blindmute

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by blindmute 5y ago
Do you really think that for 5000 years, throughout which physical punishment was the norm, nobody was "alright"? And that only in the last 50 years of human existence have we started to realize how to raise children "correct
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by blindmute 5y ago
Why do you think that people "as they are" are the best thing for society to have? What about the people who are violent and employ tough love, as they are? Should they feel valid too? Your premise of "everyone feels valid as
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by blindmute 5y ago
Trauma is like a sunburn. Adversity will give your brain a "tan", letting you handle worse adversity over time, but too much at once and it's trauma. The problem is that the kind of teens who go into these programs are often
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by blindmute 5y ago
Greenwald is not a source, his posts are just an aggregate of sources. Washington Post, which you did list, is implicated in 2 or 3 of the three I posted. I don't expect outlets to never make mistakes, but I do expect that a dozen outl
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by blindmute 5y ago
I don't think anyone in these kinds of discussions is trying to make any provision for limiting speech, or your ability to not buy a product out of protest. People are free to do whatever they want. There is no objective criteria that
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by blindmute 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand why they're committing to such a long term refactor for a game which has already reached the tail end of its sales curve. As far as I know there are no internal monetization schemes in Factorio, and I rea
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by blindmute 5y ago
It's hard to imagine anything that a GP can help you with if you're an adult with Google, other than giving you the prescriptions you know you need. They and anyone involved in sports medicine are about as good as WebMD if not wor
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by blindmute 5y ago
Triplebyte as an idea is great. As someone else pointed out, they are obviously not doing well financially, or they wouldn't have pivoted. I think their pivot will not work, though. They have gone from a unique thing that saves enginee
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by blindmute 5y ago
What you call victim blaming here, I call expecting a certain amount of accountability for oneself. And yes, I do expect everyone to have, or to cultivate, the ability to handle themselves in social situations. I believe this expectation to
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I believe this sort of thing is what happens when children are not taught to stand up for themselves: based on the post, the author never had a conversation with his attacker, asked for an apology, or did anything other than meekly tuck his
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by blindmute 5y ago
I made an account just to respond to this, for that guy. It will be easiest if I just post the original pieces which gathered such information, but you can follow the links within them yourself. NPR, Washington Post, NY Times, CNN, etc etc