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by b6 9y ago
I don't think the problem is that we're too stupid. It's just that first past the post voting inevitably results in Tweedledee vs. Tweedledum, both of whom support, e.g., continuing the drug war, expanding mass surveillance,
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by b6 9y ago
I don't want to be discouraging to anyone. Please, do anything you think will be helpful. But the NSA's equipment is still in hundreds of network equipment rooms, and the data is being split off recorded and rifled at will. They&#
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Artist Hua Yong singing Happy Birthday to his daughter before arrest(youtube.com)
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by b6 9y ago
> Many in this thread are talking about "options" and "choices" but really what we're talking about is an option that's better for these families than the status quo. OK, this is interesting. One source of f
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by b6 9y ago
> many people have strong ties to the bay area which serve to keep them there It sounds like you're saying that something there is important to them, so they choose to stay. We all make choices and live with consequences. > but m
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by b6 9y ago
Downvoters, please explain yourselves. Parent post is fundamentally making a statement about what is possible. If you think it is impossible, the burden is on you to explain why, considering it is possible even to escape from an actual pr
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by b6 9y ago
> How do you move to Nebraska when you have $100/week for food? How could anyone here answer that question? It's not specific enough to answer. Could it be difficult to do? Yes. Are you trying to claim it's impossible, tha
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by b6 9y ago
Your original contention was that only racists/sexists/whatever-ists hide behind "not a culture fit". That wasn't true. Now you seem to want to talk about some legal point. As I said, I don't want to discuss le
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by b6 9y ago
I think I've shown your original contention is wrong, or at least incomplete or simplistic. I'm not qualified or inclined to debate US law.
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by b6 9y ago
"Not a culture fit" could easily mean something like "this person and I have a very fundamental (probably irreconcilable) disagreement about something important". Fundamental disagreements are probably going to result in
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by b6 9y ago
Not necessarily. If I were hiring and you expressed something like that to me, I might say you're not a culture fit (with me), and it doesn't have anything to do with your age, gender, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, because I d
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by b6 9y ago
> Criticizing their area of focus helps no one No, I think it can be helpful to criticize if people are being misled into picking up pennies when twenties, fifties, and hundreds are falling out of their pockets.
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by b6 9y ago
I'm not criticizing how you spend your time. I'm criticizing BLM for directing our focus onto what is a tiny sliver in the pie chart of how black people die. If they want to fight police brutality, great, but then why are they cal
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by b6 9y ago
I agree. But people have been fighting police brutality for years and years. That's not BLM's focus, or they'd be called Stop Police Brutality or something.
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by b6 9y ago
BLM is still a harmful distraction because not that many lives are being lost by wrongful police shootings. It would be more beneficial to focus on areas like Chicago where hundreds die every year (overwhelmingly young black men killed by y
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by b6 9y ago
I can take a guess. After the Buddha was enlightened, he went back to his old friends the ascetics, and they didn't believe he was enlightened. But they talked and after a while they were convinced. Later, doubters would visit the Budd
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by b6 9y ago
> Who's getting robbed? Is it the really the case that anyone is being robbed?
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by b6 9y ago
5:23 ... many argue that it might be time to distribute the spoils more evenly to preserve the social peace. This does not come from principles. It sounds like a stickup.
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by b6 9y ago
I'm very interested in music but never took a class or learned notation or theory. This appeals to me because it has always irked me that people would write down songs like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Happy Birthday as if they start
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by b6 9y ago
I have no way of directly knowing anything about situations like these. But I suspect that no matter what they say, they're collecting the data. I don't want to hear about court rulings, I want to hear that their hardware has been
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by b6 9y ago
To see what the Buddha saw, leading my brain to do the reassessment that causes freedom from suffering. I meditate daily and study related books like The Mind Illuminated .
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by b6 9y ago
This is so unrelated to the article, but I would love to have some idea what you're talking about here. Are you saying Lil Pump is a very strong artist ? In what sense?
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by b6 9y ago
I don't think that. I would ask for greater recognition that it is inevitable that men will make the vast majority of the mistakes because of the difference in male and female sex drives. This is not a failure of morality on the part o
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by b6 9y ago
I think the world will be worse for burning people at the stake for making mistakes. Comedians are some of the very few people who seem to be able to get anyone to change their minds about anything. They're widely loved for bringing pe
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by b6 9y ago
> For example, the idea that there is systemic white supremacy in the U.S. is hard to challenge What is there to challenge? What is the claim, even? > politics is dominated by heterosexuals For years we fought against discrimination b
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by b6 9y ago
I support the EFF. I really appreciate their efforts. But I think at some point I just got too tired of perpetually being in a state of having just barely fended off the latest attack, and getting ready for the next wave. Something shifted
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by b6 9y ago
Zuckerberg is my go-to example of a tool. Utterly consumed by ambition. Eager to serve power. No vision, no internal compass, just endless hunger. The guy sucks up to Xi Jinping! Of course he has a trust problem. It's rare to encounter
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by b6 9y ago
I think it's good if people read about the supposed "voice to skull" phenomenon. But in my experience, someone who says they are experiencing voice to skull (a.k.a. "V2K") are actually experiencing schizophrenia, th
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by b6 9y ago
Rudeness and inconsiderateness are everywhere, but as anyone who has lived in China for a long period of time can tell you, it is endemic in China. I'm not aware of any place where the problem is generally thought to be as bad. Why, I
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by b6 9y ago
Whatever the thing or force is that is looking out of my eyes and just knowing , it is also looking out through the eyes of animals, to whatever extent possible. Of course this is non-falsifiable.

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