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by bena 4y ago
The dominant opinion of the people of China or of the government of China? I would say that the majority of the people of China are much like the majority of the people of any land, they don't directly care about the issue. Someone on
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by bena 4y ago
When Hong Kong was ceded back to China, they were promised a certain level of autonomy for a certain amount of years. After a few years, China realized they didn't have to keep their word and have been rapidly taking more direct contro
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by bena 4y ago
I imagine it's a problem of creep as well. In 40 years, we've added a touch over 3 billion people to the planet. That's nearly double the population in under one lifetime. Everyone alive then and born within the next 24 years
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by bena 4y ago
It's really the portrayal of "cultural leftism" that leaves something to be desired. It's framed in such a way to make "cultural leftism" seem not only more paternalistic than they would describe their goals bu
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by bena 4y ago
We must also consider where we source our definitions from. The IEA is a right-wing think tank. They have a vested interest in promoting certain points of view. And to portray those opposed to them in certain ways. https://en.wik
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by bena 4y ago
It's the entire reason people want to study Toxoplasmosis. If it affects anything, that's going to mean a lot of people.
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by bena 4y ago
You can't use a site that takes markdown and generates HTML. It is a file in the project. By the letter, it counts. And the reason stuff like this happens is because of people who like to bend the rules on technicalities. Where they ho
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by bena 4y ago
Because they don't have the time to evaluate if the use of GitHub was legit or not for every single entry.
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by bena 4y ago
It's broader than you think. It's "sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files". Which GitHub does. Hell, even their project right now does it. Because README.md gets translated by GitHub. But that&#x27
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by bena 4y ago
This would be a facepalm moment for me if I were these guys. Because while they used GitHub in the most common manner, to host a code repository. Not only did they violate the rules technically, they also inadvertently violated them practic
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by bena 4y ago
Any difference quickly disappears once you take into account various accents and dialects. It's a lot like pin and pen. They're technically not by the strictest sense of the word homophones because there should be a slight differe
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by bena 4y ago
"Conscious" and "conscience" aren't homophones? Sorry I didn't specify the root of both words are homophones, I figured that would be obvious from context.
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by bena 4y ago
This is a meta problem with a lot of account-based services. You have someone you share resources with, but not accounts. So they have a dog, they have an AirTag on the dog, they'd both like to know about the tag, but they can't c
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by bena 4y ago
And I really hate that they're homophones.
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by bena 4y ago
It is very much a "if this, then that" situation. We know how gravity works locally (for various definitions of local). We can calculate and predict with a lot of accuracy how objects in our immediate vicinity will behave. All of
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by bena 4y ago
From what I understand, it is a problem in the tech sphere. But caste is not a protected class because it should not exist here. So, depending on how this law is written, it could extend anti-discrimination protections to groups that otherw
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by bena 4y ago
14 years, 5 months, 71 answers, 7 questions, ~5.6m people reached. Top 10% reputation overall. The toxicity started before it was even out of beta. I was fairly vocal early on about how certain attitudes were not conducive to community. And
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by bena 4y ago
But the other part of that was that it would be constantly up to date. They want to be the first result for "X in Y" and also have that be correct . But if I ask how to write getter/setters in C# in 2009 and get an answer th
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by bena 4y ago
> Down syndrome would be a candidate for elimination if you truly were unbiased. Why? Why is that the "unbiased" conclusion. You keep claiming this, but don't justify it. Also, you don't have to kill a single person.
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by bena 4y ago
You complain of others twisting logic, then justify Thanos with "the writers said so". Also, the only counter argument Iron Man needs is "Why does Thanos get to decide?" Not to mention, Thanos's response after every
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by bena 4y ago
They aren't pedantic details. They're just how it is. They knew the beat from the comics: that Thanos kills half the universe with a snap of his fingers. They wanted to hit that beat to mirror the comics. But it's poorly thou
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by bena 4y ago
It's not entirely that you have to execute people. It's that you have to restrict the rights of people to have sex with who they want. And you have to force others to give up their genetic material to produce offspring they may no
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by bena 4y ago
Yeah, I like to remind people we do eugenics all the time. With plants and animals. We don't call it that because we often feel that humans are a different class of life and we need special words to describe things we do to ourselves.
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by bena 4y ago
I'm not confused. Tesla is the insurer. Tesla is also the manufacturer of the insured item. You are using as proof of the claim, the fact that the group making the claim says they're right. This is big "We've investigate
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by bena 4y ago
I forget what the numbers were, but the Dreamcast needed every single console owner to buy something like 4 controllers each with their own rumble pack and VMU and then about a dozen games. But then Sega had to go full fucking Sega and the
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by bena 4y ago
You can get plenty obese without touching "chips, ice cream, ranch dressing, cookies, bagels, and other crap". Hell, your username is a reference to one of the worst things you can drink that is considered "healthy". Fru
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by bena 4y ago
We treat all sorts of addictions and unhealthy relationships with various things as things not entirely in a person's control. Why not an unhealthy relationship with food? I like reminding people that an alcoholic can abstain completel
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by bena 4y ago
Not only the stuff other people have said about how that money is actually spent, but... The market sets the prices. Sure, the politicians might want more, but I'm sure there are others who would be just as effective who could want les
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by bena 4y ago
Yeah, I just went check for a new Honda Civic, it's what I think of when I think of "average car" and it's in the 26/27 range. So it's gotta be partly because preferences have gone towards trucks and SUVs that
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by bena 4y ago
Society does not allow that, no. Society will punish you. But also, a lot of that is post facto. Someone can go out right now and straight up murder someone. It's "not allowed" and yes, they will get punished for it. But it s

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