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by lurk2 1y ago
> Ideally you could just have a foreign bank account that your country cannot touch. Doesn’t solve the problem as these assets can still be seized by foreign governments.
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by lurk2 1y ago
A ton of news websites do this now, navigating to a “Before you go…” page when you hit the back button. I’ve always suspected this kind of behavior has a lot to do with why people don’t read articles anymore. You know what you’re getting wh
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Would anything be different had I not existed? No, besides my brief life experience and interactions I’ve had with other humans not occurring. “Besides” is doing a lot of work here.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> In a related discussion, someone argued that keeping up industrial farming is just, because if we stopped doing so all the cattle that wouldn’t been born would be worse off for never being alive, even if their existence was suffering,
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by lurk2 1y ago
Primary care duties and costs should remain with caregivers except in cases of neglect or deprivation. Additional healthcare burdens (e.g. development psychologists, medication, etc.) should be covered by the state. When caregivers die, the
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by lurk2 1y ago
In the video they are discussing the prospect of aborting the pregnancy as the child is being born.
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by lurk2 1y ago
This is not an attitude exclusive to progressives. The chief grievance here is that the historical “solution” to the “problem” of Down Syndrome has been abortion. Opposition comes from the pro-life movement (which is generally conservative)
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by lurk2 1y ago
> it gradually northern to our current state where it is legal to kill your own children any time before they turn 18. They’re trying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHzaWyB21A
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Yes, that is a legitimate argument to make in a cruel, uncaring (most of the time) world. No, it isn’t. “I wish you didn’t exist because your existence inconveniences me,” is a step away from “I should be able to kill you because you i
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by lurk2 1y ago
Thank you. I hadn’t seen any of the literature on this.
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by lurk2 1y ago
You’re talking about a human person and making the case that the world would be better off if they had never been born.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Surveys have consistently shown that they and those who live with them (which is no safari) are happier than everyone else. Can you point to any that you have read?
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by lurk2 1y ago
Do you live or regularly interact with someone who has Down Syndrome, or have any kind of data that would support the idea that people with Down Syndrome are exceptionally violent?
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by lurk2 1y ago
I lurked this forum for several years before I ever posted, which is why I don’t make Reddit-coded comments like “Who hurt you?”
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None of these are sex education books.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> There are many, many, many examples of every previous round of censorship in the name of "Think of the Children" being used against anything disliked by people in power Do you have any available?
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by lurk2 1y ago
Do you have any examples of the finding being used to stymy sex education in schools?
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> Only if they were rich or OCD Incorrect.
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People deep cleaned their houses for parties long before social media and smartphones came along.
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What are you basing that off of?
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The majority of web traffic has been mobile since the latter half of the 2010s.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> If the closed fork functionality is superior enough to make the original de facto obsolete then the users have already collectively decided that the tradeoff is worth it. Users cannot be trusted to make their own decisions about these
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Never forget that Industry itself came to America by way of direct theft. Two other examples come to mind: John Rolf arrived at the Jamestown settlement in 1612, having purchased tobacco seeds presumed to have originated in Spain (wher
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by lurk2 1y ago
> interrupting you when you open it to advertise some affiliate websites on the home page or new features I never asked for and will never use. I may be in the minority here but I’d be fine with them trying to push SaaS add-ons like a VP
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by lurk2 1y ago
> She's a writer submitting original short pieces to the New Yorker in hopes of being published, by no stretch a "journalist" let alone "at the New Yorker". Her substack bio reads: Writer/Photographer/E
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by lurk2 1y ago
This is 40 screenshots of a writer at the New Yorker finding out that LLMs hallucinate, almost 3 years after GPT 2.0 was released. I’ve always held journalists in a low regard but how can one work in this field and only just now be finding
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Wikipedia has an article that lists documented instances of citizens being removed. Thanks. It looks like the article lists 8 instances where deportation occurred. In 3 of those instances, the deportee sued and successfully returned, a
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by lurk2 1y ago
> One can defend oneself and others in a myriad of ways What methods are you referring to? Pepper spray? Aiming for the leg? > that do not involve murder. By definition if one is defending oneself, one is not committing murder.
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by lurk2 1y ago
The line of reasoning really only works if you are talking about yourself. If we assume all lives are of equal value (which is a big assumption but not without precedent), then killing your would-be murderer is a wash, but it does raise the

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