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by drekk 4y ago
I think your comment may have finally changed my views on the subject matter at hand. We should eliminate the taxes on cigarettes, and remove the red tape barring the simple pleasure from humans just because they haven't completed enou
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by drekk 4y ago
Sounds like your problem is capitalism and not the underlying technology. Which brings me to a related question: does the meat/dairy industry have my health as their priority? How can you trust the incentives of any private enterprise?
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by drekk 4y ago
Kind of helps when your job is fighting fires and not preventing people from infecting their loved ones in the name of personal freedom.
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by drekk 4y ago
Say the thing they ordered. They didn't allow evicting millions of Americans during winter in a global pandemic. They're also tracking people to make sure lockdown guidelines were followed. Of course Americans could not follow a g
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by drekk 4y ago
Those landlords should get a real job in that case. They chose to treat housing like a speculative asset and it didn't go their way. Makes zero sense to me that our pandemic response was about "keeping small businesses afloat&quot
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by drekk 4y ago
It is wasted. I can send you a JPG without using more energy than a EU resident will go through in several years. This isn't a philosophical or moral question. We have ownership models and financial systems that are flawed but at least
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by drekk 4y ago
Kind of a reach to claim the poster is defending prejudice. Alan Turing was chemically castrated for being gay. Society finding you conventionally unattractive and thus passing you over for a promotion at work isn't exactly the same th
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by drekk 4y ago
How is it snarky to point out multinational conglomerates green washing on the privatized public square?
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by drekk 4y ago
"Many of these will be scams or harmful" but that's a risk you're willing to take? Personally I'm against pharmaceutical industries fleecing people with rare diseases for which no current interventions currently exi
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by drekk 4y ago
In a population of 300 million, like the US, that's 300,000 prevented cancer cases. We reported about 5x as many new cases last year. I'm not saying we should mandate reduced sodium intake or anything, but having the ability to re
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by drekk 4y ago
Yeah but the difference is we don't peer review large medical studies on successful startup strategies. We're talking about biomedical research and oncology, not "conventional wisdom"
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by drekk 5y ago
We did economically recompense some former slaveowners. Not the slaves or their descendants, of course. https://today.uconn.edu/2021/03/there-was-a-time-reparations...
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by drekk 5y ago
It runs Arch KDE Plasma in computer mode [0] https://9to5linux.com/valve-unveils-steam-deck-gaming-handhe...
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by drekk 5y ago
Social media is the 21st century public square, and it's not just Twitter. 2% of US adults actively posting on Twitter means it's more common for you to see a Twitter user than a ginger on the street. Allowing tech companies (or
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by drekk 5y ago
I work in fintech. I'm not sure what bank regulations you think are overzealous. To give an example, banks can legally keep you from accessing your data. Whether by blocking your screen scraping or providing an API with poor coverage.
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by drekk 5y ago
This seems like pretty useless ad-hominem. The US only got involved because of Pearl Harbor. At the time Long Island was "the eugenics capital of the world". The Third Reich got their inspiration from the US, although they thought
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by drekk 5y ago
China has a higher COVID death rate than the US and 3x the population. Precisely the kind of situation that would favor a more viral pathogen that doesn't kill its host before spreading. What's a shame is that mainland China is be
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by drekk 5y ago
There has not been a single heavy handed lockdown in the US. Ordering takeout from DoorDash with a frozen margarita is not a lockdown. You'd think the country that can "never forget" 9/11 wouldn't be so cool about a
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by drekk 5y ago
Do you support the US paying reparations? UK? France? Belgium? Just curious, asking for hundreds of millions of civilian casualties. I support Russia paying reparations to Ukraine if we're going to be consistent about it when the victi
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by drekk 5y ago
If conservatives want to lead an armed insurrection in Canada over "vaccine mandates" (reactionaries are so good at controlling the discourse with the words they force) they should go for it. Something tells me the consequence wi
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by drekk 5y ago
I'm sure Xi Xinping is personally reviewing your messaging logs to flag to the politburo. Do people not think "western liberal democracies" engage in political censorship? The government cannot (on paper) legally persecute yo
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by drekk 5y ago
We are a post-scarcity civilization. We landfill most of our food, and produce enough calories to sustain many multiples of our population. For every homeless person in the US, we have over a dozen empty homes. Poverty is a policy choice. T
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by drekk 5y ago
Most people in the US are white. Adjusting for population sizes, the mean and median white family wealth was $188,200 and $983,400, respectively. For black and hispanic families those numbers were $24,100 and $142,500, respectively. It&#x27
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by drekk 5y ago
If you haven't made an argument or come to discuss it doesn't seem like the statements are adding value. Nobody you are responding to claimed solar or wind are panacea. You have claimed there are wrong places for them without evid
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by drekk 5y ago
"From 2009 until 2014, the paper “Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard” finds, 43 percent of the Caucasian applicants accepted at Harvard University were either athletes, legacies, or the children of donors and faculty. Only about
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by drekk 5y ago
What would you call the political violence of British colonial subjects in the 13 colonies re: Boston Tea Party, tarring & feathering, etc.
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by drekk 5y ago
I appreciate the honesty and consistency at least of doubling down on blaming the victim. Our pipe-wielding example will just find another victim without a helmet. You can always find something a victim could have done differently, the only
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by drekk 5y ago
Or we could just... make sure people don't starve? Subsidizing corn is the worst, least direct way to do that. People don't need more high fructose corn syrup and most of that corn is going to feed or ethanol anyways. US produces
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by drekk 5y ago
We could do both. We spend less than 200 million a year on the arts in the federal budget. Increasing that instead of cutting it every year might even bring back some of those "useless art courses" in K-12 that got axed. I shouldn
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by drekk 5y ago
For every dollar I give to Uncle Sam, 12 cents goes to military defense contractors like Raytheon. 0.004 cents go to the National Endowment for Art. I know which of those two provides more value to society, and I think it's a fucking j

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