dude187

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by dude187 5y ago
That people ignore speech they don't like.
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by dude187 5y ago
If you aren't aware of all the fear mongering, you're not paying attention.
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by dude187 5y ago
The response to controlling people and taking away their freedom in the name of COVID has been ran deliberately and openly run through fear mongering. It's no wonder people keep defaulting to that, but we must actively reject and coun
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by dude187 5y ago
The problem is that none of the risk analysis takes into account freedom and happiness. Not every injury is worth avoiding at all costs.
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by dude187 5y ago
If you can drop 100+ lbs by smoking half a pack a day, I guarantee you'll be a lot healthier overall. Not saying you actually _would_ lose all that weight, but it's not like it's a binary between "smoking" and &quo
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by dude187 5y ago
> This is magical thinking. Attitudes around smoking in general are grounded deeply in magical thinking. People have been raised on anti-smoking rhetoric so deep, with such little cultural push back toward sanity, that it's tough f
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That's really not true at all. Addictiveness in and of itself is not some hugely detrimental trait. Not to mention that nicotine delivered in vapor form is less addictive in the first place.
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by dude187 5y ago
It's not really up for debate whether or not vaping is healthier. It's a night and day difference. Vaping is far less harmful than smoking.
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by dude187 5y ago
When you quit smoking, you quit smoking. Vaping is not smoking. What's inaccurate is to insist that someone still smokes when they do not, because you insist on calling something that is not smoking "smoking".
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by dude187 5y ago
Why "more regulations"? The market is just fine as is it. That feels like one of those things that people just feel obligated to say.
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by dude187 5y ago
That's not really a fair depiction though. They ban based on "wrongthink", because active disagreement of many things is considered "wrongbehavior". The end result is a reinforcement loop of the echo chamber, with
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by dude187 5y ago
Exactly. Discourse has become censored almost compltely on a large number of non "fact checker approved" views over the last year. Reddit bans permanently over it all over, now Twitter. Facebook gets a lot of the blame but sadl
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by dude187 5y ago
You don't need to censor free and open discourse to prevent something like that from being a mainstream view.
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> It actually becomes a self reinforcing cycle if staying in prison makes you an even worse That's certainly one of the tenants that leads people to believe that removing prison from the equation helps. I think that it relies on th
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by dude187 5y ago
What about it (other than some choice outcomes) makes it a "conservative city"? Is it political policies? If so, can you name some? Is it the mentality of the residents? If so, what are some of those conservative mentalities?
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> it generally tries to accomplish its goals while first keeping the corporations pleased What goals are compromised to "keep the corporations pleased"? How would these goals be defined if the corporations were not be taken in
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by dude187 5y ago
> But it probably goes: SF spends a lot of money on services for the homeless, so lots of homeless people keep going there to get those services. Other places don't spend any money on services for the homeless, so the homeless peopl
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by dude187 5y ago
> the laws are even still more draconian than in Western European countries Theft is effectively legal in SF. Is it in those places? > booking processes more traumatic Subjective nonsense. > prison terms longer, prison conditions
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by dude187 5y ago
What progressive policies would have helped? Also, San Francisco is pretty much the quintessential example of such policies getting voted in place without challenge. So maybe you could argue that certain progressive policies were enacted t
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by dude187 5y ago
I wouldn't be so pessimistic as to call it "beyond fixable". It just takes a real effort at restoring law and order, where people who commit crimes know they will be attacked for doing so. That there's an expectation t
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Doing god's work! It's crazy that people can be so deluded to think that actually having enforcement against such victimization is somehow negative.
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by dude187 5y ago
I feel like a lot if it stems from people talking about petty crime like theft as some sort of "cycle". They get tricked into thinking that means you can break it by ignoring it. "Break the cycle, they will stop committing
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by dude187 5y ago
> The DOOM Captcha is just using html/css/js so it's easy for bots to crack with simple DOM querying/manipulation in an automated browser. I mean, if you're looking at it at that level, it's just giving a &q
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by dude187 5y ago
I feel like you could have just asked them to type 'a'. If the threat was automated bots, all generic ones are defeated by a simple "do X" request. Especially if the request was in text, where a lazy human attacker cou
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by dude187 16y ago
Right. Kid goes from a hacking cough that kept him awake for three nights straight to fast asleep (and resumed coughing the next day & night, so "he just got better at the same time" isn't on the table either) and it was all placebo, f