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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The President and other Republicans are currently making regulations requiring drug companies to charge US customers the same low rates they charge international customers. The price difference is entirely in the price charged, this isn&#x2
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
That persuasion happened thanks to his verbal communication, not his over-the-top rhetorically toxic T-shirt.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The parent comment was not equivocating "KKK and anti-KKK", it was simply pointing out the false equivalence on that guy's T-shirt. All-caps claims that Trump, the KKK, and Fascism are equivalent is part of the problem and ex
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Every outlet, from the New York Times to Fox News to Slate selectively front-pages certain leaks and stories while de-emphasizing and outright ignoring others. Does that make them not-journalists too?
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The barriers to physically get in may not be high, but Switzerland is very strict on those who try to stay. Switzerland recently rejected the citizenship applications of girls who refused to swim in a communal pool with the opposite sex, an
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
I personally believe in free will, but persuasion and learning can still exist even if free will doesn't. It could be argued that people's deterministic reactions led to them reading something someone else posted and that leads to
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Switzerland is not a member of the EU and is free to be very strict on education and skill requirements for its immigrants. Many US conservatives that lean libertarian are very much for increasing and streamlining legal immigration, as long
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Yes, but a higher minimum wage (effectively a carbon tax on labor) isn't helping.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
You may find the story of science fiction author John C Wright interesting. Wright was an atheist who converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of 42. He once said, "If Vulcans had a church, they'd be Catholics." https:&#x2F
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
That's Gab's approach. Allow everything that is legal, and crack down on what is illegal. Unfortunately, Gab being perceived as a haven for the alt-right is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The incessant media coverage against it and p
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
That's an unfair characterization - either side can make the easy insult that their opponents are greedy/stingy. Imagine if someone characterized the left-leaning side as "always complaining" of how there is a new medica
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
It is possible to view the industrial work that environmentalists protest as positive expressions of humanity doing what it does best. Just as a beaver builds dams, an act of eudaemonia. Being in favor of promoting and protecting such indus
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
For what it's worth, Alex Jones retracted his Sandy Hook reaction years ago and apologized. Since then he has repeatedly scolded his followers telling listeners not to harass the parents. Same with the specific pizza restaurant. The da
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Are there no constitutional protections if you live in a company town? Facebook is effectively the company town of mass real identity to real identity communication. One of the Net Neutrality arguments championed by the EFF was that private
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
ChapoTrapHouse routinely incites its followers toward being OK with harrassment, property crime, and violence with their class warfare rants and advocating for mass property redistribution. They aren't on FB though.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
That doesn't rule out the likely possibility that he chose that title tongue-in-cheek because many people kept labeling him as such.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
> From October 2017 to February 2018, there was a 315 percent increase in the number of cases of adults with minors fraudulently posing as “family units” to gain entry.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
In a future with far fewer natural births, and much more automation, it could be possible to fund large scale IVF creation of babies carried to term by paid/volunteer surrogates, or artificial surrogates. I could see both secular and r
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Slate Star Codex recently did an analysis of technological progress and income growth and found that the most correlated variable was population growth. Malthus' predictions never came true. https://slatestarcodex.com/2
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Slate Star Codex recently did an analysis of technological progress and income growth and found that the most correlated variable was population growth. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Alphabet's CFO blamed the ad revenue drop primarily on Youtube and specifically recent changes in their Youtube algorithm (which paradoxically now favors advertiser-friendly, sanitized mainstream media channels). Apparently "clean
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
This change (for better or worse) was motivated by multiple cases where wrongly accused individuals narrowly avoided losing their liberty due to the last minute discovery of exonerating gossip and notes on the accuser's phone. There is
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
That’s a good point - the attitude of “how is this any better than X, just use X” is one of the reasons why the web is so centralized.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
The parent comment asked a rhetorical question implying that FBI officers never died due to being under-equipped. I provided a counter-example, and that event was what motivated a lot of heavier armament in the FBI. The problem is not that
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
It did happen in 1986, back when the FBI agents were woefully outgunned. The current trend of militarization is a reaction to that incident, and now the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Possessing a firearm and handling it responsibly should not be justification for a massive pre-dawn raid. Especially when the target has no violent record, worked at and later cooperated with multiple federal agencies, and was a regular gue
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
The FBI engaged in similar militarized theater for the recent arrest of Roger Stone. Dozens of armored SWAT officers, automatic rifles, and a CNN war correspondent van parked outside - all to arrest a solitary man sleeping his pajamas. For
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
In related context about MA judges arbitrarily applying or not applying the law, Judge Shelley Joseph was charged yesterday with improperly ending court proceedings and aiding the escape of a felon. https://www.wcvb.com/arti
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Eich founded Mozilla and invented Javascript. He's done far more to promote free expression than to hamper it.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Yes there are, but as an aside, Zen chants Sanskrit too. It's a common practice.

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