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by disneygibson 5y ago
Did you read the tweets? He said that most stakeholders told him they were very happy with the mission focus.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Without food, you can’t survive, therefore everything is implicitly about food. This line of thought is absurd. Words have definitions and boundaries for a reason.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
The British could abolish slavery because they no longer had any real economic incentive to keep it, as they had lost their colonies. They also then proceeded to exploit labor in India in barely better conditions. If Britain retained its Am
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by disneygibson 5y ago
If the anti-slavery states hadn’t compromised with the slave ones, the Revolution would have failed. Slavery would have likely existed longer because the British would end up being allied to the slave states (likely still colonies.) Nothing
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by disneygibson 5y ago
No, it isn’t weird, it’s simply rejecting the frankly naive notion that you should change everything all the time according to the whims of the populace. History and human nature didn’t begin in 1950. Again, the US has never had anything re
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Germany doesn’t exactly have a good record when it comes to new governments. Nor does France. Very odd to use them as positive examples. As flawed as the American government may be, the Constitution is still a more solid foundation than pre
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by disneygibson 5y ago
It sticks to fairly uncontroversial things. No mention of abortion, evolution, religion, gun rights, etc. As far as I can see.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
And like Macron, Yang seems to have the support of globalist technocratic elites. Very similar situation indeed.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
The moment that the Founding Fathers cease to be the mythology glue holding the nation together will be the minute that the country fractures into 20 different nation-states.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Ritchie’s contribution was so fundamental that it was almost impossible to actually recognize his achievements. It’s like honoring the guy that invented the pencil. Jobs, on the other hand, ran a company that sold products which billions of
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by disneygibson 5y ago
I think the uncertainty made it worse. Uncertainty is a common trigger for depression and malaise.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Anecdotes only count if they agree with the zeitgeist propaganda, I’m afraid.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Have you considered that some of these symptoms are consequences of locking down society and preventing real human interaction for 18 months? I haven’t had COVID and I have had more depression and exhaustion in the last year than in my enti
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Take a thousand dollars of your salary per month and use it to hire a private health coach / personal trainer. Someone that can tell you how to workout and how to eat. Do this for 6 months and you will be in the best shape of your life
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Yeah, this is the problem with relying on statistics to determine your life choices. Real life isn’t a series of probabilities, it’s a series of events - for which you can prepare for and plan to protect yourself.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
This only seems scary because analyzing crime data for a continent-sized country doesn’t make much sense. The overwhelming majority of gun crime happens in a tiny percentage of counties.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
God created (wo)man. Sam Colt made them equal. (This is an old tagline for a gun company, in case you are unfamiliar.)
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by disneygibson 5y ago
The entire Romantic era was a diss of the Enlightenment. Norm wasn’t “a bit crazy”, he was educated.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
It’s poorly written and a borderline run-on sentence. It sounds like it was written by a non-native speaker of English.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Is it just me or is the writing on this page distractingly bad? Who approved this paragraph? You don’t need to raise your wrist or touch the screen to see the time or other information and complications on your watch face, because the disp
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by disneygibson 5y ago
The media determines the popular culture which determines what is “organic.” Everything is artificial.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
I agree and I think your position is legitimate. My issue is just with those vegetarians who claim a universal moral superiority over meat eaters. This attitude is extremely prevalent, just reading the comments here. “No justification”, “no
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Predictions involve data, analysis of trends, etc. What people think about the future is based mostly on popular culture and the individual’s particular life situation.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
No, it just means that sentience is a poor metric for determining whether we should eat something or not.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
No, I am claiming that the narrative of ever-marching progress (of which vegetarianism is a often participant) is just a narrative and not a serious prediction based on analysis and data. You can see a similar thing with religion. The progr
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by disneygibson 5y ago
As they say, science fiction doesn’t predict the future, it just communicates what present people think about the future. The “future generations will look back at us in horror” and “we’re on the Right Side of history” are both nonsensica
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by disneygibson 5y ago
All this illustrates is that vegetarianism is ultimately a human social phenomenon. Cute animals doing human-like things get our sympathy and fuel vegan cultural movements, while cockroaches replicating some other human quality are still tr
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Why does sentience somehow imply value? That’s the issue with vegetarianism. It’s not really about “the animals”, it’s about things that happen to resemble human beings. The more similar to a human, the more “sentience” it has. Isn’t that a
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by disneygibson 5y ago
I think Italians would rather be poor but maintain their cultural history and identity. It isn’t an anglophone country built on immigration and no economics argument is very convincing to them.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Is this really so hard to understand? Italy is a country whose identity is entirely built on its cultural history. It is not surprising at all that older people dislike the idea of foreigners coming in that have little relation to them, don

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