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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Please don't use HN to carry on personal vendettas.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Supranational entities are just as bad, except even less responsive to local conditions.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
A burning dumpster full of medical waste would be better than Twitter, so fortunately the bar is low.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
The rejoicing one tends to hear around this place is from the apocalypse mongers, gleefully trading stories about how global warming will kill us all in exactly the same tones as fundamentalist Christians in the 1980s spinning lurid tales a
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
You mean the agreement that was never passed by the Senate, and therefore has no legal authority in the United States?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Good thing it's not gonna get extracted all at once, then.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It's interesting, but it's not surprising. There's a hive-mind on HN when it comes to anything associated with oil. The most ludicrous, unscientific, repeatedly debunked theories about environmental damage from fracking are u
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
The article states that the US military investigated it, so it's not an odd thing to say at all. > In any case various international experts have stated that there is a viable case for war crimes to be made, based on the video evide
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> I agree with the gist of your post, but Sometimes the winning move is not to play. And if your safety is on the line, your life in jeopardy, or if proposed changes to government will soon put your life in jeopardy, "running away&q
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> It's a fairly crap hypothesis That's the only even remotely true thing in this entire comment. HN would really benefit without all the frantic paranoia and cinematic apocalypse-mongering that has unfortunately become the defa
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Right. Who are you going to believe, Wikipedia or your lying eyes? I'm guessing you aren't old enough to remember how awful the state of the environment was in the United States back in the '70s. It's like night and day
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> Of course not. Ok. So the original commenter's idea of Trump having some sinister scheme to leave the Canadian border un-walled so Americans can flee en masse as the mainland is destroyed by global warming, is absurd. That's
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> one example would be people wanting healthcare before the ACA became associated with the 'evil' Democrats The ACA is not "health care." It's an insurance regulation. The conflating of the two is a useful narrat
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> There are really not that many fighting on the internet about who said what about who's sexual identity. And yet, there are enough to create a terrifying chilling effect for anyone whose beliefs don't fit in to the narrative,
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> I think our leaders should figure out how to do that while still winning elections. Do you want a pony, too? Look, we're not talking about straight up charity. You can talk people into charity; despite the standard narrative, the
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Dire enough that the population of the United States is going to have to evacuate en masse to Canada? Really?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
You posted a literal wall of text that makes the comment section impossible to read. That's spammy in my book. Five examples would have been more than sufficient; do you really think some masochist was going to click through every sing
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Do you think American voters are going to be happy about sacrificing their own well-being explicitly so that other people can pollute/deforest more? Do you think that's a platform that will win elections?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> First we'd have to stop the massive deforestation that's happening right now. A lot of that is for agriculture, so we'd have to find another way to feed those people. You speak about deforestation in the US, but there ar
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
And if the President was selected by popular vote, that would mean something. It isn't, so it doesn't.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> A carbon tax mostly taxes industry. And the poor never purchase anything that was made by using industry, so they certainly wouldn't have the costs passed on to them or anything.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> But he'd keep the border with Canada open, so Americans can flee there if they need to. See, this kind of loopy apocalypse-mongering is why you guys are having such a hard time persuading average voters that your cause is legit. U
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I didn't hear a lot of Democrats complaining about a "de facto one-party state" when they were chirping excitedly about gaining a permanent demographic majority a few months back, so forgive me if this sudden concern over the
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
No, they really didn't. The Electoral College is not some sort of state secret. Presidential elections have worked that way for over two hundred years. Complaining about the winner in the EC becoming President is like complaining tha
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Please don't post spammy messages like this on HN.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
That just pushes the problem back, unfortunately. Do you trust the people who designed the algorithm? Even if they were wonderful, apolitical idealists, do you trust the people who maintain the systems after those guys leave the company to
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It's not just a source of Facebook clickbait, it's one of the worst sources on Earth: nothing but empty outrage baiting and virtue signaling. I guess he watched his own talk and decided it would be more lucrative to switch to the
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Do you trust them to break up all the alternate reality bubbles, or just the ones they don't like? What's truly dangerous here is that one organization has so much control over what news people see.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Since the Earth is a nonsentient ball of rock and dirt, who will be given the unaccountable political power to represent it in the legal system? Whaaaaaaat? Higgins, and people who agree with her political views, will be given that power? S
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
What a ridiculous joke. "Kids" aren't suing anyone. Cynical adults who haven't been able to get their way through the democratic system are trying to ram their policy preferences through the courts, and they are abusing

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