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Everything makes a lot more sense if you don't look at advertiser decisions as moral ones, but rather as economic ones. LGBT is laden with a number of controversial and polarizing issues. This means something that is advertising on a v
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Can you elaborate on what you mean in regards to the Bill of Rights being interpreted to only apply to the federal government? This seems to be in contradiction the supremacy clause.
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Let's take a single eccentric artist and vegetarian of no meaningful background, wealth, or power. By his 30th birthday our artist was no better off and his life's greatest achievement was working as a low ranking courier during W
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This is the text of the second amendment: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." From its advent until somewhere around the
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In the instances you mention, the government tended to pass gun control or confiscation before engaging in widescale tyranny. In 1938 Nazi Germany passed a gun control law that effectively gave 'true Germans' vastly more gun right
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For what it's worth this is new, and intentional. In 2016 Haim Saban, Clinton's top financial supporter, purchased The Onion and immediately transitioned it to an outlet for propaganda under the guise of satire. [1] They rapidly w
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When a coworker chooses to negatively gossip to the media about somebody, and the media finds it click-worthy, do you think this is going to be a characteristic and unsampled bias of that person or other's perception of them?
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Do you think that governments want and work to try to influence public opinion? I mean you don't need to rely on intuition here. As one fun example the current state of modern art is largely because the CIA used it as a propaganda weap
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I understand the reason some people are upset with this, but one issue I find interesting is that this is exactly how 'fair' advertising works, but implicitly. For instance if I advertise a position in, as some random example, Pop
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A lot of the complexity is hidden in the second video. It's the exact same deal, it just doesn't look like it. In particular those innocuous 'waffle irons' on the side play an incredibly important role. You miss the scal
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You missed one of the most important parts about methane as well: The Sabatier Reaction [1] Hydrogen + CO2 => Methane + Water This is an extremely important reaction. Mars, for instance, has effectively unlimited Hydrogen and CO2 which a
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I don't think it's necessarily Elon, but the goal. Elon and SpaceX are aiming to colonize Mars. That is something that is inspiring, ambitious, and will radically change our species forever. It's going to attract people who a
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Alternatively the established players have become incredibly good at what they do - it's simply something different. Elon is motivated ideologically by a desire to colonize Mars. By contrast this [1] is the current head of Lockheed M
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In places such as Iceland, where bankers have not 'integrated' so deeply with the government, the banks were allowed to crash and top executives served years in prison. [1] This included people all the way up to chairmen. It had a
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Tangential, but Tyranny of the Rocket Equation [1]. The long and short is that your analogy is much better than you might have thought. Increasing rocket power is definitely (and counter intuitively) not just a matter of scale. The reason i
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Let's imagine a hypothetical. Imagine we take a fresh planet, mostly identical to Earth. And we populate it with 1 billion infants, a billion robotic baby sitters, and no external influence. Our robotic Rosies will all behave identical
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I'd also add to this that these technologies can be disruptive in another tangential fashion. It's not like a school can ever reach the point of being 100% technologically integrated. You can always have more tools, more software,
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That poem was penned in 1883. Do you know what the federal tax rate was? No need to bother with brackets, as it was 0%. And the state tax rate wasn't much different. How did we pay for our programs for migrants and ensure they were abl
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Don't you see the problem? You are taking one group and attributing that to the source of an ideology when the ideology predates the group, literally by millennia in this case. It makes no sense. In any case it's rather clear that
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Critical theory can generally be refuted pretty easily with a bit of critical thinking. Abortion for instance is the lower hanging fruit here. It's something that has nothing inherently to do with religion. You can find discussions of
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To see the problem, let me use your exact words, but simply change the issue to one you presumably disagree with: "Personally, I think it's more damaging that positions like, "Let's not murder children" is considere
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The Paradox of Tolerance was penned in a work started in 1938 after the Nazis invaded Austria, and finished it in 1943. And it was written by Karl Popper who was of Jewish ancestry. This should get the setting (though not yet the context) t
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Imagine this from another perspective. Let's say you saw somebody trying to suggest that the abortion debate was about murdering babies versus not murdering babies. What is your response going to be to them and to such a notion? Of cou
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To first affirm what you're saying, this [1] is Einstein's revolutionary paper on relativity. While people without a mathematical background may have some difficulty following the technical components, what is said is plain enough
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All evolution ultimately is, is the result of factors favorable to reproduction staying the gene pool, since those with them quite tautologically tend to reproduce more, while factors unfavorable to reproduction get culled vice versa. For a
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There was an excellent series on this exact question released in Norway called Hjernevask [1]. Linking to Wiki there since it provides a link directly to each video as well as a brief synopsis. It had a profound impact on its release in Nor
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Peruse the posts in this thread and I think you can see your answer. Many people seem to be literally happy to accept ignorance in fields outside their expertise. There's one exchange near the top of this thread that's been repeat
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It's a PR statement so I wouldn't read much into it. It's designed solely to yield the least negative response possible in a polarizing situation. But if we ignore the meaningfulness or truthfulness of the statement, let&#x27
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You might find the numbers surprising. This [1] provides a reasonable overview of financial data on the games industry. PC vs all consoles combined tends to be extremely close in terms of fiscal figures (34 vs 34.7bn in 2016, 32.2 vs 33.3bn
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There's one very key reason that traitors, spies, 'turncoats', and others have been been so harshly punished throughout history (and present). It entails a violation of good faith and trust. That has nothing to do with '

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