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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
I agree with much of your rant against the neoliberal brain shackles that’ve been installed, but that has nothing to do with the financial maneuvering on display here. And if you think Musk is some kind of benevolent corporate dictator-cham
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It's ruled by monied people, who manufacture consent amongst the stupid people partly by convincing them that the executive and legislative branches are somehow answering to the stupid people, and not the monied people. This works, bec
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
I'd never thought about it from this angle, but I think you're right. The Cop Spectacle might be our substitute entertainment for the old public executions. We can't show [public enemy du jour] being torn apart by lions in th
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Unfortunately it's not just the federal government that's captured by these monied interests - it's the states, too. Just look at the private prison industry and their lobbying. I agree overall, though, decentralization and r
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
"You ask for miracles, I give you the F.B.I." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
> This is getting ridiculous. In a free country ... Yes, well ...
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
For anyone reading my response to this incredibly bad faith commenter, note: - that his own linked survey shows 46% preferring suburbs, not 80% - that "it forces further unsustainable agglomeration of wealth in a small area" would
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
Why would a city do that? To make you personally feel better?
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Your choice of metrics is so nonsensical it can only be bad faith. For the other readers, I'll submit some more relevant questions. NYC subway is more expensive per meter? No shit. What's the ROI? How many passengers per day? What
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
> If someone has a bad take, downvote them. Ironically, this is the most reddit sentence I’ve ever read. To add more substance and avoid be-redditting this thread even further: I think the crucial difference in a good forum culture is th
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
Uh huh. I think I'll let the Sudanese researchers run the lead ingestion trials on themselves first and wait it out.
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I don't follow. #2 is on nicotine exposure, and #3 concluded lead exposure is bad. "Conclusion: Lead poison has a great effect on vision and eye health of the workers, its lead to decrease of vision result in development amblyopia
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
A gimmick account dedicated to lead advocacy. Interesting. Could you source any scientific papers (or even a schizo blog post!) we could read through? Because your Venezuelan eyesight anecdote is not very convincing.
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
> Morality becomes nothing more than an expressed personal preference and like any other personal preference you have no grounds for denying others' right to disagree. Religious faith makes no difference here. When a radical islamic
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
> He's been open about at one time believing a conspiracy theory himself, for a little while. Absolutely disgusting. How could he?? But which one? MKULTRA*? Operation Northwoods*? Flat earth? Illegal domestic surveillance by the NSA
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
> … instead of the 97% unemployment … we’re instead 30x as productive. Economic productivity simply means output per worker. So, we could make 97% of the US population permanently unemployed tomorrow, and as long as the AI replacement la
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
And Radio War Nerd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLpGH0BpOnk
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Because publications like the NYT depend on access for their "journalism" [0]. Independent/investigative journalism requires an adversarial relationship to power, and looks more like [1]. In past decades, the establishment wa
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
Because they own the mass media: https://www.cnn.com/profiles/robert-baer-profile See also the Frank Snepp interview linked elsewhere in this thread.
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The point of my comment is that “intelligence community” is a euphemism for cabals of spooks - professional backstabbing liars. They are completely unreliable narrators and their word is not to be trusted. The quality of their supposed sour
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
Very helpful! I had previously mis-interpreted the “intelligence community”’s assessment of “high probability / low confidence” as meaning a 92.3% likelihood, whereas it actually means 75.8%. If only I had been in possession of this ar
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by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
> I'll continue to have my users design my product/tool every time and those who don't will get eaten alive in any market that has consumer choice. Also Santa Claus isn't real. Somewhere, the ghost of the man responsi