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Well, it's not evil if you're a white nationalist. To every ethnonationalist the expulsion of The Other is the ultimate good. We've seen it in every state where such is the dominant ideology.

ixnar  ·  2120 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tuning the sine wave to save energy

Interesting technology, sounds like PFC on steroids

Aside: holy hell vox.com's design is obnoxious

ixnar  ·  2120 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In Narrow Decision, Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple

But what if by baking the cake five innocent people are killed? The baker is also an evil demon and the customer is the owner of an arms manufacturing company that sells tanks to child soldiers.

ixnar  ·  2134 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sinkhole develops on White House lawn

    Herman noted that the hole has grown larger by the day. The divot appeared to be cordoned off by police tape and cones.

Please grow faster, comrade sinkhole

ixnar  ·  2157 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens

More evidence that people who take evopsych seriously are full of crap

ixnar  ·  2161 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: One third of Amazon employees in Arizona need food stamps to feed themselves.

This is one of the reason McD:s have cameras - not just in case of robbery, but also if workers decide to redistribute some of that food

ixnar  ·  2168 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why do young men worship Professor Jordan Peterson?

Because he's an antifeminist, and there's nothing sad young men like more than blaming their problems on women

ixnar  ·  2199 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cambridge Analytica used "bribes and Ukrainian sex workers."

    Help us Obi-wan Mueller, you're our only hope

Isn't he one of the guys that lied you into the iraq war? I find this snoop cuddling quite worrying

ixnar  ·  2203 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Study on the Coffee Spilling Phenomena in the Low Impulse Regime

This is actually a pretty nice paper

ixnar  ·  2210 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: House of Reps votes in favor of Internet censorship

It's almost as if huge sites where the admins have no connection with their users is a bad thing

I'd rather laws like this don't have to get passed. Unfortunately we can't have nice things

ixnar  ·  2217 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: House of Reps votes in favor of Internet censorship

Uuh, making site operators liable for what their users do is actually good. That U.S. admins can throw their hands up in the air when contronted with abusive user behavior is a cancer upon the Web

ixnar  ·  2218 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: China using big data to detain people before crime is committed

"Before crime is committed" is a funny way of saying "innocent". Western politicians will no doubt act like they think these are grave injustices, while simultaneously pushing for similar systems in the EU

ixnar  ·  2234 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Millennials Are Making Memes About Wanting to Die

I went into the article expecting something about mental health, and memes as a way of dealing with crippling depression. Instead I got someone overthinking stale memes with the usual boomer blasting thrown in

I mean me too thanks

I've heard of MaidSafe before, and it was not good things. And of course there's a bit about cryptocurrencies

Core dump of exciting decentralized things:

OStatus and ActivityPub: GNU Social, postActiv, Mastodon, PeerTube

IPFS

The return of static Tor-friendly webpages and services

ixnar  ·  2240 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?

This isn't so strange considering authoritarianism's reason for existing is justifying the unjustifiable. Power speaks truth, especially if that truth can be used to build more hierarchy and power

ixnar  ·  2304 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: “Alt-right” women are upset that “alt-right” men are treating them terribly

Boo-hoo 🎻🎶

(aimed at the ladies addressed, of course)

Yep, DRM is about power and being able to screw consumers over

This is reminding me that I have yet to donate to the EFF 😔

ixnar  ·  2326 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Welcome To Nauru, The Most Corrupt Country You’ve Never Heard Of

Australia manages to be even more awful than I previously thought..

ixnar  ·  2358 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thoughts and Prayers, the Game

As best I can tell It's any gun that looks "scary". kleinbl00s post (to which I cannot reply) supports this, except maybe for grenade launchers. But even then you need to own grenades also. Just seems silly

ixnar  ·  2363 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thoughts and Prayers, the Game

"Assault weapons" always struck me as a weasely word. Are machine guns what is meant? All fully automatics? Semi-automatics?

ixnar  ·  2378 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason

Should use a symplectic integrator. I think there's free software to do this

ixnar  ·  2400 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism

Interesting. I wonder if fake people could be useful for other things

ixnar  ·  2403 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yet another thing Millennials are killing: electric guitars

Interesting article, awful CSS :/

ixnar  ·  2416 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Charlottesville: Violent clashes over US far-right rally

You don't realize white nationalists use "free speech" as a way to appeal to centrists? There's something to be said about the danger of relying on state power of course, but it should also be apparent that white nationalism is violence in-itself. There is no democratic value in protecting it.

    The question is, what will we do?

Document and expose leaders and members of these organizations. Tell their employers, tell their friends, family and neighbours. Stop their income, take down their websites and communication channels. Infiltrate, sow discord, steal their weapons. Rob them. The list goes on.

ixnar  ·  2419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Charlottesville: Violent clashes over US far-right rally

    The mayor of Charlottesville, where the now-cancelled rally was taking place, said he was "heartbroken" at the death.

Myeah, as I understand the mayor had the power to stop this and did nothing. Jerk.

ixnar  ·  2440 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find

You don't really "know" things in science

ixnar  ·  2441 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find

Title is a bit misleading