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I don't see it that way at all. Most people who want to vote for Republican policies are quick to express their dislike for someone like Trump, but somehow find find a way to compliment him in the same breath. Democratic systems function around voters choosing candidates based on the substance of their policies. The theatre of personality is a scapegoat and background noise to the uglier truth: the folks enamored with this guy want a patriarchal, classist society where they feel like they're on top. That's just the harder thing to admit, so you talk about liking his media strategy.
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I guess it's easier to say you prefer someone's personality than it is to acknowledge you have vile political opinions.
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From the countries shown, it seems like the losses came from local currency devaluation against USD. It looks like the sentiment is that everyone could just solve this by using a digital currency backed by the US dollar. Great topic for /geopolitics, but honestly, crypto isn't the cure here, government policy is.
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Are you just reading the Wikipedia article on dumplings and trying to pass it off as a hot take?
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Calling any of this civilization scale infrastructure with fewer than a billion users is a little tongue in cheek. There are a lot of things that look great on paper, that begin to fall apart at larger scales.
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Yeah, super cool to see school yard bully bullshit blooming in an already small and non diverse community.
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Finally, now I can understand what my Furby was trying to tell me.
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Have you ever thought about how you look at the most common problems of older generations and think to yourself, 'oh, that's probably going to happen to me', but when you look at the most common problems of your similarly aged peers and cohorts, you think to yourself, 'what's wrong with these people?' You might be ok.
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Symbols are not equivalent to the ideas they represent, they are merely references to them. This isn't unlike how pointers behave in programming languages. In your examples, you follow the life of an object used to represent an idea. In each state of time and for each question though, there is a single truth.
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Sure, assigned interpretations exist and are real, but to wrap back to the original image, there does exist a truth, meaning the interpretations can be true or false, and not all equally valid.
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Symbols exist to communicate ideas, and the communicator of the idea is the creator. That's why we care about intent. '6' and '9' are ideas larger than their arabic numerals. Focusing on intent is a key underpinning to how communication works at all. Or a worm did it, and it means the worm crawled that way.
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Then it is neither a 6 or a 9, it is worm pattern.
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Now look at what laptop batteries are made of. Then look at car batteries. It's turtles all the way down.
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In both definitions, context matters. If you're writing a scholarly article, you can probably get away with the original definition without complaint. If you are having a conversation with a stranger on the Internet, the more modern definition probably applies.
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'Meme' is a portmanteau coined by Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene" in 1976. The original definition is just an idea that spreads by imitation. Text would count. But there's a new definition of the word from the last two decades. 'Meme' now also refers to a reusable image that is paired with a themed text message.
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The existing system provides a sort of stickiness to anyone that finds a way to grab enough followers. Once you're active, you stay that way easily. It makes the feed feel like an echo chamber when you're looking for new voices. There's also the perverse incentive to do giveaways for follows/recasts.
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What is this post, if not a passive aggressive, vague complaint? What does it do to change the situation? Are there some people you disagree with and you just felt like calling them clowns? Cool.
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YIP-0026: Users may yoink without any delay, but are limited to 50 yoinks in a 24 hour period. This Yoink Improvement Proposal discourages the development of yoink bots, which threaten the yoink ecosystem, and encourages users to strategize the timing of their yoinks to maximize yoink/time ratios.
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Very neat frame example. I had fun.
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