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by drekk 4y ago
You realize the entire argument for balkanizing the internet is that the US uses it as a platform for spying + propaganda and has more resources than most of its geopolitical rivals? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp&#x2
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by drekk 4y ago
There's no reason you can't have frequent and convenient public transit as a subsidized service. This also ignores how between the years of 1938 and 1950 National City Lines — with investment from GM, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil
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Yeah, I'm sure the feudal, illiterate serfs felt the same way
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> most people will grasp the idea, and it's 30 minutes at most I think we experienced very different pandemics. I could pick 100 people off the street and I guarantee you 9/10s of them aren't able to do a logarithmic chang
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by drekk 4y ago
I don't know if I'd call the person selling blood emeralds as a teenager "reasonable", but I'm sure handing over the public discourse to this random billionaire is a better alternative to creating a proper digital c
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by drekk 4y ago
You're responding to someone who didn't mention censorship or any political party. It comes across as extremely defensive. Having unaccountable billionaires control the public discourse by digitizing the 21st century commons is sh
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If the people I "disagree with" are dehumanizing others, yes. Words have meanings. They're not spoken into a vacuum
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They're not. We're saying the non-SI unit of light years shouldn't be used over something like petameter. Just multiply the "light year" measurement by .9461 and you're set. Or, ideally, just measure in SI unit
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by drekk 4y ago
I've been vegetarian for most of my adult life now and have no clue where this myth comes from. If you eat the same amount of calories on a vegetarian diet you will almost surely hit your iron requirements, even if you are physically a
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There's so much in this comment I'm not really sure where to start. I guess the first is the "especially men" comment is weird, especially in the context of women generally needing more iron and being prone to bouts of a
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by drekk 4y ago
Are you so sure it's only whataboutism? The US and UK intelligence agencies supported Vladimir Putin's bid for power since they viewed him as the most effective person to crackdown on communism. [0] It's not what-aboutism whe
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by drekk 4y ago
Being aware of cognitive biases doesn't render you immune to them. Others shape and inform our beliefs about the world just as our own experiences do. You might be a "rational, fully self-realized, and atomized" individual bu
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by drekk 4y ago
Of course justice involves political agendas. How do you think poll taxes and literacy tests were eliminated? We don't even have to go that far back -- the legal recognition (& protection) of same-sex marriages is something even zo
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It's not just energy. You're responding to someone talking about how many things we buy and how much plastic we waste in general. Westerners need to learn that growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. Even E
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by drekk 4y ago
If you want a more functional and educated society you could start by encouraging diverse coverage of multifaceted issues instead of doubling down on criticizing a journalist for writing a piece about the still-ongoing global pandemic
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by drekk 4y ago
China has 4x the population of the US. Abandoning zero COVID as a policy would lead to millions of deaths. How can you call SinoVax a failure when all of the non-mRNA vaccines perform similarly? The US has more COVID deaths than China has h
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by drekk 4y ago
It's great that 95%+ of the people we consider experts in these fields don't matter because CO2 is something plants breathe? Famously you can never have too much of a good thing. Impossible to overdose on water as we all know.
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by drekk 4y ago
Or, and I'm just entirely spitballing here, we cut out all the middlemen and provide food at dispensaries for people at no cost? The US produces enough food to feed 10 billion people. Most of it is animal feed or gets landfilled. 1 in
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by drekk 4y ago
I would also trade my left arm to stop school shootings, but funny enough life doesn't work that way McDonalds and other companies do wage theft because it's profitable. Having to pay out a couple of times whenever someone raises
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by drekk 4y ago
I wouldn't consider the abolishment of child labor or enforcement of the 40 hr standard workweek as "completely useless" If government is supposedly accountable to the people it should serve public ends. If it doesn't it
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by drekk 4y ago
Eating meat is the second largest contribution to lifestyle emissions generally after having children. It takes a thousand gallons of water to produce a typical burger patty. You can have as many of those in the desert as you'd like. H
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by drekk 4y ago
Meat is nauseating if you aren't raised on it to eat it every day. Vegetables don't do that to you. Your body isn't gonna forget how to digest a tomato because you stop eating them for a few years. Most digestion of meat is d
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by drekk 4y ago
We know separately from this study that red meat is carcinogenic. https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2021... .
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by drekk 4y ago
Omnivore species? You sure about that one? We're opportunists. Don't believe me? Go ahead, rip into some meat raw with your "canines" and let me know how that one goes. Our ancestors ate bone marrow because it was the on
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by drekk 4y ago
"mere" is doing some really Herculean lifting in that sentence. most of the terrestrial surface is water. even a 6C mean surface temperature increase means all of our forests are deserts now. 12C mean surface temperature increase
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by drekk 4y ago
Correct, although many municipalities (like Boulder, CO) have ridiculous zoning laws such that you can't make multi-story apartment complexes. So the choice for developers is just single family suburbia
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It's amazing the degree to which people are fine treating their fellow humans as means towards an end. Even unarmed victims of a massacre. We should put a Netflix Original series out that is curated gore videos with commentary from for
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by drekk 4y ago
Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of a cancer cell. It's antithetical to human well-being, too. If using some humans as objects increases profits, their well-being is, well, irrelevant.
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by drekk 4y ago
If there was a single clip of me giving zero pushback to someone talking about sexually preying on dozens of women, even as a "joke", I would hope that my peers judge me accordingly. My degree is in neuroscience. People aren'
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by drekk 4y ago
The "winners of the game" get a nice bailout from US taxpayers when they lose, so it's not particularly impressive. Striking is what got you a 5 day work week and an end to child labor. You may not appreciate the blood that w

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