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by moate 2y ago
I advocate for no such thing but you want to have a discussion about things, you learn the vocabulary. It’s hard to talk about political theory when you use the words wrong just the same as someone calling the UI for Wordpress “the back end
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by moate 2y ago
Freedom does not require Liberty because Freedom does not require the state. Liberties are granted, not natural, Freedoms. Freedom sounds great and people love to hype it, but doesn’t exist in a meaningful way in most advanced societies. If
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by moate 2y ago
The state’s first goal is to protect the state’s continued existence. Anything that can be seen as interfering with that can be labeled an enemy and relegated to subhuman/other/destroy on contact status. From there, state violence
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by moate 2y ago
Sure? But some people also don’t care about either and others people think too much focus is on preventing effects (crime) and not on addressing cause (material conditions) and plenty of pro-fascists quote 1984 to support policy that would
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by moate 2y ago
Swiss privacy law is absolutely insane to me both for the protection it provides (good) but also for the protection it provides(bad). I guess all tools are weapons in the right hands.
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by moate 2y ago
If you think Texas is the only state/federal law enforcement jurisdiction contracting with these types of services, I have terrible new for you…
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by moate 2y ago
Define “educated” and cite the survey showing how well understood it is among “English speakers” (British English? Commonwealth Nations Generally? N.A. English Speakers? Non-native/ESL?) I use “fortnightly” to mean “in 2 weeks” because
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by moate 2y ago
Which is why the thesis here is boring/less useful. “All colors come from memorization” is also accurate. “All thought comes from memorization”. At that point, you’re factually accurate but saying little of use. If you’re trying to tea
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by moate 2y ago
So we have 2 different theses being posited by this article. The headline (how fast for 100 meters) and the whole rest of the article (how fast for 100 meters under racing rules). Just saying, these are different things.
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by moate 2y ago
I mean, that wasn't a show about "food" or "restaurants" it was about gluttonous, over-the top food "challenges". Unless you were doing an equally extreme amount of work to counteract those meals, a season
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by moate 2y ago
>> Is this volume of upvotes due to this person being accomplished in their field or because of the transgender thing Yes. >> What is it about computing that it has such a high concentration of trans people compared to other fie
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by moate 2y ago
Literally the same conceptual type of diversity, but go off and virtue signal yourself sis.
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by moate 2y ago
Quick question about titling: Would this be "Germany Man" or "America Man" were those the nation or "German Man" or "American Man"? I've seen this for states/cities("Florida Man" i
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by moate 2y ago
I think we’ve been here for a while, and I don’t think you make an overt branch to fight covert wars, you just roll it into the NSA or ops for some (all?) other branches of the military.
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by moate 2y ago
Idk the author’s cultural background (syntactical clues imply non-US), and I am also not rich, but this all seemed very foreign to me.
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by moate 2y ago
“New Atheism” was basically just package branding for a handful of conference speakers/academics. It, much like “New Coke” before it, was about marketing a product (the speakers, not Atheism broadly) and did very well for them. It was
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by moate 2y ago
Your point is “we have too many sick people, let some of them die so the rich can keep their ease of access” and it’s gross. That’s what “demand” represents in this equation. Not people who want faster cars or different colored Stanley cups
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by moate 2y ago
Exactly. I’m old enough to remember the Fen-Phen fallout. A truly harmless weight-loss drug is the white whale of the pharmaceutical (assuming it can be profitable enough to offset the losses that would go along with the decrease in needed
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by moate 2y ago
>Why not do away with patents and IP altogether if the standard is that as soon as someone makes something needed it can be stolen? laughs in anarchist don’t threaten me with a good time! We also need to differentiate “theft” (actually
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by moate 2y ago
Optimus Prime would like to have a word with you in the other room…
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by moate 2y ago
Citation needed? 30 seconds of google with “cabover safety” found only the opposite in results. Maybe it’s a trade of “better visibility” vs a “battering-ram with no front crumple zone”?
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by moate 3y ago
Likely Ramapo, but what do I know.
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by moate 3y ago
It’s actually “moderate shaking and light damage expected”[1] but go off sis. (1) https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...
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by moate 3y ago
Good thing you’re not an English teacher then. A thing to consider about the goal of education: when done correctly, they’re not trying to make you love every you read (I will never appreciate reading Shakespeare) but ideally are just tryi
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by moate 3y ago
Lol classic smug comment about HN comment culture acting as if you're owed discourse. FWIW, I'm also pretty sure this type of comment (and therefor my comment?) are against the rules, but I've been rate limited for like 90% o
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by moate 3y ago
>>I'm not familiar with NYC… All I needed to read
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by moate 3y ago
Nah. Those tolls go to new york. The people being taxed are predominantly from NJ. Our gov just raised the gas tax to help fund the transit system here, and he’s also suing NY over these tolls. Feel however you want about this, it’s a compl
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by moate 3y ago
I mean, they already did with this law, it’s just a “high” threshold of 10k. Get a few high profile instances of the law on the books “not being enough for current law enforcement to be able to do its job” and public indifference might allo
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by moate 3y ago
You sound like you’re agreeing with the statement. What is your syntactic point here? That the taxpayer has nothing to do with the decision making is irrelevant the point you responded to. They still pay for it.
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by moate 3y ago
Weird that “the wealthy abuse the poor” is literally part of your complaint but you’re not focusing on them and instead the only group that could potentially rectify that without violent revolution.(please note: “could” is doing a lot of wo

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