drak0n1c

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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Of course Pizzagate was fiction. That's not the point the original comment was making. The comment simply stated that unrelated events such as Epstein were being unnecessarily lumped in with the "pizzagate" craziness in recen
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Buzz Aldrin is a prominent conservative, and has campaigned over the decades and given speeches at CPAC and the SOTU. Politics also influences how city governments name streets.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Iran helped Hezbollah bomb US citizens - hundreds died. First the US Embassy in Lebanon and then the US Marines Barracks who were on a UN mission to protect Christians during the Lebanon Civil War. Iran also sponsored and trained extremists
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Twitter notifies Canadian user that her tweets violate UK blasphemy laws(twitter.com)
2 points by drak0n1c 7y ago|1 comments
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
You didn’t answer the question - what does this slur “chud” mean? Is it a catch-all slur for those critical of journalism? Or only those who are proven to be motivated by your laundry list of regressive attitudes? I think it's fair to
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Interesting tidbit - in Ancient Greece shops and traders collected human and animal urine as it has ammonium salts, essential for scouring and cleaning wool. https://toilet-guru.com/pompeii.php
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Not quite. There's recent studies on both genders finding lasting effects of pre-pubescent hormone blockers on brain development, memory, and IQ. Brain plasticity drops significantly with age, so any recovery in that department if and
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Then you move on. Regardless of whether you or the other party benefitted from the discussion, at least any observers might have.
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Peter Singer was one of the signers of this letter, a name people outside of philosophy may recognize.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Phobia is a strong label meaning irrational fear or hatred. Skepticism of mainstream assumptions does not always involve irrational fear or hatred.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
True, federal subsidies and loans responsible for inflating tuitions nationwide have reached a total of $120 billion per year. https://www2.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/2017report/fsa-repo...
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
I agree that there is a lot of regulatory capture in lawmaking. However, this is a case of exactly the opposite. The cuts are happening to a relatively wealthy minority in Alaska (academics, college attendees, the engineering community, and
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Alaska has a basic income distributed to all residents (oil dividend). Alaskans want that increased regularly, despite falling oil revenue. That money has to come from somewhere, and it's going to be the voting minority. This is not di
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Cost isn't the issue, but you're right that ignorance is. At the very same corner store a week's worth of eggs, peanut butter, and bread costs the same as a morning's worth of donuts for the family.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
If you're wondering why - it's age-old realpolitik. They don't lambast the Commander In Chief when the US military drones a US citizen, and we don't lambast the Prince when a Saudi agency butchers a Saudi pundit. The cur
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Many groups, including the EFF, engaged in fear-mongering claiming the most important reason for Net Neutrality was to prevent ISPs from de-platforming and censoring free speech. It turns out the ISPs never engaged in that kind of activity,
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The free Oldio Audiobook app for iOS plays Librivox books in the same ease and manner of the Audible app, if anyone is interested.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
In Rhode Island they actually prosecute addicts and mentally ill who commit crimes, and offer them the alternative of drug and rehab courts that entail mandatory internment in decent facilities and rehabilitation. They emerge with no record
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Here is a rebuttal to the claim of persistent misleading editing, and also an expose of how outlets such as the Washington Post deliberately engaged in purposefully misleading edits in their coverage of the incidents you name: https:/
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Facebook amends ban on calls for violence, adds exceptions(facebook.com)
2 points by drak0n1c 7y ago|2 comments
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Twitter would be better received if it were bold enough to also state specific examples of permissible religious satire/criticism. I think that would do a lot to address what people are worried about, and be a step in the direction of
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Looking at Twitter's examples, it's not explicitly mentioned but it looks like it is still permissible to mock a religion and its followers in the manner of Christopher Hitchens, and as long as the religion is not compared to a no
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Does this mean that Swiftian satire such as South Park's episode making fun of prominent Scientologists is now unfit for Twitter?
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
On the other hand wouldn’t mass immigration increase the load on healthcare, thus exacerbating the shortage? NHS is centrally planned, which explains some of the supply shortage and why demand-driven supply arguments don’t apply.
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Average internet speed up one year after net neutrality repeal(washingtonexaminer.com)
2 points by drak0n1c 7y ago|0 comments
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Many of the of the same pundits supporting censorship on Google search and Youtube used to be extremely critical of Walmart's business practices. This isn't about principles.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
They post the entire unedited footage soon after the initial reveal, for years now. That's much better than CNN, MSNBC, Fox, late night shows, etc. Should the findings of muckrakers be discarded because the practice of muckraking is di
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Yes, if humans have adopted an ecologically vital role as an apex predator in certain spaces (like with hunting deer, boar, or fishing certain species), we shouldn't artificially remove ourselves from the ecosystem.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Conservation aside, most Japanese don't like it or eat it because it tastes bad, isn't clean, and is increasingly expensive. My mother growing up in post-war Japan was fed whale meat in school lunches. It used to be eaten as a nec
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The Open Society does give money to moderate and center-left groups but it has also regularly given grants to far-left redistributionist activist groups, Anti-Israel organizations, and Marxist protestors. Not quite the western status quo.

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