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by esarbe 4y ago
No, it's just that; embryo selection. It's not an euphemism for what you wrote because an embryo is not a child and you cannot murder an embryo. From Wikipedia: "A child (plural children) is a human being between the stages o
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by esarbe 4y ago
By applying for unemployment benefits. That only works if you live in a sane country.
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by esarbe 4y ago
If you want a comprehensive answer, you probably would want to do define what "the west" is. I'll go with "Europe and the USA" in my answer. No. "The West" is the worlds largest economic region. Any compan
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by esarbe 4y ago
You cannot remove Elon Musk from the discussion. He is a public figure[0]; the same discussion would not apply to you (I presume) or me (I know). What exactly a 'public figure' is depends on the given legal system. But its pretty
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by esarbe 4y ago
There's a long and healthy discussion about this question in many legal systems. The topic of discussion is the definition of 'public figure'[0] and what that entails. Public figures usually don't enjoy the same right to
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by esarbe 4y ago
No company can ever be a 'bastion of free speech' since it's always beholden to the interests of the investors.
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by esarbe 4y ago
> Do you not have a right to privacy if you're wealthy? Not if you are deliberately aim to be a person of public interest. Multi-Billionaires are persons of public interest by the power they wield given their wealth. So; you probabl
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by esarbe 4y ago
When you are moving in the public sphere - as Musk is doing - you lose certain rights to privacy that nobody John 'Random Person' Smith enjoys.
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by esarbe 5y ago
Ah, I tried to like the books, didn't succeed. Maybe just not for me.
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by esarbe 5y ago
So many good books to recommend. Here's a selection - Diaspora by Greg Egan - Pushing Ice by Alastair Raynolds - Watership Down by Richard Adams - The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle - The Price of Nothing by R. Scott Baker - Blindsigh
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by esarbe 5y ago
> Plenty of people don't want to have children, [....] In reality, the action(sex) has many other effects both beneficial and harmful. Sex is for reproduction, plain and simple. Any other function - be it societal or psychological -
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by esarbe 5y ago
> What evidence is there to prove the biological trumps psychological? The psychological is biological. > The point of life is not reproduce, The point of life is the continuation of life - that means reproduction. It might not be y
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by esarbe 5y ago
> I am convinced the biological need for sex is rooted in a core psychological need for intimacy The biological need for sex is rooted in the necessity for reproduction. > this need is so crucial, the body works to help obtain it simi
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by esarbe 5y ago
> on a nearly universal human experience Love is not a nearly universal human experience. Love is a whole lot of concepts and emotions and experiences that are highly dependent on the cultural context. That's one of the points of th
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by esarbe 5y ago
Love and lust and passion are things that are difficult to square with our (mis)understanding as 'rational' entities; we are not thinking machines, we're reproduction machines. > But a lot of women, in particular, find it
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by esarbe 5y ago
Love can be many things. Love is lust, is the desire for company, the yearning for friendship; it's a single word used for a plethora of emotions. We would do better to differentiate these and make it clear what we mean when we say &#x
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by esarbe 5y ago
Can you provide more data?
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by esarbe 5y ago
> I see how you changed that into an ideology of us vs. them. I don't. Would you mind explaining?
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by esarbe 5y ago
As soon as they are forced to do so by an overwhelming coalition of citizens. While more than half of the citizenry still has to be convinced that climate change is not some kind of hoax, there's no universal pressure to act.
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by esarbe 5y ago
I don't think that the problem is that people don't know how to act. We know how to act; force our governments to take action. The thing is; not enough people are asking for that action, too many people still don't recognize
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by esarbe 5y ago
> So you agree that it's not a binary trait: Ha, here's the question: Is the lack of a trait one of its expressions? Is 'none' a reproductive strategy or is it the absence of one? I guess ones view on the "binary
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by esarbe 5y ago
Sex is very much a 'binary' concept; it's fundamentally tied to a property of reproduction strategies; the size of the gametes. To quote [0]: > The type of gametes produced by an organism defines its sex. Commonly in plant
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by esarbe 5y ago
Same here. I gave up on Windows years ago, switched to Linux and have been happy with it ever since. Sure, there are some sharp corners here and there, but at least the operating system doesn't get out of it's way to stop you from
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by esarbe 5y ago
Aside from some weird GDI printer that refuse to work with any operating system other than Windows I never[0] had any issues with hardware. I recently tried to revive an ancient drawing board and when it didn't work with Linux I - fo
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by esarbe 5y ago
That, and it has also suggested[0] that kissing might be related to feeding behavior. [0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201402...
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by esarbe 5y ago
> The clothing can't both be unwanted and outcompete local manufacturers. Of course it can. You can have a vast mountain of worthless fabric that's not wanted by anyone and still have enough usable and useful pieces of clothing
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by esarbe 5y ago
> reaching deep into the poorest parts of Africa. Yes. We're using the poorest parts of Africa as garbage dump. We're not helping these people prosper, quite the contrary; we're destroying local economies.
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by esarbe 5y ago
You've hit the nail on the head. If all these externalized cost were actually included in the price of the product it would raise the price massively and no one would accept today's low-quality ware anymore. Maybe?
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They were trained to be good little consumers and they are doing a splendid job.
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by esarbe 5y ago
So does calling out sexism and being socially conscious in general. It still has to be done.

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