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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Why not? American soldiers literally bombed an operating Red Crescent hospital. They've also been caught on film laughing and bragging about killing civilians.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I'll never get the whole "wait until you can afford to be married" thing because isn't one of the great advantages of marriage the joining of two incomes and the lessening of personal expenses (sharing expenses means les
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Not sure I get where "diversity vs equality" comes into play here... It says that government officials engage in positive discrimination towards women + minorities. I don't know much about Australia, but in America government
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
One word mentioned here that I absolutely loathe seeing in jobs descriptions is "nerd". I don't get why we all think "nerd" has anything to do with software engineering or the workforce in general. Is it "nerdy
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Isn't it obvious that how you describe a job changes neither the requirements of that job nor the qualifications desired nor how you're going to select the applicants? If certain words pull in a more gender-neutral applicant pool,
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
But why are they against mass migration? It almost always has to do with the culture of the current immigrants being different from the one of the host country. >As for the market place of ideas, the first problem is that converting peop
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Firefox will
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I honestly find myself thinking more and more that maybe old-school Victorian-era social norms weren't the worst things in the world (as we make them out to be these days). For one thing, there was way less grey area than there is nowa
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
considering how rabidly most cryptocurrency supporters denounce the government and the banking system and wall street and evil regulations, you would think they would be livid at the idea of a government(!) prosecuting people for anything r
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>content moderation is essentially a form of social engineering I mean, do you think social engineering is bad? What do you think Public Service Announcements are for? Why do you think governments give tax credits to people who buy elect
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Everyone believes in something unproven. Nobody has the capacity to create a worldview solely based on things they have personally proven to themselves. You have to trust someone somewhere without the ability to verify their claims. Every h
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Facing other mindsets and cultures is wholly different in real life versus solely online. Why do you think racism / anti-Semitism / anti-Muslim sentiment is so prominent online and so much less prominent in real life? Why does so
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>Let's not make atheists look like evil people who make children depressed. This is not OK. That's not what he's doing at all. But it is also true that religion is largely the underpinning of morality for most people in th
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
lol if anything teenagers can afford rent anywhere because they have no kids, no spouses and are quite happy eating cheap microwaveable food. They also are the least likely age group to demand lots of cleanliness and personal space, which d
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>Someone who can just afford to buy a house and put 3 kids through college and save for a modest retirement seems pretty solidly “middle class” by most standards. You might have a different definition. idk what standards these are. Someo
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>Humans cannot be truly happy unless we keep ourselves seriously deluded or constantly distracted; with biosocial emotions, religion, duty, hope, ambition, goals, pleasure or whatever. Typical internet denizen idea of humanity. Religious
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I never bought into this argument that gangsta rap, violent video games, porn, etc have NO effect on our society. You, yourself mentioned ads in your comment. What is an ad but a type of media? And yet, ads are so effective that they are ba
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I guess but why would teenagers of all people care about this? You don't need a house. Many of the kids I knew growing up lived in apartments. If they lived in a house they could inherit it from their parents. Why is the housing market
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>Healthy brains spend time (much time) prior to attention, just being. I like to go on long walks and practice breathing. Dissolving mind and attention leads to great clarity, when the thoughts are needed. Yes, there is a reason practice
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I mean, you have logical reasoning skills. An appeal to not close borders further is not the same thing as an appeal for open borders. As I said earlier, the current system is / was working. Current appeals for further restriction aren
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But the governor of Illinois does not necessarily have any connection to Chicago city politics. At least 1 of those 3 you mentioned (I only bothered to look at 2) never held a position in Chicago city politics... how is this relevant?
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Okay, but so is NYC, yeah? Why do people think a big city like SF with tons of money in it is immune from the pattern most other big cities with tons of money in them have gone down?
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I did, it just shows a ticker of AGI lost / gained per second. But that's still just a calculation of how much income tax a particular state / county has...
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You're taking twenty steps forward from "deny immigrants" to "open borders" and also not really replying to anything I mentioned... I never advocated for open borders. But the immigration system in most countries ha
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I don't see how this is different from pre-Internet where you could have gotten an education from your local library. This fact is even referenced in the popular American film: Good Will Hunting, where a janitor at MIT solves an unsolv
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It also didn't come with any way to upend the traditional barriers to connectedness: language, differing cultures, differing lived experiences, etc. So it shouldn't be surprising that that connectedness didn't actually fundam
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It doesn't actually allow this though right because it doesn't remove the things that kept this from happening before the Internet: language, differing customs, differing lived experiences, etc. It doesn't allow anyone to rea
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> For a city such as SF, that's wrong --this isn't Chicago, for as much as I dislike some of the supes, politically. I didn't get this. What differentiates SF from Chicago? Both are big metropolitan cities with lots of bus
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Many people consider the spreading of overt lies and conspiracies about specific ethnic and religious groups to be hate speech. For example, Holocaust denial is considered hate speech in many places. If you consider things like the "bl
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> Personal experience is the bane of science. And plural of “anectode” is “anectodes”, not “data”. And yet, eugenics was kind of heavily touted by scientists precisely because of an inability to accept as valid the personal experiences o

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