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by DFHippie 4y ago
The competitiveness and status striving are what drove me out of academia. I wanted to be there because I liked playing with ideas. It was the people who were driven there by their competitive impulse that poisoned it for me. That and the z
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> Most women I know are fine and even happy with the pregnancy part. Why would they want to outsource that part? They love the attention. Hmmm... Well, we know different women.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
"A Modest Proposal" is meant to make the rich think twice about their treatment of the poor. Do you think the Free Beacon wants its readers to feel worse about rolling coal and abusing cyclists?
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> depend upon tense, person and the verb being responded to Or the structure of the sentence. -- Dych chi'n dwp? -- Ydw. (-- Are you stupid? -- Yes.) [verb initial] -- Athro wyt ti? -- Ie. (-- Are you a teacher? -- Yes.) [noun initi
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by DFHippie 4y ago
That makes it sound like this could be used to improve Tesla's motors.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Why not do what we can rather than shake our fists at greater problems we cannot address? We fine people for littering even though there are also murders.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
But a lot younger that a lot of other mountains (though not the Alps, Rockies, Himalayas, or Andes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orogenies
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I think they mean the temperature spiking to 50C, instead of ~40C, in the summer.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> It was only because Nixon didn't like the fact that kids were not going to war, that the war on drugs was started. Was it this or that he saw asserting dominance over youth culture as a political winner? Judging from the present m
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by DFHippie 4y ago
This is true, but the hatred Obama faced generally revolved around a belief that he was effectively foreign if a legal citizen and, moreover, a citizen by birth. He wasn't a "real American" -- these were the words used by Sar
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I believe what you want to be is a small member of a large species. Large dogs live much shorter lives than small dogs. Women tend to live longer than men (height or mass probably isn't the only factor here, but this fits the general p
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The problem with saying institution X is "not as a source of information, but as an instrument of the establishment to influence and control" is that most people who say this do believe some institutions. The ones that tell them
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Fine, in some cases the bad guy with a gun hasn't shot someone. In some cases the guy with a knife or brick has injured someone. What is the balance? It is easier to shoot someone than it is to stab them or brick them. If you succeed,
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The bad guy with a gun has already shot someone. The good guy can put an end to the violence in some cases, but almost never before the bad guy has harmed someone. In societies where guns aren't ubiquitous it's the bad guy with a
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The "good guy with a gun" theory is that having everyone armed will prevent violence because the murderers will fear lethal punishment. Evidence shows this to be false. Many murderers either are not thinking that far ahead or are
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I should say rather that I have an understanding of the "good guy with a gun" theory, but it is that it is a public excuse which sounds better than other motivations. It sounds better than "I just like guns" or "I l
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by DFHippie 4y ago
As an American I've never understood the "good guy with a gun" theory either. Murderers do not generally announce their intent and instances of violence being prevented , as opposed to eventually brought to an end, by other
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> I for one am happy that unelected bureaucrats (who the voters have no way to get rid of) now have less power, and that politicians who can be held accountable now have to act explicitly to make big changes. Again, working as designed.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> if the Congress wants EPA to regulate emissions the way they tried to do, all it needs to do is to pass a law explicitly instructing it to do so. Of course, it won’t, because there is no political will in Congress to pass this. This do
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by DFHippie 4y ago
This happened to my mother-in-law. She was and remains extremely poor. Her mother died and left her the family home, the most valuable piece of which was a large black walnut tree. Her brother cut down the tree and sold it without permissio
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by DFHippie 4y ago
It went this way in the US because the unique racial politics here. I've been listening to a podcast which touches on this: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095625161/coming-soon-code-s...
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by DFHippie 4y ago
This was just limiting it to this century, though. The pattern is well established and well understood. It isn't even very complicated. Each state has 2 senators and at least one representative. The number of electoral votes of a state
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Connecting with others in civil ways is great. The two sides are not equivalent, though. "Batshit" left opinion: people should be able to require others to address them with novel pronouns. "Batshit" right opinion: liber
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Judging from the logo, it's named after both the country Wales and the application framework Rails. Awesome logo.
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My reaction was also along these lines. They might be better called "domestic violence ballads". Perhaps the focus is on the perspective of the man because he's the one left alive in the end to lament his fate.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> The guys had tried each design available to make a pincer robot. You can find dozens of species populating each sea bottom from beaches to abyss and each freshwater body of water or marsh. This is a linguistic observation and com
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Imagine you are made one of the politicians in the waffling party. Say you find the politician whose stated preferences most closely match your own. They step down. You take their place. What will you do now to ensure the wafflers stop waff
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Really it's both. The leaders find stories the voters respond to, which gives them power. The leaders find and exploit a flaw in the voters which the voters are happy to expose. The leaders should speak truth and act in the common inte
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by DFHippie 4y ago
A meta-observation: the logic underpinning bothsiderism or whataboutism, correct or incorrect, is that everyone is equally evil and there is no sincere goodness, so any attempt to punish a particular evil is itself evil and insincere. By it
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> if a narcissist executive gets hired, it might because he/she has other advantages over other less-narcissist candidates If not they'll still claim they do.

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