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by acituan 5y ago
> Most drugs have side effects, including all the legal pharmaceuticals. E.g. normal antidepressants aren't without risk. Risk/no-risk dichotomy is misleading in that those categories do not consist of homogeneously comparable
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by acituan 5y ago
> But I guess if you let people learn personal responsibility they won't need the government as much anymore Addiction is not a mere matter of personal responsibility but a complex bio-psycho-social phenomena. Oversimplified solutio
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by acituan 5y ago
> us (the community) having access to more information and more tools at our disposal to analyze this information is a far better outcome than governments locking it away. > The more information we have access to, the more difficult
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by acituan 5y ago
> Not to be rude On the contrary, you’re making my point.
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by acituan 5y ago
> If you find any niche that makes sense, go for it Even if it meant objectifying people into a market segment just to make money, under the branding of empathy and identity? Just because it is branded “black” doesn’t mean it won’t per
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by acituan 5y ago
> The message, I'm pretty sure, wasn't that it was that kind of garden > It's not an implausible degree of control to have. They weren't fighting fires, they were setting them. It doesn't matter what kind it w
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by acituan 5y ago
> You're probably just expecting stricter definitions of the word "garden" (and "wilderness" for that matter). At one extreme there's a botanical garden, where every single leaf of every plant is carefully i
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by acituan 5y ago
> Well, sure when you exaggerate what I'm saying into 'exhaustive' conversion and a 'complete absence' of megafires it sounds like romanticism. I merely made what was implicit into explicit; using the term "
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by acituan 5y ago
Thanks for the share. I’m aware of these articles and aware of the age-old practices, which are not even exclusive to Americas or ancient times. But I don’t see any data on the whole wilderness being turned into a garden by these tribes and
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by acituan 5y ago
Any reliable source on this? I for one doubt that the population density could allow an exhaustive conversion of all wilderness into “a garden” with a complete absence of megafires. Sounds a bit like a “noble savage” romanticism.
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by acituan 5y ago
> The excess death statistics would like to have a word with you Independent of the rest of your argument, this one is not a good one to hinge on. "Excess death" is a pragmatic term, not a normative term. The baseline death sta
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by acituan 5y ago
You misunderstand the problem. We’re not talking about the total vaccination rate; it is a matter of how diffuse or concentrated it had to be for a particular locale to minimize variant training. Obviously it brings up questions of fair
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by acituan 5y ago
> The threat from the virus is not only immediate risk to the individual, it is also further transmissions increasing the risk of creating new breakthrough variants > Tolerating disease spread and threats to vulnerable populations whe
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by acituan 5y ago
One of the most nihilistic takes I’ve seen in a long while. With “worth”, “value”, “liability” you are only talking about the narrow, economic definitions of those words. The problem is not everything valuable is captured in economic expres
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by acituan 5y ago
> By that logic the most intelligent animals is a cockroach Firstly, please notice the quotes around intelligence; clearly we’re playing with a fast and loose definition. Secondly, if humans had driven themselves into extinction with nuc
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by acituan 5y ago
> Every single life form on Earth today had exactly the same time to do its evolution in. Us, bats, dolphins, tapeworms, birch trees, amoeba, mushrooms, all of that had exactly the same chance(s) in the same time span. This is patently f
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by acituan 5y ago
> What creatures would form under an intense magnetic field? In methane? In close orbit around a dim star? In a hot cloud nebula? Before the question of what you have the question of if . Then you have the question of continuous con
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by acituan 5y ago
Is this really generalizable to all nations? Or is it the US treatment and perspective in play? US in general not being stellar in mental health, but also having a very specific cultural ground, it would surprise me if this had less to do w
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by acituan 5y ago
Majority by definition implies significance, and I wanted to clarify they weren’t meaning majority. I think I am missing the point you’re trying to make.
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by acituan 5y ago
> it is important to note that there is a significant percentage of employees that want to go back to the office. Do you mean the majority? Because that is not true. The percentage of employees that want to go back and that doesn't
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by acituan 5y ago
> If this is true, why is there no evidence? How well can companies evidentiate their brand awareness campaigns? How well can an actress calculate returns from having attended a talk-show? Evidence of absence cannot reliably be inferred
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by acituan 5y ago
> > especially after an opener of "have you been to any beaches recently" I didn't write that, please check the thread. That was someone else. Sorry I was confused about this, but the context to which you seemed showed
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by acituan 5y ago
> This exactly the kind of snooty academic dialogue that is subtractive. It might feel like it is subtracting from your sense of being right, which I am not saying you’re definitely not, but I think some readers might find it valuable in
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by acituan 5y ago
I'll try to be as clear as I can. There were several weaknesses with your argument that I was hoping you to strengthen; - you were making yourself prone to availability bias; I've been to beaches recently and none of those have th
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by acituan 5y ago
Good. When we die, we will still have a giant todo list, and that’s OK. That doesn’t mean we haven’t done things, it just means the list didn’t capture the entirety of our desires and goals. Maybe the point of writing them down is mostly re
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by acituan 5y ago
> The Olympics in London cost 11.3 Billion and generated revenue of 3.3 billion which doesn't exactly seem hugely beneficial. Except it is one giant international PR and brand recognition event for the host country. TV ads cost in a
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> There's a place for healthy skepticism, but not denial. I’m not saying I’m necessarily denying your premise, at least not wholesale, but what is the point of skepticism if it doesn’t include the possibility of rejecting a premise?
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by acituan 5y ago
> Beaches are absolutely covered in plastic waste and it's noticeably worse each time I go. No disrespect but I don’t think anyone can uniformly sample all the beaches. There might as well be prevailing currents that fill certain pl
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by acituan 5y ago
I wish you explained which one of the 5000 propositions in that article was in disagreement with my opinion in your opinion instead of throwing the whole article out there.
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by acituan 5y ago
Unfortunately this article suffers from the modern tendency of reducing eros to sexuality. The wider meaning of eros as a type of love always connoted a union; yes, like sexual partners, but also like a group of soldiers fighting together,

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