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[–] [email protected] 87 points 8 months ago

I hope this sentiment never stops someone from uploading a textbook without OCR. Once it's scanned it can always be OCRed at a later time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This reminds me of one of the best bits from the Xanth novels, where the male unicorns peacock for the female unicorns by leaping in the air and landing horn-first in the ground, then see who can balance like that the longest.

Which is second only to the part in the same book where the main character is taking a shit in the woods when a harpy shows up and he has to try to run away with his pants down, unwiped, while the harpy is shouting abuse after him data-laughing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This "you can't Forward your own ports" shit needs to be made illegal. It's cutting off your ability to run your own service and making everyone a passive consumer on the Internet if you aren't one of the big tech companies.

Is it a linux box, and if so would you be able to ssh into this box? You could rename them that way right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/10/1005263835/new-report-details-firsthand-accounts-of-torture-from-uyghur-muslims-in-china This is the first result when I typed in "uyghur firsthand account"
I'll read it when I get home in a few hours unless you have another source(s) you'd prefer.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It's very easy to say this, because it means you can just reject any evidence to the contrary as "not good" or "biased".

Accusations of genocide aren't a fucking game. It's either happening or it isn't. Either the evidence is good or the evidence is bad (and all evidence is biased) So give us some good evidence.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It? I sure hope you aren't talking about a human person.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We've tried nothing and we're all out of ~~ideas~~ evidence 😔

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (5 children)

So it's just the browbeating for me today then?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

Pretend all you want that you're "just asking questions"
That's pretty much exactly the same as the Israeli line

vibes of a genocide denier

doesn't change facts.

What facts! I'm still waiting for one. We can go round and round all day but until you show me something to center this on it'll be a waste of time. In 30 years even your ABC will quietly walk back their claims of genocide and I hope when that happens you will tell the people around you not to trust the same sources that lied to you.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

There's no racial component to it at all

That's a pretty bold statement to make. Have you seen the west?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Are you or are you not genociding the people of mars right now? debatebro-l

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

You see that's kind of where the problem is. You can say there's a genocide and I can say "where" and that gives me the vibe of a genocide denier. I've looked for evidence, I've asked for evidence, but the best I've ever gotten is a satellite image of some prison in China, some (AI padded) mugshots with no context, and some thorough browbeating by very serious liberals.

Let me put this another way. I'm of Jewish descent. My great aunt was in a camp. I'm not trying to "deny" any genocides, but what should my standard of evidence be? Particularly when there is a clear incentive for western media to create false narratives about their enemies, and have done so before?

If you have something to present that I haven't seen, I and the other "tankies" are wide open to engage with it.

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