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homonculus1

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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” --C.S. Lewis
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homonculus1··on Are Race-Based Firings Legal? Twilio's About to Find Out
Would antiracism interrupt black people from making a racist remark?
homonculus1··on Cash buyers make up almost a third of U.S. home purchases
That's good, people should be able to do that. If people want to exchange cash for items of value there should be nothing stopping them. Police should just investigate crimes and stop laying totalitarian dragnets and checkpoints for everything people do that in some cases might also be done by a criminal.
homonculus1··on Are Race-Based Firings Legal? Twilio's About to Find Out
You keep using more and more words to describe the same thing. Again, "antiracism" is oriented monotonically against whites. You won't contest that because if whites ever benefited from it then it would defeat your purpose.

Whether their policy was directly effective toward that end or just another layer of obtuse bureaucratic process like you describe, Twilio is signalling that they applied antiwhite ideology to their employment decisions.

homonculus1··on Are Race-Based Firings Legal? Twilio's About to Find Out
Why would they mention it otherwise? Did they fire fewer whites to be "antiracist"? You can play coy but we all know this only goes in one direction, the entire revealed purpose of this ideology is to capture and redistribute resources from whites. Anything that even incidentally benefits white people in particular will be labeled "systemic racism" instead. So my evidence is that I'm taking them at their word.

The best case of your apologetics amounts to: maybe they did normal layoffs and they're just framing it in an arbitrary way so as to acknowledge woke beliefs. Which is a restatement of the virtue signalling described by the commenter above.

homonculus1··on Are Race-Based Firings Legal? Twilio's About to Find Out
What I believe is that historic outcomes don't need to be "paid attention to" by firing extra white people. That is in fact a blatantly woke thing to do and you're not fooling anybody that it's some kind of apolitical moral fundament that can't be labeled.
homonculus1··on Are Race-Based Firings Legal? Twilio's About to Find Out
That was already listed under option b)
homonculus1··on The Mystery Behind the Crime Wave at 312 Riverside Drive
Block his number, at least. 911 is a service, not a right. I can't fathom why they would continue sending public servants on those calls.
homonculus1··on Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
Why not just... play with the LEGO?
homonculus1··on Scientists found genetic mutations in every astronaut blood sample they studied
You're putting the cart before the horse. Exploration is cool BECAUSE it's risky. If it were a walk in the park it would just be data entry.
homonculus1··on Smart streetlights are casting a long shadow
No. That's an abuse of language. Surveillance is persistent monitoring of an area, person, etc. with a strong implication of record retention and intent to escalate situations which may arise.

Looking upon your way as you travel is not surveillance. Putting a light on a night is not surveillance. We are talking about a particular thing, notwithstanding irrelevantly broad archaic or foreign usage.

homonculus1··on Keith Davis was protecting the oceans, then he disappeared
Time to pass a law to force simplydt to wear a stiff leather collar that administers a painful electric shock every 30 seconds. Of course, although possible, this won't happen any time soon.
homonculus1··on The Timeless Way of Programming
You'd think we ought to at least be able to build some monumental architecture some of the time, even if cost is prohibitive for ordinary buildings as the argument goes. It's simply impossible to my mind that we command more energy than our ancestors could dream of and yet it's somehow "too expensive" to ever achieve the kind of works they did by hand. There are obviously factors at play which have nothing to do with cost.
homonculus1··on Germany’s €9 train tickets scheme ‘saved 1.8m tons of CO2 emissions’
That is quite a theory...
homonculus1··on Robert's Rules of Order (1876)
"Mass murder, organized oppression, and social violence."

Alexa, what is necklacing?

homonculus1··on Robert's Rules of Order (1876)
So the whites were the only ones who managed to keep their house clean--now that they're deposed, what has been gained? What have the blacks accomplished with their autonomy?
homonculus1··on Robert's Rules of Order (1876)
You make a fine point... maybe their country did get reduced to a heap of corruption and banditry by a gang of terrorists--but at least the whites aren't in charge!
homonculus1··on At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt
Ahh, oops! Next question!
homonculus1··on Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ban in the US
They deliver the baby halfway through the cervix and then crush its head.
homonculus1··on The end of the manual transmission is near?
It's a far cry from Nerf, with fiberglass on top of it, but styrofoam is actually used inside bumpers
homonculus1··on You can’t buy one square foot of land in Scotland and become a Scottish lord
And what happens when the ECHR starts oppressing people? It's turtles all the way down!
homonculus1··on Irishman arrested in UK for 'causing anxiety' by retweeting meme
I express many unpopular opinions online, including right here on Hackernews. If offending people online is a criminal offense, then my freedom and standing in law-abiding society are at risk. Your posts are genuinely and seriously offensive to me because you are defending something which poses a direct material threat against me personally, as a hypothetical UK citizen.

Is it conceivable that the UK government would actually interview you to protect me against itself?

homonculus1··on Irishman arrested in UK for 'causing anxiety' by retweeting meme
You and I are UK citizens for the moment. I assert that your comment here is grossly indecent and offensive to me. Will the UK government summon you for mandatory interrogation due to my complaint, or will they dismiss me out of hand?

Obviously the latter, therefore the content itself is held to some standard. Show me that standard, and I'll show you an ideology.

homonculus1··on The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger
You need to check in somewhere
homonculus1··on Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot
1. Detransition accounts are information 2. Twitter bans users specifically to suppress that information, i.e. minimize its reach, i.e. hide it

Bald-facedly denying censorship is certainly not intellectually productive, might I suggest you simply stop doing that?

homonculus1··on Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot
That is a ridiculously tortured argument. The censor not extending his reach to outside venues doesn't make him any less a censor.
homonculus1··on My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
It's just fundamentally a bad idea. Software should never, ever bother the user during use about how it's being used. That's what tutorials and documentation are for.

No matter how clever and subtle you think you're being, you're still just redirecting the user's attention from the task at hand toward the UI itself. No matter how ignorable, dismissable, or optional it is, it's an abysmal UI failure and it shouldn't even happen once. Make the feature right in the first place and you won't have to resort to nagging.

homonculus1··on Patent Act requires an inventor to be a natural person, not an AI [pdf]
Yes it is, you are just conflating ownership and creation. Intellectual property exists to provide a bargaining framework for human creators, there's no reason that joint ownership of it need imply that mechanically-generated combinations should also be included.
homonculus1··on Old jokes
The answer is "yes"
homonculus1··on Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on PornHub, MindGeek
Yes and yes
homonculus1··on Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on PornHub, MindGeek
Yes...?
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