derleth

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451.
by derleth 13y ago
> "life was brutal without civilization and a state to keep you safe and well" It was. Children died in infancy, which is why the life expectancy was so low. If that isn't brutal, you need to redefine the term.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Do you also blame Nietzsche for Nazism? Of course not. Marx was directly responsible for Communism because he laid the blueprints, and the USSR implemented them. Therefore, Marx is responsible for the USSR.
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by derleth 13y ago
> it was nominally communist. Not just nominally. It went down the list of the Communist Manifesto and implemented things, and it wound up with Stalin.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are genetically and ethnically homogeneous, making it easier and faster for the society to enforce social norms and standards. I have absolutely no time for racism. BTW, I'm American, born and raised.
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by derleth 13y ago
If that's the case, why does the Nordic Model work so well?
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by derleth 13y ago
> Adjusting numbers on paper doesn't take into account for primitive human behavior. No, but treating humans like humans gets us to behave like good humans. Even in our own country we've seen murder rates go down year by year,
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by derleth 13y ago
> The past 20 years have been pure bliss now that the burden of communism has been cast off The past 20 years were directly preceded by 70 years of the USSR. If modern race relations in the US can be blamed on slavery and Jim Crow, both
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by derleth 13y ago
And who's going to pay for administering that make-work junk? Me? Why? To satisfy your sense of morality?
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by derleth 13y ago
Morality is well and good, but in the real world we have to focus on what works. Finland works. Germany works. The United States doesn't work as well, and desperately needs to improve. Moralizing sermons have never solved problems and
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by derleth 13y ago
> Why the strawman? The Gulag Archipelago. > Marx was not 100% wrong, he was just wrong some very specific and important places. Of course he wasn't 100% wrong. All modern developed countries have adopted some of his ideas, such
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by derleth 13y ago
> Marx then goes on to argue, that the capitalist class can more easily leverage its interests, and therefore the workers need class conscious to counter this leverage. And anyone who disagrees with Marx on hearing his ideas is suffering
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by derleth 13y ago
I condemn the parts of it that are transphobic, and I wonder why nobody mentions it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transphobia#Transphobia_in_femi... > Radical feminist Janice Raymond's 1979 book, The Transsexua
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by derleth 13y ago
> What are effective ways we can improve the situation, globally? In many ways, we've already done it, and are doing it, and it just takes a long time to take effect. It takes generations, and, as you said, trying to do it more quic
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by derleth 13y ago
> There are no written documents. The exchanges are based on mutual trust (perhaps for that reason unpopular in the United States?). This would make it less popular in most of the developed world, with some exceptions, including (possibl
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by derleth 13y ago
Do you have any evidence of this?
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by derleth 13y ago
It is real. It may not serve your goals, however.
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by derleth 13y ago
> they could easily grow lettuce on the roofs of their restaurants. In some parts of the year in some regions. Otherwise it's down to greenhouses and irrigation. Not to mention relying on minimum wage employees to farm successfully
468.
by derleth 13y ago
> anyone that pays attention to their health and what they eat, would not consider McDonalds a healthy meal Which is, at best, half-true. Health can only be determined as fitness for purpose and it's possible that a McDonald's
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by derleth 13y ago
> But we can still say that the DF interface is pretty bad for the vast majority of users who want to play the game. But instead UI people just say it's bad, period. That's the problem.
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by derleth 13y ago
Nobody's falling for anything except the people who think English is controlled by a secret cabal.
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by derleth 13y ago
> in reality people are just putting a stop to being tracked mostly unknowingly and (i am missing the word, advertisers aim to exploit people, making them spend money on things, that's evil). Wow. I don't think English has a si
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by derleth 13y ago
> The union members vote on union matters. And who monitors the ballots? > Why are you talking as if you're an authority on unions when you don't even know this stuff? I'm not. I'm asking questions and being downvo
473.
by derleth 13y ago
> Union ballots are well regulated Says who? The unions? What outside observers monitor the ballots?
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by derleth 13y ago
> Right, except it wasn't done well in this case. According to you. Is it so hard to imagine others may disagree? Must you downvote?
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by derleth 13y ago
All UIs are inconsistent to some extent, like with menus, or with how the steering wheel behaves when backing a car up. All we demand is that it be done well, which is a tautology.
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by derleth 13y ago
Does anyone have refutations to these points, or are union people going to disagree by downvoting?
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by derleth 13y ago
> I hate bad UIs You hate UIs you don't like. Which is a tautology. The interesting part here is that you've managed to convince yourself that UIs you don't like are objectively bad, and that anyone who does like such UIs
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by derleth 13y ago
> Elsewhere it is posted when people begin school in the US. The rest is arithmetic. This is true, you know. Or are you saying only Americans can do arithmetic?
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by derleth 13y ago
> The percentage of members of the two BART unions that voted for the strike is also public. It was not close. Those numbers (upwards of 90%) look like the numbers won by dictators in rigged elections. Who monitors the union voting proce
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by derleth 13y ago
> Unions are unions OF WORKERS. But there's still someone in charge. Who polices them? > A unions political power comes from the combined power of its members, who are citizens of the state and can thus be considered an accurate

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