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Not true. Psychiatrists acknowledge that social and environmental factors can be causes of mental illness.
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Nah, it wouldn't be profitable, at least not in terms of money
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False dichotomy. There is such a thing as too much commerce, as is evidenced by our current state of ecological self destruction
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That seems to be the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684
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There comes a point when a fire gets so massive that its foolish/impossible to try and put it out, as it would just endager more lives. Human lives are more important than buildings
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>will definitely be a game changer for poor minorities. What about poor people in general, regardless of skin color?
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That's like saying there's no point in putting out house fires, because there's always going to be somewhere else that catches on fire. When a social gathering (whether its a party at a club or a riot in the streets) exceeds
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>3. Unlike government issued currencies, any monopoly or control facebook derives isn't done through force, it's by making a coin better than all the other coins. Other people are still free to make their competing coins. Sure
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It's the same as saying "if you don't like the country then leave it"
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Nope, Facebook was stolen by one person though.
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Because they have inordinate political leverage
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The harms are not hard to demonstrate, if you study history, or have programming knowledge.
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Were tobacco and gambling blanket banned like alcohol was on a national level?
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Those are industrial equipment operational safety precautions, not a prohibition of cars and planes
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Indeed, Dr. King realized in his final years that to truly solve racism, we must resolve classism and extreme materialism.
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>ultimately resolves to income inequality, which in America is only really a problem because of racism. Income inequality is not restricted to minorities. There are more white people living in poverty/prison than any other racial gr
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What reasons?
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Doesnt twitter still force tweets into your feed from people you dont follow?
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When overlords and their followers believe themselves and to be benevolent moral authorities (as most do), any criticism is seen as malicious misinformation. It also helps that the overlords are in a position to control the flow of informat
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When you've been pouring your mind deep into a difficult technical problem, it can be extremely difficult to just "turn it off" when the clock hits 5.
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>Who gets to define what the "ideal human" is? Psychiatrists/the authors of the DSM. >If the ideal can change, doesn't that make classifying mental illness completely subjective? Yes, it is completely subjective: &
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The inverse is also true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/ Just goes to show how powerful the media is at shaping/controlling the individuals reality.
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Read the fourth amendment again. What practical protection does it provide if the requirement for a warrant/probable cause are deemed null and void? Claiming that is "consistent with the Fourth Amendment" is just mental gymna
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It's not unencrypted (except DNS and UDP) if it's https, right?
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The fourth amendment is not "a thing" if you're anywhere near (within 100 miles) of the border. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
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>They are inescapable This seems like a great simplistic unit of measurement for classifying what antitrust action is supposed to target. When it's extremely difficult, if not practically impossible to escape a private company fro
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About 1.2 million americans die from heart disease or cancer each year. There are about 8.6 million people living in NYC. NYC would have to be nuked and fully repopulated about once every 7 years to match the death rates of heart disease an
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Where did you get the idea that the news is only supposed to talk about the government? Even if that's true, how can the masses be expected to make informed political decisions on things like healthcare funding vs. war on terror fundin
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Big Advertising is a root cause not only for mass mental dissatisfaction, but also mass health epidemics (i.e. obesity in the US), and ecological destruction/climate change.
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>Institutions might not be a "nice" place to live your life, but it's a hell of a lot better than living on the streets That's just your opinion. Many prefer the freedom of the streets over the imprisonment and forced
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