Philorandroid

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by Philorandroid 4y ago
There are plenty of resources out there for reactivating spent 9x19mm casings (Project ButWhatAbout) with supplies legally available in Western Europe, it's wishful thinking that just banning ammo would pan out. The genie's kind o
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
That's the age range defined in the article, is it not?
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
How can you honestly dismiss an argument solely on the grounds that it lacks polarization?
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Your intellectual cowardice is on display. Stick to your brutish name calling, you wouldn't do your side any favors arguing on its behalf.
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Every public forum, ever. No Twitter discourse would be complete without it. Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill had social leftists crying foul of targeting trans children by banning sexually explicit material in Kindergart
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Perhaps the answer lies in teaching kids (young adults?) in an objective, strictly-educational manner as the time dawns for it to become relevant in their lives. Of course that solution would be objected to by both sides. The social leftist
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
I'd held the position for years that social media had demonstrably negative effects on childrens' minds -- and all the while, I was derided, because at the time there was no empirical evidence assembled conclusively stating such,
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Enlightening comment. Why's it a failure exclusive to capitalism? Would this not have happened under a mixed economy, or a centrally-planned one?
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
>Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. If Thompson's overarching point is tha
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
"It's not biased, because it's biased the way I want it to be."
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
You're responding to the argument you think I made and never did. No false equivalence, no hidden meaning, just fanciful fiction on your part. My brother in Christ, re-evaluate your thorazine dosage.
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
You're getting really possessed over things I never said.
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Because there's no platform or ideology on earth capable of paid advocacy besides the oil industry, and certainly no political movements ostensibly grounded in "green" advocacy.
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
>There is no scope for it causing 'respiratory issues'... But it's also an easy platform to sell to the un/misinformed, and a great platform for a candidate who just wants what's healthiest for you and the envir
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
That would be the pragmatic solution; but in states like CA, where rolling blackouts are already commonplace to reduce the strain on the grid, the implications of mandating the use of more electricity seem dire.
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
No One Is, It's Spontaneous™
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
The movements that evolve into genuine threats are only obvious in hindsight. We know the Beer Hall Putsch because, well, it's Hitler. If we afford the same level of proactive scrutiny to every demonstration, riot, or other indication
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
15% revolutionary LARP, 15% intent to cause damage/mayhem, 70% self-guided tour of Congress. If it were given the same benefit of the doubt as the BLM riots, it'd be classified as mostly people showing up to a rally because their
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Four rioters died of various causes, and Officer Sicknick was pepper sprayed and died of thromboembolic strokes -- it was falsely reported for weeks that he was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. Saying he died "due to his injur
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Inigo Montoya would like a word, speaking of the cry wolf effect.
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Yes, the implication was that tribalism by intellectual default is bad.
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Okay, I'll bite. If Jan 6 really was an attempt at revolution to install a dictator, it should be seen as a laughable and emasculate event proving how anemic the movement is/was -- Alec Baldwin has successfully killed more people
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
>it just seems a pointless characterization that makes a readers eyes glaze. On the contrary, they're priming their audience's opinions with masterful efficiency. They're making a bet that their readers will either nod in
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
"As Wikimedia projects have risen in prominence across the world, it has attracted increasing attention of those who would like to control the information published on it, for political or other reasons." Not that curtailing confl
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Things are rarely so simple as "all it takes is for you to do it yourself." For instance, I'd been looking at land to build my own house on, since housing prices are extortionately high. The land to build on is seemingly even
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
It's not a pot-shot to say that remote learning is ineffective for children. If an environment tailored for education isn't effective, how could a home environment filled with distractions sans any full-time adult motivation be co
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
"No spinning blades" claim aside, this seems like quite a novel innovation!
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Law is only a paper veneer to keep honest people honest. Legal acts do about as much to deter desertion and security leaks as speed limit signs keep people from speeding.
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
Indeed. "It's for your own good" is a terrifying thing to hear from authority.
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by Philorandroid 4y ago
I can say without a reasonable doubt that misinformation laws are not "good" laws. At absolute best they're as shortsighted as they are misguided, opening the door for a ruling party to arbitrarily declare what reality is and

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