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by floor2 5y ago
> let those who want it take the risk This is the fallacy in your argument. It's an infectious disease that spreads through the air. An infected individual will emit particles of the virus which will cause other people to become sic
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by floor2 5y ago
Ya, these obviously fake class-warfare anecdotes are weird. People retell and repost them as if they were real, despite being obviously made up to show group X being bad/dumb/naive and group Y being good/smart/wise.
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by floor2 5y ago
This is why the "right vs left" style of thinking drives me crazy. Unions are constantly doing evil things, usually for the same greedy and power-hungry reasons as any corporate board, and to the same detriment of society at large
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by floor2 5y ago
Crime doesn't really work the way you're suggesting. Someone robbing houses is directly going to cause a massive uptick in violent crime. What if the resident is home and tries to defend themselves? The victim (of the home invasio
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by floor2 5y ago
The unintentional irony of this statement! The myth of neo-nazis or white-supremacists as any sort of significant group or movement is pure fiction. It should be treated as the same as conspiracy theories about elite pedophile rings meeting
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by floor2 5y ago
The terminology of "cancelling" the debt is the most dishonest, twisted abuse of the English language. There is no "cancelling" debt. There's only forcing other people to pay. The incentives here are entirely backwa
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by floor2 5y ago
> If you get sick, that's your fault. I'm not wearing a mask again for you. WTF kind of insane selfishness is this? The vaccine still isn't approved for children, and you won't... wear a tiny piece of cloth or paper o
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by floor2 5y ago
My god the writing of that article is horrible. I was genuinely curious about the content, but every single sentence is so dripping with condescension that it's unreadable. We get it, you hate these boys and you want us to despise and
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by floor2 5y ago
Alcohol does not relax people overall. It provides a brief feeling of relaxation (a mixture of GABA receptor interaction and social/learned habit of associating the act of drinking with relaxing) but then significantly increases physic
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by floor2 5y ago
Ha, I think the internet needs a new term like Godwin's Rule or Gell-Mann Amnesia or whatever for the constant claims of "This only happens in America" or "This problem is worse in America than anywhere else" and th
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by floor2 5y ago
There's a lot of research showing that yes, it does. Here's a quote: "Long-term, heavy drinking can actually alter the brain’s chemistry, re-setting what is “normal.” It causes the release of higher amounts of cortisol and ad
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by floor2 5y ago
Oh come on. Obviously people aren't clamoring for bringing back asbestos or dumping sewage into the street. Regulations are written for a wide range of reasons- legitimate safety issues, quality of life concerns, propping up values, fu
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by floor2 6y ago
It's marketed as a herbicide, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have an impact elsewhere. For instance, we know that the gut microbiome has wide-ranging effects from digestive disorders to arthritis and auto-immune problems to
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by floor2 6y ago
It's great that you recognize professional investing isn't something you know a lot about. It's a bit concerning that people believe a hollywood movie has taught them how the industry works. Keep in mind how hollywood portray
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by floor2 6y ago
Essentially all of the "mobility" metrics are case studies in the 3 types of lying- "lies, damned lies and statistics" In many Northern/Western European countries, wages are very compressed around the median, such t
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by floor2 6y ago
Yes, that's the viewpoint. That viewpoint is also incredibly racist. A phrase like "want someone of their own kind" is something I expect to hear from a KKK member. My "own kind" includes people of all races, religi
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by floor2 6y ago
Your analogy is perfect... for showing why this is wrong. The "shooting back" solution just ends up with a bunch of people injured (likely including random bystanders). The better solution is to get the shooting to stop entirely.
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by floor2 6y ago
Bit of an aside, but it's so wild that we label people as "environmentalists" and that anyone would place themselves NOT in that group. It seems like 100% of people should want air which is non-toxic, water which is non-toxic
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by floor2 6y ago
Ironically, your last statement is kinda completely inverted. A bunch of financially illiterate newbies who don't know half the terminology and don't understand the underlying math have gotten tricked into thinking that "it&#
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by floor2 6y ago
The word you're looking for is "Lose" not "Loose".
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by floor2 6y ago
That's a completely unrelated hypothetical (and also, would be illegal fraud). There's nothing special about shorting in your imaginary scenario either. You could change your scam to "I own Dominos stock and don't order
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by floor2 6y ago
This worldview seems like one of the biggest problems facing America right now. We should strive for equal rules and justice for all, rather than first deciding how likeable or sympathetic the parties involved are and then changing the inte
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by floor2 6y ago
Essentially none of what is written in your "rants" is factually accurate, unless by calling it out you meant to make clear that these were emotional ramblings unrelated to reality. Neutral analysts on CNBC providing commentary is
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by floor2 6y ago
I know everyone is excited to bring out their pitchforks, but let's take a moment to consider this from an objective position. Imagine a broker knowingly profits from executing trades that are part of a market manipulation- the SEC can
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by floor2 6y ago
This often-repeated quote is almost certainly fake. A single person claims to have heard this statement and waited until after Mr. Ehrlichman's death, decades later, to publish the quote. tl;dr - You're spreading misinformation be
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by floor2 6y ago
When armed militias set up an "autonomous zone" in Seattle did Airbnb work to identify participants and ban them from the platform? This is a weird year. The Trump-supporters who attacked the capitol are completely indefensible an
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by floor2 6y ago
If you had millions of dollars, you'd still need to brush your teeth. And sleep and eat and shower and use the toilet. Would those things mean you're not truly free? You'll always be 'forced to work' even if that wo
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by floor2 6y ago
Have you ever been to the USA? Only a tiny, tiny percent of percent of people are served by public transit. I'm also skeptical that the average apartment building is more energy efficient than suburban housing, since the incentive of t
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by floor2 6y ago
That's obviously not at all what was intended. Please don't project your biases onto others by suggesting dark, cynical interpretations which were obviously not what the author meant. There were obvious, short-term, localized nega
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by floor2 6y ago
It seems like you have just a genuine misunderstanding due to language and culture. American discourse uses "right wing" and "left wing" frequently and broadly, someone saying they're "right wing" does not

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