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by caconym_ 5y ago
Cruise ships are hideously wasteful, but I don't see anybody complaining that they have some sort of gas shortage because of cruise ships specifically . Gas prices are what they are, and consumers complain in very general terms becaus
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by caconym_ 5y ago
If humanity sticks around, I think we (well, not us , but you know what I mean) will eventually see change toward more advanced, more efficient designs. But when you have an effective duopoly of massive incumbents selling aircraft with dec
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Is Tesla the only car company collecting usage data? Off the top of my head, I don't think so. Your comment kind of reminds me of how much shit "Big Tech" gets for data collection, just because they're highly visible, wh
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Whether or not it was an attempted coup depends only on what the intentions of the “rioters” were. So, what do you think their intentions were in storming the chambers of our legislative branch just as the results of an election were being
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> The world feels totally dead, so it doesn't scratch any itch of mine like a GTA game does. The world is pretty, yes, but it doesn't feel alive, and the poor mechanics make it hard to cover that gap. If they'd nailed the
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I want to know what games the "cyberpunk wasn't good" crowd is playing instead that scratch the same itch. At this point it just seems like a throwaway line from people who don't like the kind of game it is, and haven&#x
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The lesson we should take from GPT-3 is that we spend way too much time reading text that isn't really saying anything, and/or failing to find meaning in what we read. It's a neat trick, and I think it could absolutely replac
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> we found this that looks like Russia In your scenario, that's not a lie.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> Disinformation campaigns very frequently include publicly signaling you’ve come to a different conclusion than the real one you’ve come to. I'm not sure why you think what I said is incompatible with this. Often the best "lie
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Isn’t this kind of begging the question? It’s implicit in your reasoning that the CIA does exactly what I’ve claimed they generally don’t do. Anyway, the point is that I don’t think you have to dig very deep these days to find plenty of ins
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I think it’s much more likely for both these orgs to be telling the truth when they’re accusing their enemies of doing bad things than it is when they’re denying that they’ve done bad things themselves. It’s not a simple case of one consist
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by caconym_ 6y ago
You aren’t wrong, but (taking the corporate entity in question as a monolith, which is fair from the outside) “unwilling” is a much more honest word choice in cases like this since it clearly communicates that there was a real practical dec
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Arguably the problem in your brother’s case is more his organization being willing to ignore evidence in favor of “optics”, and less the ability of women to make their experiences with predators public. When accusations like this come out,
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by caconym_ 6y ago
To me the disingenuous part would be claiming they’re going to follow the prevailing ethical guidelines (paraphrased) when in fact they disagree with those guidelines and have essentially hatched this whole monkey/human hybrid scheme t
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Yes. So the point of my comment was to illustrate that either they haven't thought their position through very well, or they're being disingenuous in their claimed intent to follow "all the ethical, legal, and social guidelin
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> so you see the first statement as, "animals are people too" instead of "humans are just animals." You're assuming a lot yourself by telling me how I interpret the point about the line between humans and animals
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by caconym_ 6y ago
It seems contradictory to suggest at the same time that a) these hybrids might teach us that the line between humans and animals isn't as stark as a lot of people think, and b) these hybrids will not be human and therefore will be suit
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by caconym_ 6y ago
If somebody told me to complete five pages of trivial arithmetic problems, I'd probably regard it as a waste of time. If they said I'd get a million dollars for doing it (and I believed them) then it would cease to be a waste of t
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> Only if the plane is partly a passenger plane. If it would be a pure cargo plane, the whole back could be unpressurized, or am I missing something? I'd guess you'd get stress issues in the bulkhead behind the cockpit if you t
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by caconym_ 6y ago
It’s disingenuous and unproductive to frame discussions of “rights” in the legal/moral sense this way. A belief that individuals should be entitled to some “right” doesn’t imply a lack of understanding of the fact that an individual
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Yeah, that’s what the “with impunity” part is about.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> I worry that government officials who claim to protect all Americans equally can violate our constitutional rights with impunity. At this point, is there any doubt of this? At least, insofar as "constitutional rights" compris
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Really sorry to hear about your mom. I wish her the best. I'd been meaning to write a more substantial reply to your last comment, but I've been underwater at work and haven't had the time; maybe this weekend. But I do think
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> Go research benefit and pensions. People in these government organizations get life-long pensions that they did not pay for. They also get life-long health coverage...they did not pay for. These pensions are unsustainable without the &
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by caconym_ 6y ago
You’re complaining about our government’s systemic dysfunction, which is not something I’ll argue with. I think we are circling the drain and already totally fucked, honestly. So when I talk about making some aspect of our society work bett
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> If you think what Canada has is great and I’m just a complainer it’s because you haven’t looked at how the rest of the world organizes care. I think a system where everybody has access to healthcare is better than one where they don&#x
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by caconym_ 6y ago
> And if government got out of the business of healthcare --other than ensuring a fair and safe market-- these people would not have to make that choice. I don't follow. As far as the people I'm talking about are concerned, the
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by caconym_ 6y ago
If everybody in Canada has realistic access to essential healthcare (including dental and vision), you’re already doing better than we are in America. A lot of your complaints apply to our system, too—in the sense that I’ve experienced them
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by caconym_ 6y ago
I don't really think it's inappropriately imprecise, though. It's just an acknowledgement that the link between biological sex and gender self-identification is not well understood at this time.
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by caconym_ 6y ago
Biology affects biological sex. For most people this means XX or XY chromosomes. There are probably some nuances of expression and phenotype in there too, and obviously some people's chromosomal situation does not fall into either of t

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