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by kcplate 10mo ago
“ Vulgarity is not a sin against God, but against polite society. Between you and me, I don't give a shit about polite society.” - Brother Justin Crowe, Carnivàle
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AI will improve to a point but in my opinion will eventually start to enshittify as its improvements eliminates the people out of its system.
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> That sounds like a dedicated teacher though, not that bad? Assuming the teacher provides the right answers…or at least when it doesn’t know the answer it doesn’t make up bullshit just to give an answer.
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That statement is not factually incorrect. Neither is this statement: “Up to 100% of US citizens may be criminals”
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Sometimes the last lessee is still on the hook for the remainder of the lease due to landlord improvements for the tenant. Had a friend lease a retail storefront, his business failed, but he still was coughing up rent to the landlord until
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Perhaps she is just unattractive…
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Some people are just not aesthetically pleasing.
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I brought up that ease of access was significantly different then and now. That’s the lived experience I brought to the greater conversation. You didn’t argue that I was wrong about that ease of access, you decided to bring its effect in
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No, I never made any claim that you have any duty to do anything at all, that is something you are inventing. Frankly, I don’t care if you explain anything or not. I provided information about the ease of access of porn among young people p
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by kcplate 10mo ago
What an interesting deflection. My initial comment mentioned the significant difference in access to porn between today and 40-50 years ago. You made a claim that it was meaningless. You brought the concept of its “effect” to the conversa
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A former NSA guy worked with me seventeen years ago. He had been retired for five years from the agency at that point we worked together. He did not own a mobile phone or any internet connected device. Was staunchly against it. This atti
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Ok then, enjoy your bath. Hopefully it’s fine.
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Person 1: I once or twice got a small drop of a dangerous chemical on my skin in 1982 Person 2: I bathe in that same chemical for 30 minutes every single day. It’s no different than 1982. The risk of harm is the same.
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by kcplate 10mo ago
A couple of comments above, you said: “Why would 'ease of access' make any difference if you didn't have easy access and got it anyway” So exactly what is the target of the “difference” you are referring to then here? You a
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Are you implying that perhaps 15-25 mins worth of porn video total throughout all of someone’s teenage years due to such rare access of the material would have a similar emotional and mental impact as having the ability to see that much d
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by kcplate 10mo ago
> access to porn isn't new with the internet “Ease of access” and “easy access to the most depraved shit you can think of that’s out there” is what changed. That is what is wrong and why many people feel we need to find some way to
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> Are getting funded somehow They are getting funded because people are tapping into the zeitgeist, so the message is popular and presented in ways people find interesting and compelling. Money abounds whenever people are listening. &gt
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But how many people is he actually influencing? . His primary audience is probably more like the folks in the HN community and no one here seems to be taking these ramblings seriously. A half dozen preachers at medium to large congregation
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> incredulous that Thiel was reported to claim the Pope is now an antichrist I don’t even think the claim has shock value anymore. I have a buddy who has thought that about the last 3 popes. Just because Thiel is saying it doesn’t mean
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I have yet to see one piece of “evidence” that I find compelling. Trot out a living EBE on live broadcast TV into the Oval Office and maybe I’ll reconsider. Until then it’s just a convenient distraction.
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> and that are much further ahead of where we are I’m not so sure. Life might be out there, but intelligent life capable of even wondering what those blinky things are in their sky seems exceedingly rare. Just in the one place we know
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Images, color palette, the whole nine yards distracted me enough that I couldn’t get past the fold.
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I grew up in the seventies, we didn’t have the “filthy mouthed kids” media examples until Bad News Bears…however, prior to that, even without examples we still managed to be pretty filthy mouthed kids organically. Which came first—the chick
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by kcplate 11mo ago
> Does it apply to rich immigrants? I think if they are illegally here, it doesn't really matter. A rich illegal immigrant may not have the same social services strain as the poor do, but it’s still someone willfully breaking a law
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> They're still our immigration laws, we should fight to change them It’s good advice, but a big hill to climb. The Dem politicians walk a fine line here. The influx of illegal immigrants is truly unpopular, not just with folks on
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> Why are you changing your words? I didn’t, do you find these two phrases functionally different? “military person ( if so ordered ) would gladly take up arms against their own citizenry” and “ ordered military has been asked to take u
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Well you missed the point entirely or have deliberately misrepresented what I said. I described how the 2nd amendment is essentially a “force multiplier” for a fractioned military more than a counter to the military. You mention Kent State
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How often did those countries allow their citizens keep their private firearms after the revolution?
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The political side that that often argues for more government in their political solutions seems to by default to trust the government “to not overstep its authority”?
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This notion of an all powerful military and the futility of defense against tyranny assumes that every military person (if so ordered) would gladly take up arms against their own citizenry as well as every military weapon system would be ut

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