Grim-444

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by Grim-444 4y ago
Their entire argument is that the federal government has no business mandating whether abortions should be legal or not and that it should be left up to the states. You think that the very same people making this argument are then going to
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by Grim-444 4y ago
I'd love to see new car manufacturers doing new things and appealing to different segments of the market, but I imagine there's so much barrier to entry, so many regulations to adhere to, that as a new car manufacturer it'd b
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by Grim-444 4y ago
To clarify, you think that the "low-information voter" would benefit from having less information?
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by Grim-444 4y ago
Tangentially related to the, as usual, insanely biased/political Vox pure propaganda piece, it's kind of interesting to note how fast society went from "there's no war on cars, you stupid conspiracy theorist" to jus
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by Grim-444 4y ago
The author comes across as the extremely echo-chambered, brainwashed, close-minded person she herself is afraid of. I couldn't invent a more on brand characterization of person with a heavily biased/politicized/skewed worldvi
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by Grim-444 4y ago
This type of article is itself the death of democracy for me. I've been trying to put it into words in a way that won't get me utterly downvoted by the same ideologues that consume such content, and I'm not really sure how. M
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by Grim-444 4y ago
You're creating a false dichotomy that either we're staying on earth or trying to colonize mars, ignoring other options such as having a more capable presence in orbit for doing things like asteroid mining, which would supply the
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by Grim-444 4y ago
Is there any link to the study/data backing up these claims? I spent a while googling and trying to find it myself and all I found was a bunch of copy+paste articles all giving the same summary.
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by Grim-444 4y ago
I'm pretty convinced RN is only really a thing because it gives PMs/managers some good promo material about how they lead a team to "switching to a shared cross-platform codebase". They then end up using that to switch j
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by Grim-444 4y ago
Has Vox ever once published a single article that was positive or at least neutral about Amazon? Why do we allow such insanely biased media? Do people read Vox and think they're receiving an accurate depiction of reality? It's jus
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by Grim-444 4y ago
I'd suggest maybe just the nature of organizations becoming more corrupt over time. When an org is younger more of its focus is still put towards the task it was originally created to perform, but the longer they exist the more bureauc
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by Grim-444 4y ago
It's pretty ironic that an article that decries the rise of polarization, using the term "polarization" 18 separate times, ends up being basically just a checklist of one-sided ideological complaints about the other side.
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by Grim-444 4y ago
Isn't that how it's supposed to work? The state is supposed to pass laws that represent the will of its constituents. If the majority of the people living in the state are opposed to such a program, then they shouldn't have s
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by Grim-444 4y ago
I'm always confused at how there's such a seemingly large mismatch between on one hand people trivially dismissing the gold standard as a joke and on the other the fact that the gold standard seemingly worked well enough for this
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by Grim-444 4y ago
But you're taking transactions off of the base currency, so it no longer matters what the properties of the base currency are.
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by Grim-444 4y ago
Similarly, if your political ideology gets their way, it's a "success of democracy", while if anyone else's ideas get traction, it's the "end of democracy". When, ironically, that very thought pattern is i
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by Grim-444 4y ago
I'm not sure I could write an article riddled with more political/ideological slant if I tried.
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by Grim-444 4y ago
While that's true, I'd argue that the majority of the population isn't informed/intelligent enough to know the difference, which in my mind is the issue. Most will read an opinion piece and go off and parrot its contents
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by Grim-444 4y ago
You're assuming a) that they're shoplifting items needed to survive, and b) that there were no other, legal, sources of the items they needed (food banks, ebt, welfare, etc.) that they could have chosen to make use of instead. Of
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by Grim-444 4y ago
You're implying most "working class retail job" people got into crypto as an inflation hedge and not because of the non-stop in your face FOMO propaganda about how rich they could get? And that no inflation hedges existed for
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by Grim-444 4y ago
Do you believe that automobile based architecture never worked, or that it worked before but no longer works? How could it ever work if we refuse to invest in the infrastructure to make it work?
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by Grim-444 4y ago
There's more use cases for vehicles than driving around a major city, I use my vehicle as more than a grocery fetcher. I routinely drive hundreds of miles, I'm routinely in remote areas, I really value freedom of movement. At the
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by Grim-444 4y ago
Interestingly there's what I perceive as a large percentage of people that would argue that NPR is overall very unbiased. One thought experiment I would propose for those people is that if you find yourself overwhelmingly agreeing with
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by Grim-444 4y ago
This is a weird argument to make. The rational thing is to make different decisions in different scenarios. The choices I would make for how/whether to participate in society, whether to take a vaccine, etc., would vary greatly dependi
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by Grim-444 4y ago
The article presents two graphs of arguably manipulated/unreliable CPI rates, and that's somehow being using as evidence for whether crises are larger or smaller? The article from the beginning uses obviously incredibly biased lan
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by Grim-444 4y ago
Not to sound sarcastic/mean here, just my way of thinking - If four days a week is better than five, why not three? Why stop there, why not two days a week? Wouldn't the metrics show that workers are "happier" only worki
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by Grim-444 4y ago
I recently started intentionally leaving my phone behind precisely to get those uncomfortable feelings back again, albeit to some controlled degree. I enjoy having to problem solve, I enjoy navigating novel situations, I enjoy feeling real
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by Grim-444 4y ago
The crux of the study seems to be that while, yes, conservatives were definitively censored more often, that it was "deserved" because they were spreading misinformation. However, how the study defined "misinformation" w
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by Grim-444 5y ago
Could someone recommend me good alternatives? I'll be moving all of my domains. I will never support any business that decides to go political and start deplatforming/censoring, whether I agree with their views or not.
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by Grim-444 5y ago
It's definitely an interesting place where we're at. I personally no longer believe anything mass media says, I lost all faith in them a number of years ago. They no longer have the ability to influence me, whether for better or f

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