adamsea

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by adamsea 6y ago
Out of curiosity why not work with a group planting trees, or folks switching to renewable sources of energy?
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Platforms can be neutral and once were. Which platform, when, and for how long?
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NY Times: How Trump and Bolsanaro Broke Latin America's Covid-19 Defenses(nytimes.com)
5 points by adamsea 6y ago|1 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
"The two presidents drove out 10,000 Cuban doctors and nurses. They defunded the region’s leading health agency. They wrongly pushed hydroxychloroquine as a cure."
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by adamsea 6y ago
Another possibility is you may not be aware of the impact of not having touch, if it is not something you regularly had.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Very curious what the rationale for downvoting this is. In addition to the link I shared, both the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have recently reported white-supremacist aligned groups as the major source of violent attacks
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by adamsea 6y ago
Mostly agreed. However with, bipolar disorder for example, I'm not sure that the problems with our society are the root cause ... though I suppose perhaps increased pollutants might cause more issues with children/birth. But still
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by adamsea 6y ago
To add on to what you're saying if there isn't there should be legal liability for these software systems in the same way civil engineers have legal liability, from my limited understanding. I.E. software engineers can become ...
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by adamsea 6y ago
Agreed, but both can be true to varying degrees at the same time. Bipolar disorder, clinical depression / major depressive issues, etc. Plus, since each "band aid" in this case is a human life - a person who may then be able
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by adamsea 6y ago
What I think would be awesome is if mental health was de-stigmatized. Like physical health is. I feel like back in the day - our grandparents, or their grandparents, perhaps you'd see men who didn't want to go to the doctor. Now i
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by adamsea 6y ago
> here's a lot more progressives around and there is a very real authoritarian and violent strain that runs through that movement. Actual facts show that at this moment in time in the U.S. it's white supremacists and related ex
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by adamsea 6y ago
Who is a burden on everyone else, and how? I thought the whole point of ... civilization was for people to support each other.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Maybe the ACLU really does believe it is a civil right.
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by adamsea 6y ago
I haven't thought about this too much, but, words are power. Is identifying someone by a racial slur a civil-rights issue? Obviously it's not a black-and-white issue, and is complex, but yeah, fundamentally calling someone somethi
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Where is this mythical coffee house where ideas are exchanged and challenged? Online? College campuses? But seriously, our culture and society are different now in lots of ways, for better and worse. And larger, and more diverse. The e
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White House Chief of Staff: We Are Not Going to Control the Pandemic(cnn.com)
3 points by adamsea 6y ago|1 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
"White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that the US is "not going to control" the coronavirus pandemic, as cases surge across the country and nearly 225,000 Americans have died from the virus. "We are not go
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New England Journal of Medicine: Dying in a Leadership Vacuum(nejm.org)
3 points by adamsea 6y ago|1 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
Regardless of the ideas the word and 'movement' will just become another brand ... I love William Gibson (Neuromancer), Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell. Do I love cyberpunk? Ehhh ....
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by adamsea 6y ago
It’s just silly to introduce “Antifa” (which isn’t a singular thing) into a discussion about the pros and cons of nuclear power.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Example - white supremacy is not a “strongly held belief” to those who believe in universal human rights and equality. My belief system makes white supremacy not some other, legitimate belief I oppose, but one that is beyond the pale becaus
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by adamsea 6y ago
There’s more than one civil right, no? Also your example is unrealistic and distorted - it’s not a useful hypothetical because no one is asking anyone to call them something insulting like that as their public form of address. The fact that
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Civil liberties are liberties that you have from the government. That is, things that the government ought to allow you to do. What do you think the ACLU did in the 60s? Not fight segregation where it was legal?
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by adamsea 6y ago
This is an informative cogent response and I was surprised to see it downvoted.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yes, they do. If nothing else the fact that you don’t seem to recognize the desire to build a huge wall as one big red authoritarian flag is concerning. It’s like going on a date with someone who says he’s a nice guy but treats the waitress
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by adamsea 6y ago
Can you provide a specific example of what you mean?
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by adamsea 6y ago
Thanks for your response. I'm basing this on what another commenter said, but, I take it your root issue then is Facebook's policy against private individuals selling each other guns on their platform? Or, did I misunderstand some
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Dartmouth Study:Vote-by-mail ballot rejection and experience with mail-in voting [pdf](dartmouth.edu)
2 points by adamsea 6y ago|1 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
"Although most ballots in the United States have historically been cast in-person, an increasing number of Americans are turning to mail-in voting during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Voters inexperienced with the form of voting, howe
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by adamsea 6y ago
You understand exactly why I am focusing on President Trump and Fox News. President Trump is a serial liar (fact), implicitly condones white supremacy (fact), and actively undermines the important norms of our democracy, like elections (fac

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