marcuskane2

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by marcuskane2 1y ago
"American" is the correct demonym for people from the United States of American. Fun fact, there have been a dozen other countries which were "United States of X" throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by marcuskane2 1y ago
> As someone with a disability, I expect my application will go right in the trash if I answer yes or blank on the disability question That's an interesting hypothesis. I've seen many people suggest just the opposite- pretendin
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
It is! Or at least, it can be. The exact lines are a bit blurry and subjective, but this is a decent overview: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/copyrightinfo/fairuse.html If you're charging people to watch in a movie
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
I think you wrote this to be snarky, but it's just literally true. You are allowed to read books from the library and remember what they say, and use that information to inform your own future writing or speaking or actions. You are al
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
The only scenario where I believe people might directly ask "Who did you vote for?" is screening for dating. I don't know exactly how common it is, but I've heard multiple anecdotes about that being asked on dating apps
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Also, lots of medical studies have been done on drafted/conscripted soldiers which were all men. As well as lessons learned from treating injured and sick soldiers. European medical studies had few non-white members because their popul
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> Things like downloading a song without paying. That is not a crime. Uploading/distributing/broadcasting a song without copyright permission to do so, might conditionally be a crime, if that usage does not fall within "Fa
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Flamebait headline. Accents vary by region and culture, not race. There is no such thing as "whitening" an accent. People of Indian ancestry who were born and raised in Chicago or London or Vancouver sound like they're from C
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> center left writer who dislikes the far left these days though, quite a few are furious at progressives for tanking the Democratic brand and throwing a winnable election to the current administration This is such a perfect summary of c
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Given that Trump appears to be doing Putin's bidding, that makes them instantly a major power. Trump is meeting with Putin without any representatives from Ukraine or Europe, and claiming that Ukraine is at fault for getting invaded an
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
It's amazing that in our lifetimes we got to witness both the creation of the internet and the destruction of America. Attacking clean energy, defunding medical research, mass purging federal workers. The Trump administration has done
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> but is afraid to anger the union, so anything short of actual violence by a teacher against a student won’t have any consequences Everyone should watch the fantastic documentary "Waiting for Superman" ( https://www.
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
You might be over-reaching with your last paragraph. There are plenty of people who drink alcohol around other alcohol-users and the social dynamic limits how much they drink (don't want to appear foolish or out of control around frien
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Many societies covered their faces when outdoors all the time for practical reasons - to protect against the cold, the sun, dust, etc. Some for cultural or religious reasons. Babies in as diverse of backgrounds as Alaskans to Arabians were
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
My public school denied education to 99% of students because they let the 1% of students who shouldn't have been there disrupt the classroom every single day. The outcome for society is that every single student got a sub-par education
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> Or terrorists who kill people Your post is ironically just a pro-terrorism argument. You want terrorism targeted at CEOs to change their behavior. There are a million different viewpoints on what acts are harmful and how to minimize or
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
I suspect the intended meaning of the comment you're responding to is that it was thought to be less toxic when it was first introduced, not that the actual toxicity has changed.
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Sugar is absolutely not "a necessary nutrient" and we haven't gone far enough in demonizing it. Literally every study, from rats to humans and from obesity to cancer to gut microbiome to mood to oral health to chronic inflamm
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
From the article: "lonely individuals tend to perceive that their ideas are not shared by others" I wonder how the current loneliness epidemic is intertwined with our current social/political climate and "us vs them&quot
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
"Require IDs" for what? That seems like very important context here? Showing a driver's license to a police officer when stopped for a traffic violation seems reasonable to me. Showing a passport when crossing an internationa
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
I absolutely cannot "live with" any system where I have to provide my identity to a government service in order to receive a token that lets me access websites, or to live in a world where publishers need to integrate with such a
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Supporting sure, but I don't know about believing. The most fascinating part of Trump's success is that his supporters know he's lying, exaggerating and making stuff up on the spot and are ok with it. They believe he supports
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
You should listen to interviews with special operations folks. Navy Seals, Green Berets, Delta Force, etc. There is a strong culture of do what's needed to accomplish the mission. Even a "if you're not cheating, you're n
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
> Where does that leave us? Free to pursue our desires in a utopia. Humans used to work manual labor to produce barely enough food to survive, with occasional famines, and watch helplessly as half of their children died before adulthood.
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
It's also just what the employees want. I don't want to eat a bag of processed garbage full of sugar, hydrogenated oils, artificial colorings and preservatives. But a banana or an apple, sure, good mid-afternoon snack. I'm pr
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Honestly, after a brief bit of despair, I took a hard look at what Trump supporters were saying and particularly the priorities and beliefs of people in the demographics that shifted in his favor and I think there's a clear path to Dem
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Tangential, but I think a big problem for the world going forward is that modern technology has made the average voter unable to really understand things important to their lives. People who don't know what RNA, lymphocytes or spike pr
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
But there is also massive tech investment in solar and other renewables? This argument makes no sense. There are a zillion different companies, research labs, VCs etc making investments into everything- better solar panels and better batter
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
Unironically, this. America fails its lower-income citizens by pretending they don't (or shouldn't) exist when making zoning and building codes and such. Mandate that housing needs to have individual bathrooms and kitchens for eac
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by marcuskane2 2y ago
With stuff like this I always think of the anecdote I had watching my neighbors young children finding a loaded gun in the night stand. One kid found the gun, looked over at his mom, who in turn looked panicked and rushed over to stop him a

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