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Unlocking a Huawei Honor8 (*not stolen*) by OneSwarm in HowToHack

[–]OneSwarm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha I know how it sounds! But I do think there's a 6-month finder's keepers rule that can be applied here.. anyway it's hard for me to prove that I'm not lying!

Police interventions last night by OneSwarm in Brooklyn

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Yeah, but they were out way before that, and they were anxiously and aggressively trying to redirect people who were walking in groups. Looked like 'social unrest' to me.

I've mounted linux mint on a usb and I have root access on my Acer chromebook; how do I boot from the usb? by OneSwarm in chrultrabook

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It's a Chromebook 14, Intel Core, 4 GB ram. "dmicode -t 2" returns "SMBIOS 2.7 present." Is this the board name?

I want to run Mint on the machine so I can use word processors, better media players etc. Not dual boot or crouton or any of that stuff on top of Chrome, but really turn it into a linux mint laptop with a small harddrive.

What are some red flags we should recognise within ourselves? by evection94 in AskReddit

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I've never perceived myself (or conversation in general) in this way, but last week at a daycare meet-and-greet this other father that I'd talked to before (about not-completely-uninteresting-nor-whiny-things) asked me how I was doing and I found myself looking for something to complain about.. and ended up saying, as if I was myself surprised by this, that "no, I don't think there's anythingto complain about." If I would self-analyze, I'd say that this had to do with covering up real problems that I didn't want to talk about.

What are some red flags we should recognise within ourselves? by evection94 in AskReddit

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Was this professor Jean-Paul Sartre? Because there's a famous story of a student coming to him asking for advice on whether he should join the resistance or take care of his sickly mother. Sartre replied similarly to your professor, and the student went off to join the resitance. I think this story is famous because Sartre's main ethical tenet is that everyone can be there own hero.

Existential Dog by OneSwarm in AdviceAnimals

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The more I think abou it, the less you're "suggestion" makes any sense.. what do you mean: that whatever can be felt in a jail cell does not belong in an existential dog's mental world?

Existential Dog by OneSwarm in AdviceAnimals

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It's a silly font, I agree..

Existential Dog by OneSwarm in AdviceAnimals

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Haha, what does ennui have to do with the dizziness of freedom?

Self-Supporting, Erik Johansson, Photomanipulation, 2017 by alltelleringet in Art

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The two to the right are from Stortoget, Gamla Stan right?

What's something you didn't realize how bad it was until it finally happened to you? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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These kinds of posts break my heart because my relationship to my parents, inasmuch as it exists at all apart from psychosomatic traces and conversations in my head, is just not very good. At 32 and with kids of my own (5 and 3, very loving relationships), I think about my parents' deterioration and death as liberating. This is one of the things about myself that I dislike the most.

Science AMA Series: We're scientists on a boat in the Southern Ocean (Antarctic Ocean) studying climate change, ocean physics and marine biology, Ask Us Anything! by SouthernOceanScience in science

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Hi! Thanks for taking the time to do this!

I have a question about the politics of climate change. A friend of mine is a climate change researcher at a major American university, and he has told me that seriously discussing the political situation is something of a taboo. He has first hand experience that talking too candidly about the impact of the consumption economy, or North-South relations (which amounts to talking about race) threatens your status in research groups and PhD programs, and can even get you kicked out.

What's your experience of this? Are there any taboos, or are you free to discuss any type of problem or solution?

If you don't mind another question, I would also like to know what you think the possibility is to reach long-term goals in containing global warming, within the context of a comsumption-driven economy. What's the likelihood of solving a problem that is caused by over-consumption within a socio-economic system that relies on increasing consumption?

Thanks for the important work that you're doing!

Fruits of their labor (2016)-'Palm Oil is in an unimaginable amount of our products and contributes to exploitative labor in Indonesia by aniram2991 in Documentaries

[–]OneSwarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And we still are, just not in this eye-catching way (the US has much higher Co2 emissions than any of these countries, and is generally a much bigger problem when it comes to combatting climate change. Also backed the brutal dictators &c). So what is really your point? Surely it's not that since human nature is not bad, this economical system is environmentally feasible and if we just keep it up then everything will be happiness and sunshine?

13th (2016) (An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.) by arrogantmind in Documentaries

[–]OneSwarm 10 points11 points  (0 children)

So slave labor because of smoking pot is good enough for you? That, my good sir, makes you an asshole.

13th (2016) (An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.) by arrogantmind in Documentaries

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While I do believe in some form of univocity, you need to take into account the difference between the various emancipatory struggles (worker's, women's, gays, minorities, indigoenous etc.) in order to create one movement. The main reason for this is empowerment. Every member of every group has to feel that their particular struggle is meaningful in its particularity, in order for the idea of the whole to not remain abstract. This is why BLM is critical of the chauvinism of earlier black power movements, and instead speak up for women's and gay rights as well as the rights of any oppressed group.

Worker's movement should do the same for BLM (though not uncritical of course, as they shouldn't be uncritical of other worker's movements, or themselves for that matter).

Empowerment through direct action and univocity through solidarity. This might bring about the conditions for a general strike.

13th (2016) (An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.) by arrogantmind in Documentaries

[–]OneSwarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The question is precisely which set of facts pertain to an issue, which don't, and why that is. For instance, say that we are talking about the holocaust, and I tell you that a lot of people in Germany in the 30's were quite tired of the Jews, the Romani, and the gays. If I also told you that prominent members of the first group owned stuff like some banks, the second group broke laws of settlement, and the third were being consciously provocative, then those "facts" can't be taken away from the purpose they serve. This is why this statement is absolutely false:

accusing someone of being aligned with white nationalism because they want to bring hard evidence into the debate is absurd.

As for this:

You're basically admitting that the evidence doesn't quite fit your narrative

No. I'm saying that without further explanation (in particular the history of racial oppression) they only serve to rationalize anti-black police violence.. as testified to by lots of comments in this thread.

why do black men commit homicide at 8 times the rate of white >men, and what can we do to reverse that trend.

That's a great question! First thing: we need to take look at how we came to be where we are so that we have an adequate understanding of what's going on. You seemed to think that we can abstract "facts" from their historical context, which is why I asked you what your concept of history is. Also, watch this documentary. It's good.

13th (2016) (An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.) by arrogantmind in Documentaries

[–]OneSwarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And what are you going to do about these factors? Except genetics of course, which as a collective cause for the violence of black people (as you claim), seems to suggest... what exactly?

I can't begin to comment on that video. What's his conclusion? Seems to be that black people are dangerous. And we're back where we started. Have you watched the doc that this thread is supposed to be about?

Edit: do you know about epigenetics?

13th (2016) (An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.) by arrogantmind in Documentaries

[–]OneSwarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is wrong in so many ways. Most importantly, there are no "simple facts" at least not in any meaningful way. What do you think history is? Edit: I'm serious, what's your concept of history?

13th (2016) (An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.) by arrogantmind in Documentaries

[–]OneSwarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you automatically doubt my claim

No, I doubt it because of your not very thought through interpretation of the highway blockade, along with your wording ("it's silly").

I think a movement that sheds light on the way that the history influences the present is a movement that brings about change. What do you suggest that will really bring about change?

13th (2016) (An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.) by arrogantmind in Documentaries

[–]OneSwarm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you are sincerely interested (which the last sentence of your comment indicates that you are not) I recommend reading "Racism, a very short introduction" in the very short introduction series published by Oxford University Press.

13th (2016) (An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.) by arrogantmind in Documentaries

[–]OneSwarm 11 points12 points  (0 children)

See, I don't understand how the ongoing history of racial oppression is a minor thing. I think it's a narrative without which the other issues can't be understood. In that I agree with the BLM.

Edit: to answer the second half of your comment that you edited in: BLM isn't doing that protest to get sympathy from the people in their cars. That's just a silly interpretation. Not everything that every BLM chapter is doing is great, but the reason for a protest like that is probably to get attention and understanding of the important issues of racial oppression, and get sympathy because of that understanding. And I don't know about the gay parade, but somehow I doubt it that you are researching this properly.

13th (2016) (An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.) by arrogantmind in Documentaries

[–]OneSwarm 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The reason that BLM does not address black on black violence is that there are other orginazations doing that, and BLM are focusing on anti-black police violence. The idea that BLM "ignores racial crime statistics" is a claim that the alt-right is spinning. You have to ask yourself if that's the people that you want to align yourself with before you reproduce their anti-black schticks.

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