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by jadell 7y ago
So you round up a judge and jury to check in with some objective observers. And it so happens that all those people are friends or business associates of the murderer. Maybe the murderer is even giving them a portion of the money he takes o
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by jadell 7y ago
Poor white communities tend to be rural, away from the infrastructure that would support these types of industry. In general, no one builds out there, except for agriculture (which has its own issues; see the on-going fight over smell and w
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by jadell 7y ago
What you just described is called "systemic racism" where the power structures and the rules were established to perpetuate oppression, but done within the rule of law so that no individual in the system seems explicitly racist. I
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by jadell 7y ago
Do you know what asserting your rights looks like to a cop having a bad day, especially if they're already anxious and you're a black man in a bad neighborhood? It looks an awful lot like "resisting", and it's going
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by jadell 7y ago
They didn't choose to prosecute him because it's Department of Justice policy not to indict a sitting President. They're leaving it up to Congress to impeach him first.
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by jadell 8y ago
I don't think that's a rare situation at all. There's a large population out there that doesn't identify with R/D (in US politics), but does identify more closely with a 3rd party. But they never vote for them becau
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by jadell 8y ago
Good winning over Ideal is a desired outcome when Ideal doesn't have the votes to win. That's one of the main attractions of non-plurality voting. The point of approval voting is not to rank candidates as Ideal > Good > Bad,
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by jadell 8y ago
When those words are directed at someone who hasn't had the time or experience to develop psychological defenses against them, then yes. Of course verbal abuse is violence when directed at a child.
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by jadell 8y ago
It's only real if you believe that tolerance is some sort of moral absolute, demanding that you be tolerant even of the intolerant. It's not. Tolerance is more like a peace treaty. When someone breaks it, they are no longer protec
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by jadell 8y ago
From the ICC's standpoint, a simple counter to this would be to have member countries deny entry to any US citizen on the ICC's "needs investigation" list. That includes heads-of-state and their representatives. Not that
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by jadell 8y ago
Out of curiosity, how many people have to die or be maimed in a preventable situation -- due to an industry determining it's more cost effective to do so rather than properly protect people -- before it's appropriate to craft a re
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by jadell 8y ago
Teaching people to manage money used to be the purpose of classes like "home economics" in US public schools. Over the past 40ish years, home ec (and civics) have been systematically pared down and removed from public school curri
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by jadell 8y ago
Not if they took a 13k/year pay cut to get it. Options are usually "instead of" not "in addition to" salary.
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by jadell 8y ago
IANABotanist, but I wonder if there are plants that do well in sandy soil and shade that could be used as ground cover underneath the panels and keep the dust down.
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by jadell 8y ago
Is your point that we should stop building any solar or wind? Because if that is not your point, I don't understand what you're trying to say.
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by jadell 8y ago
That's a great idea. I suggest putting it on the arable farmland that supplies their communities. Let them figure out how to get crops from the desert.
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by jadell 8y ago
> “These vast open areas are precious for their natural, historical and recreational qualities. But they are fragile, and no amount of mitigation can counter the damage that industrial-scale renewable energy projects would cause,” Fairch
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by jadell 8y ago
It's a bit ironic watching this get flagged the day after the top HN story the entire day was a post bemoaning that the internet is no longer fun or weird: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038327
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by jadell 8y ago
You're right. I seem to have been paraphrasing a blog post[0] I read a few years ago. [0] https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
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by jadell 8y ago
I forget where I first heard this, but "Tolerance is a peace treaty, not a suicide pact." As soon as one side has broken the treaty by being intolerant, they are no longer protected by the treaty. There is no requirement in a tole
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by jadell 8y ago
A good author knows the rules. A great author knows when, why, and how to break them.
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by jadell 8y ago
You misspelled "billions".
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by jadell 8y ago
Trust but verify. People have died at festivals and concerts because the venues didn't follow the event organizers' instructions.
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by jadell 8y ago
Life was brutal and short for the vast majority of humans for hundreds of thousands of years. The last 1-2 hundred are a complete anomaly, brought on by exactly the types of practices that are currently destroying our environment. Sure, we
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by jadell 8y ago
Climate change will do that anyway. The first thing to go when resources get scarce (I mean truly, decades-long-famine-level scarce) is individual liberty. We're talking back to a worldwide feudal warlord society within 100ish years.
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by jadell 8y ago
The failure of company towns was because they were paid in scrip, which made it impossible to move away if/when you got fired or found better work. As long as the employees are paid in real money, and they can choose not to live in t
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by jadell 8y ago
Based on reports from that era, the tribe was highly secretive and suspicious of outsiders long before this event happened. The first time a Westerner recorded encountering the island, they mentioned seeing signs of recent habitation, but f
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by jadell 8y ago
If anyone is interested in an entertaining and informative podcast about North Sentinel, check our Jake Barton's Historium episode[0], from just a couple weeks ago. Also, I highly recommend the entire podcast. [0] https://
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by jadell 8y ago
He is pro-choice, and he's not trying to fool anyone. He believe people should have the right to make the decision for themselves whether or not to have an abortion. For himself, he's made the decision he wouldn't want his pa
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by jadell 8y ago
Orwell's dystopia is more palatable than Huxley's we are to blame in Huxley's version. We become Brave New World by getting exactly what we ask for: entertainment, leisure, sex, escape/drugs, distraction. Compare tha

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