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by drekk 5y ago
Yeah Americans not wanting to interact with pollinators is why they are disappearing from our environments. You could achieve the same thing with zero-scaping also, not like you need to waste water to create a pollinator-free zone. But then
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by drekk 5y ago
I don't feel the same way about bacteria colonizing my skin as I do about an ecologically dead crop monoculture that came into style among the British nobility as a way to show off wealth (look peasants! I don't need to grow food
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by drekk 5y ago
If you are for "universal healthcare" that is not universal, you're for a socialized healthcare system, not a universal one. It's not really that complicated.
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by drekk 5y ago
There is no neutral, bias-free position. Acting like there is already displays bias. The undisclosed financial interest is they're in a union? What a joke, as if the existence of other unions suddenly changes their own. And what a joke
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by drekk 5y ago
It's not arbitrary. The weight and speed have external impacts on road durability as well as air quality. Compare the amount of carbon dioxide released by a truck of that size and most other residential polluting machines and it doesn&
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by drekk 5y ago
They have the right, but by not paying the tax and removing the limiter they're committing fraud. At least name what you're defending. If you like driving a fast, multi-ton vehicle maybe the externalities of that fun should be acc
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by drekk 5y ago
7/10 Nazi deaths were on the eastern front. Nobody said the USSR won the war itself, but they absolutely did contribute the most to the war effort. They were invaded by the largest land army in history and lost entire swathes of the co
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by drekk 5y ago
This really egregiously rewrites the history in which the nascent USSR was rebuked by every single European nation it tried to enter into a defense treaty with against Germany. I'm not going to spoon-feed, but here's a source fr
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by drekk 5y ago
At what cost does humanity survive? I don't want to become a climate refugee. Even the 1.5C model has millions of climate refugees. People still talk about Miami and Dubai as if they'll be around in a century. I am not so arrogant
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by drekk 5y ago
I don't get why people have to add so many qualifiers to the word free before college. Nobody says "free" K-12 or "free" fire departments because we've socially determined that these are necessary for a society
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by drekk 5y ago
That paper isn't telling us anything new though. It's not telling us that mental health predicts homelessness, only that the homeless are disproportionately mentally ill. I'm mentally ill and make six figures as a software en
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by drekk 5y ago
There were three airstrikes this week. Two of which were supported by the US (Somalia & Yemen). The US no longer provides total deaths counts but simply whether or not civilians died. They don't explain how they determine whether a
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by drekk 5y ago
... which is why the commentator said it was extrajudicial, not morally wrong. We collectively decide as a society what is and is not acceptable, and very often use any forms of social capital available to us in order to enforce those norms
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by drekk 5y ago
Charter schools were used to get out of legally mandated de-segregation. If we want a better education system there's no shortcut. You need a well funded, equitable public education system. We're the outliers in the industrial wor
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by drekk 5y ago
I don't think this conclusion is well supported by the piece or discussion. If you think being against racism is just code for being anti-white there's not much I can say to change that, but when people are used to special treatme
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by drekk 5y ago
That's not the obvious conclusion, it seems like you might be projecting. Immigrants are a biased sample (they have enough money to leave the country of their birth, enough education to get a visa, etc) Nigerian immigrants have higher
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by drekk 5y ago
America only invested because they thought these countries would turn to communism otherwise. We don't do things out of the goodness of our hearts. Doesn't seem like we support free trade either when we've had wars over forci
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by drekk 5y ago
On pretty much any metric that matters life is worse for the typical Russian citizen today as compared with before the collapse of the USSR. Educational attainment, lifespan, gender equity, homelessness rates, nutrition I'm not sure wh
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by drekk 5y ago
Wonder how commenters like this will feel when Russia/China/Iran have their own sphere with an alternative to SWIFT like CIPS. Your complete inability to be a fair global hegemon is the reason nobody respects or trusts your govern
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by drekk 5y ago
Sounds like that's an issue with the media and American attention spans rather than the scientific method
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by drekk 5y ago
The article didn't downright dismiss it. In fact the author took pains to mention that conspiratorial thinking, of which it lists many non-fringe examples, slows down legitimate inquiry into the dangers of gain of function research. If
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by drekk 5y ago
From the article: "Ironically the xenophobic instrumentalization of the lab-leak hypothesis may have made it harder for reasonable scientific voices to suggest and explore theories because so much time and effort has gone into containi
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by drekk 5y ago
It isn't Plaid's fault. The majority of their traffic is oAuth. Chase for example is oAuth, as are most of the largest financial institutions now. That wasn't the case when Plaid launched and the other issue with screen scrap
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by drekk 5y ago
Plaid does not sell any user data to third parties. It's entirely funded by developers that pay to use the data, and who are also prevented from selling or otherwise sharing data. Your credentials also don't touch Plaid servers fo
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by drekk 5y ago
Well, they're taking shots at players like Plaid (who use majority direct oAuth integrations) while doing the exact same kind of skirting around companies that don't play nice and share permissioned user data. Aggregators aren&#x2
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by drekk 5y ago
Oh well if we've defined torture in a way that excludes this then I guess all the ethical implications disappear. It's not legally torture the same way hieleras on the border are not; you can maximize discomfort and pain for human
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by drekk 5y ago
Lisa Feldman Barrett was, from 2018-2020, one of the 1% most-cited scientists over a ten year period. Her work in the cultural construction of emotions is taught widely to psychology and neuroscience undergrads and to dismiss it as a "
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by drekk 5y ago
Maybe because the previous generation's idea of "bringing freedom and democracy" meant glassing the Middle East. The "freest country on the planet" has been at war for the entire lifetime of all but the oldest zoome
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by drekk 5y ago
You mean free to be advertised to by multibillion non-governmental organizations? They can still smoke when they reach legal age. But I guess you're right, freedom to do anything without consequences is the only standard. We should let
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by drekk 5y ago
You're not responding on-topic. People can still smoke, their "freedom to poison themselves" is fully intact. Ironically, stopping advertisements for cigarettes would give the consumer more freedom of choice free from corpora

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