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Comment · 2 years ago
I pay for a mailbox.org account.
Comment · 3 years ago
Is there a filter for device function somewhere that I just missed?

I don't care about games that aren't available on any device that I already own.

Comment · 3 years ago
I clicked the comments here just to find out what type 1 means, I saw that the site was called "typenetwork", and that didn't mean anything to me.

It might not be clickbait as in it is not intentionally misleading, but it still is a very confusing title.

Not everyone that visits this site is a typography expert...

Comment · 3 years ago
Why?

I live in a country where I pick a party to represent me in the national government, not a local person, and it seems to work just fine.

Comment · 3 years ago
Ok, now I have read several of your replies in this thread that are basically all arguing the same thing, so, I'm basically replying to more than just this one post.

When you say "the entire population", you mean the entire population of the country "USA", right? Because as someone from another continent, it seems like there is a very specific set of opinions that you want included.

You use terms like "the other side" of the political discourse, which to me, reduces the set of opinion to two specific sets of opinions, namely the two sets represented by the two major parties in the american two party system.

As someone from "the outside", this seems like a very narrow view of reality, even if you managed to get your "unbiased AI", that represents both major american political parties, it will still seem like a very narrow and biased AI to someone from the outside of that.

Also, what exactly is the goal of a conversational AI? is it just to make a conversation with it seem like a conversation with an average american? If so, why would anyone want that? Wouldn't it be of more value to have an AI that could tell me what people with knowledge of a subject thinks of it, rather than what random people think?

Comment · 4 years ago
Not op, but I think it means that the cooling system contains a gas that if released (it would normally not be released at all), it would do the same amount of harm to the environment as you would normally do in a year.

(I have no idea if this comparison is accurate, but I do know that coolers commonly contain gasses that you don't want to release)

Comment · 4 years ago
No, it is because we don't use the tipping system.

And it's not awful, and people are not rude, just not "fake-friendly" as americans.

Comment · 4 years ago
This is why things like "/s" are useful.

I also didn't understand that you were making a joke, and was sitting here wondering how using a different type of database would solve this kind of problem.

Comment · 4 years ago
I think that the economic argument is that it isn't viable for a private company to start a nuclear power-plant, it would require government involvement, and lots of people don't want the government to get involved in something that they think no-government entities can handle.
Comment · 4 years ago
Isn't "the sun" an extremely untrustworthy tabloid?

and no, I haven't read the article, and I'm not going to.

Comment · 4 years ago
Why on earth would you come to that conclusion?
Comment · 4 years ago
But how do you know that?

Is the source dugin himself?

Comment · 4 years ago
from bayers wiki page:

In 1925 Bayer merged with five other German companies to form IG Farben

IG Farben the made Zyklon B, and as a result it got split up after the war, into it's original companies, one of them bayer.

So, yes, you are mostly correct.

Comment · 4 years ago
I think that he is nowhere as influential as reddit thinks.

This is the conclusion I came to a few years ago when trying to find out why nobody had ever bothered to translate his writings into english:

Reddit usually points out that what he writes aligns pretty well with what putin seems to think. The problem is just that this is what almost every russian fascist thinks, it is nothing unique about dugin, he is just the one russian fascist thinker that reddit got their eyes on...

Comment · 4 years ago
While I'm happy that something is being done to address the problems of social media; as an outsider I'm having a hard time understanding why every problem has to be solved with law suits in america.

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