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by baddox 6y ago
This is precisely how you achieve consistency, by adjusting for well-established differences in how different groups of people are treated. How else would you suggest achieving consistency, given that the status quo is not consistent? Surel
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by baddox 6y ago
No. Racism in its broadest, widely-accepted usage, refers to the treatment of people based on the belief that one race is superior to another. This program, as far as I can tell, makes no claims about any race being superior to another race
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by baddox 6y ago
If your comment is accurate, then it serves as a strong argument for why the police should be defunded even more than 50%.
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by baddox 6y ago
Yes, I think a bit part of the societal change is that we just don't need extremely high-resolution pictures any more. We're consuming the photos on our phones, or if we happen to view them on a TV or a desktop/laptop monitor
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by baddox 6y ago
Sure, but as long as a single unencrypted bridge is running, anyone else within range of that bridge can listen, so you won’t really get significant benefits of encryption until the switchover is complete.
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by baddox 6y ago
It works fine up to 125% for me, but then it just zooms when you increase to 150%.
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by baddox 6y ago
Even then, how much does he care? How many of his mansions does he stand to lose?
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by baddox 6y ago
I’m okay with a nominal reduction in anyone’s reach.
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by baddox 6y ago
Television. Online and paper news. Literally beaming messages directly to the cellphones of every American.
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by baddox 6y ago
Serious question: do you genuinely think he would care if 50% of the SREs went on strike, or even if they quit immediately? I find it hard to believe that he would be significantly distraught.
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by baddox 6y ago
When has any military ever stopped obeying criminal orders? I’m sure it has happened before, but I’m sure they are rare and isolated cases.
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by baddox 6y ago
Well, yeah. Fascism tends to be popular, even though it’s really bad and needs to be resisted.
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by baddox 6y ago
The American people made their preferences clear in the 2016 election. That clearly does not work.
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by baddox 6y ago
Who is “we” or “they?” I’ve certainly never done it. It has been terrible every time someone has done it.
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by baddox 6y ago
With a Red Cross. You’d think that wouldn’t be allowed, but who out there is enforcing what things are supposed to be allowed?
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by baddox 6y ago
Huge amounts of savings? It has only been a few months, and surely that would be considered an extremely tiny runway for a large national or international corporation. But sure, if government bailout money is there for the taking, obviously
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by baddox 6y ago
That’s certainly not the case. The government can be sued.
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by baddox 6y ago
Why shouldn't it also be invalid in an analogous non-government situation?
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by baddox 6y ago
Okay, then why doesn't that happen in analogous non-government situations? Why doesn't every construction company sue a developer every time they don't get given a new contract? Why doesn't every job interviewee sue ever
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by baddox 6y ago
If a DMV agent is depriving you of your rights or mistreating you in some tortious way, why shouldn't you be able to sue that DMV agent? I'm not necessarily against government offices providing legal services to help defend their
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by baddox 6y ago
> But breathlessly calling out the headline debt number without acknowledging that vehicle debt is a reasonable strategy for a rental car company is misleading at best. Shouldn't the conclusion be that it isn't a reasonable s
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by baddox 6y ago
I still don't get it though. What would you be suing a commissioner over that would get them to reverse their decision? If you're suing them directly for their decision, then surely that just wouldn't be a valid lawsuit. If y
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by baddox 6y ago
The idea that law enforcement and government officials should be treated less strictly under the law is, to me, completely preposterous. If anything, they should explicitly not be given the benefit of the doubt and should be treated muc
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by baddox 6y ago
That’s never part of the thought experiment. The trolley problem isn’t asking whether you should risk one life or risk 100 lives. It’s asking what you would do in a situation that you were placed into.
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by baddox 6y ago
I guess it’s not clear what you mean by “police corruption.” If “removing police corruption” just means “removing the possibility of any bad action by any police officer,” then you get right back to my previous comment. To me, “removing pol
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by baddox 6y ago
Well, that would just be a “who lives longer” contest between the two servers. :)
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by baddox 6y ago
That seems overblown. Would you ever ride in a car with a driver that might sacrifice the lives of everyone in the car to save 1,000 people? I suspect that lots of people have actively made decisions while driving their own car that endange
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by baddox 6y ago
But why would you hypothetically remove bad actions from just the police? I genuinely don’t understand. By the exact same argument, if you removed all bad actions from everyone who isn’t a police officer, then of course you’d expect polic
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t understand. Surely in the ideal world nobody would kill anyone else. I’m not sure that’s very realistic, or even relevant to what we should expect from police in the real world.
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by baddox 6y ago
How many instances of police stopping a murder can you think of?

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