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by ksdale 6y ago
Thinking of your significant other's body being spoiled by childbearing is almost as bad as thinking of children's existence as spoiling things. Maybe worse.
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by ksdale 6y ago
It is, surprisingly, not as critical as I would have thought. There is something about being a dad that is sufficiently general, the idea that I'm responsible for another person's wellbeing entirely, that made me more confident th
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by ksdale 6y ago
"They seemed like ideal infant-caregivers: calm, gentle, patient and sensitive. They didn’t seem like men you would go to battle with. In fact, they were the very antithesis of the warriors and athletes – think Maximus, Achilles or Mic
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by ksdale 6y ago
Your perspective indicates perhaps a bit of spoil... I think it's totally fine to not want children but thinking of them as spoiling anything by their existence feels to me as profoundly wrong as thinking of... well, a person as spoili
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by ksdale 6y ago
When I was a child learning to write, so many of these rules bothered me so much. I'd get notes like that on my papers, and I'd think, "Yeah, but my way sounds better..." But so often that point is met with a blank stare
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by ksdale 6y ago
I agree, there's no way professional soccer players only practice 1-2 hours a day. I'd guess 1-2 in the gym plus another few hours at least actually practicing soccer. Even something that's fairly brutal like American footb
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by ksdale 6y ago
My own anecdote is that my dad was diabetic and he definitely didn't understand how much sugar was in fruit. He did ok controlling his blood sugar, but he considered fruit to be "healthy" and so ate about as much of it as h
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by ksdale 6y ago
Good call and well said!
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by ksdale 6y ago
I daresay this sounds a lot like the drums and trumpets history that the author isn't particularly fond of.
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by ksdale 6y ago
It sticks out at least in the US because "following standard guidelines" is not what most people do. Most people (at least in the US) hardly exercise at all, so a control groups that exercises 30 minutes a day is already a group t
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by ksdale 6y ago
How many fishing ships would need to be sunk before the Chinese navy shows up in Chilean waters?
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by ksdale 6y ago
If these numbers are correct, the payroll taxes total about 13% higher than American payroll taxes, but if you add in what Americans pay for the health insurance that’s presumably included in one of these taxes, it’s probably fairly similar
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think you’re spot on about government spending, but I was referring to the buying a building and funding a bakery. Very cool ventures and I’m glad you undertook them, but being able to get together with a group of peers and buy a building
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by ksdale 6y ago
So like, if the mailman refuses to deliver mail, it’s fascism if I personally deliver my letters and those of my neighbors if they want me to? Edit: To be clear, the example of Uber was used as someone usurping, which doesn’t exactly accord
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think democracy is perfectly compatible with usurping power from those who wield it poorly. It would be great if the government solved these problems, but I don't think it's my place to tell someone to just sit there and take it
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by ksdale 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing... lack of capital is perhaps the main reason that people in poorly maintained suburbs aren't buying buildings to start bakeries and daycares, rather than a lack of initiative...
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by ksdale 6y ago
Apologies, do you have a CoC in mind that you think works? And I’ve got an email from Riot that they banned someone I’d reported in Valorant, so they don’t do nothing. I don’t think either of us have enough evidence to know whether it’d be
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by ksdale 6y ago
I'm rather skeptical that the only effect of CoCs is to allow for the persecution of innocent people... Agree to disagree, I suppose.
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by ksdale 6y ago
You think it'd be better if Riot just didn't say anything about it?
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by ksdale 6y ago
I used to have feelings similar to yours, and then I started playing Valorant with my wife. The amount of vitriol she gets simply for being a woman is staggering. I had no idea because I didn't come across women in tactical shooters ve
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by ksdale 6y ago
Are you asking whether the 50% of people in Europe who died from the plague, and the survivors would have preferred to not have the plague? This is exactly the issue I'm talking about. It's very plausible that the world got much b
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think your comment and the parent are addressing slightly different points. Your assertion about the destruction and rebirth of companies/societies as good and necessary can be true at the same time as the assertion that that process
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by ksdale 6y ago
This is true, but they would all prefer the real version to the illusion, and as an entrepreneur, you know if it's all smoke and mirrors or not, so it doesn't really matter if the investor believes in you or not, as long as they
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by ksdale 6y ago
But if the unfairness is spread evenly, then it's not really unfair, is it? Everyone being an "impostor" means that no one is and everyone just needs to adjust their expectations downward the same amount.
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think the question is how much of the grind is necessary. When our oldest kids were very little, we would work on the alphabet and numbers and track milestones carefully. At some point we realized that we could either grind hard at stuff
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by ksdale 6y ago
You're definitely right that it's hard to compare them, but it seems likely to me that the FBI would shoot/kill all sorts of innocent people if there were like 700,000 FBI agents instead of 35,000 and they did all the stuff t
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by ksdale 6y ago
Activists struggling to reform a local police department doesn't seem like great evidence that it's easier to reform something like the FBI. Consider the possibility that if you know way more about the malfeasance of federal agenc
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by ksdale 6y ago
This is a good point, but I think it is relevant to ask whether most people learning math in school have the experience you describe. I certainly did not. My math education consisted purely of recitation of things I didn't fully unders
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by ksdale 6y ago
The most centralized "police" in the US in the form of the FBI or the DHS or what have you aren't exactly models of accountability though...
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by ksdale 6y ago
"Depleted" in this case would just mean mined, transported, and made into something. It doesn't seem farfetched to imagine that, say, an electronics factory would be reduced to an easily accessible deposit of copper or gold i

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