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by mandmandam 1y ago
In foraging societies - ie, most people for the vast majority of human history - people worked ~15–20 hours/week on subsistence tasks. The rest was leisure or social time (ie, time for being a human later rebranded as 'idleness&#x
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by mandmandam 1y ago
If the creator insists on a weird pronunciation, because of an inside joke most won't ever get, then I feel no responsibility in humoring them. The G in gif is for graphics. Not 'giraffics'. And most people in the world have
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> > it's not practical or moral to have foreign partisans participating in our politics that way. That would be called 'freedom of assembly', which is a universal human right (see Article 20 of the UNDHR). Highly moral
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by mandmandam 1y ago
No one is saying it isn't against federal law. It's still a demented justification to turn someone away from the country. "You can come here, buy weed in a majority of states, and face no fear of repercussions... Until you tr
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by mandmandam 1y ago
He said himself that's what the legal 'justification' was (not the real reason, which was his documentation of anti-genocide protests) - because he admitted to smoking weed while in California (where it was legal at the time)
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by mandmandam 1y ago
You don't seem to be responding to anything in the parent comment, but it's still worth pointing out: the "admitted drug use" was simply smoking weed while in California a few years ago.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Do you understand how that doesn't make it okay?
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by mandmandam 1y ago
The claim: "for his admitted drug use" The context: He smoked weed in California, where it's legal, years ago. This guy isn't a drug trafficker. He's not doing meth or heroin, never did. He smoked weed, in a legal s
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> Iran has sewed so much discord in the Middle East by arming Hez, Hamas and the Houthis. Have you seen Israeli leaders plans for 'Greater Israel'? > I'm very happy the US got involved and destroyed their enrichment sit
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by mandmandam 1y ago
I get that you consider this important enough to write ~40 variations of this comment in this thread. But people might think it sounds a bit silly, when Iran have been 'months' to 'a year' away from nuclear weapons for t
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> we usually profit from wars That's a huge lie, if 'we' is to be read as 'Americans' and not 'the 1%'. 78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck [0]. 'We' - taxpayers - 'spent&#x2
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by mandmandam 1y ago
There's a worthwhile message in there, about keeping a sense of perspective, but it feels incomplete. Seldon might not be remembered after a few centuries, but he changed the course of history. And we can do the same. Individuals, re
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Your example of 'natural instincts' is... Genghis Khan?? ... This is a joke whooshing me; right?
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by mandmandam 1y ago
I asked a pretty simple question - what other developed country separates kids from their parents, puts them in mesh cages, and makes them drink toilet water? That's not "cherry picking". It's the reality of Democrat imm
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Says the guy who thinks arming genocide (as called out by the UN, the Pope, every major human rights organization and the vast majority of genocide scholars) is fine - as long as other Western countries are doing it too.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Yes, that was the thrust of the comment; but the bigger point was that most Democrats really didn't seem to mind. The 'team sport' character of US politics has separated Americans from even the most widely agreed on objective
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Lots of people cared. Just like lots of people want universal healthcare, a clean environment, an arms embargo on Israel, affordable housing and education, etc. It can hard to believe these are majority views sometimes, but that's what
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by mandmandam 1y ago
I don't think I could ask for a better way of precisely illustrating my points. Thanks, I guess. Good luck
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> lets compare apples to apples Yes, let's compare the Democrats immigration policy to that of other developed countries. Which countries are separating kids from their parents in their thousands, caging them in mesh, giving them f
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Are you claiming we understand the fundamentals of consciousness? ... I don't think that's remotely credible; and even the article doesn't make such a strong claim.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> If our current understanding of neuroscience is correct I can promise you, it isn't. We're still finding new organs ffs.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Further evidenced by the ridiculous claim that America was "one of the most welcoming countries on earth" before Trump - as if Harris didn't just run on a platform of being harsher on immigrants than Trump, or as if Biden did
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> Both things are in most cases essentially the same Lol, no. Not at all. A person doing what they can to make money for themselves might take a rough and underpaid job to support their future. A person "milking every dollar out of
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> where people don't do what they can to make money or increase the value of what they have for personal economic benefit. That wasn't the argument. You've moved the goalposts to a different stadium. What was claimed was t
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> they do not worship at the alter of capitalism in quite the way which is endemic to the USA. What were they like at the height of their empires? During their respective long slow declines? Did their people worship the worst of their co
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> I don't personally know of any Like I said, just look at countries which resisted colonization. For example - one of the fundamental mechanics of colonization is to find people willing to sell out their countrymen for personal pro
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Try leaving America some time. I promise you, there are countries out there where that type of person is widely looked down on (usually the countries that had to fight off colonizers).
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> The Obama admin massively expanded Bush era surveillance systems. This got a pass from nearly everyone. Obama's first campaign ran on him opposing warrantless wiretapping and blanket immunity for telecoms. He also unequivocally co
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Yes, there is, and it's not as innocent as many commenters here seem to believe. Have a look at my favorites [0], and you can see recent popular stories which I noticed were flagged (some were unflagged, some were just wiped off the pa
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> The Democratic party is the antithesis of this. I really wonder how you got that impression. I saw Democrats funding 'cop cities', and paying for police to learn their tactics from the IDF. I saw Biden proposing increasing po

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