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by larnmar 7y ago
The funny part is that Obama smoked through most of his presidency and no photos ever emerged.
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by larnmar 7y ago
The justice system is, and should be, always primarily about punishment. Governments who forget that do so at their peril. Punishment isn’t just why we have a justice system — there’s a reasonable case that it’s why we have government at al
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by larnmar 7y ago
From my reading of the 1982 Spiegel article (which you can still find if you google his name, Paul Termann) he was 44 when he committed his crime. He’d be 81 now. I don’t think getting fired is his concern.
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by larnmar 7y ago
He was a crewman on the yacht.
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by larnmar 7y ago
So why do courts keep lying to people? Why not just be honest about sentences?
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I’d settle for a modern remake of Hong Kong 1997.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Apparently the point was to target the middlemen who recruit students for these fake universities (of which there are, apparently, plenty more out there.) The “students” were under no illusion that they’d actually get an education from this
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by larnmar 7y ago
It was shut down in January, though. That was ten months ago. What the heck are these students still doing hanging around?
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by larnmar 7y ago
Because they’re illegal aliens? As an external observer I have to say that I am deeply confused about how the basics of enforcing immigration law became controversial in the US. In the rest of the world, the answer to “should we catch and d
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by larnmar 7y ago
This seems like a second degree argument from authority. “I hate this guy because some guy told me to, and I trust that guy because someone else I trust told me to.”
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by larnmar 7y ago
Giving them back to whom, exactly? Texas voted to join the US, Puerto Rico has repeatedly had independence referenda, and Hawaii is... complicated, but you certainly couldn’t argue that the unelected Hawaiian monarchy was a more legitimate
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by larnmar 7y ago
Oddly when viewed from Australia it doesn’t show our one and only disputed territorial claim, the Australian Antarctic Territory. I guess Aussies just don’t complain enough to be worth pandering to.
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by larnmar 7y ago
No, but their peers influence behaviour, and behaviour has a strong influence on whether you learn anything in school (plus other important things like whether you wind up in jail or on drugs or pregnant at fourteen).
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by larnmar 7y ago
For access to a better peer group. That’s the theme of this thread — teachers and resources don’t have that big an influence, but peers do.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Without any data on what the demographics of people who eat on the BART are, there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of bias (but a lack of evidence certainly doesn’t stop anyone in the article).
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by larnmar 7y ago
Women in that age group probably have a higher fraction of “hobby workers” than any other demographic group —- people who don’t really need to work (since they’re already wealthy enough and their husbands earn far more anyway) but choose
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by larnmar 7y ago
It would be shocking, though, if it turned out that Russia was the only country trying to influence US elections, though, instead of the only one that has been publically exposed.
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by larnmar 7y ago
The elites have always tolerated homosexuality while the masses have always been creeped out by it. This particular change just looks like another case of the elites getting their way at the expense of the masses.
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by larnmar 7y ago
> When I was there a guy jumped off a building because they wouldn't let him switch off a toxic team I mean, they would have let him leave the company, right? It seems unreasonable to blame Amazon for this guy’s tragic decision, sin
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by larnmar 7y ago
Buy tundra. Buy up tons of land anywhere that’s currently too cold to be useful.
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by larnmar 7y ago
What are the error bars on those numbers?
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by larnmar 7y ago
I remember Jennicam. It wasn’t porn, but people watched it in the hope that some day porn might break out. Looking back, anyone could have predicted that live streaming technology would eventually be used for porn, but what really surprised
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by larnmar 7y ago
0% beef sounds accurate. If they were claiming 0.00000000000000000% beef, there might be an issue.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Sure, but once you’ve done that and you’re rich, what do you do then? For most billionaires the answer seems to be that you buy a moderately upgraded version of all the stuff you had when you were middle class, and then you sit around conte
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by larnmar 7y ago
If the working class turns to radicalism what makes you think it will be the kind of radicalism you agree with? It’s more likely to be the kind of radicalism you find terrifying.
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by larnmar 7y ago
The election of Donald Trump could be seen as the result of the radicalisation of the working class.
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by larnmar 7y ago
I went to Disneyland once, as a six year old, and enjoyed it then, but as an adult and parent I’ve come to hate Disney with a passion for the way they just keep buying up or otherwise appropriating _all_ the popular cultural artefacts and t
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by larnmar 7y ago
Sounds like the issue is not “Iranian food” as a cuisine, but specifically the importation of ingredients from Iran.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Cynically we could say that the current news cycle is about putting pressure on big tech companies to try to rig the next election in favour of a Democrat. Even more cynically we could say that an awful lot of people at an awful lot of tech
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by larnmar 7y ago
In my view, prisoners should have access to (more or less) all the books they want, all the movies they want, all the games they want, and all the video calls home they want, all delivered to the comfort of their own private cell. Balancing

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