harpersealtako

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by harpersealtako 5y ago
In the US, a lot of wildlife conservation work involves trapping and tagging wild animals. I listen to a popular hunting podcast where wildlife biologists are often brought on as guests, and a LOT of the information they get seems to be di
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
It's definitely odd. I find, though, that the average European overestimates their knowledge and understanding of America. There are so many misconceptions I hear whenever I talk to a European about the US that it's literally im
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
A charitable way of framing it would be "Up to 42% of Americans making 6 figures are so confident in the job market, the economy, etc. that they don't even bother saving money at all because they're confident they can handle
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
We're talking about "e" as it is used as an open other-initiated repair, the fact that it has a dozen other usages is irrelevant here. "E" (and sometimes "a", though I believe that might be regional and m
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
No, I'm talking more about the entire federalization model. The whole point of Mastodon is to be twitter without nazis, unless I'm completely misunderstanding.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Hasn't Mastodon always been transparently anti-free-speech? I thought the whole point of it was people who thought there was too much free speech on Twitter and wanted to be able to create a more censorious platform.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Isn't this either obviously false (yes, corn is in lots of processed foods and oils and most animal feed, but people eat things that don't involve veg. oil, meat, and processed foods all the time) or vacuously true (if we're
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
It's interesting because the US also has unconditional jus soli citizenship (if you are born on American soil, no matter what your circumstances, you are granted citizenship). Nearly all major countries in the Americas have jus soli
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Ok either I've slipped into an alternate reality or you have no idea what a slippery slope argument is, because it literally has nothing to do with any of what you said... But furthermore, I never claimed that "what we're doi
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Because there are differences in scale and severity. As an analogy, let's say I'm arguing with my neighbor over the loud parties he throw every night. My neighbor counters with the fact that he can hear my dog barking every morn
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
The whataboutism is right on cue today as always. Surely you're not suggesting a moral equivalency between Guantanamo Bay and the Uhygur concentration camps in Xinjiang?
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
"Without a reason", you say? Why not read the actual paper [0]? Page 8 has a list of eligibility criteria. Page 47 has a full list of excluded studies with the reasons given for exclusion for every single one of them. [0]: https
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
It's an interesting perspective, I have to acknowledge. I'm viewing it from an extreme outside position (I literally kill and eat wild animals as a hobby), but an interesting comparison I can see might be to cannibalism. There&#
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
The US equivalent is the ELD [0], which basically does the same thing with minor technical differences. They've been mandated for years. I'm not a truck expert though. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elect
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
How many people's lives are saved from increased access to trans-oceanic trade? I don't have an answer to that, but isn't it possible that the counterfactual world where no container ships exist involves worse health and mor
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
That's just a branding gimmick, isn't it? I don't think anybody is fooled (or if they are then it's unobservant meat-eaters, not vegans). If I can try to summarize your opinion (tell me where I'm wrong), it sounds
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
South Africa? I would call it South Africa if that's what they want to be called. I definitely wouldn't call citizens of South Africa "RS Africans" or something unless they preferred that for some reason.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
>US Americans This is a side note, does this bother anybody else? I'm at least a teensy bit bothered by it. I know the point is to reduce ambiguity between the U.S.A and Latin/North/Central/South America, but it sti
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
You may be correct about that (I eventually decided the topic was too complicated for most people to figure out and disengaged with it). But the argument you present is slightly different and more nuanced than "cows drink a lot of wat
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I find it difficult to create a censorship model that can distinguish between "nuanced counterfactual take" and "contrarian falsehood". I think a lot of people already know this is a problem (e.g. censorship of the Wuha
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
If there is disagreement between the relevant parties, through the court system (or through insurance agreements).
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I know the video you're talking about (I also watched multiple rebuttals of the video which pointed out the issues you mentioned among others). It's been a while since I watched it though, I may be misremembering. I found it ver
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I've noticed a LOT of discussion on HN around this theme in the past week -- that so much trouble happens when people disagree on what words mean and refuse to be more specific. This is a good example of one way this kind of thing sta
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I'm a fan of Joe Rogan, but the "doesn't have a conflict of interest" argument doesn't seem correct to me. The point of Joe's podcast is that his biases and motivations are transparent , not that they don&#x2
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I listened to the podcast he did with Joe Rogan. 95% of what he talked about was fairly convincing and I agreed with it pretty strongly (or mundane and uncontroversial,). 5% was questionable and less convincing. Based on Malone's hi
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Funnily enough, if you want to talk about LA and SF and NY, all of those places have free healthcare for the poorest citizens as well as paid family leave. And there are absolutely places as bad if not worse than skid row in the European Un
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Really? I was under the impression that even the average person living in a poor European country (e.g. Moldova, Belarus, Kosovo) has a worse quality of life in most ways compared to, for example, someone living in a rural trailer park i
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
A big part of it you're missing is that it's a joke . Anime fans definitely know they're weird, and are very passionate about the things they like (and are conscious of that), and thus a lot of humor in the community is sel
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I think "bad faith" suggests you are not being honest, like you know you're wrong or making a fallacious argument but you're saying it anyways. In that sense, an individual nationalist, a foreigner who's fallen for
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I have a really hard time understanding how we're supposed to stop this kind of thing, not just on the internet in general and not this comment in particular but on this site in particular. HN has rules against accusations of bad faith

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