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by freen 5y ago
They aren’t very well hidden: they proudly wave the flag of traitorous slavers. Confederate history month still exists in a bunch of states. Have you seen the nazi flags at trump rallies? Jan 6th?
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by freen 5y ago
Ah, yes, at all costs, we mustn’t make white dudes feel uncomfortable. That would be a disaster! They’ve only been running things since the outset of our country, and literally using the force of law and violence to guarantee their social d
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by freen 5y ago
It always astonishes me the degree to which “don’t be an asshole” is considered a radical position. oh, zarzavat, of course, you are obviously correct: it’s the people who sell “F#%K your feelings” t-shirts at rallies and wave nazi flags at
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by freen 5y ago
/r/theDonald refer to him as “god-emperor”
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by freen 5y ago
Tribalism is an inescapable component of humanity, at least for the near term. Look: if different tribes can’t agree on the fundamental rules for peaceful co-existence, nothing else really matters. Whatever else different tribes and/or
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by freen 5y ago
So, $/patient/year * # of patients = total annual cost to insurance industry. A therapy would reduce cost per patient by $x/year. Potential payment to investors in therapy could be 0.5x/year. Someone might be willing to
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by freen 5y ago
That’s clearly why the GOP is making it illegal to teach kids about slavery and it’s repercussions.
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by freen 5y ago
International news organizations don’t really have a dog in the American Left\Roght divide, and yes, they all pretty much agree that the Modern GOP is terrifying and batshit insane.
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by freen 5y ago
So I take it you are in favor of banning critical race theory in schools? In favor of violent insurrection in an attempt to overthrow a free and fair election? I don’t disagree that I am a member of a tribe. That’s not the problem. The prob
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by freen 5y ago
Hmmm… what does the average KS patient cost to their insurance company? What is the likelihood of research finding treatments that will reduce that cost, and by how much? I wonder if a financial instrument could be crafted that captures a p
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by freen 5y ago
Ahh yes, failure to publish every possible fact is clearly a liberal conspiracy. Maybe we should make it illegal to teach kids about slavery, that’d really help. Tribalism is a hell of a drug.
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by freen 5y ago
For what it’s worth, kiwi skin is delicious. Tried it once, and now would rather have an unpeeled kiwi. Just my $0.02.
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by freen 5y ago
Organizations have bylaws largely because without them, chaos reigns. A movement that hopes to continue must become an organization, that is, a collection of humans who agree to engage with each other according to an agreed upon set of rule
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by freen 5y ago
I take it you work 7 days a week, no vacation, no lunch break, in incredibly unsafe conditions? No? Do you consider the fact that very few people have working conditions like those outlined above an enormously valuable thing for society? Gr
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by freen 5y ago
Perhaps a bit more epistemically humility is in order. For all of us, myself included. That said, even highly adversarial climate models greated almost half a century ago have tremendous predictive power. Large systems are modelable. Not wi
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by freen 5y ago
I am 100% sure that the Exxon model from 1982 was not what Exxon wanted. It also has been and continues to be tremendously accurate and predictive. https://xkcd.com/2500
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by freen 5y ago
Did you forget about the violent coup attempt on January 6th? It was just about as competent and deadly as the Beer Hall Putsch.
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by freen 5y ago
Counterpoint: Biff Tannen as president was explicitly an allegory for what it would be like if Donald Trump was president.
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by freen 5y ago
Ahh, yes. Ascendant fascism. Soooo boring.
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by freen 5y ago
The bulk of the voters? Go and talk to them yourself. You’ll see.
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by freen 5y ago
Yes, approximately 2-3% of the population are sociopaths, who are only self-interested. Another huge portion or of the population really just care about getting wealthy, with litter regard for anything else. Seriously, if you want to be ric
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by freen 5y ago
Yes, but the dumb vote in droves for a buffoonish reality tv star they think will fire enough people in Government so that they don’t have to pay taxes anymore. The orange one also hates brown people as much as they do and is unafraid to sa
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by freen 5y ago
Increasingly, sites will break without their analytics. Seems bananas to me for your entire functionality be dependent on third parties.
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by freen 5y ago
The most important thing a con artist must convince the mark of is this: everyone else is on the take. Once this is believed, the mark will follow the con down any corrupt rabbit hole. Ask yourself this: who wants you to believe that everyt
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by freen 5y ago
I’ll never buy anything from Samsung again. The software on their otherwise delightful hardware is absolute crap.
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by freen 5y ago
Will you address my claim that there is a teapot orbiting Jupiter? If not, why not?
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by freen 5y ago
You assume thalidomide was intentional?
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by freen 5y ago
There is strong evidence that young children in congregate daycare have substantially stronger immune systems than children cared for at home who are only exposed to family members.
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by freen 5y ago
Now you have an N of one. I found it highly pleasurable.
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by freen 5y ago
That crypto currencies were useless for porn has essentially informed my entire perspective.

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