Pristina

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by Pristina 8y ago
>single payer health care system is just a system that forces healthy people to pay for unhealthy people.
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by Pristina 8y ago
unsurprisingly, free market increases the quality of products available to the general consumers. who would have thunk?
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by Pristina 8y ago
You can literally tell everybody that they might not exist in a different timeline. This thought is neither novel nor meaningful.
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by Pristina 8y ago
clearly we need an AI/ML that will actively scan any video footage and cut out anything that looks like an ad. then people might actually find out what is and isn't ad.
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by Pristina 8y ago
meanwhile a mosquito net will save 10x live as /10 the cost.
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by Pristina 8y ago
why does this have to be during the descent? 51% attacks are possible at value point.
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by Pristina 8y ago
driving a 747 isn't that hard, just turn on the engine and pull up once you are at take off speed.
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by Pristina 8y ago
>victim didn't realise being able to get a loan is a human right now.
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by Pristina 8y ago
literally anything that has any negative effect will affect the poor more because the rich have more resources to mitigate the negative effects. so unless you have a solution with no drawbacks, there's nothing you can do to not 'a
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by Pristina 8y ago
Great guy. Lead reduction probably resulted in a general increase of +5 IQ. Which is HUGE when it's applied to a whole generation all over the world.
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by Pristina 8y ago
>racing to the bottom It's easier to race to the top. Just increase price on all your items 10000000000000x. im sure you will be the first in line to buy.
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by Pristina 8y ago
If you love him so much you can pay for him. walmart doesn't think he's worth it and your personal story with this guy isn't going to be worth 20k a year.
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by Pristina 8y ago
>If the nation is under existential threat by a tyrannical invader and there aren't enough volunteers for an effective defense, Why is the existence of a particular political entity more important than the lives of people? An existe
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by Pristina 8y ago
>preserving the lives of citizens this is completely false. a war is never about killing citizens but about imposing political will. without a defense, the occupier would simply impose their political system on the occupied. a government
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by Pristina 8y ago
Once you know how to do something you think it's easy.
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by Pristina 8y ago
>Those rationales apply less and less as military technology evolves. There is no obvious reason why fighter pilots should only be men, or Navy gunners, or army helicopter pilots. so a war broke out and half of your fighter pilots got pr
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by Pristina 8y ago
Yeah I'm sure the cops and the lawyers will stop the bad guys using the power of the law.
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by Pristina 8y ago
RealMeat will never be replaced with some mystery goop made of soybean and seaweed powder. You will never have the nutrient diversity of a real living tissue in a mystery goop. And cow body is way more alike to us than seaweed.
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by Pristina 8y ago
did you farm the wheat or raise the cow? how do you know it's not GMO supersoy hybrid soaked in bee-killing Roundup?
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by Pristina 8y ago
> that'd permanently decimate their population. why? one woman can have 5+ children. so even if you had a 25-fold decrease in population, you can repopulation in a few generations. Why would that result in 'permanent decimation
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by Pristina 8y ago
There are plenty of roles that don't require much strength.
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by Pristina 8y ago
Do you think slavery is fine then? If compelled labour in the military is permissible by you because people have 'obligations' to the government? What is a government except as an entity to ensure people's natural rights are
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by Pristina 8y ago
And it's okay to draft my son and brothers? Don't be a whiteknight.
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by Pristina 8y ago
Back when I was in school there's this guy who sold meth. First hit was free.
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by Pristina 8y ago
they are actual non-problems. If you own your body, you own your blood. You should be able to sell or do whatever you please with it. If some people think they can become younger by bathing in young blood, let them. It's their money an
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by Pristina 8y ago
That's weird, because the only reason to go to a public pool is so you could pee in it.
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by Pristina 8y ago
Some how I feel this would be very inefficient due to small delta-temp.
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by Pristina 8y ago
This gives me an idea of an online gambling site where people bet crypto on which rat will drown first. I will call it thunderpool. 2 rats enter, 1 rat leaves.
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by Pristina 8y ago
I have empathy. I also have a brain, which I used to come to the conclusion that you either have self-agency and therefore you are liable to the consequences of your actions or you do not have self-agency. If a person chose to not do resear
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by Pristina 8y ago
So he decided not to do the research because it's not worth his time and therefore he made a suboptimal purchase. He made his bed and lay in it. Im saving my tears.

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