Frondo

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by Frondo 8y ago
I dunno, I'm trying to square "political beliefs that are [...] above some group-politics that sees some groups oppressing others" with, well, okay, I have two close friends who are trans, and one of them lives in one of thos
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by Frondo 8y ago
What's amazing to me is how many people are so quick to dismiss the kind of poverty we have in the U.S., just because people in the poorest developing nations have it worse off. Why this status quo is one anyone would want to defend
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by Frondo 8y ago
Yes, probably most people are materialistic, low IQ, and shallow. You're probably no different, and I don't mean that as an insult -- just that you're human, too, like all of us. Welcome to the club.
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by Frondo 8y ago
Like I said the last time this subject came up, fine. That's totally fine. I don't care which incumbents will be okay in a world with better laws around privacy. I want better laws around privacy. If your startup to unseat Sales
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by Frondo 8y ago
I wonder how many minutes it'd take for cash to manage 300 million transactions.
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by Frondo 8y ago
I don't really care about making their licensing regimes exactly the same. I just want people who love their guns to start paying back the rest of us for the externalities of living in a society drowning in those guns.
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by Frondo 8y ago
I am all in on licensing guns like we do cars, with mandatory tests and insurance requirements.
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by Frondo 8y ago
An ex had a grandfather who put himself through school, including dental school and the extra 3 years for a specialty in orthodontics, working a summer job. And he complains about his grandkids needing to go into debt. They don't real
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by Frondo 8y ago
Why would that experience be aspirational? Why should that be the way we want to structure society? Especially when other western nations show us that university can be free and people can have a rich college experience without that kind o
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by Frondo 8y ago
Not me, and not people I know. You do a crime, pay your debts, welcome back to society, rights and all. I also think that the second amendment can be regulated with laws just like all the rest. No one ever screams that driver's licen
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by Frondo 8y ago
What about a state senator or representative? Could your state start enacting a privacy framework, that would apply to businesses that wanted to do business in your state? Sort of like California emissions for cars.
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by Frondo 8y ago
You know what? Fine. I don't care which incumbents will be okay in a world with better laws around privacy. I want better laws around privacy. And I give less than zero shits about any startup whose business model necessitates viola
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by Frondo 8y ago
You misunderstood, maybe intentionally as a gag. I'm more worried about the constitutional rights being denied ex-cons than I am about people who want to carry guns. The people who want to carry guns are doing fine, it's the ones
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by Frondo 8y ago
Right to vote is denied to huge numbers of people who were convicted of a crime and subsequently repaid their debt to society. I'm a lot more worried about them than people who want to carry guns hidden somewhere in their clothes.
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by Frondo 8y ago
Is there any constitutional right that isn't also regulated with all manner of laws on top of it? Why would the gun one be any different?
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by Frondo 8y ago
So? States should be free to decide the terms of concealed gun carriers in their states. If you're rich enough to travel with people with hidden guns, you can get them licensed in the states you plan to visit.
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by Frondo 8y ago
You're not going to be jailed for being disrespectful (or "un-pc" if you like); but other people might not want to spend time around you anymore...
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by Frondo 9y ago
I've never seen a plausible explanation of why a health care system would work for 60 million (UK) but not for 300 million (US). Bodies are mostly the same, they break down in mostly the same ways. There isn't a lot of mystery in
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by Frondo 9y ago
Honest question: can you rephrase this? I can't tell what you're trying to say.
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by Frondo 9y ago
Paying taxes isn't getting fleeced. I can tell you feel passionately about this, but your feeling that you're being ripped off by your taxes isn't going to translate well to any sort of workable policy.
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by Frondo 9y ago
Taxation is not violent coercion by the state and it is disingenuous to describe the former as the latter.
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by Frondo 9y ago
What country is that?
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by Frondo 9y ago
It's foolish to believe that private actors can by definition ever be as efficient as the state. Private actors, by definition, must extract something from any service to pay themselves. The government has no overhead. It can run with
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by Frondo 9y ago
I feel like throw-away statements like this almost come out of a different era, like the platform Reagan ran on, "government isn't the solution, it's the problem" or whatever. They're claims that are so simply phras
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by Frondo 9y ago
Nope, I want a thing that Just Works. These days I use Kubuntu, but literally the only configuration thing I change is the desktop wallpaper. Everything else works how I want it out of the box. I wouldn't even know how to diagnose shi
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by Frondo 9y ago
There is no way to predict that. It's all guessing.
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by Frondo 9y ago
There is no way to predict what would happen in a world with health insurance suddenly removed. This seems like a nonsequitor.
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by Frondo 9y ago
The government. I don't trust the market to create a humane, compassionate system. I don't even trust the market to create an efficient system. I trust the market to be adjusted by the wealthy to further enrich themselves. I al
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by Frondo 9y ago
Agreed, 100%, on live and let live. I'll never force anyone to get a phone, smartphone, use texts, or whatever, but for the people who are that disconnected, well, they add a friction to social interaction that ends up excluding them.
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by Frondo 9y ago
From personal experience, from a social circle that spans a wide variety of types of people, the venn diagram of "people who are Into Guns" and "people who can effectively hunt their own food" has no overlap. My friends

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