M_Grey

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by M_Grey 9y ago
Exactly... some arguments you can only have with people you know very well... and sometimes not even then. We're only human after all, and the tribalism runs deep . If you try to have a reasonable discussion with someone about certa
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by M_Grey 9y ago
The clients didn't pay them...
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by M_Grey 9y ago
The truth is most of these claims are worthless entirely, and people don't deserve squat. So $125 is infinitely more than they should have gotten. ...Then all the more reason the lawyers who helped them bring the suit in the first pl
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by M_Grey 9y ago
I suspect the point is that if the only group which is in any way meaningfully enriched are the lawyers, there is a problem we should be examining in the underlying system. ...A system lobbied for, and legislated by said lawyers.
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by M_Grey 9y ago
>I don't know if I agree that the best arguments result in agreement between opponents. They don't end in agreement, they begin with cooperation; you might not resolve the argument, or your position might prevail, or even chang
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by M_Grey 9y ago
$125 isn't even that bad, as class actions go... it really is a wildly crooked system.
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by M_Grey 9y ago
First of all, thank you, I really appreciate your kind words. Beyond that, I agree utterly about the notion that argument is too often seen as a sport or a "winning" game. The best arguments IMO are ones in which both parties are
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by M_Grey 9y ago
I would be utterly shocked if most of the big ones didn't, and I'd be even more shocked if they (along with tobacco companies) had helped to develop techniques now taken for granted in the digital world.
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by M_Grey 9y ago
I think the problem is that apparently many people default to some level of potential "internetaholicity"; it explains the insane success of something like FB after all. People take time to recognize the various Skinner Boxes an
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by M_Grey 9y ago
You believe that a solution exists, although you also believe that there is no need for one, but if there was "technology" would be that solution. Is that about right?
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by M_Grey 9y ago
I think the important takeaway for everyone involved is, "...For all of the good it did them." Will people with a scrap of power never learn? "Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possi
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by M_Grey 9y ago
This may sound bizarre, but I used to have that same problem... and it's actually arguing on the internet that made me realize I needed to lose the anger, lose the need to control , and... then I spent a couple of years really making
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by M_Grey 9y ago
I don't understand the appeal of FB; we have other means to be connected with the people we care about. I've never understood the appeal of broadcasting yourself to the entire planet either... it's bizarre.
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by M_Grey 9y ago
Seriously, it's not just teens either, it's many college students too. In general, anyone who didn't have to buy their own stuff has a bit less respect for it, and while that doesn't describe all teens or college stude
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by M_Grey 9y ago
You seem to think that I: 1.) Believe a solution still exists 2.) Believe that Australia of all the small populations on Earth would somehow matter if such a solution existed (no offense Australia, you matter in general) 3.) Believe that &q
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New Software Can Track Many Individuals in a Crowd(sciencemag.org)
2 points by M_Grey 9y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 9y ago
I'm doing my part, no kids, and I won't be having any. Unfortunately human nature isn't going to change, and we're not going to get out of this one with our civilization intact; we're probably cooked.
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by M_Grey 9y ago
It might be for the elite, or it might be literal window dressing; they did build an amusement park that appears to be largely for show after all.
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by M_Grey 9y ago
Possible salient point: Was her picture on the cover?
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To See Earth and Moon in a Single Glance(medium.com)
2 points by M_Grey 9y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 9y ago
...And yet she's a good comparison when looking at Bansky... while Selena Gomez is a Disney product of no great note.
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by M_Grey 9y ago
That's certainly possible, but you have to consider that comparing Selena and Banksy is apt, while comparing Selena Gomez and an underground graffiti artist would be... bizarre.
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by M_Grey 9y ago
Oh god no... Selena Quintanilla.
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by M_Grey 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena was an American singer, songwriter, spokesperson, model, actress, and fashion designer. Called the Queen of Tejano music, her contributions to music and fashion made her one of the
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by M_Grey 9y ago
The upside at least there, is that there is some warning; you could stick everything you care about into a Faraday cage. Power lines... not so much.
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by M_Grey 9y ago
This is a discussion about the Russian government, it doesn't really have much to do with Russian people in general. That is what the person I replied to actually said, and the comment I was clearly referring to; the point being of
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by M_Grey 9y ago
If you have that kind of concern for your data, there are solutions which involve actual nuclear bunkers... that would do the trick.
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by M_Grey 9y ago
The other problem is that it assumes that divorce is a bad outcome to be avoided, while a long marriage must be successful and happy; neither are axiomatic.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...But neither of us said Prejudice either!
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Did you reply to the correct person? I never said anything about discrimination, nor did the person I was replying to.

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