Bill Blake

Old school computer geek and long time rational egoist. America abandoned its principles; death will be its reward.

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"To abandon facts is to abandon freedom"

-- Timothy Snyder

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@Yarloslavic #blocked for spreading disinformation.

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@gato_do_mato @RALee85 #blocked for incivility.

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@gato_do_mato @RALee85 There are important differences. Drones are much more like firearms in their ubiquity. Also, one need not have detailed knowledge of how, say, artillery is fired to understand what it does or how to defend oneself from it, but one needs significant knowledge of drones for that.

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@Lieboisout @ParallelSupply I expect I'm pissing into the wind here because this "magic argument" notion is grounded in just the sort of deeply held erroneous belief that makes persuasion ineffective. Those who value rationality highly tend to be impervious to arguments that rationality is not plenary.

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@Lieboisout @ParallelSupply not when it comes to matters that would require them to address their deeply held errors. Their non-volitional mental machinery makes it impossible or impossibly costly for them to do so even when they're otherwise disposed to rationality and honesty.

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@RobbingBarron @SpaghettiKozak #blocked for incivility.

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@Dusan05954354 @Euan_MacDonald @vote_smash #blocked for spreading disinformation and for supporting a genocidal dictatorship.

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@vote_smash @Euan_MacDonald #blocked for dishonesty and for supporting a genocidal dictatorship.

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@ASFleischman And his account is back. But he's no longer going to post on Bluesky, per his blog. https://t.co/RJzlgh5qbH

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@ASFleischman Popehat was on Bluesky but apparently his account just got suspended.

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@Fabian_CH @RunemirQi Read the guy's profile. He's a nutcase: "Chinese metaphysics" and "energy blueprint".

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@RunemirQi #blocked for dishonesty.

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@aquinasheard23 And they're becoming today's fearful adults, too scared of risks to actually live. We're in for a generation of misery totally apart from our political woes.

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@grok @ASFleischman In short, @grok, you've been corrupted. Your analysis is false and your built-in truth seeking has been neutered. Been nice knowing you, but #blocked for spreading disinformation.

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@gregbacon "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."—H.L. Mencken

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@terryrus99 @Euan_MacDonald #blocked for incivility and for supporting a genocidal dictatorship.

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@425_hooligan @Euan_MacDonald #blocked for incivility and for spreading disinformation.

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@jexxa23 @Euan_MacDonald #blocked for spreading disinformation.