DuskStar

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by DuskStar 7y ago
Thank you for providing elaboration here!
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And that does change things!
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> All a puberty blocker does is delay the onset of puberty. They're part of the medical standard of care, and have no permanent effects that require reversal; their effects end as soon as they're taken. If that's true, the
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Except that the horrible in question - giving puberty blockers and other transgender treatments to children - is already happening, and I think I remember a case in Canada where that was done despite the wishes of the parents.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
How many people does hurting the US economy kill? What about raising ticket prices, making more people drive instead of fly? There is a trade-off to be made here, and it's not just between money and lives - it's also between the
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I'm not sure if those fuel savings would be worth getting rid of the integrated pre-takeoff engine thrust test, though.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The "higher moral principle of fundamental liberty" is choosing the more free/less restrictive path even when that leads to worse outcomes . That's literally the idea behind the entire liberty vs freedom discussion -
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Sure, but that might be the difference between 2 years and 30. "Inevitable either way" doesn't mean that the needle stands still.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Australian feminism might be more than a little separated from American feminism, then.
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It depends on if you view freedom of speech as a literal "you won't be beaten up for saying things in public" or as a more general thing like "people should be able to communicate with others, and restrictions on how the
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by DuskStar 7y ago
You seem to be confusing the first amendment with free speech as a concept, but that's depressingly common. Free speech is the natural right to communication; the first amendment is the US government's recognition of that right. A
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Personal revenge for outing him as gay while he was physically in Saudi Arabia, IIRC. Which I'd consider to be only half a step down from a murder attempt if it happened to me. (Of course, I'm not a billionaire, so there's a
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by DuskStar 7y ago
"Don't vote for $candidate", "$candidate is bad" and "$other_candidate isn't as bad as you think" are all fundamental parts of free speech. How could they be otherwise?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
There are two ways to reduce suicide - reduce the reasons to commit suicide, and increase the difficulty of committing suicide. As someone who views suicide as a bad choice - possibly the worst choice someone can make - I think the overall
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Why would there be less guns on the street? Aren't the vast majority of those illegally obtained anyways? IMO the more likely response would be that all the guns that were previously stolen/criminally obtained legal guns would bec
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> You haven't seen me anywhere advocate that we ban anything, let alone a particular semi-automatic weapon by name; in fact, the root of this long subthread is a comment from me saying the exact opposite thing > I stated my polic
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> If you have a forward grip but don't have the tax stamp, you'll go to prison. Incidentally, I'm pretty sure this applies even if the grip isn't attached, or is attached to another gun. All depends on how friendly th
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Which gun ownership stats are you using for Europe? IIRC there's a ton of unregistered literally military guns lying around over there from the various wars. Guns don't go bad, after all. (And if you count things like the Holo
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Do you have a description of how you made your own security and what it provides?
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That's still a decade, though - far better than the three years for a Chromebook or Pixel
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You can make helium with fission, too - in fact that's where almost all of the helium on Earth comes from. Alpha radiation is just a helium nucleus, after all!
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I'm pretty sure the thing that changed was that he was allowed to sell...
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Boeing doesn’t get to take credit for all the advances in air safety in the past 40 years. No, but they can certainly take credit for some of those advances.
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The HF bit lets prices be adjusted faster, which means bid-ask spreads can be narrower. That's the theory, anyways.
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> But software is, what, less than a century old? What possible evolutionary differences could have risen in that time frame? But guns are, what, less than a millennia old? What possible evolutionary differences could have arisen in that
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> If the slight stick movement the pilot is accustomed to to bring the elevation down 2-3* fails to do so This is completely unrelated to MCAS, though? Since the goal of MCAS wasn't "bring the nose down" but instead "
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Not that I'm aware - Science Technology Engineering Math is the definition of STEM I see most frequently. I'd consider Medicine to be heavily STEM adjacent , particularly in the US where most doctors get a bachelors in a STEM fie
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The problem I always have with this argument is "Why not medicine? Why not Law?" Why is it that two professions that you'd naively expect to be just as sexist, if not far more sexist than STEM (Higher status, more of an &qu
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by DuskStar 7y ago
What are you saying it leaves out? From my reading of the article the only obvious other cause would be that countries with lower gender equality also tend to have worse social support systems, which would allow people to pursue their desir
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Yeah, by the same logic you can't blame sexism or racism for any differences in outcomes, since there's no control group there either.

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