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by bequanna 5y ago
I like this idea in theory, but in practice I'm not sure if it does much to prevent major conflict. If I recall correctly, the "interconnectedness" of Europe of the Early 1900s was thought to be the reason that a large war wa
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by bequanna 5y ago
How many of these are due to suicide? Failing heath due to lack of socialization? Inability to get exercise? Poor diet? Depression? We’re now so far past thinking the cost of the pointless lockdowns was worth the benefit. Luckily, those who
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by bequanna 5y ago
Why are people still saying this? This statistic has been unmasked to be quite useless and only used for fear mongering so politicians/bureaucrats can cling to their emergency powers. These “Thousands of deaths” are where the deceased
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by bequanna 5y ago
A pity? Cut the “America is a terrible imperial country. They invaded Iraq and police the world blah blah blah” BS. Feel free to point out all the shortcomings, but you should indeed be grateful. The world is lucky to have at least one mili
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by bequanna 5y ago
Given the reports that the majority of incitement and criminal activity was performed by out of state agitators/opportunists, I would agree.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Growing the replacement body and getting general acceptance is probably channeling itself, but seems easy compared to connecting the “plumbing and wiring” from the head to the body. How close are we to doing this?
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by bequanna 5y ago
Ugh. This is so tiresome Why do some people find it necessary to turn every discussion into some racism witch-hunt?
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by bequanna 5y ago
But, this system does kinda work and allows for police to charge antisocial assholes with a crime while letting normal, reasonable people who made a simple mistake off with a warning.
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by bequanna 5y ago
The “breakthrough” here is in measurement of time dilation. The scientists aren’t “warping” anything.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Blaming Trump for inattentive driving? All bad things I don’t like are caused by X group is a poor way to look at the world. Letting your biases creep so far into how you make simple evaluations like that is a red flag and it might be time
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by bequanna 5y ago
The Bible is many different books combined. Some contain practical advice for living, others have philosophical rules of thumb, allegories, etc.
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by bequanna 5y ago
We could bicker about what “quality of life” means but if we define it as: “the most people have the most opportunities to live the life they want” good luck finding that being done at scale anywhere other than the US. I really don’t see ho
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by bequanna 5y ago
Americans are poor compared to who? Europeans? Funny how when I encounter (mostly upper middle class) Europeans that have been to the US almost all of them mention being blown away by our high quality of life. But what about our “poor”? The
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by bequanna 5y ago
Being too early is essentially the same thing as being wrong in this case.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Feeling like you are taking purposeful action towards things you want is a great way to start feeling better almost immediately. Think about things you want in the future. Who do you want to become? What material things would you like to ha
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by bequanna 5y ago
> What explains this obsession with engaging in mental gymnastics just to avoid calling people "marginalized"? Because I feel no need to bring nonsense labels and politics into an environment that should be a straight up merito
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by bequanna 5y ago
It seems that less technical the role, the longer an incompetent person can hide.
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by bequanna 5y ago
What explains this obsession with engaging in mental gymnastics just to call oneself “marginalized”? Is it to explain away shortcomings? Seek reparations? The feeling of being part of a group? Or simply attention seeking?
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by bequanna 5y ago
Maybe you didn’t intend it this way, but your statement is pretty much the default liberal argument of the past several years: “everyone who does or says something I don’t like is racist.” As a result, calling someone “racist” has pretty mu
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by bequanna 5y ago
Unless your toddler has some serious co-morbidities they are in a super low risk group if they contract. The number of hospitalizations/deaths under age 18 are incredibly small.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Straight up comparisons like that are pry too simplistic when dealing with a complicated system like our bodies. People seem to really want this kind of +1/-1 point system for health related behavior tho. Like: “I just spent 30mins at
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by bequanna 5y ago
I’m not familiar with this, but it smells like a supply crisis caused by over regulation. Instead of trying to lower demand the focus should be on increasing supply and lowering prices.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Too much money chasing too few good causes inflation.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Actually, the opposite. Wages for low level jobs have risen the fastest. All other categories have only a slight increase or flat.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Well, I guess I (and many others) will continue to rely on a source that pretty accurately represents reality vs completely discounting it because someone doesn’t like hearing uncomfortable truth, hand waves and screeches “racism”. The sour
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by bequanna 5y ago
Why are you making this about race? Even if that account doesn't have perfect coverage of all crimes committed, the incidents that are being report by that account DID actually happen, right? As an aside, I've been very happy to s
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by bequanna 5y ago
> mainly 13-19 year-old idiots Maybe they are "idiots", but that age group still commits their fair share of violent crimes: https://www.statista.com/statistics/424130/us-violent-crime-...
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by bequanna 5y ago
I lived in Downtown Minneapolis about 10 years ago in an "upscale" loft building. This was on the outside ring of development and somewhat near a lower income neighborhood. I was there for 18 months and during that time there were
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by bequanna 5y ago
Man…that sounds like a scary future. Pharma is a business. Children are just another demographic for them to expand into. In the aggregate, they have shown that they care very little about the long term negative effects of any drug. Maybe t
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by bequanna 5y ago
Check out the research on vaccine lipid nano particles accumulating in ovaries and impacting menstruation, menopause, etc. These aren’t remote or isolated reports. Then, consider that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have. No

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