DFHippie

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by DFHippie 6y ago
I want to upvote this some more.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Yes, there are many more motivations to donate anonymously than this theory covers: - religious prescription - sincere support for a cause (a motivation other than one's own reputation) - a desire to prove one's morality in one&#x
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Don't eat fish or things that eat fish is a likely candidate.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
CNN? Maybe you're thinking of NPR or VOA? Also, throwing all news sources affiliated with a national government into the same basket is like throwing all the media, or all of humanity, into the same basket. Obviously they are not all t
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I'm being a little sloppy in my language as well. Since words and phrases necessarily occur in sequence, if you are speaking of things can be and typically are in sequence, it is natural to infer that the speaker is presenting them in
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I would say that in every case there is a set of things (maybe with a single member) and a set of predicates (maybe with a single member), a mapping from the things to the predicates, and every mapping produces a true proposition. "Wom
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> And it's impossible to not be critical of the left, when it is mostly the left that is to blame. QED
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by DFHippie 6y ago
The point isn't that "liberal" is a dirty word. It's that when you throw all those things together it sounds not like a dispassionate description of reality but propaganda meant to motivate action against domestic politi
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Why it does not sound apolitical to some: * not exactly amenable to liberal democracy * the pro-leniency movement * has gone too far, * all across liberal cities * it's become a free-for-all * absolutely devastating all parties involve
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by DFHippie 6y ago
>That depends, sure you can point to examples where the Union did improve peoples lives But then i can also point to examples where they did not, where they ended up driving business out, bankrupting people The answer to this is not airy
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by DFHippie 6y ago
It's a little swamped with tourists and tour buses, though. If you want a place less overwhelmed with queues and cameras I suggest Avebury.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
And there are plenty of women who find this custom distasteful. Some women want a wedding which displays opulence and in which they are treated like a princess. Others want one which more implies the equality of the wedding partners in resp
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by DFHippie 6y ago
There are a lot of Republican appointees because the Republicans have been playing political hardball with judicial nominations for decades. The Democrats eliminated judicial filibusters because Republicans were attempting to prevent Obama
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Further tragedy: the two men accused of his murder admitted in 1956 that they'd done it but since they'd already been acquitted they were immune from further prosecution.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
According to Wikipedia she was 21. Emmett Till was 14. Also, the evidence that she recanted is shaky. She was 72 in 2008 when this allegedly happened. If she recanted in the presence of the interviewer, it wasn't on tape and she hasn&#
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Butterflies do glide sometimes.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> The very idea that we need to suppress ideas for fear that the ignorant masses may be exposed to them is a fatuous, aspirational elitism that is the very reason the platforms have become stagnant. There are ideas and then there are lie
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I suspect they do this to stem the use of abandoned accounts by bad actors. Emphasis on "suspect" because I don't have a Twitter account or look at tweets unless someone else links to them, and then invariably I still can&#x2
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Odds are he was neither the Nazi of his Hawke persona nor the progressive vegan of his Jesse James persona but a psychopath who enjoyed messing with people and found claiming these identities useful to that end.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> Second, even those who master those "subtle social cues" (which have the important feature of plausible deniability) For people who pick up on these cues the point isn't plausible deniability but quick, effortless commun
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by DFHippie 6y ago
If even this is politically unachievable, how do you imagine we are going to achieve an agreement with greater impact?
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> As standards of living raise people find pollution is negatively affecting them and so they solve the problem locally. This works if the problem is local and bothersome to the locals -- rusting drums leaking poison or heaps of trash. C
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by DFHippie 6y ago
When China bids to manufacture something for the world market, a variety of things go into the price they can bid: labor, shipping, materials, and pollution, chiefly (there is also research, facilities maintenance, etc). The main factors wh
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by DFHippie 6y ago
If it causes you to act in accordance with the false belief in ways that threaten someone's safety. For instance, you might shoot up Comet Pizza.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> I cannot help but note that I do not think they would end up as the winners of any revolution. This. In our current fascist versus antifa moment I hear leftists scorn anyone who wants less than a revolution. I ask them "Who hoards
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I think that's a translation of a passage by Honoré de Balzac: "Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait."
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> The only argument where this holds water is with executive elections (president, governor) If you concede this point then I don't think there's much more to argue about. Nobody argues about the many third parties in the US th
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by DFHippie 6y ago
It doesn't work here because we don't have a parliamentary system of government. That is, our executive is chosen separately from the legislature, so in that contest, the presidential contest, third parties act as spoilers. There&
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by DFHippie 6y ago
If they win it's hard to say this will be a result the electorate finds disappointing. The advantage for mainstream candidates is that third parties won't be spoilers, which is currently a relatively common occurrence (and why Mai
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Yes, apparently some of the people who support the global scientific consensus are rich. This is a big hit to its credibility.

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