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by mandmandam 1y ago
> Land, labour and dilithium crystals are still scarce in the Star Trek universe. Land can't be that scarce. How many times did we see an entire planet colonized by like 200 people? Also, it seems like very few cities in the futur
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> What "The Federation doesn't have money" really means is, we don't want stories about Geordi worrying about how he's going to pay his nephew's rent or Data arguing about whether or not he his patent for so
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by mandmandam 1y ago
You can do all the 'proving your chops' and in-the-box thinking in the world and still get ostracized for your creative insight. * Semmelweis - medicine. Demonstrated textbook obstetric technique at Vienna General Hospital, then p
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by mandmandam 1y ago
>>> we are in a place with an order of magnitude less trouble building a business. >> What is this claim based on? > Blog posts I've read from I've read, largely in HN. Personal interviews in those countries. Ok,
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by mandmandam 1y ago
It's bread . Decent, non-toxic bread ought to be available even to people of "limited means" . Even, I would assert, to people of no means at all. The US is the wealthiest nation of all time, and there is no excuse for ther
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by mandmandam 1y ago
And thanks to whoever flagged my initial comment for proving it even more, lol.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> we are in a place with an order of magnitude less trouble building a business. What is this claim based on? Is there 10x as much stress among French business owners? Are entrepreneurs working 10x as hard in China? Are there 10x fewer b
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> It's not pointless pedantry at all, because whole foods are ALSO treated with chemicals. That wasn't the point they were making. They made a purely pedantic point about the meaning of the word 'chemicals' in this co
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> You can buy any quality you want in the US, when willing to pay for it. I didn't say you can't buy quality bread though. I know it's possible to find nice bread. I said it's mostly inferior, and it is . The vas
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Fair point, I ought have made that clear. There are many ways in which Chinese people have it better than Americans these days, if my eyes are to be believed.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Particularly pointless pedantry. We all know what they mean, and are to assume the best reading of what they're saying. Bread, the example they used, is a particularly stark example where Americans are subjected to stuff that is rightl
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by mandmandam 1y ago
You're giving a very poor reading of OP's argument, first of all. Jumping to the conclusion that they don't want Chinese people to have clean water is downright bad faith. Second, "continued growth is good" is a hel
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> Letting most of your population twiddle your thumbs all summer without any consequences What do you think the unemployment rate actually is in European countries? Having a social safety net doesn't make most people want to loaf
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by mandmandam 1y ago
You certainly seem to have hallucinated me saying anything about Trump.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
If you actually wanted counter evidence I'm sure you could find it yourself. There's enough of it out there. So, what is it that you're actually looking for?
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> But what feels true, too, is that the DNC hasn’t read it either. Or if they have, they’re not working against it The DNC are sheepdogs, at best . Their role is to shepherd any sort of leftist energy into safely neutered channels. And
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by mandmandam 1y ago
God it's dire.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> What is the evidence of "the left" censoring academia? Here's a decent summary of how some of these censorship doors were opened: https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/02/25/covid-censorship-
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by mandmandam 1y ago
If you're serious, I recommend you take a look at this [0] and really have a good long think about it. 0 - https://www.oxfam.org/en/takers-not-makers-unjust-poverty-an...
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> somebody That he's the wealthiest known man in the world seems like relevant context here.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Cannabis with high CBD and minimal THC isn't a psychedelic, fyi. Amazing you didn't get that point even after it was made explicitly clear three times, but you still remember my username 10 days later. Also, asserting that someone
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> He's an overgrown man-child. Damn near every mega-billionaire is, almost by definition. If the best thing you can come up with to do with money is make more of it at other people's expense, then you're not even close to
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Climate change, wars for profit, mass censorship and surveillance, etc, aren't blameless issues - there are people doing these things, people like you and I (only wealthier). Fossil fuel companies knew for a fact that they were causi
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> she was not to blame. Fall guys bear some of the blame in the fall. My long-held [0] personal theory - borne out by everything Musk has done, and by who bought Twitter - is that it was bought to curb the possibility of large positive
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by mandmandam 1y ago
It's the same with anything negative related to Musk, DOGE, etc. Examples below. And you can't just blame people flagging the stories - people ask for them to be whitelisted and are gaslit in response. No surprise, maybe, when G
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> Basically, blue states that had more of them had results getting almost as bad as red states without them have it. Lives were saved at some acceptable lowering of test scores. Are you seriously asserting that school closures are the di
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by mandmandam 1y ago
You aren't engaging with any of my points, just repeating the dogma - which helps proves my point. > School closures worked well for preventing spread. Show me the data. And, at what cost? Was the juice worth the squeeze? ... How ma
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Corona conclusively proved that Democrats are every bit as capable of scientism as Republicans. People - even leading scientists - who questioned natural origin, mandatory lockdowns, school closures, vaccine effectiveness, or any of a dozen
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by mandmandam 1y ago
The establishment aren't stupid and weak when they're fighting progressive candidates, third parties, or peaceful anti-genocide protesters. Or when they're enabling a holocaust while pretending to 'work tirelessly for a
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Honestly, no, it's not the least bit surprising that this was flagged. It's a damn-near inevitable consequence of letting anyone on the internet flag things. What's truly ridiculous (though not surprising [0]) is that it stil

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