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by lax4ever 5y ago
It boggles my mind that an article like this is acceptable when it basically advocates for racism. Take a moment and think if there was an article about how there were too many black people in the NBA (74%) or NFL (67%) or too many women in
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by lax4ever 5y ago
You will never find unbiased news. What I recommend doing is trying to understand the bias of the journalists that you read/watch on a regular basis and to follow some from several different sides. You have to treat news articles almos
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by lax4ever 5y ago
Link is typoed. Correct link: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/sep/12/kathryn-paig...
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by lax4ever 5y ago
Those same jobs: A) Typically ban smoking indoors because the state has banned smoking indoors B) Also typically provide areas for smokers outside the building in compliance with local regulations. Are those places generally outside? No. Is
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by lax4ever 5y ago
The difference being that people's general livelihoods are not being affected by these campaigns and requirements. The choice is still available to people even if there are restrictions on use and distribution. That is not the case wit
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by lax4ever 5y ago
This: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28474997#28475663 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28474688
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by lax4ever 5y ago
Well, that didn't age very well...
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by lax4ever 5y ago
Especially considering the load this will put on laboratories.
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by lax4ever 5y ago
It better be good evidence. We need it to destroy the cerebrates and their overmind! Sorry, couldn't resist.
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by lax4ever 5y ago
I don't know if we can nail it down to any one factor. I think that there were many small factors that have slowly torn away at the values of personal responsibility, accountability, and others.
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by lax4ever 5y ago
We can certainly invest in kids, but there has to be an expectation that they put in the effort as well and the idea that just because they put in the effort does not mean they will be as successful as another doing something similar. We ha
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by lax4ever 5y ago
I certainly agree that there was a serious amount of parental and school figure failure here, but a school and a parent can only motivate and encourage. A student has to take responsibility for themselves and do the work, too.
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by lax4ever 5y ago
Yeah, this never would have flown at my high school. My school's secretary personally called my parents the first time I ever missed a class with an unexcused absence, and that was a single class, not a full day. At the very least, aft
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by lax4ever 5y ago
And it completely distorts the fact that this was failure on so many levels. This was the student's failure to not apply themselves, the parents failure to not be involved and monitoring the results of their child's education, and
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by lax4ever 5y ago
The only place I am aware of that openly advertises their Linux compatibility out of the box is System 76. https://system76.com/ That being said, there is definitely a price premium.
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by lax4ever 5y ago
Yeah, considering how long it has taken the US to adopt PayWave tech that Canada and Europe have been using for almost a decade now, this doesn't really surprise me.
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by lax4ever 5y ago
That's an incredibly narrow definition of metabolic support. Providing food for children is also a form of metabolic support and it is certainly not acceptable to just stop feeding your children. That also discards the idea that there
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by lax4ever 5y ago
I agree. There are two sides of the "It makes sense to wear a mask" argument. There is the side that says that if COVID particles are partially encased in droplets and the masks help stop the droplets than surely masks will have a
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by lax4ever 5y ago
So, because the mother doesn't care they are allowed to take a life?
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by lax4ever 5y ago
That still doesn't answer why killing the child is acceptable.
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by lax4ever 5y ago
Why is it just metabolic support that is the qualifier here? A child is still very dependent on caregivers for years after exiting the birth canal, and in many cases a child remains dependent on the mother's metabolic processes when th
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by lax4ever 5y ago
A baby outside the womb can't survive without support either. Why is it OK to kill the child in the womb but not outside the womb based on that position?
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by lax4ever 5y ago
1) When did we start thinking that life doesn't begin at conception? Why is OK for a mother to end a life? By just about every definition that child growing inside of her is a unique life. Sure, it's dependent on mom for a while,
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by lax4ever 5y ago
Except the "Throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" mentality doesn't really qualify as logical, just desperate. And the growing body of evidence showing that post-COVID infection immunity is stronger than that of t
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by lax4ever 5y ago
Certainly it has been their purview, but to some of our representatives they place themselves on some sort of moral high ground in trying to impose increasingly larger taxes on those who have more simply because they have more. There is no
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by lax4ever 5y ago
The temporary or permanent cessation on an individuals rights based off their inability to follow the law (this is very general) has always been the purview of government. My original comment is more geared towards the idea that these indiv
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by lax4ever 5y ago
If the government can turn around and argue that Apple and Google, etc., are monopolizing the market for apps and that their rate of 30% is too high and unfair to developers, what on earth makes them think that they are suddenly entitled to
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by lax4ever 5y ago
Yeah, that's the part that really bothers me. We are really seeing an increasingly large body of evidence that suggest natural immunity is on par or greater than purely vaccinated immunity and yet all the focus has been on giving peopl
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by lax4ever 5y ago
Looks like they are trying to do something exactly like that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28319391
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by lax4ever 5y ago
I have worked in this industry for 5 years. I have worked with countless individuals regardless of race, gender, or creed to help them purchase homes and refinance. This article is missing information and I can only guess just what they mis

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