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by kcplate 11mo ago
No, this is a weak argument point. We know from experience that urban fighting against small arms is hugely difficult without simply wiping a swath of a population completely out…which our military could do of course, but wouldn’t against
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by kcplate 11mo ago
Well it was definitely a talking point of the mainstream left.
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by kcplate 11mo ago
Perhaps it’s just my location in the country but virtually everyone I know is armed regardless of political leaning in my area and it’s been that way for at least the four decades I have lived here. You just assume it and it’s no big deal.
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by kcplate 11mo ago
Wait, what? I thought the main leftward argument against the necessity of the second amendment was that we can now trust our government to not overstep its authority and people protecting themselves against tyranny was no longer needed?
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by kcplate 11mo ago
Reality is that if you are going to convert 150-200 acres of course space to residential, it’s not going to happen organically. A developer will come in and drop infrastructure and a couple of hundred homes, and then add an active HOA so f
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by kcplate 11mo ago
On any given Saturday the public parks around me (that are free to enter) have far less people than the golf courses around me. So just because it can serve more people, doesn’t mean that it does. Also, pretty sure you will be hard press
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by kcplate 11mo ago
You have obviously not spent much time at a golf course if you believe it only attracts upper income/rich people. Go to your local course and drive around the parking lot sometime on a Saturday…my guess is you are going to see far mor
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by kcplate 11mo ago
I just don’t see the waste. Unless you are just going to let those spaces go wild again you will have similar efforts to maintain the spaces and with potential similar water usage.
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by kcplate 11mo ago
Parks need to be landscape maintained, so does new development—-often in very similar ways that a golf course is (water, chemical, maintenance). Unless around you simply doesn’t have the open land space to support the area’s park and devel
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by kcplate 11mo ago
Sure. It’s a recreation that many people get joy from doing… Just because it may not be “your thing”…doesn’t mean it’s not worth having.
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by kcplate 11mo ago
Ahh yes, the old “let’s outlaw those things I don’t like, but others do that has billion dollar industries supporting it” approach. That always goes over well.
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by kcplate 11mo ago
The point is that it’s rare to see it in nature, so our minds tend to think that they are not natural.
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by kcplate 11mo ago
…which doesn’t look “natural” because of it’s crystals form close to 90 degree angles.
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by kcplate 11mo ago
Just one egregious act can destroy a reputation of anyone and anything… and should .
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by kcplate 11mo ago
> I am not saying it has a value, but 30% seems a lot. I’d suggest that it’s cheap, at least historically compared to just about any other product that’s been sold. If I had a popular marketplace platform that basically sold my product w
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by kcplate 11mo ago
You mean like the BBC? I mean that brevity edit removed 35 minutes between two sentences? This is the latest but not the only example media creating quotes that were never said. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c
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by kcplate 11mo ago
As little as possible, unless the guest house I am staying in has a guest house. Then I would consider it.
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by kcplate 11mo ago
> What pragmatism? Perhaps I read it wrong, but isn’t he basically suggesting that he will be relying more on the observed effects of climate change as compared to predicted rather than just adopting the theoretical predictions as his dr
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by kcplate 11mo ago
If I am visiting with my mother in law, I would consider the host very gracious and attentive to all the needs of his guests.
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by kcplate 11mo ago
> We know that fossil fuels release pollution that we have no technology to clean up. We we should not be using it. The irony is that without them, you (wherever you are) and I (wherever I am) could not be trading messages. Every bit yo
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by kcplate 11mo ago
Not sure that just providing climate alarmist talking points is going to be a convincing counter to a climate alarmist who is now a climate pragmatist and provides some interesting reasons why they switched. How about explaining why he is w
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by kcplate 11mo ago
So why not have just done that?
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by kcplate 11mo ago
I guess if it was a paid app I can see the irritation that would cause. Free apps not so much.
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by kcplate 11mo ago
> The first iPad Pro can’t run adobe products for example. That’s more on Adobe than Apple though right?
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by kcplate 11mo ago
Describe “forcefully obsoletes”? I ran a 2008 MBP until 2019. Then…gave it to my wife who used it until 2022. Finally retired it after the battery swelled. I suspect I could have replaced the battery and she could have got another couple
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by kcplate 11mo ago
That’s blaming the reaction instead of the cause. Exactly which sources could someone switch to for accurate information? All were bad. The political and health authorities were overcommitting the efficacy and results of the vaccine progr
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by kcplate 11mo ago
> …an acceptable simplification… There is nothing acceptable about a message that ends up eroding trust in science and health authorities. Good intentions with poor outcomes hurt more than they help. We shouldn’t excuse it.
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by kcplate 1y ago
Tons of compilation videos on YT of Biden, other politicos, and much of the leftward leaning media making those very claims in 2021. I’ve seen them, don’t need to again, and don’t want my algorithm results to be filled with that crap by do
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by kcplate 1y ago
In that case I guess I wouldn’t have an opinion
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by kcplate 1y ago
> original efficacy claims would have been truly astounding That’s the problem, the bar was set too high. Things were said like “get the vaccine and you won’t get Covid”, “you won’t be able to spread it if you do get it”, and “you will

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