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floodyberry- commented on Blocking Kiwifarms   blog.cloudflare.com/kiwif... · Posted by u/_vvaw
eastdakota · 3 years ago
Reading over the comments I see everyone thinking this is about “free speech.” It is not. It’s about what in the US you’d call “due process” and in all the rest of the world you’d call “rule of law.”

Our decision today was that the risk created by the content could not be dealt with in a timely enough matter by the traditional rule of law systems.

That’s a failure of the rule of law on two dimensions: we shouldn’t be the ones making that call, and no one else who should was stepping up in spite of being aware of the threat.

Encourage you when these issues arise to think of them in the rule of law context, rather than free speech, in order to have a more robust conversation with frameworks that have an appeal and applicability across nearly every nation and government.

floodyberry- · 3 years ago
"hi I'm a liar and we only did something because the bad press started to go mainstream. fuck trans people"
floodyberry- commented on Block a tweet, its author, and every single person who liked it   megablock.xyz/... · Posted by u/panarky
tomc1985 · 3 years ago
This isn't about free speech. People NEED to hear, read, and see conflicting viewpoints and opinions they don't agree with. They NEED to see the ugly realities of life. The opposite is a culture of censorship, which is absolutely unacceptable.
floodyberry- · 3 years ago
you have a point, you don't appear to have read that you're a fucking idiot enough
floodyberry- commented on Block a tweet, its author, and every single person who liked it   megablock.xyz/... · Posted by u/panarky
DarkmSparks · 3 years ago
Then it turns out you were wrong but you never know because you were stuck inside your cope bubble like some Japanese soldier in a remote island bunker thinking WWII was still going 30 years after it finished.

You block me because I block you and next thing you know pacifists are cheering on neo nazis and greenies are begging for cheaper gas and oil.

Free speech is important because true speech stands up to scrutiny and lies do not. Therefore only liars want to curtail free speech.

floodyberry- · 3 years ago
Good news, you now have to read every tweet made on Twitter or you're against free speech!
floodyberry- commented on Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (2016)   modernfarmer.com/2016/03/... · Posted by u/cwwc
ravenstine · 3 years ago
Honestly, I suspect this kind of thing happens as a result of a diet devoid of microbial life and non-denatured proteins.

I used to get not full on sick, but pretty sick after eating raw or partially raw meat. You may think it's crazy, but I just continued doing it and eventually stopped getting diarrhea and cramps.

David Blaine (I think) talked about a similar effect from when he practiced swallowing live frogs. He got sick initially (not gag reflex but something akin to food poisoning) but quickly built up a tolerance.

Maybe these guys did get sick in some way that is beyond a reasonable risk tolerance. I don't know. I just think Americans in particular are weird about their food and simultaneously germophobic so they end up eating a certain kind of diet. Getting sick when eating food that isn't totally cooked may not necessarily mean danger but that the body isn't acclimated to the particular food.

floodyberry- · 3 years ago
"sure you might get pretty sick, but if you power through the diarrhea and cramps you can enjoy the benefits of getting some serious food poisoning"

I can't believe you're giving away this advice for free

floodyberry- commented on But life had other plans   danlebrero.com/2022/03/23... · Posted by u/JBiserkov
rayiner · 3 years ago
Not the dunk you think it is for the billions of people who believe in a personal god and life everlasting.
floodyberry- · 3 years ago
believing in things that aren't true makes a lot of arguments fall flat
floodyberry- commented on But life had other plans   danlebrero.com/2022/03/23... · Posted by u/JBiserkov
rayiner · 3 years ago
God loves babies and wants us to be happy. Risked waking my 8 month old to give him a squeeze.
floodyberry- · 3 years ago
For something that supposedly loves babies, "god" sure enjoys spontaneously aborting them

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/372193v1

floodyberry- commented on Literate programming is much more than just commenting code   justinmeiners.github.io/l... · Posted by u/increscent
mci · 3 years ago
IMHO, attempts to show literate programming on screen are doomed to meet with mediocre success. DEK invented literate programming with printed books in mind. I dare say that the only successful literate programs are books printed on paper.

First, in a printed book, it is easier to find a previous page and compare a fragment on it with the current fragment. Second, a printed book has no links tempting you with the words "CLICK ME" to disrupt the flow so you can read it from cover to cover with fewer distractions. Third, anecdotally, I can see flaws much easier on a printout than on screen, both in programs and in texts.

floodyberry- · 3 years ago
I always feel like I'm missing something about literate programming because every example is "godawful". Transitioning between text and context-less code fragments littered with markup is incredibly jarring, and instead of something "written for humans", you now have something that is neither text _or_ code that you have to piece together and hold in your head as you go.
floodyberry- commented on George Hotz against the institutions   return.life/2022/03/07/ge... · Posted by u/ryeguy_24
rank0 · 3 years ago
I generally like this dude and his antics…but becoming dependent on opiates as an “experiment” is the stupidest shit I’ve ever read.

It sounds like he wanted some adversity to overcome and couldn’t find any so he manufactured his own. Hopefully George understands that premeditated physical opioid dependence is not the same kind of struggle which addicts face. The homeless dudes shooting smack under a bridge have terrible lives. George is a software genius with loads of money and opportunity at his disposal.

floodyberry- · 3 years ago
Like most? all? of the names dropped in the article, he appears to be interminably up his own ass. Not sure why he was notable enough for a long form interview
floodyberry- commented on Crypto is an unproductive bubble   alexkolchinski.com/2022/0... · Posted by u/kolchinski
cf141q5325 · 3 years ago
Then you are not the target audience. You want additional safety at the cost of giving up your autonomy. Good luck with that
floodyberry- · 3 years ago
Exactly! Imagine not wanting to be your own bank or lose your life savings to a buggy contract... pathetic

u/floodyberry-

KarmaCake day286September 13, 2015View Original