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by quacked 4y ago
> Criticizing someones methods of activism is always kinda a joke to me. If you care, and think you have a better way to win people over - MAKE YOUR CASE - don’t tell others they’re doing it wrong and if they just said the right words yo
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by quacked 4y ago
One of the things that makes ecological protection so hellishly difficult is that the "environmentally minded" side of the argument pitches all of its propaganda assuming that the recipients of the propaganda are already in line
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by quacked 4y ago
Is the reason that he wants it administered by "good white people" because every other ethnic group (including the "bad white people") is nakedly self-interested when it comes to racial preference?
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by quacked 4y ago
If you disband and replace the police with different services, one of the services will be armed and capable of responding to violence with greater and more organized violence, which will be a recursive creation of "the police". Y
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by quacked 4y ago
You said: > I think the problem is actually that you can't imagine a world where we have rules and governance without a militarized force which uses violence to enforce those laws Then you said: > Armed robberies would probably r
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by quacked 4y ago
Please explain how you'd govern your way out of a string of armed robberies committed by someone who goes from town to town.
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by quacked 4y ago
This is a separate discussion from whether or not there ought to be a paramilitary force. Anyone with a modicum of sense can see they modern police forces are full of under-trained thugs and brutes, who in many cases cause much more harm th
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by quacked 4y ago
Do you believe that some level of violence is required to enforce social order, whether or not it comes from a military force?
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by quacked 4y ago
If you don't think that the rule of law requires violence, you are deeply, deeply naive. Nonviolent people are almost immediately terrorized by violent people and have always been throughout history. Even if you are capable of creating
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by quacked 4y ago
Have you ever actually lived in an area with zero legal enforcement of law?
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by quacked 4y ago
Why do you assume that impacting a few hundred kids per year is better for society than impacting a few dozen kids per year, or even a few kids?
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by quacked 4y ago
I think we just ran into each other just recently when I posted "The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher", but some other guy started talking your ear off and I didn't feel like stepping in to offer my own opinions. If you look at my
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by quacked 4y ago
Regrettably, none of my answers work in a modern western-style economy. However, if I am forced to keep everything else the same--taxes, healthcare, student loans, etc.--here are a few things that could help: - slow start like you mentioned
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by quacked 4y ago
"Homeschooling" is an imperfect solution to the problem. Even the best-equipped parents have only a fraction of knowledge and experience necessary to prepare someone to build a robust and healthy society. However, one-on-one acade
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by quacked 4y ago
This feels a bit like shouting directly into a brick wall, but the problem is school. Every year, millions of young children are abandoned by their families [1] far before they learn self-control and placed into the care of jailers [2] who
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by quacked 4y ago
Thanks for your advice, I'll definitely take what you said into consideration when hunting for a new job. I also wish that blind resumes were real, and it's a shame about the targeted application trend--retailoring a resume can ta
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by quacked 4y ago
You may enjoy this: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
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by quacked 4y ago
It's not just the look, it's the location and function. There is no lot too out-of-the-way, secluded, or on a major thoroughfare too much for a copy-paste 4-plex. If the building rules need to be changed for sensible city developm
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by quacked 4y ago
The thing that I really hate about YIMBYs is that none of the development they greenlight is ever even slightly pleasant. The YIMBY game plan is to find a city that has a good reputation and nice atmosphere from 50 years ago when it was spa
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by quacked 4y ago
You've never lived in Houston, have you? It's a depressing concrete swamp with high cancer rates. The defining aesthetic is "strip mall" and the traffic is from Hell. The nice parts are the parts filled with rich NIMBYs,
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by quacked 4y ago
I've had electric windows stop working on me, but I've never had a hand crank window stop working.
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by quacked 4y ago
I had to amend my comment to say "new", because you're completely right... the last Tacoma I test drove (automatic) had 290k on it, the transmission slipped during all gear changes, and they weren't taking a dime under $
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by quacked 4y ago
I would pay $25,000 cash for a new manual transmission '00s-style mid-sized pickup with hand-crank windows and knobs for the temperature and radio. Last time I drove a car from after 2018 it started automatically keeping pace with the
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by quacked 4y ago
Here, check this out:. https://www.unschooling.com/t/the-seven-lesson-schoolteacher...
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by quacked 4y ago
My advice would be to put your head down, live like a monk, and save/invest money. Get promoted as far as you can, but don't burn yourself out. If you see yourself having a family someday, spend your free time on finding a spouse.
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by quacked 4y ago
I think it already is happening in the US, even in cities that are currently considered "nice". There is no overarching ethos that the citizens hold regarding small economies and city design, and so anywhere with a lot of American
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by quacked 4y ago
I have found a simple rule useful: if you know what the end product will look like and how it should behave, you're not "doing Agile", and there's no point in pretending that you are. If your PM or client can look at a p
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by quacked 4y ago
Phenomenal article, but I'm frustrated by his focus on Google, because it implies that you can only do 'Good Agile' when you have more money than God and no deadline. Although, perhaps that was his point.
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by quacked 4y ago
This little comment chain has done more for my understanding of accounting than at least 3 hours of reading online and trying to have my accounting friends explain it.

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