Lascaille

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by Lascaille 5y ago
>youtube can do what they want on their website. This isn't a sophomoric forum like reddit. This is meant to be a place where adults discuss. Adults can see that there are democratic implications of the scenario you're describi
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by Lascaille 5y ago
If they're not dying from COVID then why are they dying in such excessive numbers? Because whether you believe it's COVID or not, you're stacking up ~1500 more bodies per day than you were three years ago. What's the cau
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by Lascaille 5y ago
It's common these days for the headline - and sometimes first paragraph - of an article to be utterly contradicted by the body of the article. CNN does it constantly. The headline and first para is editorial, the remainder is reportage
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by Lascaille 5y ago
And the media, who echo the statements of those blue checkmarks as though they were the authoritative words of god himself.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
Yes, that too. The printing has to catch up with them eventually.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>vaccines are required for everyone as a child (in the US) Do continue please
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by Lascaille 5y ago
Precisely. Knowing, from experience, what a good school should 'look like' (in terms of what to expect from the teachers and staff) - in order to determine that your kid isn't in one - is privilege.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
Not everyone survives. That's life. You can't expect society to shut down to protect the tiny percentage of people who can't be vaccinated or are immunocompromised. That's never been an expectation of society before so w
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>I refuse to get infected Avoiding COVID just isn't possible unless you're prepared to curtail social interactions to the point at which you're barely living. I leave my apartment about once a week (yay depression) yet I s
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>Crypto is fairly easy to avoid as an individual It's probably contributing more to inflation than people believe. Both in the demand for resources and in terms of redistribution of wealth. Although probably not as much as the new w
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>It braked and slowed like any other car. Imagine you're following - at a safe distance - a vehicle. The driver of the vehicle you're following doesn't notice that the car ahead of them is emergency braking. They notice at
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>Safe following distance isn't predicated on defying physics, it means assume the car in front might stop dead for any reason No, it's based on assuming the car in front might brake at standard non-physics-defying rates at any
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>anyone can act on a belief they hold Knowing how to act in a productive and effective manner is privilege.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>Having a strong defense deters this kind of thing. Yes, and it appears to be working. Russia is invading Ukraine, not Poland.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>access to the knowledge Having 'access to knowledge' is one thing. Believing that knowledge - say, from personal experience of it applying to people you know - is privilege.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>plenty of statistics I think you know very well that you're being asked to cite them, not merely say they exist.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>Parents who are interested in boosting their children scholastically are not necessarily privelidged. Believing in the value of education and pushing your children to achieve educationally is an inherent demonstration of the possession
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>rationing is more efficient tham subsidizing You can't ration energy in a democracy while simultaneously being staunchly opposed to the development of new energy generation infrastructure. No electorate will tolerate that. It is as
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by Lascaille 5y ago
You're talking about flipping the polarity, going occasionally from conductor-positive to conductor-negative (the shield must remain at ground potential.) If I remember correctly that actually makes things much worse if you've ope
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by Lascaille 5y ago
But what's happening in the Ukranian theatre validates all of that. The Russian military is being revealed as a paper tiger. It makes no sense to invest heavily in defence when your enemy doesn't have any real forces they can depl
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>What could have changed it is if the Dutch, the Belgians and most of all the Germans had acted like adults in the world. Instead they have been dancing on the edge of a disaster. Vague and weird words that could mean almost anything. Sp
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by Lascaille 5y ago
Having read your quoted text and your link and found them to be spurious and random it seems necessary to restate the question that was posed by the person to whom you replied: Any supporting links to these claims?
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>The best defense is to not absorb the data to begin with. The despair that can result from this is almost unimaginable though. When you separate yourself from the propaganda infrastructure then try to have conversations with people and
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by Lascaille 5y ago
The issue with DC transmission in subsea cables is that the XLPE insulation can become polarized and - from what I remember - have water drawn into it due to the consistency of the field.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>If someone is going to work harder for something they simply deserve it What if they only know to work harder for something because of their privilege? Plenty of groups, due to lack of privilege, simply don't believe - because it h
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>I was speaking hypothetically. There are well established grammatical constructions that indicate hypothetical speaking and you didn't use any of them.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
When someone links an article in support of their argument you're not meant to read it, silly goose.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>This ruling can't be allowed to stand. Sounds like a great ruling from a security and user perspective. Just changes a design paradigm. If it kills a business model that's based on intrusive user-tracking and the user being to
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by Lascaille 5y ago
> As we can see, most Russian armor movement happens on roads That's why they're being annihilated. Moving your forces on roads is something you do after you've secured an area, not before.
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by Lascaille 5y ago
>what do you expect is the solution Arm them and bus them to the frontlines, pour encourager les autres?

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