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I never really understood why "owning" a domain is any more owning than you own your Gmail address: a company is letting you use it and that works until they don't. What an I missing?

I believe it's so they can put on their CV that they're contributors to XYZ famous projects.

Are you arguing that whether something does or doesn't genocide can the boiled down to a percentage. As it turns out, a lot of people disagree with that view.

You sold me on mastodon. Is there a node for scientists? How do I find it?

> decentralized web is a good idea on paper but won't work in practic

This claim is so vague it's meaningless. I could just as well argue that torrents are the purest example of decentralisation, and work amazing.

Just look at HN. Nominally an educated crowd, but talk about physics, and you immediately see terms like "ivory towers" or "return on investment", despite the fact that most on HN doesn't understand in fundamental science works.

Confuses "database" and "types" with "state".

Also her husband died a few year ago.

These people want to do things that they know are extremely dangerous, and some times die. I don't empathize. Compare to those people who die by no fault of their own. Drunk driver, war, etc. Am I callous to believe that the two are not equally deserving of our empathy?

> your rebuttal was that both kinds of claims are racial supremacist claims

I said nothing about anything being racial or not. Perhaps you found it not interesting because you didn't pay attention to it and instead read into it what you already expected the rebuttal to be.

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But will stay for now.