quercusgrisea

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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
Exactly, the main problem these people are having is not a mystery - it's that they don't have housing. There are often addiction or mental health issues, but anyone who has experienced these problems in the past understands that
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
How is that a better solution for the environment than using the windmills to power homes?
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
You rightly acknowledge that it's a difference in scale not in kind.
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
I find it useful to point out the faulty core of a person's argument when they're making a bad point that will hurt people, so that others who come across it don't give it undue deference.
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David Graeber: What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? (2014)(thebaffler.com)
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
They put child prisoners in cages owned by for-profit prison companies
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
The critical point is that the US has never cared about any other country in the world. Every foreign policy decision is based on what is advantageous to the US at the time. For example, you seem to believe that the US is fighting Islamic e
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
In the US, that is how hard it is to get a government benefit like unemployment or food stamps, but public schools are one exception. There have been several states that have passed laws banning undocumented immigrant, but those laws were r
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
I agree with you that the employers exploiting the workers is the core problem. My disagreement is that you can't blame undocumented immigrants for taking the job, they're just trying to survive. >how [undocumented immigrants]
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
Because they have no incentive to? Not sure what that question has to do with my response. I'll try making my point in a different way. You seem to have some kind of resentment for undocumented immigrants because you went through a lon
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
>When such people get their papers, green cards, and work in USA for some time, their opinion on illegal immigrants, who skip the whole process (and sometimes even get praised for that) is a lot different than the comments you see on red
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
>There is not a single democratic govt in the ME sans Israel The millions of Palestinians unable to vote for the government that controls their movement, trade, and lives in general would probably disagree with your characterization of I
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
That they've eradicated coronavirus in Wuhan? The photos are pretty self-evident. If there was a government cover-up and people were still getting sick then we wouldn't see people putting themselves at risk to go to a music festiv
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
It seems to be an article from a book written by an academic. There's a page of citations at the end that you may have missed.
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
If only history had any examples of unfair laws...
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
If a corporation is going to transplant workers to a plantation in an unsafe place, then the corporation has responsibility for keeping the workers safe. A big element of their case that's oddly not mentioned in this Guardian article i
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
What I disagreed with was when you said centralized control is always worse, not a command economy. I asked for any evidence you have for that claim and you don't seem to have any. I'm aware of the market reforms in China over the
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
Exactly. If the publishers could, they would make libraries buy five copies for every one they lend out. People need to stop letting the publishers' PR teams convince them that they care about freedom or knowledge or anything other tha
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
You think that half of governments have more control over their economy than China? You keep bringing up China not being a command economy today. I never said they were, just that they exercise relatively more control over their economy tha
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
Compared to most countries in the world today, would you say the Chinese government exercises relatively more or less control over their economy?
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
>"Food insecurity" is nowhere near the same thing as going to another city to stand in line for potatoes and onions. What's the difference? Millions of people in the US have to line up at soup kitchens and food banks in or
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
Food insecurity is not specific to communist countries, it's a massive problem in capitalist countries today. The US is the richest country in the world and 37 million people experienced food insecurity in 2018 - https://en
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
Do you think it's necessary for a novel to take a strong position on the Cold War? Propaganda from an enemy state is not a way to get a clear picture of what a place was like.
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
If you think these numbers are anything other than the tip of the iceberg you're incredibly naive. Consider how many victims of police violence have the means to make a complaint to the CCRB. The fact that these complaints (to this poi
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
Considering they've spent years on this I'd be pretty surprised if they'd get any value out of giving an MBA a bucket of cash to tell them that bamboo exists
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
Why? A library lending someone a book belonging to a partner library because that library is not easily accessible to the lendee is common practice.
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by quercusgrisea 6y ago
Why is this necessary when there are already many examples of successful remote companies that don't need to constantly watch and listen to their employees?