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by drewbug01 2y ago
The existence of additional problems and avenues for violence does not mean we shouldn’t address gun violence. If we take your argument to its logical conclusion - why have any laws or regulations at all? Such arguments are silly.
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by drewbug01 2y ago
> I wouldn’t take the lower end of the estimate Oh, sure. Why not. > banning things has never worked I can think of at least one high-profile counter-example to this, specifically with guns, within living memory. I’m done arguing with
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by drewbug01 2y ago
> Lawfully owned and carried firearms are used defensively something like 10x more than in the commission of crimes. That's citing the maximum of the CDC estimate; the low end of that same estimate paints a more sobering picture. If
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by drewbug01 2y ago
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is the canonical form of this argument. And it’s utterly irrelevant. Sure, most people with a gun don’t kill anyone. But the fact is, some people will. Prohibiting access is by far the best means
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by drewbug01 2y ago
> Now, as for that data, it exists No one ever wants to provide it, though. > cant read at all when they enter. That's a pretty important confounding factor, don't you think? Might that change the way one should interpret th
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by drewbug01 2y ago
Would you care to support that with some hard data? Everybody loves to hate on CPS, but there’s actually a lot of interesting signs of progress: - https://educationrecoveryscorecard.org/states/illinois/ - https:&
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by drewbug01 2y ago
“We should improve society somewhat.” “Yet you participate in society. Curious!”
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by drewbug01 2y ago
I don’t appreciate the conflation of conservative views and religious views, which is my main problem. I never said it wasn’t important to discuss; don’t put words in my mouth. My other problem is that I just find his writing and rhetoric t
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by drewbug01 2y ago
> But they do have some serious, thoughtful conservatives in their opinion pages. Like David French and Ross Douthat. You do a serious disservice to David French by including him in the same boat as Ross Douthat. Mr. French does often po
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by drewbug01 2y ago
Gotcha - the comment read precisely the opposite to me, thank you for clarifying :)
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by drewbug01 2y ago
> Funding in many schools isn't there now for specialists to do these roles.... because teachers wanted to earn more after inflation, so cuts made - more responsibilites to teachers. This seems as though you're implying that it
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by drewbug01 3y ago
A far more accurate title would be “Nine writers on their drug addictions and experiences,” because very little of this article has anything to do with ADHD or the legitimate therapeutic uses of Adderall. Also telling that none of the write
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by drewbug01 3y ago
> designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest This is the part that really concerns me, to be honest. The main meaning of "prurient" is "characterized by an inordinate interest in sex." The main reason th
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by drewbug01 3y ago
> But you weren’t talking about pot. I was. I was replying to a comment that was talking about pot; and the comment I was replying to was on an article that was about pot. In context, I would have thought "medicate" would be un
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by drewbug01 3y ago
It doesn’t really surprise me, actually. We spend an enormous amount of our waking hours engaging with our jobs! If one believes in democracy, holds it as a core value - it seems perfectly reasonable that such a person would want the place
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by drewbug01 3y ago
The most common, plain meanings of the phrase “rightfully so” do imply a basis in morality. It’s fair to say that it can mean that the “rightness” is derived from other sources, but pretending that the primary meaning of the phrase does
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by drewbug01 3y ago
Why are you so obsessed with trying to tie my comments to marxism? That’s deeply odd.
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by drewbug01 3y ago
> But you didn’t suggest individual action. You set out objectives which can only succeed if enough ppl coordinate to do it. I suggested individual action; you attached success criteria to it that support your weirdly strong desire to pa
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by drewbug01 3y ago
Well, if all it takes to be a marxist is suggesting that people take individual action to change a socially undesirable situation, I guess I’m a marxist. But I mean with definitions that broad, who wouldn’t be? I guess it’s useful for tryin
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by drewbug01 3y ago
Well; I’m inclined to agree that my comment would indeed sound silly if you simply substituted antidepressants for pot. But in my mind that’s because it’s comparing apples to oranges. I just don’t see how they are comparable.
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by drewbug01 3y ago
If I wanted to make a marxist-style call for collective action, there’d be nothing “thinly veiled” about it. What I was actually suggesting is that people should, in fact, decide for themselves; and that employers should reap the consequenc
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by drewbug01 3y ago
In the short term, for the individual: yes, it could be better to medicate. However in the long run, it ends up giving license to shitty employers to continue being shitty, and perhaps to become even worse. Such employers need to feel the n
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by drewbug01 3y ago
You’re technically correct; they’re misreading what you literally wrote. Instead, they’re responding to the combative tone you wrote it with. If you really are the VP of Eng at a company, I hope this kind of fight-picking isn’t how you lead
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by drewbug01 3y ago
My living room backs up to a T-intersection in the alley. I also live next door to a school. Every. Single. Day. I see parents on their phone blowing through the stop signs in the alley at that intersection. During school drop-off! While th
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by drewbug01 3y ago
Were those flaws not obvious on the test drive? I also bought a car this year and the mirrors + pillars aren’t like that - I would say maybe we shouldn’t support manufacturers with our money who are pushing unsafe designs.
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by drewbug01 3y ago
There was something like this a few years ago, "Elixir for Rubyists": https://thoughtbot.com/blog/elixir-for-rubyists
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by drewbug01 3y ago
I have such mixed feelings about it. I went back to the Apple Store today to exchange the “light seal” for something that fit better - and an older couple who were there for a demo asked me “what do you use it for?” I didn’t have a great an
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by drewbug01 3y ago
Useless? Come on. Documentation is hard, and I suspect rather than admit something is hard we'd just rather pretend that "it's not important." > Requiring commit messages is a vestige of engineering practices from the
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by drewbug01 3y ago
I’d suspect it has something to do with signing up for an Ozempic discount card (which many people did / still do). Pretty sure they’re allowed to sell that data (their privacy policy seems to allow as much).
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by drewbug01 3y ago
I mean, I can see the comparison! But on the other hand, they took the feedback this time and created a different strap to address it (and early reviews seem to indicate it does help quite a bit). So - lols aside - I don’t think it’s quite

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