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by drekk 5y ago
What's done to pigs, chickens, and cows is a terribly low bar to clear. I suppose lighting an ant on fire with a magnifying glass isn't cruel because it happens quickly. Personally how quickly an innocent being capable of sufferin
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No, the biggest issue is that the aid "developing" (exploited) countries receive is orders of magnitude less than the wealth that is extracted from the continent. How is that wealth extracted? Debt. Haiti is still paying France fo
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Your refusal to acknowledge the difference between prisoners of war and the institution of chattel slavery is a disgrace and a consequence of the American education system that manufactures consent for imperialism and colonialism. Maybe to
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Seems like selection bias
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by drekk 5y ago
I'm not sure about you, but I've never lived somewhere and had the ambient sound on my porch be 70db consistently. I can understand why a reasonable person would find that annoying, especially after still hearing it indoors despit
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by drekk 5y ago
Actually, the conversation was Israel's use of a facial recognition program against a captive population. You deflected it by saying "well all countries do that" and conflated criticism of Israel with criticism of all Jews. I
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It’s the only one I’ve seen explicitly mentioned. As for the fairness aspect, tenants and landlords aren’t equal partners in the power dynamic. Should the state stop providing free lawyers to defendants, because it doesn’t provide free lawy
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by drekk 5y ago
Oh, the pandemic is over? Well I'm glad I heard it here on HN first. The 7-day average for COVID deaths is over 1,000, and nearly a million Americans have died (how many 9/11s is that?) but the pandemic is over because nearly 60%
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by drekk 5y ago
This argument is disingenuous for a few reasons. Not least of which is that no one calls "natural" immunity psuedoscience—it's how the vaccine works. We take issue with people relying solely on that vs a vaccine (where at thi