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by mikkergp 4y ago
What's it called when you think you're uniquely incapable of spotting misinformation? Joking aside, I wonder how much this would be talking about obvious misinformation vs. opinion vs. unprovable misinformation.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
1. I don't think all of my perceptions are realistic and objective. Some things are biased that I don't know, some things are biased and I do know, and somethings my perceptions aren't good enough to get a realistic sense of
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I'm sure this is me, though I mostly think the world is too complex for me to understand. Was there voter fraud in the 2020 election? I don't think so but that doesn't mean there weren't any instances of it. What perc
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Part of my question would be how to deal with the pyramid. The pyramid should get less pronounced as time goes on as birth rates normalize. Basic human needs industries like clothing, food and shelter should't need that many people t
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Is there a version of economic thought that doesn't necessitate constant population growth? Why is low fertility rate seen as a bad thing? Often engineering is argued in terms of tradeoffs or meeting certain requirements. Rather tha
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Strangely I can't find a corporate website, but I think Happy Lamb hot pot is a global company. They have one near me just outside of Portland, Oregon and they're fantastic. UK Website: https://happylambuk.com/ A
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It's strange to realize when push comes to shove how little we value social networking, given it's ubiquity.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
While I won't try to argue with you because abortion is the thing we won't see eye to eye on, what bout the 'or' on contraception, or do you think that responsible people only think that sex is for making babies? On anot
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Clarence Thomas said we should reconsider contraception as a right, which according to your logic essentially means we should reconsider sex except for having a child as a right. You can't advocate for personal responsibility and then
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It seems like if they want to emphasize personal responsibility, they could stop trying to influence laws that prevent people from getting abortions or using contraception.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Just for some context, I once heard commentary about MLK that suggested that that specific statement was made in more of a spiritual tradition than a practical or historical tradition.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Really? I was under the impression that we've split enough geographically that the citizens of red states would support this decision.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
>. The morality on the pro-life side is pretty cut and dry; any attempt to kill an innocent, healthy, viable human child is wrong. While innocent is too subjective to argue, the argument is not cut and dry. 1 week old fetuses are not vi
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> the people advocating for outlawing abortion are also convinced it's a rights issue: the rights of the unborn child. This isn't an open and shut case. Does the decision at all call out the rights of the unborn child? If so w
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I don't understand this post. People do all sorts of things for enjoyment and self-expression. All sorts of communities pop up like poetry slams, pick up sports activities. Like just because Twitter gets value out of it somehow mean
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by mikkergp 4y ago
A third category is easy work. As someone in devops/sre/ops/etc., I think we do alot of easy work and most of our more ambitious work, i.e. automating tasks within our control or refactoring infrastructure as code is turning
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by mikkergp 4y ago
My head is not big enough to support the rolling my eyes want to do.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It’s probably basically that thousands(more?) of years ago we all started at libertarianism and then you just start to resolve conflict after conflict and power struggle after power struggle until you get the mess we have now.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
One of my understandings of the dangers of extreme or utopian "socialism"(communism, whatever you want to call it) is that they're not resilient to failure like this. So, an attempt to build a socialist utopia that gets usur
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by mikkergp 4y ago
You should cure cancer.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
There's been some interesting Podcasts on https://porcfest.com/ which is a libertarian festival each year. The one thing I remember is lots of competition/disagreement on currencies.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Not to be pedantic, but aren't you always sitting in a cloud of someone elses exhaust? (In a confined place) with vaping it's just visual.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
We rely on a scientific consensus _because_ it's complicated and messy. The fact that climate change is complicated and messy is a given. Every talk on climate change starts out with it's super complicated and…, but then people
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Wow I haven't visited their website in a while I guess, what happened to the fun playful design? This feels aggressively enterprise.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Thinking from a systems perspective. Does hiring individual loss prevention officers actually move the needle on a broader perspective? Law enforcement isn't prevalent enough to make an impact. We can't just let shoplifting run
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Not really, no, why do we think the legal system is the solution to every problem. Besides the fact are they even doing all that good a job at this?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
One of the best teachers I had in college was a criminal justice counselor. And the job of criminal justice counseling isn't like other jobs in psychology, sure some of your job is to help the convicts, but a lot of the convicts don&#
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by mikkergp 4y ago
There was some other comment about how objectively good things are right now and how good the future looks for most of the world(humans, not environment) and it makes me wonder if somehow the better things are the worse things get since wea
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> BoomerJobs--the jobs in which you actually have some choice in what you work on, where you write your own performance review Yes, boomers had better pay where a middle class blue collar job could afford you a nice house and kids in the
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Not to be pendantic but I guess since we are talking about science and data, that article suggests to me that people do intend to do things to maximize happiness, but that they’re not very good at it, not that they originally seek out to no

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