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by alex_sf 4y ago
War stopped Hitler's germany. That's a solution.
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While I do love the quote line-by-line format, you are splitting up sentences and completely changing my post, which is, at least, in bad faith. > singular ... er, no? Mass shooting and terrorism _rate_. Are you familiar with the concep
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> It's common enough to disprove the statement "Human nature is inherently violent". It shows that understanding humanity is simply too complex to boil down to pat remarks like that. If we accept every aberration as dispro
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> The one that I live most of my time in, Norway, does not seem to have growing discontent The mass shooting and terrorism rate there increasing seems like a reasonable counter to that idea. Along with steady suicide rates despite massi
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> universal, inherent state It's not a universal, inherent state in any humans that survive. It's an aberration. That being said, I'm not actually aware of any of these abundant/common peaceful/pacifist societie
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I appreciate an opportunity to provide clarity when it seems like a point was missed. Whether it's circular or not isn't a meaningful property when bombs are dropping. In that spirit of providing clarity: what is your answer to th
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That's semantics imo. If pacifism results in extinction, then any revision of human nature that involves it is irrelevant. Humans don't exist without violence.
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Cooperation is certainly critical, violence is what allows for it to take place. You can build a utopian commune, but if your neighbors want your crops you would be wise to get a weapon.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Yep. I know what you meant to do here, and I still agree. You do not get to choose whether someone else is violent or not. If you aren't prepared for violence, you can only be a victim of it.
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It's not a critique of the idea alone, it's forcing it into context. If we take a common example of how I've seen this play out: A: iPhones and Apple are evil because they require child slavery. B: But.. you own an iPhone? A:
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I don't think it's ever fair to expect someone to do everything right, but if you want to pontificate on a specific issue, you should act in congruence with that.
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I don't think this counts as Godwin's law given the context, but: What exactly is your solution to the sort of naked aggression by Hitler in WW2? Is war not a solution to that problem?
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I don't understand why that's toxic. Striving, struggle, and violence are critical for any living thing to survive. Short of reaching post-scarcity, this can't change. If we define toxic as harmful, then violence is the opp
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I still don't understand why that's a bad argument. In context, it's generally used to oppose hard leftist ideas (Marxism, etc). It's rarely a criticism leveled at reasonable reform or change; more when it nears outrig
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Those are referred to as swamp coolers in the US. They depend on low humidity to function, which practically limits their use to the southwest US. It also hasn't been that popular since the advent of AC since they don't do a very
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Which then goes right back to the criticism at the top of this thread: just raise prices and kill poor people.
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Can't that be true for us, though? If we had JWT 4 billion years ago, who knows what we would have seen.
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> If you want to argue "meant to", you must reference that to a time when the USA was about 17 states, all of roughly equal power, economy and population. 1803, just before the Louisiana Purchase. This is blatantly false. The
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> Anything that says that Texas and West Virginia are equal to each other in some mystical sense of having equal weight in decisions that affect the whole country is an ideology not compatible with democracy. It's completely compati
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Stopping hackers should be everyone's mandate. When your network is under attack and the FBI have stingrays, do you get into an argument with them because they don't have warrants?
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> Copilot isn't automagically going to give you the windows XP source code tho I mean, it might. That's the whole concern. It's scraping random bits of code from all over the place.
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Even that is arguable; I'd rather see an MD for an annual physical. It seems like a routine thing to people not in the medical field, but there are a ton of little things that are checked and could be caught early. I'd rather ha
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> curiously they had and still have extremely negative opinions of medical paraprofessionals like PAs and NPs This isn't entirely unfounded. There are real concerns over replacing MDs with mid-levels with much less training. The A
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Nothing. It’s pseudoscientific nonsense.
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The US and Turkmenistan would be good starts.
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What is 'hate speech'?
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What's wrong with nationalism? Do you also think supporting your local community is weird?
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This sums up my views exactly, and it's why I quit using TikTok when I realized the impact it was having. I appreciate the neat summation of the (imo) core issue.
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> Sales isnt something you can learn to do Strongly disagree. There is a consistent overlap between strong technical folks and skills/personalities that make it more difficult to learn to sell, but you can absolutely learn it.
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I mean, that's fine. If you're being 'cyberbullied', it's not an emergency, you can wait a few days.

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