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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Indeed living in Germany taught me that sometimes it's better to be alone than to be around people who make you feel alone. It's not sufficient to simply be around people, it can absolutely be actively counter-productive. Coming
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
It's not communication veganism to simply not insult people. It's a feature of our societies that has existed since before societies existed. I struggle to think of a single situation where insulting someone is pleasant for the
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Well, if I were to come across someone IRL who argued that we didn't need to be nice to people and observe basic mores that have most likely existed for at least as long as humans have existed, I'd call it nonsense there too, but
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Well in fairness if there was any slight hint of ambiguity as you suggest then I simply wouldn't call their idea stupid or suggest it could never work. I would just ask them more questions. I think that's a good way to operate.
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Well if the idea is genuinely stupid then it will never work? I am operating on the assumption that someone has actually said something stupid. That's the given. If they've said something clever then obviously all bets are off
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
It hurt the fragile person, yes, but let's think of the average person. Calling someone's idea stupid will reasonably insult the average person and make them think you're a cock, unless you know them well enough (in which ca
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
But if you want to communicate that you respect someone you will avoid the magic words because it's impossible for them to read your mind and understand your true intentions. Just empathy isn't it? If someone calls you a cunt bu
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Well firstly it's not actually true, what we teach children, in that words absolutely can hurt. And it's not really hard to be respectful: >"That's a stupid idea" versus >"That idea simply will never work
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
I think even to describe them as "very bad people" is quite the stretch. They may be a little bit obnoxious but running a red light as a car vs running a red light as a cyclist is completely and utterly different. Firstly the im
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Well Hindi is just as alien linguistically to the south as English is. English and Hindi have more in common with each other. I guess English is a neutral second langauge.
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
You're right, he doesn't. The idea that somehow it is sensible, when you're seriously ill, to just abandon your entire support network for financial reasons makes next to no sense whatsoever. Thank you for sharing your sto
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
> and could come to these conclusions themselves People already have. That is what the state is. Society has come together to solve problems through the state. Just like with free education for all children (which sadly you didn'
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
There does seem to be something uniquely perverse and wicked about US society (at least among the developed nations), and I say that as someone who nevertheless broadly admires the US. So incredibly religious and prone to moralising and ye
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
By your logic the state shouldn't pay for school for children either. It does though because it's an investment, the country is better off for having an educated and literate population. I suspect that one day free childcare wil
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Yeah and the Taliban were willing to protect the guy who committed one of the worst terrorist atrocities in memory. Funny how it's totally understandable according to you why the Taliban wouldn't trust America, but somehow Americ
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
That was after the bombing had already begun and it had to be a "country that wouldn't come under US pressure". I don't see what's so unreasonable about handing him over to the US tbh.
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
The mindset is simply that the market fails to price in the negative externalities associated with CO2 emissions. So taxes in some form make up for that. I'm not sure what there is to disagree with there. All such people are advocat
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
No, that's not what he's saying at all.
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Still no idea what any of that has to do with the National Review being a racist newspaper. Absolutely rabid stuff old chap.
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
I'm not looking for a broadly racist newspaper, a total non sequitur on your part.
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
That doesn't really have any bearing on whether or not the National Review is a broadly racist newspaper.
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
OK but why not give them the benefit of the doubt? You've given no reason why you don't believe them, you just say you don't. OK, so what?
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
There are miserably poor people in this world, that's right, but it's not because of the LHC or particle physicists. And assuming you're American (most likely) then your country has far, far, far, far bigger problems than th
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
I would say that 8km is actually quite small, and besides, LPWA has its own problems.
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Totally off-topic but this is another article guilty of offending my pet peeve: the use of italics for the mu symbol of the micro- prefix. These papers are easily the majority I'd say.
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Personally not. They've been optimising for thinness at the cost of pro-ness for too long I think. This seems like a more sensible balance to me.
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Seems wildly reductive to assume that over 22 years they didn't ever really try to raise him. I mean you could be right, but chances are, they did try.
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Isn't a key aspect of cafe culture that you buy a coffee and then can stay as long as you like?
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Fossil fuels and nuclear power provide base load, which we need for a stable power system. Renewables do not. So if we want to elevate renewables to that of base load power sources, so they are functionally equivalent to nuclear/foss
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by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
No, that is exactly the opposite of true. Competition is specifically with fossil fuels because it's not always windy and it's not always sunny. We need renewables, obviously, but we need nuclear as well to provide baseload.

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