SkyBelow

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by SkyBelow 8y ago
I think putting people in cages is unacceptable. But I'm okay with putting people in cages if they were caught putting people in cages. So back to my first statement, I think putting people in cages is unacceptable, as long as they h
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
For an example, I have read writings of many experts in mental disorders that completely ignore changes in the DSM V. I do not know if the experts are not aware of the changes or don't agree with them, but the way mental disorders are
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
> If you have enough money (from voting how the people with the money want you to vote) to steamroll whoever you're running against you don't actually have to listen to your constituents that much. Perhaps we need to reconsider
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
>Why is deciding what speech / UGC should be allowed in social media a 'corporate responsibility' such that letting the government or some 'impartial' NGO arbitrate this a bad thing? Because there is far more fre
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
To expand on this further, anxiety itself isn't a bad thing, as long as it has a good reason and is in a reasonable amount. People with an anxiety disorder feel far too much anxiety to the point is harms them. An autistic person who
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
>However, in companies that are collectively owned, this becomes less clear. Unless it has no management there is still a management class with disproportionate decision making power and thus the antagonistic relationship necessary for t
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
Illegal and immoral behavior are not the same thing, especially when you consider bias in the legal system as to whom the law is enforced against (poor, male, minority).
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
>relatively small But I think part of grandparents point was that there enough people willing to meet the price that sellers aren't left with an unsold home, meaning that relatively large numbers of people if you consider it relativ
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
>individual investors and employees that cannot yet sell. Don't forget government pension programs that are some of the most mismanaged portfolios around.
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
USA. Not everyone has the economic mobility to just quit at any time. I know one such individual who I have been encouraging to get a new job because his current employment leaves him working a second job on weekends. One could suggest to
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
>Nobody is after hardware store because a hammer bought there was used to kill someone. s/hammer/gun/ and you'll find some who are. Not agreeing or disagreeing, only raising the point that some people do seem to judg
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
Let me know when pride is accepted as currency to pay bills or when insubordination due to personal pride is seen as a desirable quality in a candidate. At the very least, how much are you willing to pay a person for not implementing the f
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
>Let's start with curbing speech that encourages harming others. Based on numerous past incidents of corporate behavior (not specifically from Facebook) I do doubt a fair and unbiased application of such a standard. Politically we
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
I was going off my now shown to be incorrect memory. It appears to be too late to edit the comment. Apologies for spreading any incorrect information.
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
When avoiding a conflict of interest matters, normally there isn't a standard of requiring evidence of any impropriety for behavior to be deemed inappropriate. Merely not avoiding the conflict of interest is enough. Granted, for some
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
I guess it might be better to repackage this as something that isn't a rant. RT is a company that is currently owned by Warner Bros. (through a chain of ownership). This alone is enough for someone to raise the possibility they may no
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
If someone trades a product with a neighbor, are they liable since they sold it for a different form of currency? Or would this only be aimed at those who reach a certain level of trading/selling per year?
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
>You're approaching this story with the a priori conclusion that any gendered social behavior is bad. No, I'm saying that the enforcement of the social norm on the child is wrong. Social norms are enforced through punishment,
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
It seems the issue here is that when you are wronged (my guest are way too noisy), you don't have an adequate solution to seek compensation from me, and give enough instances of something like this happening, we turn more towards an ou
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
>I've never really understood how targeted ads, aside from things like job or housing opportunities, would be considered harmful discriminatory. The question to me is, if it is so clearly wrong to do in these cases, then there must
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
>I think we have enough empirical evidence that violent video games do not in fact raise violent people. How so? One could easily make the claim they cause a small increase in violence but changes in our society (such as better ability
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
So at what point is breaking up unless your SO changes something about themselves become blackmail, because it seems to fit the second definition (and perhaps the first depending upon economic philosophy).
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
$40M broken into monthly payments for ~18 years isn't outside the bounds of what some really rich people pay for child support. A quick google check found child support in the range of 100k/month for some rich individuals, which
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
Isn't the result more mixed? There are some studies that found no relation and other studies that found a relation, and no sufficient explanation why repeating the same studies end up showing different results?
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
Depending upon how you define gamers, almost everyone I know is a gamer. Even my mother is a gamer as she plays Candy Crush. My father who dislikes video games is a gamer because he will spend a little time playing some fishing games. I
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by SkyBelow 8y ago
Is there evidence that gamers are the most vitriolic? Seems a common accusation but not a commonly sourced accusation, especially with a source that controls other variables. I know there are plenty of anecdotes, but there are such anecdo