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by p0pcult 4y ago
Do you have a cryptocurrency address? Can I help?
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Surely some of the answer also depends on what constitutes the "treatment," no?
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Should we really redefine everything to meet the sensibilities of the most easily offended? Go read some Vonnegut.
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>We should be able to look at how we are using language and identify that it is problematic without requiring a list of words. Yup! I think that humans are so heterogeneous that basically everything requires a context to derive the full
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by p0pcult 4y ago
I think you inadvertently highlighted the issue here: >some of the words make sense as their current meaning is pejorative and derogatory e.g. “cripple”, however some are simply a statement of fact and thus ridiculous e.g. “addict” I dis
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by p0pcult 4y ago
"The Ministry For the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson and "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson provide compelling approaches to dealing with climate change, in the form of thriller novels.
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It seems that, currently, this is an acceptable tradeoff. Maybe the story of humanity is just a cycle of jumping from frying pans into progressively bigger fires?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Currently, the economics don't stack up. How does society handle it when the best jobs are automated? When all jobs are automated? The Star Trek post-scarcity utopia scenario feels very unlikely; Mad Max-style scrapping for leftovers
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Apparently, the sexism is rampant in here.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
What motivates people to "do science"?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
>"Feminization"...[bad stuff]...[dubious, gender essentialization] >Denial of Great Men...[bad stuff] >Please don't interpret this as an attack on women or femininity
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Exercise. Nothing helps me clear my mind and renew my focus like going for a long run. Different exercise modalities will work better for different people. But honestly, except for the few times when I have suffered a training-related in
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Compelling arguments!
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Not a game that launched in 2022, but new to me in 2022: Tokaido. As much as i love medium and heavy weight games, the world needs good light games too.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Try recovering from death vs. try recovering from a microagression. One is impossible; the other should have bounced off immediately.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
I'll take the world of microaggressions, thanks. There's a reason they're called micro aggressions.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Well, fuck. First it was Crypto--now we need to ban all stocks. Where is Molly White when we need her?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Has anyone posted on "free speech absolutism" Twitter 2.0 yet? Wonder what happens to that account?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
>after releasing damning evidence of corruption and collusion in the highest echelons of government and industry When did he do this? He released cherry picked anecdata that supports his priors, proving literally nothint.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Wow, got a source for this?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Is this a good analogy? Religion is a protected class. Being the kid of a guy running for president is not.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Why are you assuming that the labor market = the healthcare market? I completely agree that "healthcare" is not a very free market. But we are not talking about buying medicine or medical procedures, are we?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
If, as you say, this is a demand surge, classical economics would suggest that the price of the demanded good/service should go up. The article, however, is very clear that this is a supply issue, and not a "demand surge." In
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by p0pcult 4y ago
In the 90s, we had Tipper Gore trying to ban explicit song lyrics.
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And that's how we like it! USA USA USA! /s?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Let me guess: you live in the suburbs, or your kids go to a private school, or you are relying on your past.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
>Is it really unfortunate? Yes; the system should not be biased towards guilt.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
But then youd be disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline![1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Having left that slice of ad tech/market research: no one is fulfilled by it. Those who project the image that they are, are the most self-deceiving and self-hating.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Just because you understand the impact of fusion on carbon emissions, does not mean >It’s unnecessary greenwashing hyperbole OP's question provides evidence that not all people understand the carbon benefits of this technology.

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