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by detcader 8y ago
I don't deny there are hidden compromises all over (I think that is a good way to put it) and we need to educate ourselves all the time. I can't imagine a more efficient way to handle all of it than fostering a political tradition
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"U.S. Papers Hail Venezuelan Coup as Pro-Democracy Move" - June 2002 - https://fair.org/extra/u-s-papers-hail-venezuelan-coup-as-pr...
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by detcader 8y ago
I always educate myself on any technical subject instead of relying on democratically enacted laws. I educate myself on biochemistry instead of relying on The State to keep my food safe. If I have offspring I will educate myself on teaching
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by detcader 8y ago
It is weird how there's no criticism or activism against the US government. Edward Snowden and Barrett Brown are Russian psyoperatives, you see, along with Glenn Greenwald and the Intercept and the New York Press Club Awards For Journa
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by detcader 8y ago
Oh I was bein sarcastic
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What uses of state power do you believe are permissible?
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by detcader 8y ago
> They aren't being forced to work for their employer. So true... Every weekend I go for interviews and get job offers, and I have 6 months of rent and bill money saved up in case of an act of God. The last time I lost my employment
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by detcader 8y ago
> that people put up with it. This implies everyone has a choice, no? When employees changing jobs or getting legal assistance isn't easy is exactly when owners do these sorts of things -- it is understood and incentivized
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by detcader 8y ago
Educating more women always boosts economies (see OECD), for many reasons I think
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by detcader 8y ago
Unions and organized labor will always occur. The incentives for it are inevitable under capitalism. I accept this and would like to see a working economy that is more nuanced than the one implied by "opposing unions".
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by detcader 8y ago
Did I say borders are equivalent to slavery? Why stop there with this interpretation? Maybe I was saying all world leaders should rename themselves Harriet Tubman? Borders cause suffering when people are trapped in war, violence, poverty. W
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by detcader 8y ago
Thinking about how to affect cultural change on an person-to-person basis is good but there are much better ways. Journalists like Glenn Greenwald and activists willing to risk arrest to take undercover videos (a profoundly American pair of
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by detcader 8y ago
What is the word "omnivore" defined as in the last sentence?
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by detcader 8y ago
I don't even understand the need for this political science language gymnastics of 'rights'. Everyone considers Harriet Tubman heroic in the context of her nation, because of her anti-oppressive defiance of power. Even though
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by detcader 9y ago
"I think he broke the law, so I certainly wouldn't characterize him as a hero" - Bill Gates on Snowden. A question I'd love to hear any rich person answer explicitly: is it impossible for a criminal to be a hero? http:&
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by detcader 9y ago
"Toxic masculinity" refers to the masculine role/behaviors taught to boys from infancy (but really the "toxic" part is meant to soften the criticism for a centrist audience). Who would insult men for being biologica
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by detcader 9y ago
Then the questions obviously become "how do we prove that?" and then "how do we work against the crippling effects that condition obviously has on civilization?" Who has gotten past the first within the scientific commun
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by detcader 9y ago
Why not explicitly define strength, aggression and competitiveness as measurable quantities and provide reproduced studies proving males would be stronger in these qualities even without socialization in childhood, rather than leave people
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by detcader 9y ago
You named one woman who was a lone shooter. All arrested people aren't violent criminals in the United States. Maybe in Saudi Arabia?
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by detcader 9y ago
> the complexities of womanhood, its many forms and expressions. > help [boys] navigate toward a full expression of their gender > outdated model of masculinity What kind of framing of the problem is this? There is no such salvagea
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by detcader 9y ago
It's impossible to trust people with power due to perverse incentives. That's why the ideas of democracy and whistleblowing exist. Those who find "trustworthy authority" less ridiculous than any other oxymoron might bett
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by detcader 9y ago
It does for most formats, but drafting is $15 or less for a night of in-person gaming, potential prizes if you win (making your money back in packs is possible), and some cards you can keep for deckbuilding/trading later (of which only
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by detcader 9y ago
+1 for Inoreader. After Google Reader shut down there was a lull where no RSS reader was good enough or similar enough to be satisfactory, but Inoreader is now the proper replacement for me
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by detcader 9y ago
In Magic, booster packs are actually useful for drafting. Adults in the MtG community constantly stress that you shouldn't buy booster packs for yourself--they're made for draft play. In pretty much all video games that have them,
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by detcader 9y ago
The "literary critic" should be revived as a website, or as a feature of existing websites like GoodReads. I have no idea what recent fiction to read, and would love to just enter a list of authors ("Cormac McCarthy", &q
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by detcader 9y ago
The "portion of books" doesn't matter at all, the economic incentives do. A few sentences later: "For all but a tiny few, it’s nearly impossible to make anything even approaching a living from writing literary fiction.&q
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by detcader 9y ago
Magic's price point, for Modern and especially Standard, is still a bit too high for most people...the most popular MTG YouTuber (Tolarian Community College) firmly believes current entry prices for all the popular formats should be lo
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by detcader 9y ago
He did say that many games are great on their own. But isn't it an inherent feature of console gaming itself, that young people need to invest tons of money to keep up with their peers, taking on the potential risk of the console'
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by detcader 9y ago
This sort of story just happened en masse with Destiny 2 players. The game ($60) as a social multiplayer space kind of hit a dead end after everyone beat the campaign, with further milquetoast content gated behind DLC and loot boxes (all pa
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by detcader 9y ago
Is the Smithsonian so desperate for revenue that it needs to ask me to both enable "notifications" and sign up for its newsletter the second the page loads? Who needs notifications on smithsonianmag.com?

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