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by neaden 6y ago
The federal government gives farmers a lot of different subsidies already. If we can pay someone to not grow corn, we can pay them for a cow that got killed by a wolf.
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by neaden 6y ago
My criticism of Kurzweil isn't that he gets his predictions wrong, it's that he acts like an authority with his predictions and confidence that is totally unearned. If he was just throwing out some guesses and saying "I'
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by neaden 6y ago
I find this odd because I think historically most people haven't purchased entertainment. Libraries have always been common for books, more people listen to a song on the radio then on a CD they own, people watched TV on broadcast or c
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by neaden 6y ago
I'm the opposite I think. With the exception of video and board games, I don't own much of the media I consume. I read probably over a dozen books from the library for every one I buy and I think I've probably bought maybe 5
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by neaden 6y ago
Interesting. Disregarding my issues with Amazon as a company, on paper this looks like a better system then Google's Stadia, by actually having a netflix style access games for a monthly fee that I think most people expected Stadia to
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The diner that isn’t afraid to piss off Seamless, or customers who use it(theverge.com)
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by neaden 6y ago
You get that it's a novel right? Pointing to it as an example like this is like pointing to Jurassic Park as an example of why GMO food is bad.
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by neaden 6y ago
That's not what the word empirical means.
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by neaden 6y ago
It's expensive for a streaming movie, cheaper then say a PPV boxing match or four tickets to a movie theater.
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by neaden 6y ago
IME as an American calling something as a war is a way for the people calling it that to start demanding a lot of power and money and casting their opponents as soft. I don't want to see a Patriot Act/AUMF equivalent for the Coron
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by neaden 6y ago
Sorry if I came off as cavalier. I just wanted to give people some idea of the article contents since I didn't have any idea what the article would be about when I clicked on it.
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by neaden 6y ago
For anyone who doesn't want/can't click on the link, it's a first person article about someone who believes they passed the Coronavirus on to her mother.
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by neaden 6y ago
War means enemy, killing, strict hierarchy, dehumanizing the enemy, us vs. them mindset. We need a collaborative, cooperative, understanding approach for dealing with this. In your response to your edit I think you have a very rosy view of
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by neaden 6y ago
"I think the war analogy is useful, in that the Federal government should be able to have access to higher authority to execute on strategies quickly." Serious question, why? We come up with checks and balances for a reason. We h
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by neaden 6y ago
There are a lot of issues with using war as a mindset. There is no enemy here, it is a natural disaster. There may not be an end, even with a vaccine this may never go away. I've seen how the War on Drugs, War on Poverty, and War on Te
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by neaden 6y ago
That is seriously wrongheaded thinking. This is just plain not a war, it is a plague. We do need to make sacrifices, but the ideals expoused in this article, needlessly throwing people into danger out of some misguided ideal of lionizing sa
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by neaden 6y ago
This is an awful and irresponsible article. This is not a war, nurses are not soldiers and shouldn't have been put at such risk. The fact that they were was the result of a complete abdication of duty of our nations leadership. In rega
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by neaden 6y ago
I think the origin of this is with Global Warming. The Republican party became devoted to contesting this, which over time has meant consistently opposing the scientific consensus. Once you spend a couple decades saying/being told that
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by neaden 6y ago
Right, but we also know that because Twitter says that. They are clear that world leaders are held to a different standard then the general public because Twitter's view is it is in the public's interest. You can disagree with thi
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by neaden 6y ago
They did first try asking the IA to stop unlimited lending, so they did not go straight to a lawsuit.
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by neaden 6y ago
Anecdote but my local library uses Hoopla for digital loaning, and they went from 10 loans a month to something like 30 or 40.
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by neaden 6y ago
" Like back when we only had physical things it made sense. There was a physical limitation. Now we are trying to apply the same concept in a very different world. I just think that doesn’t hold and we should just have a new definition
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by neaden 6y ago
So when Twitter starts to ban people for no reason, let's object then. The idea that we all have to start when they are banning Nazi's because of some slippery slope is ludicrous.
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by neaden 6y ago
How do you do that though? If someone doesn't know what QAnon is why would they watch a video debunking it? If you have mass media doing take downs of it that will just inspire a certain segment of the population to believe it because
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by neaden 6y ago
Yeah, that's not how it works at all. People who start watching the Qanon videos in their Youtube reccomendations aren't going to then get swayed by your eloquent speech, they are going to get sucked into a whole alternate world w
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by neaden 6y ago
Right, but if you dress in a shirt with a Swastika you're going to get banned from every restaurant in town pretty quickly, and I don't think that is a bad thing.
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by neaden 6y ago
"It's a bit tricky to see exactly how to fix this, since you don't really want to just give each side a court-appointed lawyer: you really should get to pick your own lawyer." I don't know the details of it, but in
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by neaden 6y ago
I think scooters are very area dependent. Both because of weather, and the supporting infrastructure.
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by neaden 7y ago
The point is that the CEO of a company has certain duties, and tweeting like this goes against them. Consider how easy it would be for a CEO to manipulate the stock market with statements like this to enrich themselves or people they'v
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by neaden 7y ago
Thank you for your responsiveness on this.

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