frogpelt

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   by frogpelt 6y ago

   You've created a straw man and called it a crazy fallacy. No one believes that speech doesn't affect behavior. But there is a cost to allowing speech to be offensive to certain races, groups, or lifestyles. There is also a cost
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   by frogpelt 6y ago

   If we all agreed on those terms you threw out, then you might have a point. But we don't. I don't agree with the new definition of racist. There was a time not long ago that dressing up as a black person for Halloween was maybe in
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   by frogpelt 6y ago

   Can they both be groupthink?
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   by frogpelt 6y ago

   Would you say the majority of people shop like that? It makes sense to me that if I buy post hole diggers you should show me ads for work gloves or mailboxes or fences. Not more post hole diggers. Weird example, I know.
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   by frogpelt 6y ago

   Also, they will argue that they are doing it for privacy and security reasons which are benefits to users. But I don't know how much a judge would care about that.
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   by frogpelt 6y ago

   How many government organizations (especially unionized ones) get rid of or otherwise deal with bad performers? Instead of pointing out the military as the rule and police officers as the exception, maybe we should consider that the militar
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   by frogpelt 6y ago

   Jacksonville is the largest U.S. city by area, in the contiguous 48 states. Alaska has several cities with enormous boundaries. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
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   by frogpelt 6y ago

   "Extremist" and "dangerous" according to whom?
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   by frogpelt 6y ago

   Ask yourself why is that opinion considered controversial? Are you living in a bubble?
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    It's not the "truth" and the "facts" that people are afraid to discuss. It's their opinions about truth and facts. When you see phrases like "wrong/right side of history" and you see things happe
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    It is astounding that things escalated to this point within two weeks of you signing up.
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    Relevant news story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/1996-man-sues-pepsi-for-not-giv...
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    You can't just throw out a number like 22% and not explain it. Can you?
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    So lets say Apple put up a store of spare parts and they charge $399 for a replacement screen. How does that look?
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    You may have experienced the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. https://www.google.com/search?&q=baader+meinhof+phenomenon
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    I would fully expect the numbers of people killed by police to be higher than officers killed. I don't disagree that there is a likely (especially in some places) a systemic police brutality or at least heavy-handed approach. I don&#x2
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    I agree with almost everything Mr. Obama wrote. But... I feel the complete opposite of “hopeful” when I see these riots, when I see people so angry they will destroy their own cities. Because it accomplishes the exact opposite of they hope
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    It's possible the police were saying things that couldn't be heard on television because the mic was not in front of their mouths and they were wearing huge masks.
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    This is so true. All I could think was that Omar Jimenez and CNN are as giddy as they can be about this.
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    There are a few problems with online groceries. 1. Out-of-stock substitutions. It depends on which low wage workers is picking the substitutes. They always pick items that are either bigger or more expensive than what we ordered if they ca
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    "Eligible" but will you receive it?
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    It definitely should. But one real problem with bureaucracy is that it tends to go to great lengths to justify itself. It also self-replicates like a virus. So, in practice, I imagine there would be lots of offices and agencies, services a
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    I was troubleshooting a computer once that would randomly shut off during boot and, one component at a time, I replaced everything on it including the motherboard to no avail. Finally I took all the parts out of the original computer and pu
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    It seems that we live in an era where if you made bad decisions in the past, you can never be trusted to make good decisions ever again. Even if you own your bad decisions and show lots of improvement. Nope. Once a pariah, always a pariah.
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    Well, since we’re on the topic I read the word ‘repair’ as a verb. I thought a shop in Manila had tracked down the bug’s creator to repair their computers.
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    Numbers get big really fast. They quickly grow to proportions that practically mean nothing to us. A million seconds is 11.5 days from now. A billion seconds is 31 years, 8 months, and 15 days from now. A trillion seconds is 31,709 years fr
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    Your two examples can be debunked though. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuIIjLr6vUA
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    I love this idea but I found this part hilarious: "You can join the event on facebook, so we can keep in touch, and see how popular this gets! Invite your friends, spread the word!" The reason people look at their screens first th
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    @DangitBobby Making money off of someone else's IP is illegal though.
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    by frogpelt 6y ago

    First thing I looked for was Jolly Roger's cookbook.