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by mahogany 5y ago
If I'm reading your first paragraph correctly, you are making a claim that people who care about individual action will, generally speaking, stop at that and go no further because they think their work is done. That is a bit baffling t
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by mahogany 5y ago
> On the other, mass personal enlightenment will not occur nearly fast enough to solve the problem if it's even possible at all ... > ... honestly if we want to fix the problem the only thing that can come up to scale with suffic
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by mahogany 5y ago
> No, I meant that not only has absolute poverty declined, global (!) inequality has also declined. Sure, that's true. The pedanticism was pointing out that your second sentence was a non-sequitur. Starving and smartphones are about
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by mahogany 5y ago
> Who knew such an admiral goal: "having women entering the workforce en mass" would have such a depressing result: "it is now much more difficult for a family to survive on one income" Is it clear that the causation
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by mahogany 5y ago
To be pedantic, a reduction in poverty is not the same as a reduction in inequality. Your example of India and China seems to be pointing to the former. Also, from a US-centric point of view, it seems to me that economic inequality has gott
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by mahogany 5y ago
> Maybe Greenpeace would argue that we’re already endangering the biosphere a bit with selective breeding, and going any faster would dramatically increase the danger. This is an interesting point. The practice of using GMOs, including t
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> Again mutagenesis I would consider "manipulating DNA directly using technology" its just using a less targeted and more random approach. Right, I would put mutagenesis in my second category of "modern GMO". (Edit: I
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by mahogany 5y ago
> It always amuses me to find that people are against GMO foods yet almost everything we eat is GMO depending on how you define it. > Almost every crop and livestock has been genetically modified through selective breeding (domesticat
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by mahogany 5y ago
Just a small point: > Trucks offer HUGE cabs (larger than a lot of SUVs), with the convenience of a huge bed for throwing toys or moving things Generally, the huger the cab, the smaller the bed. It actually annoys me how popular 6 ft (or
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by mahogany 5y ago
So are you not refuting that the core mechanic looks the same with Tether? The difference is just that the fractional reserve banking system is protected by the government, with guns if necessary?
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by mahogany 5y ago
I remember 7% being the historic average that all the classic investing books said. I think it's after adjusting for inflation and dividends. How are you calculating 10%?
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by mahogany 5y ago
As a Firefox extension user myself, it is pretty crazy what permissions we allow from them. Even with something like uBlock Origin, which I'm sure a lot of people here use, one of the permissions you have to accept is literally "A
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by mahogany 5y ago
Is contributing to overfishing and factory farming to make kibble that much better for wildlife?
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by mahogany 5y ago
Do you think monetary wealth is gained only when someone adds value to society (and in proportion to the value added)? If so, what is your definition of value?
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by mahogany 5y ago
Is there not carbon in the soil? Edit: I misread what you said. I think you are claiming that because there is so much carbon and oxygen, probably more than half comes from CO2. But there is both carbon and oxygen (well really, air) in soil
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by mahogany 5y ago
I think that's roughly the beginning of the Great Plains. I would guess the population density drops significantly because of farmland and ranching.
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by mahogany 6y ago
> 3) Orchestrate it so that someone outside of the knowledge group approves one or more of these patches Isn't this part still experimenting on people without their consent? Why does one group of maintainers get to decide that you c
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by mahogany 6y ago
Do you have reason to believe that it can affect gametes? In other words, do you know of any hypothesized mechanism by which this could happen?
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by mahogany 6y ago
Yeah, jumping from #65 to #1 in a single year is... surprising.
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by mahogany 6y ago
> Why would they want to go bigger? Money, that's why. But a big reason behind all of this censorship on private platforms is that companies are trying to appease advertisers and customers downstream. It's already about money,
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by mahogany 6y ago
I think this issue is more nuanced than you (and many other people every time these threads comes up) make it out to be, which is why I brought up this point. Saying "certain scale duh" is just as an empty idea as "just build
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by mahogany 6y ago
>This idea that the principles that founding fathers championed, especially the Bill of Rights, should somehow be restricted only to what was possible with the technology of their time is pretty preposterous. This is true, but also, the
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by mahogany 6y ago
In my experience, most people who project nefarious intentions on the government have no experience working with or within the government. The government, after all, is a big thing with no unified goals or intentions. But for some reason, f
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by mahogany 6y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the host's DNA is not changed during this process. When I think of genetic engineering, I think of "changing the host's genome". What does genetic engineering mean to you?
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by mahogany 6y ago
> Engaged dislikers are not "bots". I didn't make that claim. My main point is that the article suggests that this manipulation is selective, and while Youtube might indeed be selectively manipulating White House videos, t
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by mahogany 6y ago
This is a misleading "experiment". Why were only White House channel videos looked at? If you wanted to show that there was targeted dislike manipulation, you would also need to do this analysis on other popular videos, preferably
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by mahogany 6y ago
Since the topic of this thread is about church membership, I would assume religion in this context refers to organized religion, rather than such an abstract definition, in which case someone can believe in the supernatural without being re
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by mahogany 6y ago
> Public morality cannot be maintained without religion Do you have evidence or arguments for this, or is this just a feeling? I can see an argument for the statement "religion can be and has been used to maintain public morality&qu
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by mahogany 6y ago
> I trust Tim Pool to try to be as close to the truth as possible. Are we talking about the Tim Pool who thought Trump would win in a landslide, and who pushed the "little guy vs big guy" narrative of GME (even though the big g
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by mahogany 6y ago
Just to be pedantic (because I was a bit confused), the emphasis shouldn't really be on "targeted" because > and that’s who they want to advertise to is just a fancy way of saying "targeting". What I think you&#x

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