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by nyokodo 3y ago
> Killing all men would mean the end of all women too. There is some percentage of “feminists” who don’t love women but simply hate men.
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> Russian citizenship, which grants him additional protections from the United States Protections he apparently didn’t need for nearly a decade, but did once Russia was executing its genocidal war. Your “he’s merely scared of America” na
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> a country could overlook the withdrawn passport It still contradicts the narrative that he was stuck in Russia because his passport was revoked once he got there.
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> As far as I can tell he thought he was doing the right thing at the time That’s what he said, that’s not necessarily what was actually true. I no longer believe him given his subsequent actions. > Surely the support for his actions
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> he was a Russian asset from the beginning I didn’t say he was a Russian asset from the beginning. I just said he was probably a traitor from the beginning. That may be quite complicated but he ended up a Russian asset.
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> He was flying to Ecuador and his passport was revoked when he was in Russia Says who. > If you speak out against Ukraine in Russia you get shot, and he has a wife and kids now. That doesn’t mean he has to pledge allegiance during th
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> The development of modern technology, including GPS, means lighthouses are no longer essential for navigation, said John Kelly of the GSA’s office of real property disposition. And while the Coast Guard often maintains aids to navigati
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> The simple right to earn a decent living, under fair working conditions, without fear of harassment No one’s rights to any of that is threatened by having to use your own devices/word of mouth to organize a labor union.
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> By that logic, all regulation and legislation restricting the behavior of companies and their interactions with employees on their own property is unjustifiable Why is that an implication? You haven’t provided a logical justification a
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> “human rights” You’re right that genuine human rights trump property rights but there are no human rights at stake here. It’s not a human right to dispose of someone else’s property to exert control over someone else’s job when there i
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> companies are using their resources Precisely the OP’s point it seems. The company is using the company’s own resources whereas the employees are using someone else’s resources ie the company’s resources. Why is it justifiable to viola
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> which seems to me to grossly overstate the relevance of the belief systems. It is hardly possible to overstate the relevance of those archetypes and beliefs. Nothing else has been more widespread on earth for as long to have anywhere c
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> but with cheap solar and wind available, it makes no sense to sink that kind of money into a more expensive solution. Partially true. In geographies like New England that aren’t very sunny or windy nuclear makes more economic sense, an
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> GPT-4 passed the medical exam, not ChatGPT running GPT-3 With a subscription you can use GPT-4 with ChatGPT. ChatGPT is just the wrapper to the model.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
That's super cool. But these have been around for years, has the paradigm really shifted so as to totally replace all Chinese magnet manufacturing?
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> I would simply opt to drop out of the labor market entirely, or at least out of tech. This is the problem for automation at the limit. Unless we generate an immensely powerful AI that sustains itself entirely then AI will destroy the e
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by nyokodo 4y ago
The anti-nuclear lobby won because nuclear has scary failure modes that have been hyped for decades and in general people aren’t good at assessing risk. Unfortunately, I don’t see that changing. But, the climate change luminaries almost una
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> why it is that Amish(and similar groups)have succeeded where hippie type communes failed? They manifest characteristics that enable stable communities. Sex within marriage, no divorce, marriage and sex for procreation, reliance on exte
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Having high unemployment means cheaper labour But fewer consumers of your products who are also earning less which means you can’t make up for it via higher prices. Taken to the hyped extreme AI means total economic destruction for lab
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Doesn’t China create advanced electronics? It creates advanced electronics in the sense that it assembles them. It does not manufacture advanced or even mid-grade chips though which is the crucial point. That’s all Taiwan, Korea, Japan
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> many gay priests discover that fact in Seminary after they've taken a vow of celebacy [sic]. Seminarians do not take vows of celibacy. Seminary is by design a time of testing a vocation. Additionally, I would like to see the data
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Every single pension system has the working population pay for the retirees. Which is just a socialized form of the previous social security system which had children or grandchildren look after their parents. Of course, the glaring di
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Marriages are fundamentally just a societal complication of a relationship - complete with dubious legal consequences and a not a sure thing that can end. Or, alternatively marriage is the fundamental glue of society and the germ of ne
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by nyokodo 4y ago
You overcome vast interstellar distances with a balloon and then sit there while primitive missiles blow you up?
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Either it was shoot down, or would have been later The jets were scrambled in such a hurry to intercept Flight 93 that they weren’t loaded with ammunition. I’m afraid that the plan was to collide the fighters with the plane if necessar
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Boom Unveils Symphony Supersonic Engine(aviationweek.com)
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by nyokodo 4y ago
With responses becoming AI generated, and the disturbing rise of Russian and Chinese propaganda trolls on here I think my era of interactions on this platform are ending. So long to any actual people with conscious agency reading this, it h
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> you enjoy everything just because it can happen I cannot enjoy the suffering of my children or the torture and murder of the innocent because "they can happen" which I'd be required to do in this so called "enlighte
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by nyokodo 4y ago
Sheep as prey animals are highly prone to anxiety. I wouldn’t want to be one.
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by nyokodo 4y ago
> Buddhism principles do not lock you in their system if all you want is to understand how happiness works and why you are not happy. Except, eschewing desire altogether which, as I understand it is the goal of Buddhism, isn’t finding ha

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