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by pasabagi 4y ago
Eh, I honestly thought it was common sense. Everybody gets disabled at some point in their lives, yet we treat disabled people as a special edge case. Women's health problems don't get as much funding or attention, because they&#x
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I was actually punning a bit on the word 'queer'. The point is, 'normal', as in straight, able-bodied, male, white, neurotypical, etc, is a minority - except in terms of representation, political or otherwise. This bec
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I guess it proves a strategic point about championing diversity. People often say that you hamstring a project by putting queer stuff front and center, alienating 'normal people'. In reality, 'normal people' are pretty r
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Your point seems reasonable, but what's the part that actually breaks? There are lots of examples of ICEs that are over a hundred years old and still in use. Presumably the engine block would work-harden over time, but it's alread
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Most machines can last indefinitely with maintenance. The other day I used a printing press that was two hundred years old, was in basically continuous operation for much of that time, and is still used daily, today. Cars have two obvious p
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Yeah, the last two Ghandis in charge in the Congress party are a little baffling. I have no idea why they thought that would work, electorally. Do you know why third parties haven't come to the fore? I can see that the Congress party h
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Bias is not binary. The establishment bias of the BBC (which I think does exist) doesn't carry over to coverage of a pogrom in Gujarat, because there's no establishment skin in that particular game.
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Wildly popular, too. I'd love to hear somebody from India explain it: my guess is that religious politics and political religion have been India's problem from before the partition, and it's a fissure that Congress typically
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I'm not really doing whataboutism. I just think that the contemporary framework for thinking about 'war crimes' is asinine, and the traditional framework, where a war of aggression was in itself the 'ur-crime', make
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Who are we comparing them to, though? The US Military publically ran (and runs) an international network of torture camps. I don't think the US military is especially bad: rather, all militaries are awful, all war is unadulturated evil
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Weird selection: there are obviously a basically infinite variety of plier-like objects used for exactly one task. There are a handful of pliers (roundnose, needlenose, etc) that are generally useful. Lots of them don't turn up on this
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I imagine it's more that they simply had no idea what they were getting into. The first world war was the first time anybody had seen a war with that kind of casualty distribution, not to mention, that kind of omnicidal lethality. Offi
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Deepfake videos were already used in the recent Brazilian elections. The side that used them (Bolsanaro) lost, so I'm not sure how effective they were. I think the media domain is already so polarized and misleading that presenting peo
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by pasabagi 4y ago
There definitely is a happy medium. I think the problem is, the current model is way out , where basically everyone (sometimes including editors, usually reviewers) are unpaid, while the journal is expensive beyond reasonable bounds. This
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by pasabagi 4y ago
> What wasn't acknowledged was the utility of having imperfect information. That's an interesting take, and one I haven't heard before. My main squeamishness with bad journalism, and even worse, with chat gpt, is not truth
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Backlash is good. MLK's whole strategy was about bringing the whole question of civil rights into a crisis, so the racists would have to actually stand up for their views, so the nation could have the kind of heated discussion the subj
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think stopping fracking in the UK is manifestly achievable, and reasonable. The other hot topic issue (installing insulation in people's homes) is another no-brainer, even more so now that gas prices have gone stratospheric. You&#x27
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by pasabagi 4y ago
> huge stroke of luck, or something else .. Tsushima This is very much underselling how outclassed the Russians were on every level of this engagement, except in terms of sheer number of ships (they had more), and technology, which was r
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think we're talking at cross purposes here. I read GP as saying that energy usage will always meet whatever capacity you can generate. I don't think that's true: if the economic return from energy usage doesn't cover t
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by pasabagi 4y ago
The problem with your argument is that the energy cost of, say, charging a phone, is multiple orders of magnitude less than heating a room, and that in turn is many orders of magnitude from producing steel through recycling, and so on. Comp
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by pasabagi 4y ago
That is by no means incompatible with ideological blinkerism.
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I would imagine that a very large portion of all deadly crashes (buses included) involve a car. Cars are pretty safe for their drivers; they are just very dangerous for everybody else. So, if you split 'passenger deaths' by '
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by pasabagi 4y ago
... 'death rate', as in, the cyclist is killed by a car.
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Bicyles aren't very dangerous. Cars, on the other hand, are a leading cause of death in basically every country on earth.
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by pasabagi 4y ago
It's a different kind of concession, though. Elites like market reforms because they are positioned to get rich off them, so they can lead to a reinforcement of existing power structures.
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Eh, actually, stuff like Ulysses was considered pornography at one point. The point is, if you let the state draw the line on what is and isn't allowed speech, they'll draw it where it is convenient for them.
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I tried the thin-client thing and there are definitely pros and cons. Second hand thin clients are indeed often cheaper, have more ports, are upgradable. However, if you're buying a $5 computer off ebay, you can't always find ever
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think it would have been impossible for the Republican party, founded to oppose slavery, to allow states to secede so they could continue to practice slavery on independent soil. People absolutely were willing to die over this: that'
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Leaving aside the (mostly abstract) questions about rights, the question in my mind is, who has the muscle? If Holyrood simply declared independence, would the Scottish police arrest the members, like the Spanish police did in Catalonia? Wo
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by pasabagi 4y ago
If you ask a mainstream historian, they will tell you, likely with a very irritated mein, that the US civil war was about slavery, not independence. Secession was just the means to protect slavery. The idea that it was about states' ri

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