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by _bin_ 1y ago
Yeah, I don't really consider virginia part of the south, culturally. Maybe it was different in the past but proximity to DC has rotted any of that away.
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by _bin_ 1y ago
No, draconian punishment of uninsured drivers should go way up. I am already paying a lot of money to compensate for them; I shouldn't pay more. Auto insurance is extremely expensive already.
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by _bin_ 1y ago
My point is precisely that. How can you hope to encourage people to move to tracks if you require them to find a pickup that can tow cars there? If you keep closing down more and more tracks? I believe in high availability of firearms becau
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by _bin_ 1y ago
This would be incredibly annoying. You what, have to tow your car to a track if you want to race? So now you need two vehicles? Given that outright street racing is common amongst blue-collar or inner-city demographics, this is an unreali
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Because engines aren't designed to be run at max output. The fact that an engine can do 150 means it's a lot nicer to drive at 75. I've driven a car that has a top speed of 85 on a good day, with a tailwind and going downhill
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by _bin_ 1y ago
The yankees' roads are all really bad. Old, narrow, sharp turns, and often crowded. I hate driving up there. By comparison, Texas we have long open stretches and up to eight lanes each way, so obviously it's less of an issue. I&#x
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by _bin_ 1y ago
I think it's causal. The cruise control on my car is busted and I don't really feel like shelling out four figures to fix it, so I drive without. I also speed probably 10-15 over pretty often when I'm on long stretches of hig
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by _bin_ 1y ago
I used to lean heavily on stuff like this. Unfortunately, in recent years, something's changed with MS and they've started breaking stuff subtly in ways that shows up a few months later when you try to do something. This leads to
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by _bin_ 1y ago
This is probably true though as a non-gamer and recent mac convert I have basically zero complaints. Windows these days is full of too much crap that sucks away attention and makes it hard to use. Average windows experience: Welcome to BING
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by _bin_ 1y ago
I’d say it’s better to class “scientific racism” as a motivator for eugenics, but again, why does the abuse of an idea mean the idea is bad? I agree it’s not something that should or could be safely implemented by the state.
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by _bin_ 1y ago
I am a general fan of the non-aggression principle and nowhere did I say nazism was good. I was responding to the guy who claimed my position was inextricably linked to the worst thing ever. I also didn’t say sickly people shouldn’t be “all
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by _bin_ 1y ago
I have no particular love for the nazis. As I’ve said multiple times, I am against the state deciding this, which means I am against the top of the slide down. I disagree; I think some were morally worse. The transatlantic slave trade, the
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Why are they concerning? I don’t see any benefit to societal sexism or racism; the same isn’t true of eugenics.
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by _bin_ 1y ago
“My assessment” is kind of uncharitable. Again I’d take huntingtons as an easy example of something that consigns one’s children to an early and horrible death. Not to mention in a society where we often bear the cost of medical care, socia
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by _bin_ 1y ago
This isn't an argument against anything I said. You can't say "some people in the past also said this." That tells nobody anything about whether it's right or wrong.
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by _bin_ 1y ago
You can make a case for coercing people to do any good thing or not do any bad. We shouldn't approach this by denying right and wrong but rather by discussing what the state can or cannot do. Socially is another story which I'd be
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Right but it only covers American courts. I presume since it’s free and is likely domiciled/hosted in America, the owner could probably just scrape euro records and tell the EU “lol get bent” if they made a stink, but probably doesn’t
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Right but it only covers American courts.
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by _bin_ 1y ago
This is such a bad-faith reading man, I don’t know why you’re even bothering to respond. You can’t just say “well that’s eugenics” and act like that’s a sufficient reason to dismiss it. If you think it’s okay to eg have kids knowing they’ll
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Precisely right, yes.
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by _bin_ 1y ago
I am saying precisely what I said: it is wrong to do. Not all that which is legal is moral, nor is all that which is illegal immoral. The state is an enforcer of the social contract and a monopolist of violence, not an arbiter of morality.
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by _bin_ 1y ago
That’s how it’s sometimes used, or because someone dislikes it so much they don’t want anyone to be able to engage with it.
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Because people take what I consider a reasonable statement (“It is immoral to pass on certain genes.”) and conflate it with an evil implementation (“We should enforce this via violence.”) It’s what I call “Germany syndrome”, where past abus
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Almost certainly. Presumably why it’s not available to euros. Also would be a very strange to apply this so-called “right” when court records are essential to keeping organs of government accountable.
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by _bin_ 1y ago
I have to disagree on this. I was not an "easy child", and there were periods where both my parents worked, but they never budged and pacified me. I never had a videogame system and didn't have a cell phone until I got a job
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by _bin_ 1y ago
You are completely correct. I'm watching the same thing happen to my little cousin. Please hear me: take the phones and take the computers and take the ipads and make them go play outside. We do this when my cousin visits and it's
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by _bin_ 1y ago
This is pretty-well considered; you're right that the SF's policies and climate go a long way to contributing to the problem. And yes, if other cities treated them better, SF's problem would be smaller. Sometimes this is due
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by _bin_ 1y ago
There is literally no reason to do this for a piece of paper vs. for a sticker or a flyer that's stapled on. The core difference is the papers will be there for a day, a few hours, then go. The telephone pole stuff stays there forever
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Great, WaPo mentioned it, now it's dead and no longer fun and will be overused. Why can't journos leave anything alone man
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Correct, we could ban undergrads reading Wittgenstein and half of this BS would go away. I generally ignore this because these changes both carry some level of significance in how people think, linguistic determinism wise, and because they

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