DFHippie

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by DFHippie 6y ago
Start here and follow the links: https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I am sure you have firm beliefs about many things that you have not read papers about. You trust the field that studies these things is not full of charlatans. If the reason to believe proposition P is that the experts who study this thing
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by DFHippie 6y ago
When Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd that was a failure on Floyd's part, right? He was a citizen of the democracy and citizens are responsible for what is done in their name. Boy Navalny sure did screw up when his Russian democracy
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by DFHippie 6y ago
We don't need to unscramble China's eggs. We need to get them to stop scrambling. The people are still alive, most of them, that are being wronged. We're not talking about 1492.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I don't think your mental model of the behavior of "social justice warriors" is accurate. Do you really think the people you demonize for expressing sympathy for people outside their own tribe are silent in these cases and th
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Yes, I thought about that. "My neighbor of the same religion and complexion won a Nobel! I'm so smart!" Everyone is happy to put a finger on the scale for their own benefit. But this is different from everyone in the West ben
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Aside: Most Americans who voted voted against Bush in 2000, and he would have lost the election altogether if the votes in Florida had been properly tallied. Most Americans who voted voted against Trump in 2016. Trump might win in November
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> on what basis does the West have any moral authority to judge China's emulation of Western colonialism This is a counsel of despair and it is pure tribalism. No one in the West can condemn the actions of China the nation because t
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by DFHippie 6y ago
The problem isn't collectivism but tribalism. The Han majority in this case don't extend their sympathy to the Uighurs or the Tibetans or the Mongols. The self-described Aryans didn't extend their sympathy to the Jews or the
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> As long as Trump is president So until January 21st.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
As it says in the article, there are problems with hunting: pigs are smart and become nocturnal to avoid hunters, making them more difficult to track; also because they are smart, pigs start traveling when they find they are being hunted an
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> The market is widely regarded as the best way to find exactly these solutions The market necessarily only optimizes internalized costs. The market will happily sell you things that burden the lives of people who have no say in the tran
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> But unregistered voters and those seeking to update addresses or request absentee ballots in time for the Nov. 3 election are currently unable to access the portal until Wednesday, Sept. 23 at midnight, according to a statement on the
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> You simply cannot make broad sweeping changes across the country to something like an election. It's controlled by every state individually. You can even see this in mail-in balloting where some states allow it, some don't, t
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> To anyone saying "no maintenance takes a day", I guarantee you it can. This could easily be a database server that is being replaced. It needs to be set up and the database copied over. Not everyone runs EC2 instances. In the
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I think most people, in both the 40% and the 60%, avoid involving themselves in or thinking about politics as much as possible. They are conflict avoidant. They just want to get along and their approach to unpleasant truths is to think abou
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by DFHippie 6y ago
You should compare the antifa vs. fa fatality count sometime. It would put the "both sides are equally violent" hypothesis into some perspective. Or guns and ammo count.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
But what is bipartisan about this particular effort? It's popular to decry corruption and then, in the same breath, say everyone is corrupt so best just lie back and take it.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
This comment presupposes that we know more about consciousness and what beings are conscious than I think is justified. Also what beings are capable of rationalizations.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
It's the Pringles brand, though: "once you pop you just can't stop" or something like that. They've built this story around the sound of the lid popping off.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
A large percentage of this food waste is perishable or unwanted stuff in the store. Produce gets ugly and, though it's still usable, nobody picks it over the fresher stuff. Milk gets close to its sell-by date and people pick fresher st
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Off topic, but Emma Southon probably goes by "she".
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Things that increase the risk of infection: - spreader lacks mask - infectee lacks mask - indoors - spreader speaks - length of time spreader and infectee spend in contact The speaking part is a wash -- plenty of speaking at both protests a
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Yep. I went to only one BLM protest, but everyone was very conscientious about mask wearing.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Also, there was an effective labor movement in the US which could equalize the negotiating positions of management and labor. I saw this just today: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/09/the-demise-of
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I don't think your explanations are really in conflict. His point is that cowardice keeps third parties from intervening and then ego defense in the face of their own cowardice gets them to denigrate the victim. Yours is that it's
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by DFHippie 6y ago
It was a joke.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I think being good at test taking correlates with perfectionism. The ones who test well but then stick to speakers of their native language may simply be perfectionists who are horrified at being seen as stupid when their English isn't
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I've always been embarrassed that spelling bees are a thing in English. It's interesting that you can see the etymology of a word in its spelling, but horrific spelling sure is a barrier to literacy. How do you pronounce "lou
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by DFHippie 6y ago
That's the single distinctive past subjunctive form I alluded to. I say "if I were rich" myself, but I'm used to hearing the other.

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