DFHippie

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by DFHippie 2y ago
This doesn't seem like a terribly relevant metric. See for example this critique: https://jabberwocking.com/elon-musk-knows-nothing-about-gove... It is impossible to cut government expenses as much as Musk claims. It w
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by DFHippie 2y ago
> Simons shunned the limelight and rarely gave interviews, citing Benjamin the Donkey in Animal Farm for explanation: "'God gave me a tail to keep off the flies. But I'd rather have had no tail and no flies.' That&#x2
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by DFHippie 2y ago
The usage of the word "slur" in question -- it has to be this if it's on a list one can learn from DEI consultants -- is a derogatory or insulting term applied to a particular group of people. It is inherent in the t
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by DFHippie 2y ago
I'm not the author, but there are a lot of motivations one could have. The less people are constrained by stereotypes and hostility, the more they can do what they want to do, the more likely they are to be able to make a living, the l
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by DFHippie 2y ago
"Cisgender" is a slur the same way "male", "heterosexual", and "white" are (I am all three; four, including cisgender). In other words, it is not a slur.
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Yeah, I went to Catoctin, as I'm sure you inferred.
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by DFHippie 2y ago
If you believe false things, you are a low-information voter. And if someone doesn't believe the lies you believe, they will disagree with you. Vundercind's point from the beginning was that problem isn't a difference in valu
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by DFHippie 2y ago
> erring of grievances I don't know whether this was deliberate or a typo, but it's funny and apt.
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by DFHippie 2y ago
As a US citizen, it is frustrating but not inexplicable. The vast majority of the voters who had the opportunity, patience, ability, and inclination to follow an argument like this -- the inflation spike was global and the US did better tha
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Do you live in the US? The first half of the Biden administration was hamstrung by Manchin, Sinema, and the Republicans. The Democrats had nominal control of the presidency and legislature but faced implacable resistance from the Republican
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Legislation is frequently proposed to do just this: require all employers to use E-Verify to ensure they don't hire illegal workers. The same people who are constantly firing up voters about immigration are opposed to this. The politic
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by DFHippie 2y ago
I went to a Quaker summer camp in the mountains of Maryland in my youth. Once a week everyone went out on various overnight camping trips. Dinner was always "glop". It was just a mass of nutritious stuff that could be cooked in a
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by DFHippie 2y ago
> If you can’t win without lying then it’s not really winning. I agree with this, but I don't think you've established that they're lying. In the sentence you quote we don't know whether "It sells them as much fo
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by DFHippie 2y ago
I believe a lot of that is soot from diesel exhaust. And the two-cycle motors people use to mow their lawns and blow their leaves are amazingly polluting. Some of it might be the motor oil and partially-combusted gasoline they spew out. I&#
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by DFHippie 2y ago
I don't think anyone things anti-oxidants in tires are natural healing magic, so brains are unlikely to be blown.
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Maybe you should get that hand x-rayed. Is it particularly bendy?
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by DFHippie 2y ago
If mass/energy were interconvertible with space, if the former were some curled form of the latter, could you explain dark energy as the uncurling of mass/energy into ordinary space?
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by DFHippie 2y ago
I feel that people who study animal intelligence started with the dictum "don't assume similarity to humans" and immediately interpreted it as "assume dissimilarity to humans".
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by DFHippie 2y ago
> The decline in crime since the early 1990s is actually a major area of study for criminologists, because there is no easy explanation for it. All categories have decline, however they are measured, and in 30 years the field has not com
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by DFHippie 2y ago
That same article says Griffiths, the founder of National Milk Bars in Wales, got the idea when he saw them in a trip to London, and that they were an idea imported from the United States, so it must go back farther still.
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by DFHippie 2y ago
A comma would fix things.
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by DFHippie 2y ago
"Everyone does it" translates to "I don't think I will suffer consequences from doing it". It's a justification based on self-interest, not ethics. It looks like they are applying a version of Kant's Categ
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Yes, and the more you convince people that everyone is equally bad, the more you empower bad actors. If there is no profit in being good and there is profit in being bad, being good is for suckers. If everyone's a thief, you'd bet
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Actually, most people have multiple motivations for working in their field. Nursery school teachers like kids. They also like getting paid. Most doctors like the status their job confers and helping people in need. They also like getting pa
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Well, it wasn't presented to us like that. He asked, "Do you want it?" Implying we could say no. We looked at each other, shrugged, and said, "Okay." It was very sweet until we got the bill. We had two kids more aft
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by DFHippie 2y ago
When our first child was born (a long, traumatic story in itself), after the ordeal was over and we were resting in the hospital, a nice fellow came by and asked whether we wanted to test our baby's hearing. Sure? No mention was made o
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by DFHippie 2y ago
I'm with you. I think you should have to pay extra for containers and utensils. Make it a deposit and suddenly single-use plastic is multi-use. Or, as you say, let people provide their own container. In any case, if you charge people f
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by DFHippie 2y ago
If we all had one nipple, we would have had to have evolved from a species with an even number nipples, which likely means one nipple migrating to the center like a founder's eyes. All of those things we have one of we've had one
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by DFHippie 2y ago
> Very few restaurants want to pay a premium for the deluxe eco groovy stuff, in my experience (as a customer only, but one who frequents such stores). They're almost like a lifestyle / branding thing to go along with organic &
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by DFHippie 2y ago
This is basically what we have now and there is an enormous and growing pollution problem due to the non-degrading plastic. If we could get people to dispose of their waste in a landfill always and forever, this might work, but in practice

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