? Surely? In general, though, he's accidentally right. Under an inflating (fiat) common currency, the point of an...
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    Are you guys aware that a good chunk of Appalachia is just gone?

    How much demand is there for suburbs in the mountains of rural appalachia, realistically speaking? What commerce hubs would they commute in to? Most foreclosures in 08 were concentrated in a minority of the country, because that was where demand spiked the prices, where large concentrations of...
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    Info The Best Video on Enshittification I've Seen Plus Good News

    >muh infinite money spigot turned off shit piss shit ass shit shit isn't this enlightening I'd much prefer to see actual information at the top of a site over hypochondriac californian whining, but you do you I guess.
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    German Police Have (Potentially) Compromised The TOR Network

    Mfw timing analysis mentioned in the year of our lord anything after 1976: https://multicians.org/timing-chn.html
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    A Proposal to (Mostly) Fix Bullshit/Sensationalist News (NO LONGER SUPPORTED)

    This would improve the cable news *shows*, but only in the sense of removing the filler. They'd still say everything they do now, whether it's the stuff you like or dislike, they'd just be forced to say it once instead of waffling on for hours. The news as an institution probably wouldn't move...
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    How do we explain doxxing to a septuagenarian in dusty black robes?

    There's nothing imagined here. There has been outcry before, and there obviously will be again, and more of it as people become ever more connected to the open mainline of the web. It's one thing to say you'd like to see codification of doxxing as speech, but it's another entirely to say you're...
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    How do we explain doxxing to a septuagenarian in dusty black robes?

    You might be right, but this seems doomed to remain a minority opinion, at least in the short term. Since we live under a republic the supermajority opinion seems likely to surface eventually, so it might be prudent to pull a Fabian: push the most circumscribed bill we can write, as the firstest...
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    How do we explain doxxing to a septuagenarian in dusty black robes?

    I asked for specific examples, and on purpose. The point of the question was if there's not some case law or such reason this law can't be applied to doxxing at all; if you can't help with that it'd be nice if you'd not waste bits repeating yourself on a different topic.
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    How do we explain doxxing to a septuagenarian in dusty black robes?

    Hmm, has anyone ever been successfully prosecuted specifically for doxxing under these stalking laws? I've not heard of it anything like as much as I've heard of doxxes just floating around without much concern. I feel like appealing for prosecution would be a much more common response from the...
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    How do we explain doxxing to a septuagenarian in dusty black robes?

    A thought has been bouncing around in my head for a while: Most people on the internet might agree in concept that doxxing is totally not rad, surfer bros, and should probably be illegal for similar reasons to things like credible threats of violence. However, to get from disapproval to illegal...
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    The Dumbest Company Press Conferences/Events/Keynotes

    If you think Microsoft fails to measure up to Apple keynotes, wait until you hear about how far behind Amazon keynotes they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0xmHrQJdAw&t=1235s
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    The Escapist is dead, again.

    Yep, several statements here: https://archive.ph/kM3wc Two contradictions that jump out: Firstly, they take a pretty hard tack towards "This was all two seconds from being fixed if only you'd had patience for our lack of experience" as the explanation for most issues we could already tell were...
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    Putin Calls for Full Destruction of Ukraine Statehood Before War's End

    The debate was that you don't know what you're talking about, as you just agreed.
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    Putin Calls for Full Destruction of Ukraine Statehood Before War's End

    Uh, feel free to delete this. First post didn't show up after leaving so I figured I must've not sent it, then the second post refreshed both of them. My phone must be breaking again.
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