littletimmy

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by littletimmy 10y ago
I do sympathize with your idea of giving responsibility "to the grownups involved", but in reality ordinary people seldom take that responsibility. They just take cues from somewhere else if society does not give it to them (Shery
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by littletimmy 10y ago
> You are really talking about the "traditional nuclear family" which could be just like Finland or a bit like North Korea. Without knowing which it is a meaningless discussion. When we talk about the traditional nuclear family
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by littletimmy 10y ago
What I was trying to get at is that neglect is not even a crude approximation of reality in this case. This tendency to see the family as a collection of individuals is a rather new way of thinking. So when we say "the father as an ind
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by littletimmy 10y ago
I'm disturbed by this recent development that your career is considered more important than your family. Somehow, that your family is "holding you back", and the underlying message being that the career should be the focus of
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by littletimmy 10y ago
I wouldn't say "neglect". Working hard to provide for your family is the very opposite of neglect.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
If you want to be taken seriously, take on the best of the GMO skeptics rather than the worst. Going for easy pickings like these is a waste of everyone's time.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
This terrible argument seems to crop up again and again. Selective Breeding IS NOT Genetic Engineering. Suppose I told you that I wanted a good-looking dog. There are two ways to get that. On one hand, I could get a great male dog and mate
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Would uBeam have received half its funding if the founder was not a woman? Between the Theranos case and now the uBeam case, I think the drive for "equality" has gone so far that it is affecting investing decisions. There are peop
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by littletimmy 10y ago
When you say, referred to her as a milf, do you mean to her face? Or to someone else in a private conversation? If you take that out of the picture, then talking on Whatsapp, and asking to hang out, and telling a secret, do not constitute a
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Read The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski. He makes a very strong case for US hegemony. Btw, I do respect your points. I'm rather conflicted about this topic myself. We don't really know what the world would be like if the
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by littletimmy 10y ago
There is strong evidence to suggest that without the hegemony of the United States, there will be more war in the world. There will certainly be more war in the Middle East (Iran vs Saudi Arabia, Israel vs Arab World), more war in Eastern E
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by littletimmy 10y ago
The more I hear about what Facebook has become, the less I like it. Previously we heard that they run experiments to alter users news feeds to see if they could alter their mood, now we learn they're engaging in what is basically propa
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by littletimmy 10y ago
It is telling that whenever I hear the phrase "good school district", I automatically assume an upper-middle class nuclear white family...
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by littletimmy 10y ago
I think the point of the post above yours is a bit different. A good school is one that has the best students. It is often your classmates, more than teachers, who create an environment that is conducive to learning. What seems to be the ca
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Well, gender studies is not very scientific. It is more "theorizing", in the sense of writing obscurantist explanations for everyday phenomenon.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
Why does one need a gender identity?
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by littletimmy 10y ago
You mean whatever their sex? Gender is such a strange term.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
The point is to eventually get rid of cash.
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by littletimmy 10y ago
It might be that the best option is perpetual war against an ineffectual enemy. If you have an enemy that you can absolutely keep in check, and periodically have to fight without much loss to yourself, then you can achieve solidarity and a
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by littletimmy 10y ago
I think you're right, but one could also argue that such "gang-up together, feel solidarity, and take action against" behavior is natural to humans. It is in war that the greatest technological advances take place, and it is
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by littletimmy 10y ago
You don't need to say "or" here. We can both increase awareness among men AND help women protect themselves.
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Surely you're joking? The "shareholders" OWN the companies in question. Of course it is their right to demand whatever they want from the company - they own the thing. No company can tell its shareholders to fuck off, because
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by littletimmy 11y ago
But then it is not land prices itself but rather the availability of the credit that seems to be the fundamental disparity, isn't it? And you could question why there's such a big difference in credit availability, which comes dow
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Can you elaborate on your last paragraph please? What is the fundamental cause in your opinion? Or are you saying it's like turtles all the way down?
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Do noise-cancelling headphones not work for you?
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Even if there is a gender gap, should the state really be intervening to "make it more fair"? Personally I am against anti-discrimination laws. If I start a company, and I want to employ only men (or only women or only bald eagles
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by littletimmy 11y ago
To be fair, in no other civilized country can you exploit people like you can in the US (no paid leave, right-to-work laws), or have the government enforce your profits (TPP). Why shouldn't corporations be required to pay more for the
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by littletimmy 11y ago
What anti-Jew comments? There aren't any.
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by littletimmy 11y ago
Not sure how this is true. What do you mean by "ally against Iran"? The US is Israel's ally against Iran, but what has the US against Iran if not for Israel? The entire point of contention between Iran and the US in today&#x2
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by littletimmy 11y ago
I think your argument presupposes that women have no say in the matter. Like you're talking about men beating other men to have "access" to women, as if that's all that's needed. I personally believe that women have

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