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by cmh89 3y ago
The 'you can be right and dead' trope is so tired.Of course we should always be looking to mitigate dangerous and distracted drivers. >Outside of HN, in real life safety is a responsibility of everyone. The person driving the g
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> I think that high density living is inhuman. Which is laughable because for most of human history, we've lived extremely close to each other. Cavemen didn't have acre plots separate from other cavemen. >I want the convenie
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>My experiences with pedistrian near misses have been when people step in front of my car while staring at their phone Which means you failed to see the pedestrian a yield to them. You caused the near miss.
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>We’re talking about California. Are you saying California is owned by the logging companies? That seems rather dubious. Most of the forested land in California is owned by the federal government, who has historically managed the land ba
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>Racism against First Peoples isn't the biggest or near one of the biggest reason we haven't been doing controlled burns in California -- leftwing greenies have opposed burns because they oppose man's intervention with nat
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>I don't think saying "natives did it" is a justification for bringing it back That's not the justification. The author is bringing up traditional burning practices because suppression of those practices is a cause
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> The person they talk to is not someone in the forest service, or someone who is an expert in this. They talk to "UC Davis professor of Native American Studies Beth Rose Middleton Manning". They didn't talk to anyone, the
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>That's incorrect. You're welcome to find some sources that support your assertion. All the research on the matter disagrees with you though.
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Basing anything on one social experiment is not wise. “The weight of scientific evidence shows these programs do not help young people delay initiation of sexual intercourse,” says co-author John Santelli, professor of Population and Family
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Amsterdam already has a problem with alcohol getting people in trouble. Millions of people take mushrooms every year with no issues. The problem is we have such a high bar for pyschedelics that isn't applied to other recreational drugs
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>I wish there was a better way to get that message through other than experience. There is, puritanical American culture just wont do it. Abstinence only education, whether for sex or drug consumption doesn't work. It's complet
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There is a lot more to the story than that. How many people entered the workforce in the 80s with more than a years salary in student loans? Inflation adjusted home prices have more than doubled since 1985. Inflation-adjusted median wages
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It's really hard to form stable, wealthy countries in general. Countries that have developed in the last 60 years tend to have strong authoritarian leaders and the favor and interest of Europe and the United States. Ethopia does have n
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>Those people are genetically almost identical. I'm assuming (and hoping) you mean culturally identical because all humans are nearly genetically identical. >Those people are genetically almost identical. What’s the difference? I
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>Progressive ideology fundamentally assumes that the past is morally inferior and thus it is unthinkable to question if things were better in previous times What are you talking about? The progressive left frequently talks about the past
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No one thinks the world is going to get 'destroyed'. You're really donwplaying the 'more extreme weather' and life in hot areas is 'going to suck more'. More extreme weather doesn't mean you can'
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If enforcement and police were an actual solutions, the United States would be the cleanest, safest country on Earth. But we aren't because it isn't. The real crux of the issue is that the major west coast cities are being tasked
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A lot of states have made legal marijuana prohibitively expensive. The only black markets for weed in Oregon are for minors, because you can buy an ounce of pretty good quality stuff for $70. Politicians who lost the war to keep a harmless
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>t was mentioned in the article but probably a part of this is “standardization” of POS software and devices. Have seen up to 30% suggested tips before which is laughable. Receipts often have tip sections by default it seems. My favorite
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>Well I talk to my family and friends about woke culture, we all know exactly what each other is talking about. I'm guessing you have very similar views. > You asserting that the thing we're talking about doesn't exist
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>Well woke culture does seem to exist since so many people talk about it, Lots of people talk about a flat Earth but that doesn't mean a flat earth exists Also, 'people talk about it' is hilarious. The only people who talk
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>I think the 'wokeness' mention actually added credibility, most normal people have observed the woke phenomenon in their everyday life. "wokeness" is a defintion-less abstract tool that exists to be applied to ideas
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https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9clji/where_did_... reddit used to be owned by Conde Nast. Sears got upset about a post and complained to Conde Nast, who then told spez to take it down. If yo
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>And it would in turn be worth noting that the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation That's nonsense. The Sears debacle showed that reddits
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The author was struggling along to make a point and then dropped 'wokeness' to completely lose credibility. The author seemed to completely miss the point that, regardless of liberal or illiberal, when women have access to birth c
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>Universities and academics have shifted so far left that they are increasingly eating their own, the entire point of the book was to try and say that race and Western culture wasn't a factor. It's a pretty obvious argument aga
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The NSFW content feels like its just ads for OnlyFans accounts at this point. The NSFW subs suffer from the fate that all the other subs do, Reddit is too large at this point to cultivate any real, organic community.
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It makes me laugh that reddit's mobile site will let you view NSFW content but wont let you go to the contents of a NSFW post without downloading the app or signing in. Reddits main function as a porn facilitator will really hamper its
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>I never understood this complaint from the naysayers. In the United States, a lot of people act like being outside in 40 degree weather is deadly. I also think Americans are less social, especially as they get older so winters tend to b
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> haven't been on projects of this size, but with many of our customers a big issue is that the decisions are taken by people sufficiently high up in the organization that they don't know what's really going on, and withou

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