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by dekken_ 4y ago
If there was already adequate housing for everyone then yeah, cause otherwise you're going to make getting housing harder for the countries poor, just look at the cost of living in Paris
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by dekken_ 4y ago
Your comment I responded too seemed more general, which is how I was responding to it, the article can eat my ass tbh
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by dekken_ 4y ago
> I 100% have control over how I feel about that. You do, that's great, sincerely, I mostly agree with you, but I feel it lacks a bit of nuance. Adults should have control over how they interpret reality, but not everyone does, an
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by dekken_ 4y ago
For profit health insurance is IMO not pro social.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
They could, it's just more of a DIY situation.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
Yes, but they are also paid by taxes, and they hardly are going to pay the entirety of their salary in taxes.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
> “companies are people” is not true `Citizens United` was a mistake yes.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
Not exactly relevant. However, a company does not exist without people.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
Maybe so, but individuals who are salaried, will pay taxes.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
One pays taxes, the other is paid by taxes. I'm not disagreeing with your statement, I just think they're currently/contextually dissimilar.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
It's a general comment about governments and bureaucracy.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
It would be nice if they had to justify their existence much like those in academia.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
Would you say you're physically impressive/powerful? Complete anecdote, but you might find it useful. I started running seriously about three years ago, now I run 10k almost everyday. Being stronger (and in constant pain) has made
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by dekken_ 4y ago
I actually mean it terms of thermodynamic energy requirements to exist and using as little energy as possible in order to exist comfortably. There's probably a better way to phrase it.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
People select for entropy minimization. Intelligence can to help with that. Or does your own minimization strategy prevent you from considering it?
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by dekken_ 4y ago
> The problem is nobody can entirely think for themselves. Good luck proving that.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
I meant that the magazine is not literally dead, but in the sense of "dead to me".
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by dekken_ 4y ago
Purely speaking for myself, but I could tell it was metaphorical. Given the "magazine" is still operating, and that I read some of the article.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
Joe Biden and Rachel Maddow To name just a few.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
> Remember people, you have to be vaccinated and boosted to prevent the spread of the virus even though being vaccinated or boosted does not actually prevent the spread of the virus. I would say it does prevent some the spread of the vir
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by dekken_ 4y ago
I owe much of my personality to Chris Morris ;)
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by dekken_ 4y ago
And if you read into it you see that it was brought about to subjugate some voting demographics https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past... Whether this is true or not, it's certainly enraging.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
I too can make claims without substantiation or evidence.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
Or no other trademark should get any TLD maybe? Corporations are not the owners of the the internet.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
I am frankly, it's an abuse of power that's forced on the populace without recourse.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
It's polluting the namespace. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It's quite simple.
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by dekken_ 4y ago
you can get what you want when you can bribe enough people apparently
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by dekken_ 4y ago
https://lite.ip2location.com/united-kingdom-of-great-britain...
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by dekken_ 4y ago
hey now, let's not give them too much credit, it's probably a bit of both
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by dekken_ 4y ago
Depends on which scale you pick I guess

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