M_Grey

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by M_Grey 10y ago
You were forced to immigrate to this country?! Otherwise... the "force" part here is more like, "I was forced to pay for the meal I decided to eat at the restaurant! How dare they!" Don't like it? Don't eat.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Yeah, a couple of wars for one thing, but not fixing dams, that's for sure.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
They do that for reasons that have nothing to do with not paying their taxes... still, if you need an even ore obvious example... http://fortune.com/2016/04/29/tax-evasion-cost/
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'd love some citations for that claim.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
No no, an "EMP bomb".
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by M_Grey 10y ago
About three quarters of a million people die each year just from HAI's... never mind all of the other problems, pain, expense, and poor outcomes. Lawyers do a lot of harm, but doctors are have unique access, and it would seem, shitty h
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...And of course Amsterdam is also serving much of the world (pretty much exclusively, until really recently) in terms of breeding new strains. The demand for high strength was global, even though the nexus was small, and in a legal haven.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That sounds very good, but now here are your real-world constraints. You have a network of detection systems which you give you (optimistically) 15-40 minutes of warning before everything and everyone you've ever known and cared about
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by M_Grey 10y ago
^This. I know people who use FB, but I'm not friends with anyone who's using it as a tool in their daily lives. I've never seen the strong appeal, and always seen many downsides.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
While I doubt that anything could stop a truly determined and well equipped adversary, I would frankly not be shocked if the whole thing was basically packed in claymores facing out, just for starters. You won't care in that extreme ab
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The government doesn't need your cooperation to collect a tax debt. It does if they want to actually make a profit on collecting taxes. Those "bleed the beast" pricks, extreme LDS sects, etc... all seem to have little troub
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I know voting turnout is sadly low, but that does not constitute people not participating in the process. ...It's the most basic level of participation; if that's not failing to participate in the process, what is? You're w
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You're still going at that? To be clear, I don't mean to offend anyone religious, and am not saying this is the usual run of how religious people view the world. Unfortunately, there are many millions who do, and they tend to be
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It has not recurred. I do deny them my essence.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Your thinking on the subject is a symptom of something else. Sure, if you're very new to this planet and aren't aware that, "The penny must die" has been published in some form for longer than you've been alive. T
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Accidental detonation can include, "Sir, we have indications of multiple Russian launches!"... followed by ~15-45 minutes to decide it it's a glitch, or the end of the fucking world. It has happened before, but fortunately wi
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The persistence of the penny is a symptom, in my view, of just how apathetic and dysfunction the political system is at every level. It's a small annoyance, with a small fix that has been done by other countries with good results. That
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by M_Grey 10y ago
We already put people into feedback loops of administrative fines, and jail. You really think this would play out differently? Without incarceration, how exactly do you propose to collect your money? Once you figure that out, be sure to tel
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by M_Grey 10y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/04/abim/pw-potter.html Argument from incredulity does nothing for me.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
"This is why we should all become more knowledgeable about [ANYTHING]. Right now there is no political pressure to make things more [ANYTHING] because the electorate is largely uneducated." We can't get people on the same pag
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by M_Grey 10y ago
In theory sure, but point me to the long-term practice of making it actually work. In practice, nuclear weapons have been subject to obvious and critical fuck-ups.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/hair-trigger-alert/clo... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep&
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That's why global problems like nuclear stockpiles and global climate change will kill us, while people are busy sorting their albums of pet photos. You're not wrong to focus on what you can control or at least change, but you&#x2
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Right... except that when you're playing with a few things, like engineered plagues, or nuclear weapons... you need to be perfect . If you can't be, then for fuck's sake, let the perfect be the enemy of the good!!
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Their position ranges from what you said, to wanting doctors who perform abortions killed, and the mothers who have them prosecuted. Our current sitting president once had that position for god's sake. You can pretend that it's ju
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by M_Grey 10y ago
There are over 2,500,000 Kilotons of nuclear warheads out there. Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined received about 38 Kilotons. Extrapolate from the realization that all of that death and destruction represents, in absolute terms, .000152% of
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Detonation? No. Compromise of the physics package so that the whole mess is radioactive?
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Given that list, and given the facts, the two broad options seem to be: A visionary leader who can make these issues clear to people (haha) The course of history and civilization will change. Now, when you look back on our history, how ofte
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by M_Grey 10y ago
We're not still fighting over abortion and contraception because of a "tiny minority... not particularly politically organized." The reason we notice is because there is no way to ignore them, and increasingly around the worl
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I have, and I know mostly those kinds of people too. Unfortunately I also know plenty of the other kind, the "Drugs are literally the devil" types. Having an addiction doesn't confer wisdom, and some people get out of active

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