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by detcader 7y ago
Why is it absolutely necessary?
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by detcader 7y ago
So inexpensive: Only a few billion dollars not going to people and communities who actually need it.
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by detcader 7y ago
I'd recommend My Ántonia by Willa Cather
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by detcader 7y ago
If our instinct is to jump from allying with a nation to being at war, we have accepted the most violent countries' axioms of how the world must work. Bush Jr's "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists" me
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by detcader 7y ago
The idea that the rich and powerful breed are at another level than the commoners, and we can never aspire to the genius behind their choices, is not a new talking point but maybe one of the oldest.
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by detcader 7y ago
Always grateful for someone sharing their experience. I think by "knew" I meant live with, as one would live with a pet dog or a cat. I see them every day, I get to know their personality at a level that I understand when they&#x2
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by detcader 7y ago
If you're away at college in a college town, you could try getting to know the local government, businesses, and community. That would help solve the problem that has persisted to the point of stereotype: college students and administr
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by detcader 7y ago
Then I think the natural follow-up experiment would be to imagine if a dog you know was born for dogfighting, and that you can be sure it will never escape. Would we rather it just not be born? If not, we just need to argue that being bred
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by detcader 7y ago
True, but I rarely see people explicitly assert that. The more people have to explain an arbitrary distinction out loud, the less it makes sense in the culture.
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by detcader 7y ago
I find the ethical-philosophical side of it interesting. In the philosophy of ethics, thought experiments can be helpful (or puzzling), like the trolley problem or the Categorical Imperative. So: Imagine if a wizard finished casting a very
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by detcader 7y ago
It's a term that people have started scrawling on women's shelters [1]. I am unconvinced it is a purely "descriptive" thing... [1] https://www.facebook.com/252414605231327/posts/7186233552771...
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by detcader 7y ago
Celebrating the death of a feminist woman because you disagreed with her politically is probably the best way to get people to trust you, produce helpful discourse and not fall in line with whoever makes their argument most aggressively
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by detcader 7y ago
$20 billion a year would relieve a lot of people's suffering (I dunno, I could be wrong.) If people are simply numbers in a system, then yes, we can't "massively tip the scale" with $20 billion and we should ignore stati
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by detcader 7y ago
I don't think about art as comparable to space travel, and I don't think all the artists and schools losing funding in favor of STEM do either... Sure, I think democracy was the point of Gil-Scott Heron writing his poem, and N. Ro
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by detcader 7y ago
On the `Incoming.md` bit, y'all might be interested in the Markdown New Tab Chrome extension which gives a similar affordance
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by detcader 7y ago
Yes: that technological progress is the driver of societal health, the middleman between human population growth and the end of human problems-- techno-progressivism and transhumanism-- looks to be the operating framework when space explora
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by detcader 7y ago
Military spending is a function of geopolitics and the world economy-- Moon Fever isn't even a key in the dictionary of an optional parameter. Maybe the fundamental disagreement here comes down to whether we think the way our working s
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by detcader 7y ago
I don't understand how space exploration in the US is an "interest" rather than a commitment of $20 billion per year to something other than infrastructure, public health and anti-poverty programs... and I prefer Gil Scott-He
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by detcader 7y ago
> The first moon landing was at once a historical inevitability and an improbable fluke. Inevitable because we had already done it so many times in our storytelling and our dreams. Now, who's dreams? It boggles my mind. When the opp
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by detcader 7y ago
I don't feed my cats, and barely play with them. They also don't know who pays the rent...
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by detcader 7y ago
My partner feeds and plays with ours cats (I don't have as much time)
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by detcader 7y ago
If everyday human life must echo the eons-long process of evolution, can we say the same for other natural laws? Gravity is a natural law; so people inevitably bow to their superiors? People bowing to each other is gravity shining through!
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by detcader 7y ago
I recommend researching and listening to the growing group of young people (mostly women) who are talking about their experience with desistance.
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by detcader 7y ago
The most profitable central principle for a party of corporations is deregluation of _industry_. Scaling up of the military and authoritarianism is a profitable choice as well. Those are two main incentives of many conservative parties and
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by detcader 7y ago
I don't trust in the U.S. justice system to handle every crime and person as it should but for us, context is important: This person's Twitter is 0xA3A97B6C, y'all can go there and get a better picture of the situation.
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by detcader 7y ago
I feel similarly mystified sometimes as I've never needed one. When my mom mentions paying off a CC bill, I think "why not just use debit?" Maybe she'll have to delay purchases or occasionally miss out on something, but
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by detcader 7y ago
> Apollo was a monumental accomplishment, like the construction of the Pyramids. For Google to emulate that might mean erecting a 10-mile-high earthquake-resistant skyscraper, to literally overshadow Apple and provide an object of public
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by detcader 7y ago
Let me make sure I'm understanding this right: It's not merely enough for it to be culturally taboo to criticize spending $20 billion a year on space missions -- we now have to watch out for accidental microaggressions?
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by detcader 7y ago
We just need a "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" [0] anime and 2019 will be complete... [0] https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf
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by detcader 7y ago
My point was that lot of leftists/anarchists will say that economic forces, including before the capitalist market economies, can create situations where ideological extremist groups will gain power. They will appear out of nowhere and

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