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by lopmotr 6y ago
"Luckily". Why do people keep seeing this as a positive? Isn't it a disaster? What's the end result of below-replacement birth rates? Extinction? Some new equilibrium where we don't have enough civilization to do so
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by lopmotr 6y ago
For many things, it just doesn't matter because all the options are basically fine, or they're cheap enough that the occasional dud isn't a big problem. When I want a local business, I just get whatever's nearby. Sometim
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by lopmotr 6y ago
If somebody is judging a person called Karen as being "a Karen" just because of her name, then that is the problem, not the word. If you judge a person called Christian as being of the Christian faith then you're weird and st
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Does it matter? There are also millions of people who could murder you or burn down your house or kidnap you and force you to withdraw your money from the bank. But just like a bank worker stealing money, these are all serious crimes and ea
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Just wondering if employees failed the test just by clicking on the link or if they had to actually enter some passwords or confidential information on the fake survey site. I wouldn't think clicking a link then looking at the address
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's not manageable, it's below replacement which is a risk of disaster if it's not increased. It seems we need poverty to make new humans and we're running out of poverty.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
For those people to publicly give up their political beliefs. But political beliefs are more important than climate change, so they won't.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
"Return will insert a newline character; Enter will immediately send the tweet." Holy crap, how do people cope with all the accidents that must cause?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Shouldn't that liability be with the operators of websites that use those captchas if they're required to be blind-accessible? If they get sued, it'll apply pressure up the supply chain.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
The existing situation favors quick-witted people who can fire back another insult and come away unharmed. But your proposal favors physically advantaged people who are strong/brave/skillful enough to punch someone. I don't t
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Just ignore it whenever researchers say their thing could be used for search and resuce. Nearly every fun robot invention is promoted as having that purpose, probably because the inventors can't really think of an actual use but they s
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by lopmotr 6y ago
No new technology is impressive when it comes incrementally. A camera that automatically records the latitude and longitude of where each photo was taken would have blown my mind as a child. I couldn't have conceived any way it might h
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by lopmotr 6y ago
This was the bold new idea of Google, back in the day. At that time, the internet was plastered with banner ads for cars and shoes and other lowest common denominator crap. Personalized ads were a good thing!
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's not clear that giving a criminal a second chance by not reporting him is compassionate. It may be compassionate to that individual but at the expense of his potential future victims. It's favoring the interests of the closer
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Anybody can learn how to do housework when and if they need it. Doing it as a child can instill a work ethic which is very useful, but there's no need to train them on how to do it.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
An estimated 1% of men are pedophiles. It's kind of like finding gays in Saudi Arabia. They don't advertise their presence. I heard from an old lady that there were no gays in the Soviet Union until they got infected by the west w
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I thought it would be cement and they were ashamed to admit that. But their site says "no cement use when compared with concrete blocks". Not sure why "no" has to be a relative term, so something sneaky might be going on
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's highly visible in people's daily lives so they pressure politicians into it. It's not meant to solve any actual environmental problem, just a pointless populist policy.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
If it's about wasting resources (oil) then isn't that already priced into plastics? When oil prices rise higher, these near-frivolous uses of plastics will naturally reduce. Using oil in itself doesn't kill the Earth. It does
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Oh, I've never heard of drowning in rubbish! With 5) I'm referring to geological effects causing landfill land to collapse and get washed away. That happened recently in New Zealand and a river ended up full of rubbish from a disu
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Which part of your point 5 link should I be looking at? Doesn't seem to be related.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Are you sure there isn't a cheaper way to get the same effect? Doing a giant useless action just to set an example to others for whom it's not so useless doesn't seem like the obvious first choice.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
No. It's consumer products like food packaging. Not industrial waste from producing export goods. Unless you're saying you want to economically cripple them so they stop being able to afford packaged food or just die out entirely?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Yes, it's a spell of idiotic faith that's somehow been cast over people. I've tried asking proponents of recycling about about this and the only answers I've managed to squeeze out of them are: 1) Landfills leach toxic c
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by lopmotr 6y ago
There's nothing fundamentally different between necessity and want. Not even staying alive. Most people die because of choices they make. Just not always so soon after making those choices. But it's still a choice. People also reg
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's still choices. You want to care for your child more than you want to sleep, etc. You don't have to do any of those things. Parents abandoning their children is a popular choice.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Psychology researchers don't have any major disagreement about the relationship between race and IQ. It's well established that blacks have lower IQ than whites. Where they're still in disagreement is what causes it and the d
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I've seen people complaining about something unrelated (like a burglary) and include how especially bad it is for them because they're a single mother. Seemingly expecting more sympathy or help by showing what a victim they are. I
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by lopmotr 6y ago
That's about sex discrimination being extended to transgenderism by Obama. Removing that is not at all what you said with "remove health care from the transgender". Exaggerating something to make it sound worse than it really
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I've got an idea you might like. Protect Americans from being exposed to dissenting ideas by blocking non-approved foreign content from their internet. You could call it the Great Freedom Wall. /s

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