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by pmiller2 6y ago
I don't see where NYT was mentioned at all, and, as I mentioned, what Netflix and Amazon do in the other 189 countries doesn't have much to do with what they can and do do in the US.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Really? You think these aren't "stories"? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-migran... https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-politi... No cherry
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by pmiller2 6y ago
No, that just says they don't want to speak truth to power. Netflix is perfectly free to do so, at least in the US. If I had to guess as to their reasoning, I would say it's probably because they don't think it would be p
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Why do you use ad hominem to attack my arguments? The identity of the speaker has no bearing on the validity or truth of the argument. You also have no idea how "western" I am or am not.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
What's the most likely reason, given Occam's Razor? Don't forget the article quotes Reed Hastings saying “We’re not trying to do ‘truth to power.’ We’re trying to entertain.” Granted, this is about Hassan Minaj's show,
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by pmiller2 6y ago
How would you even literally describe events on the news without telling a story?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
What do you mean "changed?" What was your opinion before and then after reading these Twitter posts?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You do realize we're on an American website, talking about an article in an American publication about how American streaming services won't play this film, and which references the decline of "American film culture," ri
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Why do you seem to be assuming it isn't? What's more, if you're talking about Israel, Palestine, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia, that stuff is all out there in reputable news sources that most people don't even bother to read.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Netflix et al. may not be "democratic," but, in what sense are they not independent? This is just showing that "independent" media isn't sufficient for these types of uncomfortable truths. Nor do I believe democ
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You're really saying that anyone who reads a scientific paper should replicate it themselves? Really? As far as fitting your worldview, you contradict yourself here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540504 So, w
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Okay, well, go ahead and put your head in the sand. Just don't fuck it up for the rest of us, k? > to go over the body of research from that time and judge for themselves whether the researchers chose a representative sample. You d
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Knuth famously doesn't use email, so, why would there be anything there? https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
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by pmiller2 6y ago
No, I expect you to read the paper before you accuse the researchers of bad faith. Here, allow me to spoon feed you the results of a 1 second google search for the paper's title and authors: https://www.researchgate.net&#x2F
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Only a month? I don't recall the last time it actually worked. I always end up having to do -"string" and put it in quotation marks, kind of like telling Google "why, yes, this thing I put that minus sign in front of
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by pmiller2 6y ago
How many climate models do you think there are? What evidence do you have that there's been any cherry picking? You have read the study, haven't you?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Honestly? No, I do not. One thing this year has shown me is that a large portion of the population is 100% unwilling to make any sacrifices whatsoever, however small. It's going to take all of us working together to make it happen
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Oh, you mean verifiable predictions like these? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-cli... Had you actually read the article , you would see the Titanic story was referencing a talk one
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by pmiller2 6y ago
As I recall, the Titanic makes no appearance in any of the papers linked in the article. Did you follow any of the links? You can literally "^F paper" and find those links.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Which paper did you read? You seem to have criticisms of their methodologies, so I expect you've read at least one of the linked papers, yes?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I'm not. Earth will be fine without humans, just as it was millions of years ago, before humans were even a thing. If you believe that climate scientists enjoy preaching doom and gloom, you've honestly got a problem. Scientist
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Because, if you read the article, it's actually not "inevitable." What it would take is drastic, coordinated action, lead by the United States, within the next 10 years to reduce emissions to zero or near zero in order to pr
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Well, okay. Read this article and the 6+ academic papers linked therein and tell me what you think after that: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-08/collapse-of-ci...
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by pmiller2 6y ago
We've known for a long time how to fight not only poverty, but hunger, homelessness, wealth inequality, climate change, loss of biodiversity, and, a host of other issues -- even pandemics. There is just no political will to do the thi
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Unfortunately, no.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
What says you can't reset the coin the same side up in between flips?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
But, do we? You've assumed that. And, even if we do, what relevance does that have to my arguments?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Bingo. And, not everyone with an idea will speak up, for whatever reason. It's exactly like the lurker vs poster phenomenon, where, in any online community of any size, there tends to be vastly more lurkers than posters.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions there, most of them flat out wrong. You've also made no arguments, so I'd like to know: does it feel good to believe you're winning an argument because you can out ad hominem the oth
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You're assuming, huh? What's the basis for that assumption? What's even the relevance? Do my arguments carry less weight if I'm a brown person living in Bangladesh than if I'm a cishet white guy living in NYC?

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