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by freen 6y ago
I personally feel like my second amendment rights are infringed by the government outlawing access to surface to air missiles, bazookas, and thermonuclear weapons. The line has been drawn, we are just arguing over where.
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by freen 6y ago
I wonder what the makeup of the 14% of the incoming freshman class that are legacy’s is...
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by freen 6y ago
None of them even mention the topic, much less the actual belief. And I’d be willing to bet that it isn’t his area of expertise, it’s something that he’s a curious amateur about and has a hunch, a hunch that has been thoroughly refuted by t
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by freen 6y ago
The circumference of the situational threat awareness of a deer is around 100 meters. For the vast bulk of the human experiences, our approximate level of situational threat awareness wasn’t all that much different. It’s unsurprising that u
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by freen 6y ago
And yet folks who complain about not being able to speak never mention the things they can’t talk about. I’ll give you a hint, it’s never their field of expertise, and in fact, 9 times out of 10, it’s racialized genetics, one of the single
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by freen 6y ago
“It’s only cancel culture if it comes from the Cancelle region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling consequences.” - https://mobile.twitter.com/BerrakBiz/status/1276320815240208...
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by freen 6y ago
I was referring to the language used in the press during the civil rights era, which referred to the protests led by MLK as “riots” as well. I posted a link to a reputable news source. The right wing militias are well known, and the “boogal
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by freen 6y ago
Link is a 404, which does note bode well for humanity.
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by freen 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/nyregion/east-new-york-pr...
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by freen 6y ago
I see someone isn’t a fan of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. What’s your evidence that left wing violence exceeds right wing? By the by, a lot of the “left wing” violence recently was caused by right wing militia “boog
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by freen 6y ago
The overwhelming majority of terrorism in the United States is committed by right wing extremists. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/homegrown-... The anti-gun, peace-loving left may not
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by freen 6y ago
Any change from approximately zero is large. Nyc has had several months without a single murder. When quoting percentages, it is helpful to establish what the baseline is and how it compares historically. Previous “slowdowns” by the NYPD ha
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by freen 6y ago
One third of all people killed by strangers, are killed by cops[0] Cops take more in assets than robbers. [1] [0] https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/ [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk&#
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by freen 6y ago
Facebook: hardcore about unlimited freedom of speech, unless you want to unionize. Then you can fuck right the fuck off. https://theintercept.com/2020/06/11/facebook-workplace-union...
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by freen 6y ago
The coronavirus was the trial run for climate change. If you thought in February that it wasn’t a big deal, if you listened to folks who said “the cases will go to zero soon”, well, perhaps you should check your epistemology and listen to f
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by freen 6y ago
You could allow Nazis at your personal house party also. It is legal, due to the first amendment, but it sure does say a lot about you as a person.
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by freen 6y ago
Protest de-escalation has been a solved problem since 1970. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/de-escalation-keeps-pro...
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by freen 6y ago
Please point me to something Obama said that could be interpreted as inciting deadly vigilante violence. I’ll wait.
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by freen 6y ago
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by freen 6y ago
Boomers sure were exposed to a whole hell of a lot of lead from leaded gasoline. More interestingly, it seems as if it is actually follows the plot of a novel, called “Q” written in 1999 by an Italian surrealist collecting under the pseudon
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by freen 6y ago
Seems like a refresher in the paradox of tolerance is needed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance “ The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolera
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by freen 6y ago
And I’m done with Keybase. What’s that open source alternative that someone recently posted here?
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by freen 6y ago
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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by freen 7y ago
What did refusing to use the WHO approved test cost the US?
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by freen 7y ago
Gentle reminder that just because you don’t know it exists, doesn’t mean it’s nonexistent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_National_Stockpile
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by freen 7y ago
Pompeo won’t say that the coronavirus is not a hoax. https://mobile.twitter.com/owillis/status/123341176640054067...
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by freen 7y ago
My example is intentionally simplified, and doesn't consider either a high or low personal tax rate. It also doesn't consider tax avoidance because, frankly, legislation that enables tax avoidance is equivalent to lowering effecti
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by freen 7y ago
Imagine you run a company that makes a million dollars a year in profit and that there is a flat 10% tax on that profit. Run the thought experiment of what you'd do if that taxes doubled or halved. I don't know about you, but in t
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by freen 7y ago
Lookup “laconic”.
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by freen 7y ago
“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.” - L. Ron Hubbard

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