Grustaf

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by Grustaf 4y ago
That's what I am discussing. And I'm saying that literally millions of people are waiting to adopt. Pretty sure most of them would be more than happy to pay $5k for the birth. If not, adoption agencies should be obliged to cover
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by Grustaf 4y ago
> This isn't a partisan issue It was you that said "our current government". I would have thought the Democratic party was in favour of a working welfare system, at least for small children. You adoption numbers are not re
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> So what you're saying is, only things that are born matter if you kill them? No, I'm not saying that at all, I'm saying your analogies are idiotic, since acorns don't correspond to foetuses - almost no acorns end up
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Almost no acorns would have turned into trees, so the comparison falls down. If we look at saplings, we'd be closer, and obviously killing a sapling is more or less equivalent to killing an oak tree. We don't tend to talk about &q
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So the Democratic party are strongly advocating against safety nets to prevent children from growing up in abject poverty? Because that would be "socialist"? Regardless of abortion laws, this would seem like a basic requirement fo
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> It's worth noting how taboo it is to admit that you hate your children, and thus how vastly under-reported this attitude ends up being. Then how do you know anyone feels that way? Where do you get your information? > wish they
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I'm saying "most people consider", I am not talking about legal rulings.
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Ah you got me. If we call it a foetus then killing it clearly has no moral implications. Naming makes all the difference.
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I don't know the answer, it's an honest question. Obviously having children changes your life completely, it is a huge burden and you have to "sacrifice" a lot. But almost nobody regrets it. Probably because we are hardw
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by Grustaf 4y ago
> Except that (virtually) nobody on the right truly believes that it's full fledged baby murder Why would you think that? Clearly almost everyone that is against abortion believes that, that's the whole point. Even most people
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Do you find it puzzling that some people think it's wrong to kill unborn babies? You might think it's fine, but anyone can understand that people can think it's wrong. Just like I as a meat eater can obviously understand that
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Not conceiving children is clearly not the same as killing them after conception. That said, there are plenty of people that would agree with the idea that we should have as many babies as we can. Utilitarians for example, and many traditio
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So, does she regret having the twins or do they happen to be the best thing that ever happened to her?
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People who hate whiteboard interviews are probably the same kind of people that say things like "why do we have to learn multiplication in school, I can use the calculator app." As others have pointed out, the idea is to provide a
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by Grustaf 4y ago
I personally love writing, but it seems to me that if don't want to write, no amount of tooling will change that. Hope I'm wrong.
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To quote exec1995, I made the number up for dramatic effect. https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1537137362391678976/...
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Isn't the underlying problem that developers hate writing documentation for some reason? They will spend months writing some crazy audio framework in C++ but refuse to spend even a day writing a tutorial on how to install it.
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The problem with rich people is not that they live too comfortably, but that a person like Bezos can buy an important media property and control the political narrative that millions of people are exposed to.
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That particular ratio, if true, is not the issue. Someone being one order of magnitude richer than someone else does not necessarily damage society, the problem is how much the richest 0.1% control.
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There's a pretty long jump from banning billionaires to capping monthly salaries at 500 dollars. Nobody makes billions by "earning more than you", they make it my owning companies, or funds, so this has nothing to do with sal
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How can they even have 1100 employees? That's more than the East India Company needed to run a whole subcontinent, probably.
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Some people don't watch tv during the day...
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A lot of prospective employers only really care about your abilities, so no need to really explain anything, and definitely don't be defensive about it. If you can show, through some projects you've made for example, that you can
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Putin invades Ukraine to prevent it from joining NATO, so Finland decides to apply to joining NATO. That doesn't seem to improve their national security.
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The sky high interest is its sole raison d'être
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Is it really that hard to imagine that some people genuinely enjoy being outdoors? It’s extremely popular.
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Perfect, exactly like here, thanks!
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That's depressing. But is there wild camping in Scotland then? Would be amazing.
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I did, it's the first paragraph. > lots of people enjoy being in more or less wild nature > camping [is] about self-sufficiency and simplicity
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Tents feel more like a house, you're sort of indoors. Plus it holds itself up, so easier to set up than a tarp, unless you just use the tarp as a blanket. I tried that, in the rain, not recommended at all.

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