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by lores 6mo ago
I'm glad you bring that example, because I was in fact an immigrant in the Netherlands for several years. Do people speak English? Many do. Will they speak English by default? No. They are obviously more comfortable in Dutch than they
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by lores 6mo ago
Calling people's preference for their own language "stubborn" is a puzzlingly entitled take. Do you expect every country in Europe to change their language to English? If not, how do you propose immigrants be fully functional
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by lores 7mo ago
Same problem as rating your pain on the pain scale: is 10 the worst pain I've experienced, or the worst I can imagine? Because I've got a... very vivid imagination. And still, that's the best we can do. I blame an imperfect u
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by lores 7mo ago
To be fair, the US has never been peaceful, and it's the country that started the most wars since WW2. It's just that it used to be in our team, and human nature makes the aggressiveness of our team justified, or at least understa
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by lores 7mo ago
That's unnecessarily cynical. I've been in plenty of companies where the staff, managers included, enjoy going for a pint together. I'm in the UK, maybe it's cultural.
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by lores 7mo ago
Don't forget driving, the most dangerous thing one can do in the West. It sounds be the first thing to be banned, really, the costs are just too enormous.
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by lores 7mo ago
Please provide a source for that claim. An honest person would rather doubt than resort to logical fallacies.
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by lores 8mo ago
And Zapp's scene in the restaurant was a parody of Shatner's spoken word covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfbsu1bbQE
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by lores 8mo ago
This is the most toxic of urban legends. Fiduciary duty to shareholders means acting in the interests of the company rather than your own. There is no duty to maximise profits against all morals. See https://www.law.cornell.edu&#
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by lores 8mo ago
That's the technical meaning, but in common language the two gave been interchangeable for centuries, so it's regrettably hard to be pedantic.
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by lores 8mo ago
There's a sizable logical jump between your second and third statements.
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by lores 8mo ago
If you own an item you want to destroy, no problem. If a company owns an item it want to destroy, it can't anymore. The conflation of persons and corporations has been responsible for an enormous amount of evil, and it's time to s
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by lores 8mo ago
That's what the judiciary is for. Really!
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by lores 8mo ago
Because as long as there is a theoretical edge case, nothing should be done, your model is flawed. That's a mentality very common amongst software engineers. In the real physical world, even tying your shoes has edge cases. Hmm, thinki
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by lores 8mo ago
Then fewer clothes will get manufactured, which is exactly the goal.
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by lores 8mo ago
This kind of reply is so cliché it's tiresome. "Someone makes small step to avoid waste and environmental damage" -> "if it's not perfect it's no good at all, let the free market sort it out at t=infinity&qu
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by lores 8mo ago
I remember _movie critics_ clutching their pearls in disgust at the fascism. I was an autistic teen just out of a village and even I could see the satire. To this day I have no idea if they were reviewing in good faith, it still feels so fa
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by lores 8mo ago
Being President of the US is leading a normal life now?
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by lores 8mo ago
Milgram was flawed, sure. However, you can look at videos of ICE agents being surprised that their community think they're evil and doing evil, when they think they're just law enforcement. There was not even a need for coercion t
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by lores 8mo ago
The 19 richest states contribute 1.1 trillion dollars to the others.
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by lores 9mo ago
Hello. There is a paramilitary force murdering people with impunity. The president and its administration consider themselves above the law. They encourage political violence against their enemies. They use state power to punish dissent. Co
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by lores 9mo ago
It's fascinating how a rectal-caudal interface can be so effortlessly implemented.
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by lores 9mo ago
There is a paramilitary force murdering people with impunity in the streets of America, commanded by a demented pedophile conman. What do you think is beyond those stakes?
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by lores 9mo ago
People should not be allowed to accumulate capital beyond $X, yes. What natural law means they should? Society created the conditions for that person to be so successful; in fact, the person only had the minor part in that success. Once you
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by lores 9mo ago
They don't block lithium batteries, so...
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by lores 9mo ago
If the people of the country feel happier as a result, and society bonds are reinforced, that is absolutely thriving, weird US moneycentrism aside.
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by lores 10mo ago
We're talking low 1-digit percents here. The "tradition" of PhDs is a niche one.
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by lores 10mo ago
Generally, they're on the lines of "regulations hurt my capacity to make unlimited money at whomever's in my way's expense.", except with less candidness.
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by lores 10mo ago
Behind the curve of worshipping economic growth over citizen well-being, and behind the curve of being an outright plutocracy, too, so there's that.
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by lores 11mo ago
You have an extremely odd conception of people and the world. Do you take pleasure in anything?

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