oogabooga123

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by oogabooga123 5y ago
It was your “civic duty” to rat out your neighbors, too. Your framing something as the moral position does absolutely nothing to make it so
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Do you think that is a valid metaphor? > With the first sip of science one becomes an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you - some mediocre scientist probably nobody has heard of
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
All he’s saying is that as a subset of the universe, whatever words you want to apply to describe your subjective experience, apply equally to the universe, since you are part of the universe. Not sure what “special” has to do with it
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
I think this is supposed to be a dig at antivaxxers, I wonder if the author legitimately believes it’s a valid metaphor. Like if I advocated against private prisons and someone said “LOL this person says we should all live outside!”, the le
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
You must have missed the year 2020
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Why is that crazy? The point is tracking movements, how would that be possible if the government can’t see your location?
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
I saw a “dead” comment with the following content, but I think the mods were wrong to delete it. The CCP is accurately described as the Nazis of our time. This is technically relevant to OP’s technical question. “ The CCP are the Nazis of o
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
They are at risk of being canceled because of positions you are teaching them that currently seems reasonable to you.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Bias is relative to a null hypothesis, you are just begging the question. Predictive power is the final arbiter
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
> Any system that claims to work on that sort of input is almost certainly picking up socio-economic status of different races, or something similar, with no causal predictive power. I wonder which will have more predictive power, the ve
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
So were coronaviruses
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Based on the behavior from TPTB it’s safe to assume he is just the journalist in the equation and that’s why the whole thing looks so bad for the US
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic, this is how far internet discussion has deteriorated.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
> Useless to debate It seems like you just outlined why it is necessary to debate. Think of how many positions used to have overwhelming majority in Congress, only to be overturned after citizens pushed the issue, by publicly debating
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
I think the idea is that they would take funding in whatever currency they want, pay off the IMF with whatever currency they want, and then investors would get BTC, which is what they want. No need to sell $1bn worth of BTC.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
That’s what “fiat” means. Did you have a Freudian slip wherein you said “fiat” when you meant to say “debt based central bank monetary system”?
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
I would buy some bonds just because of the idea that a nation could be free from international banking debt. Like a charitable donation, almost
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
I’m aware! Deciding to opt in to a vaccine pass system also harms others. Meanwhile we are warned that if you’re vaccinated, you can still transmit. To each their own!
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Thanks for the info! This doesn’t change my mind but I appreciate it anyway, and perhaps it will change the mind of some reader who was on the fence.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Very interesting! But I would rather just get infected. To each their own, I’m sure we can agree!
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
DuckDuckGo gives vastly different search results from Google. Last thing we need is the government involved in “improving” search results.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
> Reasonable people can come to different conclusions on what it means for speech to be "free", what counts as speech, what context around the speech matters, and what entities should get "free speech" protection. Thi
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Agreed! Feels like two sides of the same coin
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
When entire classes of hypotheses are not allowed to be discussed, we will be perpetually confused by things like this
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Can you show it in a pie chart next to other spending? Can you apply that % to your taxes and then fill in the gaps where all the rest went? There must be a name for the logical fallacy you just used
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
> If it means the US resumes its previous levels of scientific investment, we finally fucking go to mars and we all get healthcare? Have a look at how government spends taxes now before suggesting such utopian disinfo
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Crabs in a bucket.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Enough with these conspiracy theories
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Bearing risk is not rent seeking, passive income does not imply rent seeking
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
These problems fix themselves given enough time. Less productive firms go out of business and take their cultures with them. Social norms are evolved , not designed.

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