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Mask Mandates Are Illogical. So What?(theatlantic.com)
11 points by colpabar 5y ago|7 comments
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by colpabar 5y ago
They were touting their graviton (arm) powered instance types a lot at last year's reinvent. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/
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by colpabar 5y ago
We do need more housing, but what’s stopping these same investors from buying it all up?
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by colpabar 5y ago
I really hate the demonization of the phrase "conspiracy theory". Why is it so crazy to entertain the idea that the rich and powerful who control major institutions may be working together?
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by colpabar 5y ago
No, I tried to make my comment thoughtful and hoped someone would want to engage with it so maybe we could learn something.
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by colpabar 5y ago
What gets me is the way that people will see a picture of a swastika and immediately brand everyone involved as a racist, but then turn around and say that any wrongdoing that happened during a protest for a cause they do agree with was jus
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by colpabar 5y ago
What swastikas?
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by colpabar 5y ago
Absolutely. Lying is always somewhat incentivized, but in most cases it doesn't work, because the candidate will be found out. If I interviewed at google, I could lie about my skills all I want, but I will be found out when asked to de
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by colpabar 5y ago
> my speech is protected by the law - both from the state and my employer (a university). Can you elaborate what it means that your speech is protected by your employer? Because that seems like something that doesn't happen here in
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by colpabar 5y ago
It’s not just normal, it’s progressive! In all seriousness though, lots of americans share your sentiment. Lots of us would just like to live our lives, but we’re constantly bombarded with stuff like this.
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by colpabar 5y ago
In america it’s important that our ruling class constantly divides all us plebs up by race so that we can all be mad at each other instead of them. It’s incredibly effective.
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by colpabar 5y ago
But isn't that worse? You basically just said that the people we vote for aren't actually the people in charge. How is that supposed to make anyone feel better? And as for the whole "focus on your loved ones" notion, I r
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by colpabar 5y ago
As an American, I know I'm miserable because I have realized that I'm going to have to choose between a giant douche and a turd sandwich in all elections for the rest of my life, with any alternatives being disqualified for being
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by colpabar 5y ago
Usually the term "demonstration" refers to something like a march, sit-in, or some other form of non-violent protest. We're not talking about that, we're talking about people destroying private property. > by and larg
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by colpabar 5y ago
I always get a kick out of a driver angrily speeding around me on my bike just to get to a red light.
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by colpabar 5y ago
I mentioned target because it was a very visible event; I think a lot of people saw that one picture of the self checkout machine being smashed with a hammer. What people don't seem to know or remember is that a lot of small, local bus
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by colpabar 5y ago
I agree 100%. It was so disappointing to see all the damage done to private businesses during the summer of 2020. Why not go after government buildings? Isn't that who funds all the things that were being protested? How does destroying
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by colpabar 5y ago
I don't really consider money going from my pocket, to Egypt, then to the US military industrial complex as "staying in the US." My taxes should go to things that benefit me and other regular citizens, not war profiteers.
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by colpabar 5y ago
> reduce military spending We could also just stop meddling in other countries' affairs so much.
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by colpabar 5y ago
Pittsburgh, by population, is 6 times smaller than Hamburg (300k vs 1.8m). I'm not sure about size, but Pittsburgh is pretty small and the bridge density is pretty high. I think that's where the "city of bridges" title c
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by colpabar 5y ago
Who cares? The point is that 8% of US taxpayer money goes outside the US. Why shouldn't I be upset about that, or at least question it?
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by colpabar 5y ago
My point is that if you insinuate that anyone who holds that position is stupid through sarcasm and snarky comments, you are never going to hear those reasons, because no one will want to engage with you.
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by colpabar 5y ago
> Gosh, it's like vaccines work and that's the way out of this. You know, I see snarky little comments like this becoming more and more common on this site, and I'd just like to point out that they are not helpful in any w
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by colpabar 5y ago
I’d say we should handle it with more speech. All the experts should start their own podcasts where they have their own guests and talk about, among other things, _why_ the things discussed on his show are misinformation. Make each episode
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by colpabar 5y ago
What bugs me about the "we can't overwhelm the health care system" argument is that when/if this is all over, NOTHING will be done to improve the health care system to help prevent that from happening in the future. We&#
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by colpabar 5y ago
footage of a meeting between the NBA and the "metaverse partner" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8f-BQFo7lw
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by colpabar 5y ago
It looks serious to me. Go to the homepage and look at the some of the other articles; this one doesn’t seem unusual.
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by colpabar 5y ago
Another way to look at it is that it isn’t about stopping criticism if the criticism has no effect. Serious boycotts can be very effective, but “criticism” from politicians can be meaningless.
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by colpabar 5y ago
Do you think that maybe the lobbying groups funded by israel had something to do with those resolutions being passed?
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by colpabar 5y ago
> several friends have been outraged I don't know if you can even call it cynicism anymore. You just understand the news media business model. Outrageous headline -> more clicks -> more ad revenue. There would simply be less r

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