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by moate 4y ago
>> Politics is hard. It's better than mass murder, though, which is the typical alternative. Weird thing that politics does is convince you that it’s not in control of the mass murder. I promise you we have hundreds of thousands
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by moate 4y ago
>>I’ve heard this take before and it makes no sense to me. I’m assuming that’s because you’re not trying to vote in candidates who consistently support a small group of loudly aggrieved people to inflict their will on the vast majorit
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by moate 4y ago
Got it, so the issue isn’t anti-trust law. It’s IP law that, by its very nature, forces people to produce inferior mousetraps.
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by moate 4y ago
WOTC seems to have filled a room full of rakes and banana peels and decided to sprint through it at full speed. This, D&D ONE, the M:tG 30 abysmal failure.
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by moate 4y ago
I feel like a supervisor who just signed off on things while not “getting his hands dirty” had as much effect on the final paper as craft services does on the final film: not 0, but not really an equal peer.
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by moate 4y ago
It’s fine, I ran to CVS and bought a bottle of super glue to patch myself up. Then I worked a 10 hour shift. Still better than my grandfather who lost all the fingers on one hand to a hay bale elevator chain. It was after dark so while his
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by moate 4y ago
I don’t disagree but I needed something fast and it met the need.
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by moate 4y ago
As a former chef, I'll gladly take the extra few pounds and minor shoulder issues I've gotten as PM over scalding hot oil being poured on my arms or a meat slicer taking the tip of my thumb mostly off. https://www.logi
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by moate 4y ago
I’m a dyed-red socialist so please explain something to me: why is this a net bad for society? Presumably the clients are leaving for a reason, so wouldn’t that just be the market doing what it’s supposed to (matching demand with supply)? W
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by moate 4y ago
I promise you, the current court would never make that ruling, and may feel that we give too FEW deferences to the logic of our very good corporate overlords.
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by moate 4y ago
>> what if the atheist is right and when you die, your last moment alive becomes frozen in your consciousness forever. I’m sorry what? Is this the predominant/common belief among other atheists? Pretty much everyone I’ve spoken w
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by moate 4y ago
Your argument is that "Unlike religion, science doesn't believe in absolutism or omniscience" and that's a bad thing?
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by moate 4y ago
Incorrect. You're making an affirmative claim "X can't happen" in spite of mound of evidence to the contrary. You need to explain why you refute say, the origin of species specifically. This is how scientific criticism&#
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by moate 4y ago
No, but that's not how science works. The general assumption is that the person making a provable conclusion (ie. that there IS a purpose) has the burden of proof. If I claim to have a magical invisible dragon in my garage it's on
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by moate 4y ago
>>Evolution is a theory and is not observable at all. Citation needed...
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by moate 4y ago
I agree, scientific literacy is the problem. Too many people see Science as a replacement for religion and just say things like "trust the science" or act as if "science" is a noun that means things it doesn't. &quo
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by moate 4y ago
Tl;dr “My take on another thread is perfect and rational and flawless and anyone who downvotes is an emotional wokemob idiot”. Seems like a flawlessly rational take my dude. Def the sort of discourse you’re trying to “encourage”.
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by moate 4y ago
Exactly: the food culture has adopted to chopsticks. Eating double cut pork chop with mashed potatoes using chopsticks would require substantially more effort than a fork and steak knife. >> That said, I've also eaten uncut steak
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by moate 4y ago
Anything you can already easily do is easy. You are correct. It’s a pointless statement, which is my point, but it is correct.
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by moate 4y ago
South Asia and Africa using starches/hands to eat is the biggest brain move.
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by moate 4y ago
As with just about everything in this weird culture clash thread: YMMV. What would your family do when presented with an uncut 16oz steak or chop? It’s easy to eat food with chopsticks when the culture is designed around it. It’s easy to ea
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by moate 4y ago
>> Once you are practiced, yes it is easier. Chopsticks are a more effective and more versatile tool, assuming you can use them fluently. “Versatile” =/= “easier”. My mother-in-law with arthritis and no familiarity with chopstick
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by moate 4y ago
You have your cause and effect backwards. People assume that "the other guy" is constantly doing all the bad stuff in the world and that "their guy" does all the good stuff. They're not hoping the economy tanks to w
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by moate 4y ago
>>There should not be discussion forum on the website... I would be fine with this, but the cat's out of the bag now.
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by moate 4y ago
>>I'm really not an expert... A lot more people should come to this conclusion, reflect on it, and then not post whatever thought helped them come to this realization. Just go read enough to inform an opinion on the matter before
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by moate 4y ago
That's just peanuts to [infinity]. (The absolute disrespect for Adams here.)
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by moate 4y ago
Um, duh, you tip an 8 over. If it's not a number, why is it made out of a number? /s
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by moate 4y ago
By their nature, all things are unique, depending on their framing. We make concessions because we don't all have infinite time. Which is to say, you can't have 2 apples, you can only have one very specific, singularly unique appl
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by moate 4y ago
It's almost like that's the point. A lot of tech solutions just seem like ways of offloading liability or skirting regulation in a traditional market.
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by moate 4y ago
As someone who spent a decade burning and bleeding for the restaurant industry: Fucking great. If there's one sector that needs its entire economic plan blown up and rebooted, it's restaurants. The fact that labor has seemingly co

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