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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Ten thousand dollars is a "fortune"? Then again, if your career prospects are so bad that you had to become a journalist, that's more money than you'll ever see in your life. So perhaps it's just a matter of perspec
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
To ask the question is to answer it, as the man says.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Oh, well, since it isn't the federal government doing it that means it's completely okay.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
If Google buys Twitter and then kills it, we should mint them a freaking medal for services to humanity.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
No kidding. Putting college kids into basically debt slavery until they are forty, it's hard to be more toxic than that! And yet, the college kids keep voting for them. I don't have an answer to this problem. :-/
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
And yet, they'll keep re-electing the politicians who brought us the insane run-up in undischargeable student loan debt. Call me when they've decided to stop being complicit in their own destruction.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Nope, it's pretty clear that the massive anti-nuclear freakout was not in any way worth it.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
"At the same time, the choice of getting into nuclear was on conditions, one being that we had to find a way to deal with nuclear waste asap. Decades later this is still an issue" The only reason it's still an issue is becaus
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." - Betteridge's Law of Headlines
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
The usual censorious nonsense. It's weird how the people most loudly barking orders about what others are and are not allowed to say, wear, write, draw, think, are all writers and journalists.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I'd handle that balance by dropping the "not legitimizing their opinions" part completely. There's a lot to unpack here, but briefly, the idea of "legitimizing" an opinion suggests that there is some group of p
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>The majority opinion basically said it would be too difficult for the U.S. to project its power overseas if it still had to obey its own laws there. I don't find political expedience to be an acceptable argument for voiding anyone&
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>Either you continue to listen to them, thereby legitimizing their point of view, or you say they're crazy and move on with your life. And they get pissed off at being called crazy, and elect Donald Trump as President. So that didn&
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>I would actually argue that it's not wasting time to insult them, it's wasting time arguing with them. That's exactly the attitude that brought us Donald Trump. If you mock and delegitimize people for long enough, they&#x
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>So what? As one of the 7.1 billion people who are not US citizens, I object to the notion that only the rights of Americans warrant protection. If you're that keen to be covered by the United States Constitution, you can always pet
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Remember, guys, there's no good news and everyone is doomed.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>The thing about referendum democracy is, if they voted again today the result would probably be different. Why is the public's desire from the past more binding than the public's desire today? Except you could say that about a
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>The EU is going to make an example of the U.K. If this supposedly gentle, peace-loving, democratic association of free and independent nations is going to vengefully "make an example" of the UK for trying to leave, then that d
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
You're speaking as if people exist for the benefit of cities and not the other way around. Some people like living in more quiet, open, kid-friendly spaces: i.e., suburban sprawl. If a city can't provide that for them, they are un
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
No, that's not the "widely-held definition," no matter you wish it was; it's not the dictionary definition, it's not the Wikipedia definition, it's not what most people are thinking when they hear that word. Ra
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Sorry, but you can't plead guilty on behalf of other people you don't even know. If you state that you are prejudiced, that's not evidence that other people with a similar skin color are prejudiced; it's only evidence th
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Not according to this article, apparently.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Please don't use racist language on HN.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Certainly not one in common use, and more importantly, a signifier often used by political bullies. One would think an "evangelist," whose job is to convince people and not drive them away, would put more thought into such things.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Then you shouldn't have any trouble using reason to defeat them. Go on, then.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
"mx"?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
That's not an argument. Imagine having that conversation with someone who lost someone dear due to getting struck by lightning, and who is now demanding that we install lightning rods every twenty feet and legally mandate nonconductive
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
So... we're expressing polite sympathy for someone stating they are offended, but we are declining to make any changes? That would be fine, except that in the case of the Redskins, we have had years of news media and (non-Native Americ
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Just FYI, when actual Native Americans are polled about the Washington Redskins, they are overwhelmingly in favor of keeping the name. That conflicts with the oppression narrative, though, which is probably why you weren't aware of it.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Just because people claim to have good principles doesn't make them good people or mean that their tactics will accomplish the principle. These systems of public shaming, mobbing, and self-interested entryism clearly aren't creati

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