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by atmavatar 7d ago
It's more general than that. Anti-vaxxers are a good example. Despite studies repeatedly debunking the link between vaccines and autism, plenty of people still believe vaccines cause autism. Many people who know someone who has exper
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by atmavatar 8d ago
For a sizable fraction of people, when the facts conflict with their biases, they choose to reject the facts and double-down on their biases.
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by atmavatar 9d ago
It's also been historically prone to price fixing. I would be completely unsurprised should we discover in a few years that peak RAM prices were at least partially due to price gouging and not merely due to shortages.
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by atmavatar 10d ago
The (vast?) majority of the debt happened as the result of the Republican party both increasing spending and cutting taxes every time it lands someone in the White House and before midterms flip the House back to Democrats. There's a f
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by atmavatar 11d ago
The average person doesn't like being recorded without their consent. That is why they've come up with epithets like "glasshole" for people using wearables where it's very in-your-face and obvious that you're
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by atmavatar 11d ago
> the over 50% of Americans who voted in favour of their current situation Small nitpick: while Trump won the popular vote, he did not earn over 50% of the votes. There were enough third-party votes that he won with only 49.8%.
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by atmavatar 12d ago
Perhaps the insurer should defer to the doctor, who is not only generally an expert at treating cancer but also much more familiar with the details of the patient. It baffles me why people are OK with insurers dictating care to doctors rath
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by atmavatar 13d ago
Rather than worrying about major world powers killing a large portion of the global population in a nuclear war, I'd worry more about the ultra-wealthy - i.e., the people with enough wealth where they can call up a world leader and exp
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by atmavatar 14d ago
It's wild that it still works to this day. I just checked it the other day via PuTTY. I first ran across it over 30 years ago while I was still in school, and I'm sure it's been up longer than that.
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by atmavatar 14d ago
No. He literally says he'll cut a check for $5,000 for every adult american if the Republicans win both the House and Senate in the midterms. You don't have to take my word for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by atmavatar 15d ago
It's even worse: Trump literally just promised during his midterm convention to pay everyone $5,000 should the Republicans win the midterms. Note that this promise is itself illegal. It is a violation of 18 USC 597. See: https:/
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by atmavatar 17d ago
I feel it worth pointing out an important distinction between censorship coming from "the left" vs. that coming from "the right". On the left, when someone uses a racial or sexist epithet, for example, the reaction is to
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by atmavatar 19d ago
Yet paradoxically, being old is nearly a requirement for political office. Biden was the oldest president in history, and with his re-election, Trump will become the oldest president in history should he live out his term. The average age o
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by atmavatar 21d ago
For some quick and easy evidence, you could look at the history of the Post Office. USPS has always been the poster child for efficient and effective government agencies. Despite claims otherwise, the agency still manages to deliver lett
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by atmavatar 21d ago
Do they act on their beliefs or merely parrot them? I ask because I've known people who were shocked at what took place 2021-01-06 but who proudly voted to re-elect Trump. Today isn't much different: talk to a conservative voter w
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by atmavatar 23d ago
A significant fraction are non-whites. Many who were born before segregation ended in the mid-1960s were not granted birth certificates, as their mothers were forced to use midwives during birth because local hospitals were whites only and
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by atmavatar 23d ago
The primary motivation for Rupert Murdoch's creation of Fox News was to prevent the Republican party from ever suffering an embarrassing resignation like Nixon again. Present the Republican base with an alternate reality where every ac
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by atmavatar 24d ago
> The problem is bigger than tech. Is it capitalism? The underlying problem is that power and wealth causes people to believe themselves above others to a degree proportional to how much more power and wealth they have relative to those
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by atmavatar 25d ago
That's because the Democrats are controlled rather than true opposition. It still makes the party a better option than Republicans often times, in that they won't intentionally (but will sometimes accidentally) break things or st
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by atmavatar 25d ago
> Are there positive aspects to laziness? Hard work often pays off in the future, but laziness always pays off now .
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by atmavatar 25d ago
I find it fascinating that some people have never themselves or known anyone else who, upon some person causing them serious loss of emotional well-being/time/work/money, joked about harming them in some way while venting to
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by atmavatar 25d ago
Another way to close the loophole would be to amend the tax code to realize the gains for any stock used as collateral, since the person obtaining the loan is already de facto realizing the gains for the sake of the loan.
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by atmavatar 26d ago
There was a time not so long ago when it was common for chemistry teachers to show off pools of mercury in their bare hands. By the time I first took chemistry classes, though, that practice had stopped, less out of concern of exposure to l
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by atmavatar 26d ago
Back in my day, we had nine planets.
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by atmavatar 26d ago
> it looks to me like both sides are weakening US hegemony in entirely different ways and have been for a while now. That's a pretty bold claim, especially insofar as it (perhaps unintentionally) sounds like you're claiming bot
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by atmavatar 27d ago
> All the while voter turnout is a complete joke. To be fair, the US electoral system is designed to discourage or outright disenfranchise most voters: * First-past-the-post, winner-take-all elections ensure that anyone who isn't li
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by atmavatar 27d ago
Because many of the wealthiest individuals de facto realize their gains in the form of collateral for loans that allow them to live without ever realizing their gains from the perspective of the tax code. If you do well enough, you never
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by atmavatar 27d ago
It gets easier with an electoral system other than FPTP (e.g., ranked choice, instant runoff), whereby more than 2 parties appear. You can then mix and match multiple parties that support policies you want in a way that you're aiming
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by atmavatar 27d ago
> They’re smart enough I worked at a small company that had a policy of putting devs on front-line support in a rotation, both because it was too small to have dedicated support staff and because the owners wanted devs to understand how
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by atmavatar 29d ago
So only slightly less dangerous than a standard salad, with the cyclospora lettuce and killer tomatoes: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8...

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