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by kf 6y ago
I’m not a meth user but I have one very wealthy friend who is. He insists that meth in the USA is used only by the very rich and the very poor with no middle class use.
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by kf 6y ago
I think so, except when it’s a position that does actually require one to be in a lab or manufacturing plant or similar. It will take a lawsuit to actually establish this but I imagine a law firm would take a case like this on contingency a
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Race and Justice: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (2014)(slatestarcodex.com)
4 points by kf 6y ago|0 comments
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I Abolished and Rebuilt the Police. The United States Can Do the Same(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by kf 6y ago|1 comments
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by kf 6y ago
Ratio meaning more comments that points? This post has been killed and unkilled, downweighted by flagging and then unweighted by mods, then after a front page surge now downweighted because it has more comments than points.
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by kf 6y ago
Yeah Lesswrong has gotten good again; the coronavirus discussion has stood out. They don’t really do politics but as an old user one could probably force a discussion through.
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by kf 6y ago
A lot of less lethal crowd control is about imagery and perception. Water can’t be used on crowds in America because it was used against crowds in the civil rights era so comes with a historic connotation of racism even though in reality it
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by kf 6y ago
...eh it took two dead versions of this story and multiple emails to the mods for this to get unkilled and it’s still weighted off of the front page. So it took serious effort and intention to front page a story over the power of flag mods
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by kf 6y ago
That demand was not consistently communicated. My time at Occupy made it feel like it was basically against everything bad in society as believed by left/socialist/anarchists. The Occupy demand messaging never really worked cause
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by kf 6y ago
This iteration of the Black Lives Matter protests has a lot in common with occupy. The main difference seems to be that this time the protests and direct action are actually causing the intended change in society, which as a cynical person
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by kf 6y ago
There’s lots of that too. My theory implies that a bunch of people that say they’re taking adderall are actually doing a little meth before they get on the Google bus because it’s cheaper and easier to get.
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by kf 6y ago
...living in evolving anarchy has benefits though. I suspect that San Francisco’s open air drug market with dangerously cheap methamphetamine is one of the dirty secrets behind the engine of creation of Silicon Valley.
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by kf 6y ago
No reason to stay so isolated now that covid testing is widely available. Get tested, have your friends get tested, hang out, be human.
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by kf 6y ago
Living in a neighborhood in Oakland CA with no enforcer and annoyingly blatant property crime, I’m willing to give an enforcer a try cause it’s not like people trust the police here or that they even come when you call them.
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by kf 6y ago
While that’s a fair point, this situation is a more literal insurrection than the previously seen protests and taking of goods from stores. CHAZ has declared their independence from the USA and historically that kind of thing is really not
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by kf 6y ago
The City Journal article is interesting but has such a strange perspective and bias that I appreciate you not linking it here.
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by kf 6y ago
Y’all flagmods that took CHAZ off the front page repeatedly are boring and should read the guidelines, please.
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Hacker News Guidelines(news.ycombinator.com)
1 points by kf 6y ago|1 comments
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by kf 6y ago
The city is already cooperating and providing portable toilets and tried to replace the barricades with nice planters. It’s a national conversation now.
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by kf 6y ago
So my question: will Trump quickly and lethally invoke the Insurrection act? Will the Joint Chiefs comply or create a constitutional crisis? If this isn’t shut down quickly, I predict we see a national movement like this by Juneteenth.
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by kf 6y ago
Bumping this towards front page discussion, the Wikipedia link on this got flag killed from the front page.
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by kf 6y ago
Trying again because basic boring hackers flag killed my post on the wikipedia article. This is the most interesting thing to happen in a while and should gratify your intellectual curiosity and is obviously worthy of discussion.
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Free Food, Free Speech and Free of Police: Inside Seattle’s ‘Autonomous Zone’(nytimes.com)
10 points by kf 6y ago|3 comments
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by kf 6y ago
Has this been extensively discussed on the front page yet? There’s a lot to unpack here. I also like the NY Times article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/seattle-autonomous-zon... and this Facebook
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OpenAI’s Jukebox Opens the Pandora’s Box of AI-Generated Music(waxy.org)
1 points by kf 6y ago|0 comments
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The Infinite Monkey Theorem Experiment(pudding.cool)
3 points by kf 6y ago|0 comments
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by kf 6y ago
Yup, it’s ok, I have karma to burn, just checking sentiment and zeitgeist as my house begins to mindfully break lockdown. There was a mediocre acoustic act performing on the waterfront at Jack London square an hour ago; we might do some sho
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by kf 6y ago
The curve has been flattened and I’m past ready for lockdown to end.
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by kf 6y ago
Finally! Looking forward to this
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by kf 6y ago
A good old capitalist scheme for profit that's also compromised by nation state spycraft!

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