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by minikites 5y ago
>The people I know that fear long term effects wear mask religiously and follow safety procedures. This is not even remotely the common case. Overall, the overlap between anti-mask and anti-vaccination individuals is massive: https:&#x2
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by minikites 5y ago
>it makes the (often reasonable) "their bodies, their choice" argument harder. This argument is in no way reasonable when talking about a contagious disease. It's not about your body, it's about society. They steadfas
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by minikites 5y ago
>Treating others as ridiculous won't help with the convincing. Nothing will work to convince an unreasonable person. The next best thing to do involves blunting the impact of their dangerous choices, e.g. adding penalties and restri
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by minikites 5y ago
>the common phrase is "how can we know it won't have long term effects that are unknown now?". If this was truly the fear, we would see these types of people wearing masks religiously. But we don't, which means it&#x2
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by minikites 5y ago
If someone isn't vaccinated by now, I don't think the FDA "approving" it is going to make a difference, they've made their choice. We need to start shipping our supply of vaccines to nations that need them so we can
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by minikites 5y ago
>When the government makes a bad call I want the option of leaving and going somewhere less dumb. This is only an option for the most privileged among us. What are the options for someone who is gay and doesn't have the means to mov
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by minikites 5y ago
>States one by one recognizing gay marriage and proving that it wasn't going to cause the collapse of society is the only reason it was recognized on a national level. You're leaving out the massive fights from states that did
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by minikites 5y ago
Slavery was never really abolished, it's still allowed as punishment for a crime. The bias of police and the criminal justice system against people of certain races takes on a new meaning in this light.
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by minikites 5y ago
How well did the states do at running their own vaccine programs? How well did it work when some states recognized gay marriage and others did not? Having nationwide consistency is important for many issues.
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by minikites 5y ago
How should this pandemic have been addressed, then? How would "leav[ing] people to their own decisions" address climate change, or any other national/global issue?
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by minikites 5y ago
>Self correction was fatally weak. Challenging norms had a higher burden for proof than the norm had faced. This is the biggest problem, in my opinion. People don't want to look foolish, so it's difficult to change. Doubly so i
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by minikites 5y ago
>a great job of passing legislation This is what I mean by "grievance politics". This is not true, but "feels" like it it is. If Congress has done "a great job of passing legislation", what were the legislat
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by minikites 5y ago
>Orthodox Individualism has become a religion. Over the last 40-some years, Conservatives and Republicans have been incredibly successful at destroying the idea of government which is effective and serves the public. The result is that o
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by minikites 5y ago
>The advent of social media has made it too easy to spread dangerous levels of hate and false information online. It's clear that the "marketplace of ideas" isn't self-regulating, just like the marketplace for healthc
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by minikites 5y ago
>So, when social media platforms put in place rules, or algorithms, to silence all opposing views, the only two choices we bloggers have are either to resign ourselves to continue writing in obscurity or to muzzle ourselves. Yet another
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by minikites 5y ago
Better tools amplify human skills instead of attempting to replace them.
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by minikites 5y ago
>Inflation is also the reason that half of Americans don't have savings. What little is earned buys less each year. Wages grow more than prices rise. It would be a better outcome for lower income ranges.
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by minikites 5y ago
It doesn't work that way: >She noted many private companies that hire prison workers will not employ them after they are released and will not hire job applicants with criminal records. She added that these programs perpetuate mass
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Companies address labor shortages by pursuing current or former prisoners(theguardian.com)
77 points by minikites 5y ago|80 comments
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There should be more publicly funded media of all kinds. It significantly improves society to have art, entertainment, and educational materials created without a profit motive in mind.
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by minikites 5y ago
>Did they commit more crimes? As I quoted earlier: >Black children are more than twice as likely as white kids to be arrested, even though they’re not committing more crimes
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by minikites 5y ago
Evidence is widely available and not difficult to locate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_incarceration_in_the_Uni... >In 1995, African American youths made up 12% of the population, but were arrested at rates d
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by minikites 5y ago
>In the absence of that, individuals aren't taking actions that could help (or reduce harm) either. There is no way for individual action to solve climate change, that's just a way for business to place the blame and guilt on u
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by minikites 5y ago
>You're stealing something. Should we lock up everyone who downloaded an MP3 from Napster or Kazaa?
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by minikites 5y ago
If we're talking about the USA, it depends on the color of the kid's skin. White juveniles are sent home with a stern verbal admonishment, black juveniles are sent to prison at the first opportunity.
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by minikites 5y ago
>and they hand it to you This involves paying someone to be the "they" to hand it to you and companies don't want to pay employees if they can possibly avoid it.
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Millennial families can’t expect to live the way their parents did(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by minikites 5y ago|3 comments
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>Add Brexit into the equation, and the old assumption that companies can just hire extra people from Eastern Europe to fill any gaps can no longer be taken for granted. Wild idea, but maybe companies should pay higher salaries. I bet the
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by minikites 5y ago
>a roof over their heads and buy food Why should death be a threat for not working?
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by minikites 5y ago
It's technically possible for most people to "be" anything, i.e. to succeed in an unusual way, but I don't think that's the right way to look at it. Why is our current economic environment not optimized for this beh

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