Stupulous

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by Stupulous 5y ago
I think it's an appropriate reply to someone specifically holding up China's COVID response as an example of the right answer.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
We did lockdowns and mask mandates and rapidly created and distributed a vaccine. I don't think the US response was perfect, but I find it unlikely that politicians' numeracy would reduce the death toll by a further 80% when we&#x
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by Stupulous 5y ago
I don't understand how what I said is a strawman. I think an active serial killer is orders of magnitude worse than any crypto scam, but I would still take their money- ie. I'm disagreeing with a stronger version of your point.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
Taking a donor's money is at most an implicit endorsement. If an active serial killer gave me a million dollars to make the world a better place, it would be wrong for me to refuse to move money from a bad actor to those in need.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
"Turtles are all animals with shells" is falsifiable in the sense that you can say an animal without a shell is falsely called a turtle, and that an example of an animal with a shell that is not a turtle disproves the definition.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
The overwhelming majority of people who interact with a given issue on social media are not psy-ops operators or 4chan trolls. Speaking from a deeply shameful amount of experience interacting with given issues on social media, at most we&#x
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by Stupulous 5y ago
What does this mean? It's catchy, but what mechanism exists where a political position can run out of room? The space is defined by the number of inhabitants.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
You don't need to convince someone who already doesn't believe what they're saying. The overwhelming majority of people are not psy-ops operators or 4chan trolls. If someone invents new idiotic positions when they are proven
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by Stupulous 5y ago
If you don't want people "moving the goalposts", don't set them up at the 40-yard line, where they very apparently do not go. You are bringing a lot of vitriol to the table, unprompted. A personal failing is that I can&#
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by Stupulous 5y ago
Voltaire was a passionate defender of free speech. Communist China and Weimar Republic Germany both had laws to suppress speech prior to their overthrow. Maoist China, Nazi Germany, and Islamist countries in the Middle East all suppressed o
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by Stupulous 5y ago
The bar has to be a little higher than that. I can go to any protest and shout, "Kill the President." At a minimum, I have to have the intent of following through, otherwise I'm just some loud nutjob at somebody else's p
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by Stupulous 5y ago
No one is asking Young to acknowledge Rogan's existence, much less engage with him. He is refusing to associate himself with an entity because they are not censoring his idealogical adversaries. If Neil Young pulled his music from Spot
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by Stupulous 5y ago
Googling "define authoritarian" defines it exactly as I've used it: >favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. So I'll ask that you do
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by Stupulous 5y ago
A lot of people in this thread are correctly pointing out the Neil Young is within his rights to only allow his music to be played on censorious platforms. What's missing is anyone saying that he isn't. A racist is within their ri
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by Stupulous 5y ago
It's a real shame. It's so hard to find web 'toys' nowadays- games without objectives, but with pretty, interactive visuals. I used to have a set of hundreds of them, but that list was deleted when StumbleUpon went under
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by Stupulous 5y ago
I don't know if this will be helpful to you, but I'm throwing it out there. In a consequentialist, utilitarian moral system, revenge cannot be a moral good on its own. If a universe where one person gets hurt is worse than a unive
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by Stupulous 5y ago
Half of its value is less than after-tax value, which is at least the initial investment + 63% of the gains.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
I cannot figure out why the US writes laws in terms of nominal value while maintaining an inflationary currency. The majority of lawmakers agree that a law should be x with respect to the current value of USD, why don't they also agree
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by Stupulous 5y ago
I assume they borrow against the after-tax value of the stock, because it will be taxed before being paid back(?) I don't know if that is significant, but I figure it's worth noting.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
Many self-proclaimed psychics have made a good amount of money in the practice as well.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
I should clarify that when I said 'my idealized version of myself,' I wasn't talking about an enlightened, self-actualized 'me'. I meant 'me' as I perceive myself. As far as I know, it's an accurate v
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by Stupulous 5y ago
Lacking crime data for the counterfactual world where crime wasn't prosecuted, I don't think you can make this assertion. Not to say that you're wrong (and I've seen evidence that you're right), but that you can&#x2
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by Stupulous 5y ago
This is a fascinating twist to me. Human exceptionalism is what lets us justify not eating other animals- if we're not special then there is no reason we should be held to a different standard. I have encountered many conversations w
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by Stupulous 5y ago
No free lunch carries some weight in this context. If there is a chemical that has a very positive effect in humans, there is probably a reason that humans didn't evolve to produce that chemical or exist in the state that the chemical
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by Stupulous 5y ago
By Wikipedia's 2019 numbers (14 Gt China/6.6 Gt US) you'd need 2.12 mini-Chinas.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
They matter if we're asking whether China is on the US' side on this. China's people shouldn't be forced to live in worse conditions because they live in more populous nation. You could split China into two countries wit
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by Stupulous 5y ago
China's emissions per capita are half that of the US, and it seems very reasonable that they would see an increase in carbon emissions as the average standard of living goes up. The US is only aiming for carbon neutral by 2050, and we
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by Stupulous 5y ago
Good catch. Tricky because Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) || Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) == Lena Gonzalez (D-)
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by Stupulous 5y ago
I assume you know more about this than me, so can you help me understand this or direct me somewhere? The universe is constantly taking its current state (or infinity of relativistic frames and/or multiverses) and outputting its next s
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by Stupulous 5y ago
Adding a bit to the other side of the equation, I think extraversion and introversion are independent spectrums. The 'introverts get energy from being alone, extraverts get energy from social interactions" explanation implies that

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