moduspol

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by moduspol 8y ago
Respectfully, it's a pipe dream. If gas, energy, or home heating prices double, whoever's in power is going to be voted out. It's not the capture of political bodies that drives that--it's normal people. It'll take
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by moduspol 8y ago
Why stop at a CO2 tax? All kinds of problems could be solved with a dictatorship.
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by moduspol 8y ago
I think it's either incredibly naive or willfully misleading to frame this as simply "wanting to avoid an environment impact study." It could more accurately be described as, "concerned and organized opposition taking ev
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by moduspol 8y ago
I think we're kind of talking past each other. In a comment a few levels up, the user said s/he's free to speak as long as it doesn't incite violence or discriminate . Inciting violence is illegal in all western countri
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by moduspol 8y ago
> If you can kill people with your comments, it should be against the law, no question. You can't, though. You can call for violence, and that is already against the law. The conflation of words with violence is dangerous.
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by moduspol 8y ago
Respectfully I think that's a very rosy view. I think if gas prices or home energy costs double, the proposal is dead on arrival regardless of campaign contributions or climate marches. I think people will say they support collective a
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by moduspol 8y ago
Banks can be shut down to prevent bank runs, but only temporarily. You can't just close the bank down or heavily restrict withdrawals forever without significant negative consequences. Fighting climate change is not a short term propos
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by moduspol 8y ago
They're only irrelevant if it's true that the loan guarantees are only in place because of lobbying from lenders. It's not--but you've stated you think it is, so the distinction is valid if I accept that as true. If it&#
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by moduspol 8y ago
Thanks for the discussion. It's now much clearer why you feel lenders deserve more blame for the student loan crisis in the US.
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by moduspol 8y ago
> I can’t think of a reason why the number of gender studies students would increase under a universal higher education system for qualified students. It's fairly simple--if you incentivize people to do something, they are more like
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by moduspol 8y ago
I don't doubt they contributed, but this isn't like a coal company getting emissions restrictions relaxed. There's a pretty common world view that financial viability should not even be a concern in young people's choice
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by moduspol 8y ago
We're not headed toward dystopia by acknowledging some students / degrees have more financial potential than others, and I think we're already increasingly seeing the societal impacts of what happens when we let the idealisti
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by moduspol 8y ago
> Lenders [...] should not be absolved of blame or have less outrage directed at them. I was with you until this point. What part do you blame them for? The federal loan guarantees were created for the express purpose of allowing people
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by moduspol 8y ago
> Maybe it was growing up on age of empires that improved my typing. I'm definitely the fastest in the office at typing PEPPERONI PIZZA dozens of times in a row.
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by moduspol 8y ago
> I don't understand the media motivations in choosing to omit these crucial, and greatly encouraging, data when writing on this topic. Surely you do understand them, though, right?
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by moduspol 8y ago
Did they actually fire him for the reason they said?
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by moduspol 8y ago
The point is that transporting large amounts of money that can be physically confiscated is a problem, even if it somehow fit into a suitcase. Debating the logistics of potentially being able to evade some of those difficulties by having
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by moduspol 8y ago
Let us know how you get it through airport security.
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by moduspol 8y ago
Perhaps these things aren't handled at the level of "company"? For a national security-related issue, you might just include the minimum number of people that need to know, which would naturally not include your PR team. Then
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by moduspol 8y ago
That's the one! Thank you so much.
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by moduspol 8y ago
I wish my Googling skills were stronger, but alas, they are not. I remember one of the other key takeaways was that the manager role was treated more favorably--specifically that they apologized they could only offer some (reasonable) amoun
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by moduspol 8y ago
> I have a pet theory that when people interview they bring this buried frustration into the room with them and use the interviewing process to play the part of the people they feel humiliated them. I think it's possible--but there
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by moduspol 8y ago
> And today's article is basically the announcement that...demand has arisen. It has--but it's not clear the whether the demand is for EVs or for Teslas.
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by moduspol 8y ago
It's typically referred to as " general intelligence," or "g," and the reason this single value is significant is because of the strong correlations it has with other life outcomes. I don't think anyone claims
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by moduspol 8y ago
I find the unwillingness to accept that general intelligence could be measurable (especially at the macro level) similarly perplexing.
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by moduspol 8y ago
And gay marriage, too.
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by moduspol 8y ago
I have no interest in defending your straw man. I didn’t propose legislation, and the idea that net neutrality wasn’t intended to keep ISPs from arbitrarily blocking content is ridiculous. If it helps, though, my comments are still there un
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by moduspol 8y ago
That you can selectively interpret net neutrality to justify ISPs arbitrarily blocking access to content is unsurprising, but nonetheless irrelevant.
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by moduspol 8y ago
I'm open to simply acknowledging the Internet is no place for free speech. My point is that ISPs are just as vulnerable to brigading as Facebook or Microsoft, so arguing that it's not a big problem because they're still free
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by moduspol 8y ago
That misses the point. As long as there is an ISP that can be publicly pressured to block the source of content, and the source of that content can be easily differentiated (to avoid blocking other content), we're one Twitter mob away

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