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by core-questions 6y ago
> accusing your opponents of anthropomorphizing because of concern about non-human suffering is a ridiculous response. No, it's actually incredibly reasonable. Anthropomorphizing is the process of imparting human qualities onto non-
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by core-questions 6y ago
> I think it's possible to care about both and not eating meat is a relatively easy way to reduce one. The downsides make it considerably less than "easy". Easy is continuing with the status quo; and as that is certainly l
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by core-questions 6y ago
> Why not care about the emotional state of the animal? I don't need to. What benefit does it have for me, or for anyone, to sit around crying about the poor cow that became my prime rib dinner? It's utterly pointless. The cows
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by core-questions 6y ago
False equivocation. And yes, I'd help veterans first.
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by core-questions 6y ago
> You haven’t kill much, didn’t you? A few things. Mostly fish. Mostly from lack of opportunity. I'm all for humane killing where possible, of course!
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by core-questions 6y ago
> For me, it was mostly about reducing suffering of other animals. I thought this way before but it's hard to change behavior and I liked hamburgers. I think this is the strongest argument and the environmental or nutritional argume
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by core-questions 6y ago
> This sounds like frenology all over again. Phrenology, and no, it's not at all the same. Phrenologists believed that you could determine aspects of a person's propensity towards behavior by measuring their head; psychometrici
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by core-questions 6y ago
> I see a lot of people defending all of this by saying "how is being more inclusive a bad thing". I can't speak for everyone but I don't think this is what people take issue with. The issue is that no amount of inclu
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by core-questions 6y ago
> They all question whether math instruction is racist; that seems like a question worth answering! The problem here is that this question is impossible to answer rigorously without treading into areas that are career suicide. It is extr
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by core-questions 6y ago
Really? Seems like a typical parenthetical elite, with all the connections and intrigue that go with it. His history is a standard playbook of actions benefiting himself and his people over everyone else.
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by core-questions 6y ago
> but I know it's completely possible to have a wide variety of political viewpoints in SEAS What _you_ and Harvard in general think of as a wide variety of political viewpoints, and what _actually_ constitutes a wide variety, are
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by core-questions 6y ago
It honestly isn't. I just feel like I am losing touch with the range of opinions on this issue and want to get some elaboration into something that's outside of my normal filter bubble.
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by core-questions 6y ago
Right, and it's not like there's actually a hard requirement for perfect uptime in a lot of settings.
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by core-questions 6y ago
I am interested in hearing what you would do about this if you were in charge. Want to elaborate?
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by core-questions 6y ago
But who would use the Nomad CLI for serious work? I use the Terraform provider for Nomad to launch all my jobs.
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by core-questions 6y ago
You can totally do it on three machines, each running triple duty as consul, nomad, and worker machines.
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by core-questions 6y ago
This is my approach, though I stuck around a lot longer than you did. There's something about the format that makes debates into arguments and makes arguments into shit-slinging. People froth at the mouth on there who would be much mor
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by core-questions 6y ago
Truly, we live in fascinating times. One amazing thing is that if you had the exact same politics and policies as a Zionist but for any other cause, the same elite Americans who support Zionism would lambaste you as a maniac.
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by core-questions 6y ago
Wait, you said South America and South Africa. The former certainly had cities; the latter was mostly wasteland with some amount of nomadic peoples who couldn't stay in one place because living off the land in one place was impossible
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by core-questions 6y ago
> Claiming that Jews are not native to the Middle East and are an attempt to replace Palestinians is factually wrong, though, You stuck an 'and' between two ideas there. Native? Sure. Not an attempt to replace Palestinians? Tha
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by core-questions 6y ago
I mean, if you think that a land that is filled with 20th century cities and has a documented history of being highly populated for thousands of years is the same thing as a continent that is practically empty, I don't know what to tel
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by core-questions 6y ago
There's a vast difference between legitimate, legal, welcomed immigration and invasion sanctioned by foreign states that results in the creation of an occupied territory, but you already knew that.
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by core-questions 6y ago
One does not so much "fall into it" so much as one is accused of it whenever one's opinion about political or military actions runs counter to Zionism.
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by core-questions 6y ago
Well, that list implies you have a built body so that the baldness is not a factor. If you're average or worse, it's not going to play the same way.
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by core-questions 6y ago
Doesn't the "hoarding money" thing only even apply if you keep your money as literal physical cash in your mattress? If it's in a bank account, it's being lent out and is working, no?
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by core-questions 6y ago
Would negative interest rates actually percolate down to retail consumers? Will I be able to get paid to take a loan?
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by core-questions 6y ago
> People already know the root cause, and it is overpolicing and discretionary enforcement of crimes like drug possession. No, you've only pushed the root cause back a step by doing this. It's entirely possible to understand th
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by core-questions 6y ago
Unfortunately, I have learned that there's no value in doing so, since anyone who has managed to be willfully ignorant of the obvious conclusions here that have been consistent for decades will not be convinced by anything I link to; i
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by core-questions 6y ago
What if I told you that both things are bad, and that I want the perpetrators of both crimes to face proportionate punishment? There's no reason for one's critique to fall victim to a false dichotomy here, even if the American pol
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by core-questions 6y ago
You know what it makes me think? You're chasing extremely marginal gains in life expectancy. Yes, there's a good chance that in the caveman days I would only have had honey in rare circumstance when I found a good beehive and had

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