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by moate 1y ago
Um, I'm going to go ahead and point out this, probably not super relevant data point "While trailing Gen Xers for the beginning of their adult lives, younger American households’ average wealth began to exceed that of Gen Xers at
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by moate 1y ago
I have to say, sample size of 2, but as we get older my wife and I get further and further entrenched in our idealism. I was a center-left socialist as a kid and I'm a full blown anarchist in my 40's so, idk, "people aren&#x2
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by moate 1y ago
"When a thing becomes affordable more people have access to it." nods nods So is our conclusion "People talk a big game but their morality clearly fails based on how the market has played out" or "People want thin
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by moate 1y ago
>>"objecting" is not the same as lobbying Visa/Mastercard to ban speech they believe "promotes and normalizes violence against us" Why not? Like, I'm a full on anarchist, but how do you create any sort of
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by moate 1y ago
That was part of it, as well as the idea of an RPG that represents skills as essentially "shadow work". Very much helped me on my mental health journey! My pro-fascist brother-in-law with massive social anxiety hated it for some r
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by moate 1y ago
...that...that was his point...
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by moate 1y ago
I believe OP is lamenting the fact that we still need to have the "EV/hybrids's are better the ICE vehicles" discussion in 2025. That there's a segment of the population that needs a mountain of such overwhelming ev
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by moate 1y ago
Thanks for the correction!
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by moate 1y ago
There's also some bit of (ironically) survivor bias going on here: Most of the people sitting in front of the ditch didn't leave the country. They didn't join up with the resistance. They didn't try to escape 3 weeks pri
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by moate 1y ago
So what about the checks notes tens if not hundreds of thousands of religions and religious belief structures that have fallen apart since the inception of humanity? This is some very weird survivor bias. Also, philosophically, a the whol
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by moate 1y ago
>>The reason the political right is so cohesive (vs the left) Citation excruciatingly needed. This feels like recency bias imo. The Right (I'm assuming we're going US here?) is a coalition of people all walks just as much as
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by moate 1y ago
Pet Peeve: Pointless Pedantry. Always Adore: Amazing Alliteration.
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by moate 1y ago
I mean I could have just looked at your post history and assumed a political ideology, but I just wanted to see how unfunny your jokes would be. My work here is done.
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by moate 1y ago
In your mind, what's a bluesky poster?
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by moate 1y ago
I mean, that's a weak evolutionary argument against all forms of predation/prey. It assumes a level of cultural/shared knowledge that doesn't typically exist. Also, size =\= intelligence/problem solving. Chimps and
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by moate 1y ago
As the article points out: If conditions exist for "high-quality plant growth" (correct light, soil, moisture, etc) then plants don't make weird adaptations like eating things/water-conservation methods. However, if tho
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by moate 1y ago
holds up 3 fingers Three Old Stoils, please!
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by moate 1y ago
looks at the rest of Norte Americana This does not hold water.
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by moate 1y ago
I think it only fair to leave that in for posterity. Where would we be without wanking and divorce after all?
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by moate 1y ago
Seems like they're offering a battery upgrade package, the 150 is the "MVP" battery
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by moate 1y ago
>>That is not showing us the market is not rational, it is showing us that Texas politics is corrupt. Dear capitalists, this is not a bar: The first thing proves the second. The market is a real thing that exists in the universe we li
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by moate 1y ago
"More friends, bigger rocks, help defeat our enemies" is basically the basis of all of human civilization, so look to the wisdom of your ancestors.
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by moate 1y ago
So the thing about "crime" is that everyone is doing it daily, and just not knowing/being caught. The whole "we'll report on political opponents" is absolutely the value of the software, it's just not repo
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by moate 1y ago
>>The feds losing control of their assets has been a meme ever since Kennedy ate a bullet. Hey, that's not fair. The problem of governments running authoritarian operations that have wider reaching consequences as they spiral out
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by moate 1y ago
Typically when people say cryptic things like that it's because they hold some unhinged opinion, eg "Yes, schools in urban centers perform worse but nobody wants to answer the real 'why' question. Personally I think the
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by moate 1y ago
It was also a mistake calling it "AI".
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by moate 2y ago
puts Killing in the Name on at full blast
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by moate 2y ago
It's not just the sense of "could do no wrong" but "DID no wrong". Is he a Criminal who committed Crimes if he never went to jail or was he a "criminal" the same way "we all are" (this is to say,
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by moate 2y ago
I think the bigger shift isn't that he wasn't this "bold" the first time, it's that there hadn't been 8 years of his form of politics not only winning but becoming the only viable form of conservatism across th
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by moate 2y ago
"The bill, signed by Cox on Thursday, prohibits communities from adding fluoride to their public water supplies. The law does not mention any public health concerns related to the mineral, but Republican state lawmaker Stephanie Griciu

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