homonculus1

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by homonculus1 4y ago
When we do it, it's democracy. When THOSE PEOPLE do it, it's dirty populism!
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Be careful about where that idea takes you...
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by homonculus1 4y ago
reason->autocorrect
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by homonculus1 4y ago
France is the poster child for what happens when green energy activists strangle the industry after it's built, as opposed to before.
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Man does not live on bread alone
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by homonculus1 4y ago
I have a bridge to sell you, best view in the Bay Area.
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by homonculus1 4y ago
"You can lead a horse to water..."
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Ha. Human nature hasn't changed a bit, we just have oil now.
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Once you start using words to mean their own opposite, your claim to reason flies out the window.
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Because the pearl-clutching over "turning citizens against one another" is proven disingenuous by the rioting.
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by homonculus1 4y ago
That's nice, but none of this has anything to do with "vigilantism." The other guy only used that word because he thought it sounded scary. If either of you knew what it meant you would understand that government-sanctioned a
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Deputization and vigilantism are antonyms, your framing is incoherent. An elected legislature sanctioning civil action is "dystopian", but rioting and arson? Intimidating judges at their homes? Laundering a decade of domestic terr
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Bernays' ancestors
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by homonculus1 4y ago
No.
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by homonculus1 4y ago
There's no need for such an policy even if it were a strategic goal. Urban environments have been "nudging" people towards greener pastures since the 1960's.
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by homonculus1 4y ago
They also do a lot of good work enforcing US borders.
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by homonculus1 4y ago
The point about equipment is a really important one. A lot of people have a very stupid attitude that art is some kind of special domain where the tools don't matter--a true artist works beauty with whatever he has! Leave that nonsense
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by homonculus1 4y ago
I have a deep hunch that it gets far stupider even than measuring compulsion. Suppose that your feed refreshes itself while you're trying to read a particular tweet. You go back looking for it--now badly ordered, irrelevant content is
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by homonculus1 4y ago
If Sony started giving LSD to kindergarteners, I bet you valley nerds would forget about that whole DVD thing
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Certainly... but there are not an infinite number of ways to reach the same outcome!
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by homonculus1 4y ago
>Many of us have lost a sense of community and place we once had. I don't know what about our culture has done this, but it's bad. Every community is a social organism fighting uphill on an energetic gradient. Therefore in orde
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by homonculus1 4y ago
It's a crummy reason to ban guns, but suicide is definitely bad!
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Spitting, drizzling, showering, raining, pouring. What is it with ignoring English descriptives and then acting like other languages are superlatively rich?
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by homonculus1 4y ago
If you piss off 500 people on an island with no police force I suspect YOU are going to learn how informal governance works!
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Where did the big bang come from?
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by homonculus1 4y ago
American neighborhoods are homogeneous, and you can see the result when you walk between them.
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by homonculus1 4y ago
You aren't being kind, you're being a bully with a thin veneer of social piety. Your standard of behavior leads directly to tyranny of the most demanding and intolerant minority and you aren't even brave enough to own it as y
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by homonculus1 4y ago
>[homogenous Japanese population] is the farthest possible away you can get from [unrestricted immigration from the southern hemisphere]. Why yes, indeed, it is!
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Great plan, for a favela
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by homonculus1 4y ago
Hmmmmmmmmm

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