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I suggest a counter-scam. "I'm interested in your offer but first I need to see a credit report from this specific website..."

The modern problem with replication is mostly a problem of incentives. Science journalism and grant money all want big breakthroughs and original ideas, which doesn't leave much room for confirming or denying previous research.

Ah, so the difference is the weight that people assign the idea.

Do the gods exist for an atheist who contends that all of the things you called "mythical" are in fact purely "fictional"? Or does a lack of belief among some individuals not matter because the gods are a social construct?

So then what's the difference between "the gods" and something purely fictional, in your view? Because if there is none than this whole thing seems like just an exercise in surface-level semantics.

You know, since e-mail is a fucking wasteland of unread messages and spam, faxing doesn't seem so bad.

As we all know, getting more militantly progressive because you see the repeated failures of the liberal worldview is exactly the same as getting more conservative because you own more property 🤡

True. I didn't become a commie until I was almost thirty, young me was so idealistic.

tHeSe MeN wErE vIoLeNt TyRaNtS

The kulaks and the monarchists and the nazi collaboraters deserved it. Communists have been vindicated by history every single time.

AFAIK FF is implementing Manifest V3 so that those add on developers who are migrating to it don't lose FF compatibility. As long as they don't deprecate Manifest V2 for those that need it, ad blockers will continue to be usable.

edit: although I'll add that there's a major problem here that Mozilla simply can't address. If ad block stops working on chromium browsers, and ad block users all migrate to Firefox, then that makes it a lot easier for Google or others to target users of those browsers and deny them access to their sites. Imagine if Google goes scorched earth on all browsers that support manifest v2.

I won't deny that people can do multiple things at once, I just don't agree with the premise that voting matters in the current paradigm.

As I've said elsewhere, to fix it from within the system itself you would need a bloc of people willing to punish one of the parties for moving right by withholding their votes and their donations. To fix it from without the system is also possible, but would require some "authoritarianism" in the form of people with guns. Anything else is just people flailing around ineffectually and getting mad at others who aren't flailing in the ineffectual way that they prefer.

Either way you've got the same problem: getting a large enough group of people together who are willing to do the thing. Socialists of all stripes have been trying to crack that egg for over a hundred years and the only ones who had any success were the ones that managed to get the peasants on their side because peasants have a certain amount of class consciousness that proles don't.