GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 5y ago
That depends on jurisdiction. In the U.S. there are plenty of sites that opt you in, and either allow you to reject or don't but link to their privacy policy (which then might say "we don't care about your privacy").
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Then how did you reject the cookies?
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Yes, that is precisely the hallmark I was pointing out: when you were right, that proved your conclusion. But when you were wrong, that provided even more certainty . That "logic" is irrational.
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No, that's the thing about conspiracy theorists: every time a factual claim they made is demonstrably wrong, they claim it "reinforces their conclusion."
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Fauci was not put in charge of the response in the U.S. Rather, Mike Pence was, with Deborah Birx as task force chair. And of course Robert Redfield, the CDC director, was indeed on the task force. You're confusing who had the best com
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I think you're redefining things. Since no amount of contrition abates the condemnation, there is an absence of forgiveness. Powerlessness doesn't abate the condemnation either, after all. Instead, these people who refuse to for
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
ITT: people insist that a term of art is objectively wrong because it doesn't match their subjective lay sensibilities. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/term_of_art
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You do realize at the very least that different academic fields have developed different lingo, and that words therefore mean different things in different settings?
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
The context is important: > Or, of course, if I’m in a more socially conscious liberal arts form of my default setting, I can spend time There was no applause at the previous example: > And who are all these people in my way? And look
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Or, in keeping with the content: did you consider that you might have misunderstood? Personally I took it the same way some other commenters did: the audience is plenty well educated to understand his point, but they were cheering the mas
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Good lord. I'm arguing for charitable reading because the quality of public discourse has gotten so bad/ un charitable that you're here accusing me of a serious bias, and for what? Pointing out a legitimate alternative readin
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Were any of the individual Pullman marches larger than the Blair Mountain one? Since you would expect the Smithsonian to have a good grasp of history, a charitable reading would imagine a reason that they would say "largest" eve
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
They do a pretty bad job of it if it's planned. My '12 MacBook Air works great (aside from needing a new battery) and I can still boot plenty of even older Macs, going back to a Quadra.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
It's how the world has always worked, which is why it's a phrase in the first place.
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The idea that abusers "cannot navigate masculine environments well" is absurd, ignores the fact that much abuse has taken place in masculine environments throughout history, and imagines that abusers somehow give themselves away b
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Theoretically not; IQ is ostensibly a statistical distribution, so it applies regardless of population size.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
You should read the opinion. Ruling otherwise would essentially eliminate obvious jokes from advertising, and the opinion makes a good case for just how obvious the joke was.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
What really needs support is political change. That might be on an individual candidate level, or on a meta level (e.g. voting against politicians who will gerrymander). Personally I don't think it's worth the energy trying to opt
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
No, it was your assumption that earthquakes are the only thing that Haiti needs a break from.
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Crows, not cows.
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I didn't read the comment as saying anyone needed to be . It was asking whether certain parties would be.
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It's a still-active city, not an archeological site where everything has been in stasis. Why would you assume everything there is 2,000 years old?
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
People now want cars because of the nature of the city. Something can be both a cause and an effect at different points in time. The general pattern is called a feedback loop.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
I was biking along Apache within the last 18 months. Apache itself still isn't [/wasn't] especially bike-friendly. McClintock is worse, and Price is even worse.
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Having lived down the street from this site, I'm also skeptical. Tempe has some bike infrastructure, but the high temperatures four months of the year and the spread-out nature of the larger Phoenix metro makes a car a priority for mos
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I consider all my priors, not just a single one about the source.
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Do you actually have reason to doubt it here? Because cynical skepticism isn't a helpful alternative to genuinely doing our best to understand and correcting course when better data is available.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Ok, I partially stand corrected and partially renew my objection. The word "blended" on its own does not mean malt + grain, and leading off an explanation of scotch categorization with that definition is confusing. "Blended&q
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Blended doesn't mean malt + grain. Blended means producer + other producer. That's why, as you said, blended malt means malt spirits combined from multiple distilleries.
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by GavinMcG 5y ago
Bellyaching is an oddly dismissive term. "The system" is what had workers move a dead co-worker and then "put in another co-worker to keep the line going” at a Frito-Lay plant.[0] Yeah, I'm bellyaching . [0] https:&#x

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