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by mindslight 2mo ago
Sure, in the same way a child tries to invoke unfairness when they don't get their way. Do you really fall for this?
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by mindslight 2mo ago
Like most marketing you can basically invert it to arrive at the truth. Republican propaganda continually harps on about personal responsibility because Republican voters are lacking it and desperately wish they had some. The propaganda is
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by mindslight 2mo ago
> I’m curious if your stance would be the same if someone was on trial for murdering a child I don't know, right? This was a case where the harm didn't go beyond property damage. I hope to never have to find out - whether aft
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by mindslight 2mo ago
But those labels are generally directed at the executive branch (the $President administration ). Their failure was due to checks in the judicial branch. So we have a regime in the executive, but still have a somewhat functioning judiciary
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by mindslight 2mo ago
As you don't have any of the details, you cannot judge whether this decision is congruent or incongruent with the law (ie would most impartial judges have made the same decision). There could have simply not been enough evidence to ind
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by mindslight 2mo ago
It does really demonstrate societal rot - the public's loss of trust in so-called "law enforcement" due to how they've come to often behave as lawless thugs. And so if you want to restore the public's trust (vital s
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by mindslight 2mo ago
Administration implies bureaucracy - separation of powers, the rule of law, formal procedures, dispassionately executing a job, etc. What we have at the moment is a regime .
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by mindslight 2mo ago
Your phrasing is weird. In this case, the two are not in conflict but rather symbiotic - this grand jury chose to preserve the life of the person who was being accused of protecting our privacy. There is also a good chance that privacy (evi
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by mindslight 2mo ago
By "responses like this" do you mean any form of criticism? What I am calling out is your purely positive statement that lacks any sort of normative judgement. It's the type of thing which helps normalize the status quo, rega
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by mindslight 2mo ago
How many days have you spent in jail or prison? I've done two, and it was weird coming out to freedom. Actual thought taking some of my first steps: "wait, if I want to be over there, I can just start walking?" The guards and
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by mindslight 2mo ago
I'm aware of them, but I'm not familiar with them as they seem like band-aids that add even more patient self-administrative bloat, rather than fixing the core dynamic - making healthcare pricing work like every other industry
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by mindslight 2mo ago
You're implying that "half the urine" describes something that could be a local optimum, but a local optimum would be something more in terms like urine output versus energy expenditure required to achieve that. But that does
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by mindslight 2mo ago
If the language doesn't matter, then why have the autocratic authoritarians made such a point of promulgating that language? To me, it's a line in the sand that they've drawn - along with the rest of their dubious alternati
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by mindslight 2mo ago
You keep misinterpreting " how much [a doctor] themselves will charge for something " as " patient's out-of-pocket cost ". I'm certainly not asking for the doctor to get involved between the patient and their h
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by mindslight 2mo ago
One can always craft some excuse, which is how the terrible system continues to perpetuate itself. Doctors cannot even tell you how much they themselves will charge for anything . The problem I'm describing originates completely with
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by mindslight 2mo ago
Call me old fashioned, but I just bring a can of gasoline and a pile of super soakers. While I do like the idea in theory, I don't love the inherent nudge towards off the shelf productized energy storage that will be placed somewhere w
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by mindslight 2mo ago
It's also caused by absurd nonsense like how doctors can't tell you how much anything they're proposing to do actually will cost (a necessary condition for entering into a contract !), but then the system makes up arbitrary
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by mindslight 2mo ago
If you didn't know - depending on the contract (who owns the hardware), plus the specific type of hardware it is, you can often move the monitoring to a different company and/or self-monitoring. There are national independent moni
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by mindslight 2mo ago
Sure - but it's a moot point unless you're proposing plausible ways of achieving that, and that could be adopted by a movement with credible political power.
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by mindslight 2mo ago
Dignity is the fundamental problem that they're bemoaning. When scientists and other intellectual positions are funded beyond scraps and subsistence wages, they use some of the breathing room to start to asking questions about societ
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by mindslight 2mo ago
> Energy Department spokesman Ben Dietderich told CNBC in a statement that assertions regarding cavern collapse were false. “The caverns are always full. All that changes is the ratio of oil and water that is filling them,” Dietderich s
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by mindslight 2mo ago
I think it's worth putting a finer point on the dynamic that the US's real state-run media IS FOX, NBC, and their ilk. The main power structure in the US is the corporate conglomerates, whose owners/managers may compete with
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by mindslight 2mo ago
Perhaps this is a good thing. The more Flock keeps pressing their non-consensual stalker network in an openly anti-democratic fashion, the more popular support for running them out of town keeps building. I'd love to see state laws ban
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by mindslight 2mo ago
> 10 years ago, this was a lot of data. More like 20 years ago (sorry). 10 years ago this would have been slightly stretching, but not by much - 11x8TB raidz3. Shuckable drives would have cost $3300 (plus the chassis), and already out
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by mindslight 2mo ago
How do you discern it from the baseline of just old guy mad at the TV?
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by mindslight 2mo ago
Would it be possible for the People to observe some of this suffering? It would help preserve what little remaining sense of justice we still have. Usually we see some shame from politicians, or at least some disowning from their supporters
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by mindslight 2mo ago
> The contradictions probably should generate political compromises My point is that they hinder compromise. If we disagree on a fundamental value but are upfront about our values, we can realize there are a whole bunch of other values
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by mindslight 2mo ago
It is going to be perversely funny if Grump starts the process of Iran opening up to the world by prosecuting his distract-from-the-Epstein-files war so incompetently and abhorrently that Iran discovers the value of coming to the table and
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by mindslight 2mo ago
Yes, you are describing the dynamic I am talking about. My point about "deregulation" was in the US context where there is a strain of people who reflexively infer that deregulation must be good, from a general idea that regulatio
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by mindslight 2mo ago
It seems that the goals here are to 1. put money into pockets of "business" owners friendly to the regime 2. squander more public resources on culture war bullshit 3. further feed and exercise the burgeoning government-surveillanc

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