magic9mushroom
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magic9mushroom
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21d ago
I much prefer cats; they are fluffier and don't slobber on you.
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24d ago
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I mean, if Hamas livestreamed themselves committing gang rape then surely a link to it exists somewhere, right?
AIUI that would be considered rape porn and nonconsensual* porn (usually given dysphemistic legal names) in basically all jurisdictions, and therefore illegal to (host, view, download, link to) (maybe strike out the last one in the US), and therefore purged from all legal websites including the ones that normally function as anti-Orwell archives. I suspect that @FtttG doesn't want to literally commit crimes trawling darknet sites in order to commit more crimes supplying you with a link to illegal material.
I get that this is a bit frustrating when the illegal material is also (if it exists) critical historical evidence.
*As in, not all the people in the video consented to the publication of the video.
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24d ago
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I mean, Freddie's main argument in the essay is that:
- Public schools have terrible metrics.
- A bunch of RWers want to abolish public schools, because of the terrible metrics.
- But public schools don't have terrible metrics because the schools suck. They have terrible metrics because they're the school of last resort for the children who suck.
- So abolishing the public schools won't fix anything; those children will still suck wherever they are.
That argument holds water.
There's a secondary argument, more implied than stated, which goes:
- Public schools have bad metrics.
- This makes non-sucky parents pull their non-sucky kids out of public schools.
- This very effect, rather than the quality of teaching, is why public schools have bad metrics, in a vicious circle.
- Hence, non-sucky parents are wrong to do this.
This argument does not hold water; propositions 1-3 are correct, but while parents doing this solely for quality-of-teaching are indeed making a mistake, there are two other valid reasons to do it: 1) their children could be harmed by the sucky kids, 2) the sucky kids may directly impair the ability of non-sucky kids to learn (I hear this one is particularly a thing recently in the USA due to various court cases and policies). I can certainly sympathise with reason #1, having had an arm broken and a tooth knocked out at one of the bad kind of public schools (my mother actually predicted that I'd lose teeth before I went there), if perhaps not reason #2 (I think better classroom control is/was in place in Australia, at least during the late 90s-early 00s when I was there).
I will note that there is a socialist solution to the problem of roughhouse public schools, and one that's fairer to poor-but-non-delinquent kids who beat the lottery - remove the delinquents from the normal public school system and put them in less-common reform schools that explicitly only serve delinquents (and possibly have the required infrastructure to stop the delinquents beating each other up). I have a vague feeling that this isn't permitted in the USA due to the aforementioned court cases and civil rights laws, although I don't know the particulars and could be wrong. But yeah, were that solution in place, Freddie would be mostly right about the secondary argument.
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28d ago
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There's definitely been more than one human migration out of Africa, the first one ("Out of Africa I") being the source population for the Neanderthals and Denisovans (that's why sub-Saharan Africans don't have significant Neanderthal blood and why non-Austronesians don't have significant Denisovan blood: the Neanderthal hybridisation events occurred in Europe and Asia, and the Denisovan hybridisation appears to have occurred on the islands of the West Pacific). I was referring to the non-Africans' Homo sapiens sapiens forebears ("Out of Africa II"), which do seem to be singular (to be clear, there are no full-blooded Neanderthals or Denisovans anymore; all non-Africans are hybrids between those two migration waves).
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28d ago
Far Cry 2 released in 2008 was a gameplay demo. What narrative there is, is paper thin, but what Far Cry 2 did was codify the genre of the "3D open-world action game with crafting and collectibles". Blazing the trail that games like Skyrim, the Assassin's Creed series, Batman Arkham City, Ghosts of Tsushima, and Cyberpunk 2077, would all follow.
Um, no. Skyrim isn't copying Far Cry 2; it's copying Morrowind, which came out in 2002. Like, come on, I know Arena and Daggerfall are pretty obscure (and don't fit that description), but Morrowind is pretty well-known and Skyrim's literally a sequel to it.
Anybody know a utility for Linux that can spam-click? As in, I want to be able to set it up so that if I hold a key while holding down LMB, it delivers a click every frame.
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