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by kcplate 3y ago
That’s the point of asking the question, to clarify the difference. I’m sorry but adopting the attitude that the question itself isn’t allowed to be asked, or simply by asking the question somehow invalidates the person asking the question
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by kcplate 3y ago
Two things that I believe would dramatically reform policing in the US. - Eliminate qualified immunity so it’s not the default guiding principle to police interactions - Find ways to identify and weed out the bully personality types that fi
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by kcplate 3y ago
To me, that is exactly the kind of challenging question that a journalist or editorial writer should be asking and answering. You have two opposing sides essentially accusing the other of disenfranchising votes using different mechanisms.
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by kcplate 3y ago
> But clapping is noise-adjacent, which is distress-adjacent, which is oppression-adjacent, which is fascist-adjacent, so actually clapping is fascist. Hilarious hyperbole here but what is sad is there are some on HN that will not recogn
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by kcplate 3y ago
I don’t know if that sandwich story was true, but judging from my own experiences in the weird politics of divisive chicken sandwiches it would not surprise me if it was true.
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by kcplate 3y ago
It’s certainly a novel idea and more power to ya on the success of it. But speaking personally the last thing that my friends would want to hear in the morning is the sounds that emanate from my body. I also really don’t want to hear thei
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by kcplate 3y ago
My mind drifted when I read this to the oft required multiple flushes of low flow toilets and the lovely fluorescent lamp bulbs that require a hazmat team to dispose of properly. Good intentions don’t always equal desired results.
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by kcplate 3y ago
>Nobody has made a good case for RTO benefiting the individual The organization gets to decide the work environment for its employees. The employee can decide to work for the organization or not. So if you as an employee want to infl
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by kcplate 3y ago
I don’t care about upvotes or downvotes. How my comments are received or not is what it is. I don’t measure my self worth by my karma on here. Karma or not, some topics on here do not evoke reasonable discussion. I do want to thank you h
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by kcplate 3y ago
I was well experienced in getting wasted and hanging out with my friends long before I went to college.
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by kcplate 3y ago
I think the point is not to get brainwashed to any specific agenda but your own…and not to come out of college with a $100k debt for what many people is a degree that often has very little to do with the career they end up pursuing.
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by kcplate 3y ago
Well I agree with you. I love working remote and don’t want to RTO. However after several discussions on here where I simply asked the question of remote work proponents to just provide real evidence of the benefit of remote work to the
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by kcplate 3y ago
[generated video of Nelson Mandela walking down a street waving and shaking hands in Johannesburg, in the background there is the ‘golden arches’’ and a somewhat out of place looking McDonald’s restaurant] Voice over: “While Nelson Mandela
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by kcplate 3y ago
So employees just doing their job is news now? In other non-news, over a dozen random CEOs were advised today by their corporation legal staff and other employees that some proposed idea might be a bad idea, violate a law or some other cont
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by kcplate 3y ago
> Why am I downvoted for asking a question? Because it seems that some on HN treat any skepticism about negative impacts or reports of climate change with disdain. I think they feel that any report that presses the narrative further sho
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by kcplate 3y ago
> the system should be smart enough to cache frequently used apps I mean…isn’t it sort of doing that by allowing a windowless app instance?
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by kcplate 3y ago
This time like pretty much every time a police officer uses their firearms or force would have played out completely differently and likely more sensibly if we didn’t give law enforcement officers qualified immunity.
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by kcplate 3y ago
But still high infant mortality and spike in deaths of military aged people, as well as more primitive medical (lack of antibiotics etc.), There was not as many people that made it to the advanced ages where the results of dementia become
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by kcplate 3y ago
Honestly this seems to me to be much more likely a reason than industrial society environmental factors. My father was in his early 80s before he could no longer “fake away” the mental decline he was experiencing due to Alzheimer’s. At 86
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by kcplate 3y ago
Yep. That one made me snicker as well…
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by kcplate 3y ago
I am a pragmatist so I am “results oriented” instead of “intention oriented”. But if you feel the need to try and suppress comments on here because it creates suspicion in you around the intentions of the commenter that’s your thing. For w
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by kcplate 3y ago
“The northwest might burn to the ground, people may die or be displaced, but god dammit we simply cannot give that political party a win (even if we win too).” Yep, that attitude that makes perfect sense for society.
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by kcplate 3y ago
> is often an attempt to downplay global warming and the urgent need to do take steps to stave it off… I mean so what… . I don’t see how having a conversation about taking a practical steps to avoid a disaster should be suppressed just
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by kcplate 3y ago
You obviously carry guilt about what you eat that I do not have. Perhaps You turn the guilt you feel into an explanation and justification of a bad idea behavior of a certain people because you are morally conflicted about it. I am not mora
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by kcplate 3y ago
>False equivalence between salad and meat You mean…like both being food that humans can eat? Regarding your other philosophical arguments for the behavior of preachy vegans—I don’t have any guilty feelings about the food that I eat tha
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by kcplate 3y ago
That is completely understood, but you also must realize (if you are being honest) that if you belong to a group that has developed a negative public reputation for itself because of some of its members negative behavior that the negative p
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by kcplate 3y ago
> you need to learn not to apply broad brush strokes to a large community. It’s a you problem. Ridiculous, it’s not their problem, it’s a vegan community problem. Let’s not pretend that it’s not a well earned reputation. The noise th
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by kcplate 3y ago
> I have my "office" shoes Well I won’t claim that I haven’t worn shoes at all in the last 4 years, I can safely make the claim that I haven’t worn shoes within the 4 years in my home office to both my wife and pedicurist’s c
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by kcplate 3y ago
One of my favorite youtube channels. Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Apparently there must be a bunch of haters of goldfish with Bronx accents on HN.
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by kcplate 3y ago
Not sure where you live, but at least 50% of the time I am driving my car I am probably putting over 100 miles on it per trip. My weekly trip for groceries might be the only one where I am driving a shorter range.

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