vrganj

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Techno-Pessimist. Marxist. Pro-European.

The tragedy of our predicament when we are within ideology is that when we think that we escape it into our dreams, at that point we are within ideology.

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Comment · 3 hours ago
Trump being banned wasn't during any election.

This was. As was the messing with Lula. That was when the mask really came off. Thankfully, the people prevailed.

Comment · 4 hours ago
That was back when Democrats were in power and the mask hadn't come off yet.
Comment · 4 hours ago
After what Facebook tried pulling in Brazil, it is incredibly naive to think this was just another oopsie-daisy that once again, one that just so happens to impact the left, again.
Comment · 5 hours ago
I use all sorts of things I hate all the time.

This is not the gotcha you think it is.

Comment · 6 hours ago
This feeling made me leave the tech industry.

It felt like I was helping the bad guys, and my conscience couldn't deal with that.

Comment · 11 hours ago
They're trying to enclose all of human knowledge so they can sell it back to us, all while displacing human labor and centralizing control of the economy.

They're telling us human endeavors are no longer needed if they succeeded, they also warn us that they might accidentally cause the end of the world in the process.

Why shouldn't we root for their failure?

Comment · 13 hours ago
You kind of proved his point about brigading with this giant link dump.
Comment · 13 hours ago
Could be state industry projects, maybe?
Comment · 14 hours ago
Or to further build out total domestic surveillance, like they've been telegraphing.
Comment · 14 hours ago
I would also say that Google and Bing are roughly the same thing fwiw.
Comment · 15 hours ago
Comment · 18 hours ago
Not eating boogers is murder.

I can post wild nonsense without any backing, too!

Comment · 1 day ago

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