[–] 3 points 5 months ago

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    He is telling people to eat more meat, which sounds absolutely insane to me.

    Green planet, veganism, healthy ... all woke lefty communist snowflake bullshit. Eat meat, must be more gooderer. Eat more meat must be most gooderest!

    What qualifies him to give health advice ? Why are americans trusting him ?

    For those that are listening to him. It's because he's pandering to what they want to hear. Not because what he's saying is right.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    He's lived a life of people protecting him. Employees listening and nodding along, while being paid to be quiet. He's been groomed to believe himself, and to not be questioned.

    Sadly it seems many political figures still live in this world and don't know how to handle actually being questioned on their actions. Modern Media, cameras, information spread (and the speed of spread) have made the lives of those being protected difficult. Many of those being protected haven't caught up with it.

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  • [+] -12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Normally I'd roll my eyes and move on...

    But in this instance I'm going to call service provider protection. It's not the bus companies fault if you take the bus into town to rob the bank. It shouldn't be on my ISP to check if I torrent or not. And it's not on Microsoft what people do with the Azure platform.

    They've provided a service, which people have used to do bad. That doesn't mean the service is bad.

    ... though it is the fediverse and this is Microsoft ... so shit away on it

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    And ... I'll pessimistically assume that forgetting one of those accounts is grounds for federal prosecution.

    I've had dozens of reddit accounts over time. Some just for funny names, some for anonymity. Literally do not remember all of them. I have multiple accounts on platforms. Some for looking at porn and not conflating that with charitable work I do (and negatively impacting the charity) and some just to not be associated with being a lil'freak to my family. Again, I can't remember some accounts, websites etc. over time.

    I couldn't list all my historical social media accounts if I tried. Maybe my use case is different to many people? But ... shrug looks like it's politically unsafe for me to come to the USA?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Phone right front. Wallet right back.

    Keys left front. You can't keep a phone and keys in the same pocket. Especially not with the size of modern phones.

    Consistency means I always know if I've forgotten my phone keys/wallet. There's never searching or wondering where they've gone.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Yep,

    I've got a part of the house which needs new render and new capping on a pallisade wall. Cannot for the life of me find anyone that wants to do it. Whole house render, no problem. Turn up and just render every wall in site, no problem.

    I had a long discussion with a builder who suggested I remove any lead flashing from the pallisade wall so he could render that. After going and investigating what I could, the lead is what's keeping water out of the house. No, no thankyou do I want to remove that.

    As it goes, I might just have to learn how to render myself as it might be easier than learning how to find a reasonable handyman.

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