GameOfFrowns

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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
> This doesn't say where the money comes from. Taxing the middle class.
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
I like the general idea of UBI but I don't see it work without price fixing which is often the first step in an economical downward spiral. Also I don't understand how any low-trust society like ours would survive the transition p
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
This only works if you have friends to begin with. I'm a perpetual loner and the few people that I attract are usually loners too.
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
>To find interesting people one must be interested in them first. To which I'd like to add: it wouldn't hurt to also become interesting yourself by expanding your horizon: learn a new language, travel more, learn how to cook or
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
>Considering a person's criminal record is not the same as considering their moral character. Although some might argue that there was a certain correlation between the two. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-co
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
Sorry, I have no source and also I think the actual quote goes something like this (I just tried to follow the template from the parent comment): "If art gets involved with politics, it stops being art and becomes propaganda." I t
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
The accusation is that Hunter Biden was merely the proxy to buy Joe Biden. >That's certainly not something that has been happening for the last half decade... So, then what's keeping the 'liberal' media from reporting
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
In the same vein: "If you mix art and politics, you get propaganda"
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
>I think they are mostly journalists that couldn't get hired on at a major newspaper. Brutal.
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
According to the CDC the side effects of receiving the meningitis vaccine[0] include: - redness where the shot was given - soreness where the shot was given - muscle pain - headache - feeling tired [0] https://www.cdc.gov/vac
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
>If you do get a reaction, well you probably would’ve gotten at least as severe reaction from covid anyways. What's the logic behind this? Following a natural infection there would be a slow ramp-up in the presence of the virus and
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
>Then again, as noob I suspect there may be very simple reason why this isn't implemented. Not everyone has two hands or all fingers for a good grip? I have made the interesting observation that on very cold days my fingers are some
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
This only works if your peers aren't following the same strategy of maximizing potential otherwise they would just cut you out for being the least successful friend.
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
>where it thinks you are a bot/sucker and gives you unlimited images until you give up. I frequently get these from Cloudflare when using Tor Browser. Google is basically unusable with Tor Browser.
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
Does it also offer frequent name-dropping of the author's celebrity friends and personal stories which can be best explained by 'survivorship bias'?
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
This is hilarious and depressing at the same time since, having turned 40 recently, I still hope to start a first career in software development in the near future.
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
I think Alan Watts stated something similar in one of his famous speeches. The question is if the value of that experience is the same if it's "unearned" by taking the easy path or if it's better to experience profoundne
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
>Perhaps occam's razor applies. Which means what exactly within this context?
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
I think that attacking the electronic component leaves behind less evidence of tampering with the device.
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
>Exactly, these devices are meant for personal use. Why would you want to fiddle with the results? My experience has been that you can at least get a day off depending on your organisation's policy or until you receive a negative re
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
>I'm jealous of the people of Chile to be able to look at their country and see hope. Just like the Venezuelans before them did. Those are not cheering anymore for their Bolivarian revolution.
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
Then let me throw my own anecdote out there. I got covid in the second wave before the vaccines were available, recovered quickly within 3 days without any medication or hospitalisation. I mysteriously developed long-covid symptoms and hear
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by GameOfFrowns 5y ago
>doesn’t necessarily bode well for the six monthly booster subscription necessary in absence of airborne transmission interrupting NPIs. Especially considering that the current booster shots are proven to be quite ineffective against the