ImSkeptical

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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I think progressive taxes are fine, my point was that the rich are paying their fair share.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I agree that rich benefit more from the status quo than the poor. That's part of why I'm not bothered by the fact that the rich pay a disproportionate (mathematically speaking only) share of the taxes. Plus, a rich person can gi
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I don't think either of those are a problem. The problem is that we need more healthcare, more jobs, better jobs, healthier food for the poor, better education, etc. If we have to tax the hardworking doctors, or take more or even mos
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
If you look at all federal taxes, as this analysis of CBO numbers does [1], then it seems that the top 1% take 18% of income and pay 28% of all federal taxes. So, you are right that the portion of all federal taxes is not as great as I mad
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
In the United States people making 250k plus, ~the one percent, pay ~54% of the income tax [1]. Poor people, approximately the bottom third, pay nothing in income tax. I too want poor people to earn and have more money but it doesn't
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Agreed, it would still be a tough task to complete.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
That will be a brutal task, knowing that doing it ensures your colleague will get tortured and be unable to stop the torture by giving up the bitcoins. Still, probably for the best.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
There are many restaurants that aren't stalking you on social media to figure out what foods you dislike.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I think a warehouse of alien artifacts is stranger than cheerleader uniforms.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I intended my comment to be on the topic of the thread I replied to, and not the subject of the article. I meant that I don't really understand when you can and can't discriminate based on things.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Why wouldn't they just have a blue check for "identity verified" and a green check for "Valued Community Member". Give your racists, weirdos, trolls, etc the blue check and no perks if you can identify them, and rep
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I've never really understood this. Some restaurants, or clothing stores, have wait staff that are all women. In a massage place you can pick the gender of your masseuse - so surely a massage place that was already well staffed with one
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I believe the "super" in "super hero" refers to super powers, which Jones lacks. Also, vigilantes typically break the law, whereas Jones does not. In the videos I've seen, Jones is usually taking advantage of Washin
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
One line from the discussion section of this paper seemed to capture the essence of the concern: >Although Japan's rate of homicide is low compared to many other advanced countries, Japan's rate of unexpected deaths including
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I don't believe we are discussing the fact of women's equality, but the attitudes towards it. You wrote: >The OP said women were perceived as property. It doesn't take all men to believe that, it just takes most men. And
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
As I've replied in a previous comment, in the US, 91% of people view equal rights between genders as "very important" (source below). How does that fit with your implied belief that most people perceive women as property? Ar
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
What you've shown is that not all swaps are valid, but you haven't shown that this particular swap is invalid. The point of swapping the words is to illustrate that generalizing about people based on their sex is sexist. I hope yo
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I think that attitude suggests you may have sub-normal acquaintances. I, for example, am not acquainted with anyone who doubts that women are people. In the US 91% of people rate gender equality (that men and women should have the same righ
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I looked up a couple of these and it seems like a normal jacket with hidden pockets for bullet proof plates of armor to go over your vital organs. In retrospect, I guess that is the only way they could do it - but something about the articl
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
In my previous location I rode the bus about an hour each day to work. Noise cancelling headphones, plus some good podcasts and a subscription to audible made me quite enjoy it. I almost miss the fact that I'm about two hours a day sho
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I'd include in that email an estimate of how much money has been spent on the preservation campaign so far. "If your ancestor hadn't decided to dedicate X dollars (inflation adjusted Y dollars for current year) to this projec
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Yeah, that's my idea. Student loan shouldn't be a crushing obligation for life. Riskier terms for student loans will mean a lot less money available. Less money available will mean universities will stop building expensive buildin
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
That's why you need to keep it on some kind of cloud storage drive arranging an annuity or trust to keep paying the bills. Then, you have a script on a cloud server that posts on Craigslist once a year or month, hiring someone to dupli
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I quite like the visual design of this article. Very pretty. The contents of the article, I'm less sure about. This line stuck out to me. >“I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week s
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
It's some kind of philosophical ethics problem that we can't experiment on humans even though there would be a net benefit. I feel like there are morally unintuitive solutions that may help - perhaps criminals of certain kinds, wh
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Train your system to flag a Faraday cage then. This system won't be perfect, but I'd is it better than nothing? (Maybe, if it's medically safe). Plus, I bet your typical psycho killer isn't going to jump through a lot
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Instead of speaking vaguely, and pretending you speak on behalf of everyone, why don't you clearly state what problem you are having with this?
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
So it's only fine if a private individual hires models for their party?
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Edit: Oops. I misread you the first time. Maybe my comment is no longer relevant. But you chose to accept that job. The actor on TV isn't being treated unfairly because he/she has to lie and say they're a detective, or whatev
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
It seems like you're suggesting women should be free to do this, but men should be shamed for asking women to do it - which seems like a weird position to hold. I can imagine some harm comes from this - e.g. an employee is mistaken for

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