MiroF

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by MiroF 6y ago
Agreed, although according to a reply a fix is in the works.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I live in DC. We have voted overwhelmingly to fund needle exchanges and have one of the highest rates of HIV in the country. The republican congress intervened into our local budget to prohibit us from allocating any of our local tax dollar
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by MiroF 6y ago
Disgusting that heterosexual people tend to behave in such an indecent way.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I understand the point you were trying to get across. Many STIs have substantial stigma around them and it makes it harder to fight them. I just want to caution you that making these forms of equivalences is a common tactic to derail and di
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by MiroF 6y ago
So what, this tentative research that shows no causal link whatsoever between HSV-1 and alzheimers is the same as the 32 million killed by AIDS globally? No. It isn't. Stop trivializing HIV. I don't know what you're getting
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by MiroF 6y ago
Conservatives continue to ban needle exchanges in some of the areas with the highest rates of HIV in the US.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I am shocked reading some of the replies in this thread. The average commentator here definitely tries to hide their socially regressive views behind some ideal of being "rational", but even then I truly thought that commentator
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Is it that much different than how everyone jokes about HSV1 today? Yes, the governments refusal to act on the AIDS crisis and the substantial stigma around the disease - resulting in hundreds of thousands of dead is "much differe
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by MiroF 6y ago
Look up The Ashes Action organized by ActUP
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by MiroF 6y ago
This makes my blood boil.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> You’d be surprised all the things you learn k-8. Very much depends on the school district. In many urban school districts, it's better than being in the house, but its hardly enriching.
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by MiroF 6y ago
SKs "biggest spike in weeks" is a small fraction of our daily new cases, even per capita. Japan and China both managed to regulate the virus out of existence with more success than we have had at stopping terrorist attacks, doesn&
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Wage theft Or like you're paid $6/hr to do migrant farm work when the minimum wage is $12. That adds up much more quickly and leads people to turn to things like theft. That's already half your net worth right there. &gt
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by MiroF 6y ago
> that's a high crime area Brazil's homicide rate is like 7x the United States, I find it hard to believe that the occasional opening of a door and looking through your car would be high crime by Brazilian standards where peopl
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by MiroF 6y ago
> We didn't lock our doors (car or house) and 30 years bygone, somebody's car finally got broken into a couple of years ago. How would you know if your car got broken into if your doors were unlocked? What city was this (one of
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by MiroF 6y ago
It is still quite frequent, if not as frequent as I experienced it (still, incidence is quite high in the Bay for instance). I don't really feel like mustering the mental energy to argue with what are ultimately pretty nit-picky object
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by MiroF 6y ago
It be kinda nice to see an article that cites the "research" it mentions rather than just providing a nice color coded graph of the world where "you can see how every country on the world scores on individualism, from light-g
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Will this affect your insurance if the car is stolen? Do car thefts of this form even really happen anymore? How would they even prove the doors were unlocked?
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by MiroF 6y ago
Is there evidence that pickpocketing is such a problem in the United States that it is making a dent in tourism spending? Is there evidence that policing it in this way makes a dent in the incidence of pickpocketing? > If your country ca
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by MiroF 6y ago
> I can't speak for the US, but it isn't normal in any city in Europe for your car to be rifled through every 2 months in a nice area of a city. I don't know how you have knowledge of the normal number of car break ins in
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by MiroF 6y ago
You're absolutely right, I've edited my comment slightly. I was making the assumption that total $ robbed was an upper bound on total $ pickpocket, which seems reasonable given what I've observed in the United States - but I
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by MiroF 6y ago
Great analogy to relate towards policing that everyone is familiar with.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> friendly patrols are a bad idea. Absolutely and I think there are models of policing that reduce petty crime and obviously people would rather have less petty crime than more. We are all in agreement here. I just want people to be awar
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by MiroF 6y ago
The problem with the drug war is imprisoning dealers, not addicts - and if we released them it would get us much closer to those other countries.
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by MiroF 6y ago
It's not whataboutery in the context of limited policing resources and public attention. Accusations of tu quoque get thrown around way too quickly on the internet.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> known quantity of the wages you get not being theoretically as high as they should be When you're living in poverty, withheld wages is a much larger problem than your apparently daily encounters with aggressive pickpockets, are yo
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by MiroF 6y ago
> avoid moving to cities where people are okay with crimes Pretty much every city is moving to less aggressive policing of petty crime largely because of its pretty blatant failure and the substantial negative impacts it has. Generally s
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by MiroF 6y ago
Here's what happens: Voters vote for someone who says they will do this thing "more on-foot friendly patrols", "catch actual criminals". Police obviously continue what they've always been doing and stop & f
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by MiroF 6y ago
Again - you're discounting the negative secondary effects of the policy when the police start harassing people who "look" like pickpockets. Reminder - more total money is stolen from workers in the form of wage theft than is
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by MiroF 6y ago
Monthly reminder that more total money is stolen in the form of wage theft from poor workers than is robbed in any form. [0] [0]: https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-fo...

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