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by rexpop 2y ago
> I understand where they are coming from. I remain unconvinced. > It's not just about violence... to track down a kidnapper I hate to be pedantic, but I don't understand by what definition kidnapping is not violence. &gt
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by rexpop 2y ago
This is mountains/molehills or pennywise poundfoolishness if I've ever seen it. We are not typists—we have other, oblique strengths.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> won't be free of occasional abuse or over-enforcement Another way of saying this is that unacceptable tyranny will roll in on a tread of acceptable compromises. > I very much understand and share the fears of a surveillance sta
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by rexpop 2y ago
> Simplifying the tech stack would probably require simplifying their business operations, which probably means less revenue. I don't understand this perspective. Simplifying the tech stack might mean taking multiple services in mul
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by rexpop 2y ago
Aphorism? There is substantial evidence supporting the statement that most violence is committed by people who know each other rather than by strangers. Here are some key findings from various sources: - Sexual Violence : According to RAIN
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by rexpop 2y ago
> faking like I care about these people Would it surprise you to learn that many authors actually adore their readers, and are grateful for every single one who cares enough to read and appreciate their work? I, personally, enjoy greetin
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by rexpop 2y ago
ie churches/schools? Constantly. Frequently. Several times a week.
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by rexpop 2y ago
You should recalibrate your LLM detector, then.
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by rexpop 2y ago
The post you're responding to is being sarcastically self-effacing. They're ironically suggesting that we do what we have already begun to do.
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by rexpop 2y ago
Since when are anger and frustration not 'emotional'?
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by rexpop 2y ago
> send nudes Unless this is a synecdoche for something else, I'm not worried about it. Computers can sneeze out superficial 2D digital reproductions of women for less than a dime a dozen. Real, live people are so much more interesti
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by rexpop 2y ago
It's not too soon to read Vitale's "End of Policing," which was a hot read during George Floyd, and has not grown less relevant.
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by rexpop 2y ago
What a tedious over-inflation of personal significance. It's utterly depressing that literate people such as yourself could be so unimaginative as to presume the representative significance of your own experience. Although they're
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by rexpop 2y ago
> As a college student "No man is an island." You're part of a monied collective. If not your family, the institution could foot the bill. Or, perhaps, your State. You are surrounded by and buoyed up on a current of wealth
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by rexpop 2y ago
There's no such thing as "more" or "less" political writing. May as well say you're interested in "less chemical food." Food is made of chemicals, and the pen is mightier than the sword.
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by rexpop 2y ago
This seems like Attempted Murder.
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by rexpop 2y ago
Firstly, thanks for engaging in earnest with my response. > Walter Benjamín and Hannah Arendt - and if they aren't considered progressive then I'm not sure what could be. This reads almost like a joke to me, because neither of
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by rexpop 2y ago
Yes, yes, and it was Marx himself who said the following in his 1852 "Eighteenth Brumaire": > Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under
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by rexpop 2y ago
Then you got my gist. No, it's just your syntax is unparseable. Try using more words. Try breaking some of your sentences into multiple sentences. > If the job of the philosopher is to form questions, why are the questions he's
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by rexpop 2y ago
No offense, but your whole post made not one lick of sense. Starting with your first assertion that "It's a quality of every story that any one of its parts could be embellished to the fullness of the whole tale." No. Not at
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by rexpop 2y ago
> fundamental duties of society Citation desperately needed. > We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. — Kurt Vonnegut
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by rexpop 2y ago
To achieve similar controls over sugar (and specifically fructose) as those put in place by eg the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act[0] (which mandated Surgeon General's warnings on cigarette packaging), the Public Health Cigaret
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by rexpop 2y ago
Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant, so it can slow down vital functions leading to loss of consciousness and respiratory depression. Nicotine is highly addictive and can lead to immediate withdrawal symptoms if usage is abruptly
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by rexpop 3y ago
How long (and over what obstacles) until these chemical additives are banned, taxed, or labeled with Surgeon General's warnings? Hopefully Medicare puts 2 and 2 together to sue the Big Junkfood monsters churning these toxins out, like
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by rexpop 3y ago
Simply put: don't be a "private" party. Join an association or affinity group, and then you can more effectively lobby your representatives. An association with leverage, especially, is effective. Principally, economic levera
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by rexpop 3y ago
> even if everything he supposed about IBM were true, what IBM did wasn't unique Not only an ethically irrelevant assertion, but additionally a scientifically irrelevant assertion: one cannot be expected to research all subjects
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by rexpop 3y ago
Presume we do, or presume we COULD, if this sort of thing is ubiquitously denounced? Democracies don't "work", we "work" them. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, talking about it as though you were helplessly sepe
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by rexpop 3y ago
> that wealth (in the form of raw resources) was completely useless and dormant without the labor to exploit it Arguably, the bulk of the "raw resources" which have accumulated to US business interests came from eg Latin Americ
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by rexpop 3y ago
> It's wrong in medicine and it's wrong here. This can be said so many times over regarding so many unproductive comparisons. Two wrongs, I've heard all my life, don't make a right. Nevertheless, people insist on dism
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by rexpop 3y ago
What are your goals with this comment? What, do you estimate, has been your outcome? If you want to bring medical profession stressors to light, go right ahead. This is an article about a real phenomenon. Not every complaint must be univers

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