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by greenwich26 5y ago
>Edit: Come to think of it, also there were also a few Roman Emperors from North Africa! North Africa, like most of the Mediterranean, was white in Roman times. North Africa is only swarthy today in the aftermath of Arab conquest in the
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by greenwich26 5y ago
> What does "white" mean? Are you telling me the Romans were British? German? Nordic? It means that the second image, showing Roman senators played by a few dozen white Italian extras, is a perfectly likely depiction, and the c
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by greenwich26 5y ago
I was responding to his lengthy diversion on the commutabality of British and Italian actors, which seems to be rooted in the delusional American notion (dating back to the late 19th century, recently revived by lefties who deny the existen
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by greenwich26 5y ago
According to the 2020 figures, national defense was 11% of federal spending. Discretionary vs. mandatory seems irrelevant here. We might as well say military spending is 100% of military spending. It's just dividing it by something to
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by greenwich26 5y ago
US federal spending 2020: $7 trillion The entire budget of #1 is about 3% of that, and #2 and #3 around 1%. What a terrible deal.
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by greenwich26 5y ago
These sort of administrative and bureaucratic activities are less than 1% of federal spending though. So your argument makes no sense.
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by greenwich26 5y ago
Various levels of local governments provide many services and benefits for my physical property located in their jurisdictions, so I do not oppose a reasonable property tax. But the federal government provides no services or benefits to the
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by greenwich26 5y ago
Sounds pretty authoritarian. > Except the uber wealthy who can afford to lose money to pay taxes for the infrastructure that has enabled their explosive asset growth. Federal income tax almost never gets used for infrastructure. Infrastr
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by greenwich26 5y ago
Not an argument.
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by greenwich26 5y ago
Food stamp recipients are usually obese They can't "rise up" from the couch, do you really think they are going to "rise up" and start a revolution?
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by greenwich26 5y ago
$900 million = 5 days of federal food stamps spending $3-4 billion = 3 weeks of federal food stamps spending I know which I think is the better government expenditure
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by greenwich26 5y ago
Cicero was a conservative in some ways. But I don't think he was particularly prejudiced or classist, for the time. Remember that he was technically a plebeian himself, although obviously a privileged and successful one.
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by greenwich26 5y ago
Countries competing with each other to offer attractive business environments with the lowest taxes is a race to the top, not the bottom.
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by greenwich26 5y ago
You are right, of course. But Rousseau made it quite clear that the sovereignty of a government is discretionary. This sort of thinking isn't convincing on an ideological or theoretical level to anyone but a medieval peasant, and it on
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by greenwich26 5y ago
On the contrary, those countries are extremely popular places to base your business activities or start a company or manage your finances from. Ever been to Bermuda? Or the Virgin Islands? You can't move for wealthy industrious Western
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by greenwich26 5y ago
Why are governments allowed to collude like this? Isn't this the same idea as price fixing? Exploiting their monopoly (governments' monopoly on the right to do commerce) to unfairly raise prices (taxes)? The world needs at least s
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by greenwich26 5y ago
Don't be silly. Obviously the bans were not perfectly enforced and you could still find hushed conversations in the corners. This was true on all platforms. What, exactly, is your argument? Or your point? Are you really going to try to
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by greenwich26 5y ago
The website looks really beautiful on my screen. Probably a question of screen resolution? It is true that many serif typefaces degrade quickly on lower resolution displays.
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by greenwich26 5y ago
No. I'm just not convinced at all by his comment about the author's publication history. >This paper is not peer-reviewed. It should end there. So you think scientists aren't allowed to communicate with one another and the
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by greenwich26 5y ago
...what? Attacking the past of the person making an argument, rather than his argument itself, is the textbook example of ad hominem.
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by greenwich26 5y ago
According to Google Scholar, he has dozens of papers, 10000 citations, and an h-index of 37. What do you have? And if you follow through, at least a couple of the four retractions mentioned on Wikipedia appear to be nothing but some acknowl
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by greenwich26 5y ago
I understand the macroeconomic argument, but I still think that the fact that inflation will totally destroy an uninvested, normal middle-class-sized savings account in less than a generation is a huge obstacle for normal people building we
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by greenwich26 5y ago
> Advertising must be clear that the value of investments, unless guaranteed, could go down as well as up, ASA rules stipulate. One thing you can guarantee is that the value of GBP could only go down with these fools in power. Maybe we s
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by greenwich26 5y ago
The real spike proteins are insoluble and stick to certain membranes, like in your lungs. The mutant ones are shorter and more soluble, so they can more easily accumulate elsewhere, e.g. the blood vessels in your brain: hence the vaccine-in
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by greenwich26 5y ago
It's not just mods, reddit itself is at fault. They banned my IP. Now, every time I create a new account, it gets suspended within 24 hours, with a PM from the admins saying "ban evasion". Even if the new account doesn't
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by greenwich26 5y ago
Is your behaviour in this thread a coping mechanism intended to relieve your own anxieties and make you feel good about yourself? Or is it a genuine attempt to convince vaccine skeptics by shaming and scorning them with appeals to emotion a
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by greenwich26 5y ago
Evidently they don't, since I live in the EU and I was able to bypass their retarded IP-block in one click.
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by greenwich26 5y ago
I don't dispute that the researchers were dishonest and broke the trust of the kernel maintainers. So they can be a bit peeved off at UMN. But is this sort of thing not the reality of their operation? That liars exist in the world? I d
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by greenwich26 5y ago
I just don't understand why open source software can continue with the assumption that every single contributor is honest. Imagine if this philosophy was applied to, say, cryptography or network security. What would be the state of enc
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by greenwich26 5y ago
The guilt by association here is now approaching Biblical scales. Like the guy in the comments who wants to close down the entire Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at UMN, which probably employ/educate the best pa

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