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by gretch 5y ago
"Unfortunately, it's impossible for the societal / cultural to progress at all without having the free time and tranquility-of-psyche to actually reflect on life." I mean, this take isn't wrong, but it implies that
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by gretch 5y ago
I’d say you have an extremely zero sum view of the world “ - If somebody shows you photos of their new baby in person, you don't have to go to Facebook and look at their ads to see them.” If someone shows me their baby pictures I becom
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by gretch 5y ago
Well what do you want me to do? Apologize? Parts of the US are shitty and not as good the countries you listed. The police show up and beat the people who called them https://youtu.be/jgjEbKc6jXk You can judge us if you wan
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by gretch 5y ago
Intention matters in our framework of law. "If the driver isn't paying attention" is a key factor and it means that no, you aren't justified. No one accidentally steals a catalytic converter. You have to plan it ahead of
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by gretch 5y ago
No one in this thread that I've seen is using the language of hunting. No one is saying "boy I wish some fools would come try some shit so I can bag a couple of heads". Do those people exist in the world? Sure, of course ther
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by gretch 5y ago
Again, very easy to say as you talk about the issue in the abstract, behind a keyboard across the internet. Wake up in the middle of the night to strangers at your home - you just caught a bunch of people in the middle of committing a felon
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by gretch 5y ago
It’s not quite enough for me, but I would not judge others if they drew the line there certainly. Also keep in mind that while it’s happening, you have no idea how far this individual intends to go. Were they just intending minor theft? Or
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by gretch 5y ago
In the case of the article, we’re not just asking about blanket “property theft”. I don’t think any of the proponents are say shoot someone who’s stealing a loaf of bread. In many parts of the world, a car used to get to work. If you can’t
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by gretch 5y ago
Yeah those people who do that are bad and shouldn’t do that. Just like the thieves are bad and shouldn’t do that. It’s not one extreme or the other. I have no idea why it’s “inevitable”. I own a gun and I haven’t mentally devolved into the
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by gretch 5y ago
Regardless of malice, it makes them incompetent in the world that younger people live in. For example, I would expect the vast majority of senators (and other politicians) are completely detached from how people use and want to use the Inte
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by gretch 5y ago
Is that your take away? Do you think you are constructive or solving problems with the way you comment? I've admitted that I don't like homeless people, but I put forth an authentic point of view and my engagement is a form of ear
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by gretch 5y ago
Just my perspective, but I don't see that much violence. Violence is an event and inherently ephemeral. Poop is a thing and it will sit there until removed giving me much more time to see it. Maybe that's why? I'm sure violen
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by gretch 5y ago
Yeah, that's all true. In addition, I know that infants and dogs literally don't have the capacity to clean up their poop - they couldn't if they wanted to. If I, as an adult, can clean up your poop for you, then it escapes m
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by gretch 5y ago
Does it really confuse you? Are you so out of touch with basic human desires that you don't see the difference between having _your biological baby with your genes_ and a random homeless person? That people love their baby _despite_ th
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by gretch 5y ago
perspective: I own a SFH in lower peninsula and have a lot of homeless near me - daily or semi-daily interactions. I'm typically YIMBY and pro-housing, though I lean against homeless-specific solutions (but it's case-by-case ofc).
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by gretch 5y ago
Not for Zillow but for everyone else, yeah it’s value transfer from VCs to the he average person. Same thing with Uber/Lyft/dash/movie pass. For years the general population received rich VC subsidized services. Pretty sweet
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by gretch 5y ago
Twice in my life I've had to hire a lawyer. One took wire transfers and the other took checks/money orders. The vast majority of attorneys require the establishment of a retainer account (and in most jurisdictions it's one of
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by gretch 5y ago
No, people hold cash because they can get things done on short notice. Like if a storm blows over your fence, you can write a check and have it replaced. If you held stocks, bonds, or real estate, you’d have to sell that asset and withdraw
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by gretch 5y ago
We have a lot of evidence that local/municipal agencies are a huge attack vector for hackers. You have the resources and talent pool of a small city who now has to defend against attacks from all over the planet. Consider the ransomwar
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by gretch 5y ago
We’re talking about likes and retweets here, not even original tweets. Any idea extrapolated to it’s logical extreme can look stupid. No one is talking about ending democracy
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by gretch 5y ago
When you use the idiom “ends justify the means”, it summons an imagery of eugenics or genocide eg “in order to have a crime free society, we must exterminate <ethnic group> The “means” in question is Liking and Retweeting on Twitter a
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by gretch 5y ago
I didn’t make this decision. And of course I don’t have this evidence. Twitter has its proprietary data and proprietary analysis of such data. Twitter would be foolish to publish it… (e.g Twitter internal memo shows X people were converted
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by gretch 5y ago
“Free and open” Twitter had it’s chance. People couldn’t handle it and then real people got hurt or died. Maybe this change seems bad on principle, but the status quo today is a known bad state which is costing lives. Hard to argue that we
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by gretch 5y ago
Or it could exonerate you
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by gretch 5y ago
I strongly disagree with this assertion. I have no reasoning. It’s just clear to me that it is true (though I don’t expect or need anyone to agree)
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by gretch 5y ago
As someone who works at google, that guy has a stick up his butt. Sorry for your experience.
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by gretch 5y ago
If Tesla owners aren't price sensitive, then why do we care? Are we up in arms that Lamborghini (cars not tractors) is going to over charge for bumper repair? For the record, I believe the right to repair to an extent. But I believe w
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by gretch 5y ago
Because $16k is a high barrier to entry and future prospective buyers will read about this case and think “hey I don’t want that” and buy a Toyota instead.
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by gretch 5y ago
Wow really? Do you have positive test results that document the sequence of events? If so you should probably email these researchers or something. Bet they would be interested
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by gretch 5y ago
It's not the same thing because you can simply just choose not to go to twitter. That's not possible with sound waves at the town square. If we all agreed that twitter was trash and we all just stop going, then it's over - th

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