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I would be careful with phrases like, "there is no contradiction." There is a comprehensible tension between free speech as the ability for anyone to say what they wish, and a prohibition on hate speech as a prohibition on saying specific things. Denying that risks damaging one's credibility because it can appear that we are merely refusing to acknowledge that tension.

I argue it's better to admit these tensions. And that's not an admission that the arguments for prohibition of hate speech are weak, but it is an admission that as real people in the real world, we can never have the comfort of a tension-free, contradiction-free theory for anything of significance.

You can't ask the government to drive innovation and take on difficult challenges if people keep labelling everything that might not work out a boondoggle. The IRA was like $800 billion. It's okay if 7 is spent on a longshot.

Let's hope this is the start of a trend of Trump's incompetence thwarting his objectives.

Had no idea there was a Neuromancer video game.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer_(video_game)

Anyways, probably System Shock 2 for me.

Do I upvote because it's true, or do I downvote because of clap spaces. I'm torn.

ChatGPT is usually wrong. We apologize for the inconvenience.

This smells like social media feminism. The kind of thing that a few people will tweet about voluminously for a while, and news/culture publications will write articles about for clicks, but which has little to no existence in the real world.

I can't help but think a person would be justified in permanently disabling these aircraft.

Of all the reasons I've seen for why people struggle to unionize, I have never seen anyone suggest that unions don't want members.

I just had a mini-revelation that this looks weird because the "pupil" is on the surface of the contact instead of under the lens of the eye. These aren't bad contacts; contacts are just bad like that. Seems that post processing is really the only option.

I'm a little worried about the level of critical thinking around here if people really feel that "great" arguments can be expressed in a four panel comic.

The world is not simple, and memes can not make a valid worldview.

I don't think either PBS or NPR has been "bought" by anyone. They're both still non-profits owned by their member stations.