rnernento

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by rnernento 7y ago
I think you are spot on, I also think you should watch your language in that people will use it is an excuse to ignore the painful truth of the very important point you are making: "more and more i'm lead to believe that the compa
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by rnernento 7y ago
If everyone's beliefs are unchangeable what is the danger of open forums for discussion? I think if you really want to combat this ideology it needs to be done with rational discussion instead of terminating the discussion. If we conce
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by rnernento 7y ago
How do you know I'm not? Why would you expect to be more successful on hacker news than one of those open forums?
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by rnernento 7y ago
To me it's a lot like blaming the violence on video games, and I'm not even saying they aren't a cause, they just aren't the most important cause right now. This is not an unsolvable problem, we're just getting bogg
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by rnernento 7y ago
Yeah they just downvote you into oblivion so no one can even read what you wrote. Oh wait...
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by rnernento 7y ago
What makes you say it's unchecked though? These are anonymous imageboards where ANYONE can say ANYTHING, there isn't anything stopping you from challenging them? Part of me wonders if we should be taking better advantage of this o
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by rnernento 7y ago
A lot of really smart people see the traps associated with "success" at high levels. Even if you're good at everything it's still a significant effort to rise to the top in most fields. Also, to put all this in context I
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by rnernento 7y ago
Honestly I don't think the smart evil people are the problem. I think the fact that society is in general pretty good is strong evidence that they are outnumbered. I believe most people want to be good. I also thing the smart evil peop
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by rnernento 7y ago
I'm definitely torn on this one, I hope you're right. Part of me thinks it's a combination of things though, also remember what the article this comment was on indicates. IQs are dropping in developed countries.
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by rnernento 7y ago
You're making this about republicans vs democrats. No idea why. My whole point is that politicians on both sides of the aisle are terrible and one of the reasons we have terrible politicians is because the general populace doesn't
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by rnernento 7y ago
I wonder when we're going to collectively realize that this epidemic of stupidity is by far the greatest threat facing humanity. It's the reason we're having so much trouble addressing all our other problems, e.g. corrupt gov
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by rnernento 7y ago
It's interesting that if you google her this comes up: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/style/modern-love-my-biol...
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by rnernento 7y ago
All I would say to this is that there are plenty of very successful companies that I do not consider predatory. A $10 ticket to Avengers:Endgame is a downright bargain, so is $15 a month for HBO. I give $60+ dollars on the regular to compan
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by rnernento 7y ago
Not trying to be mean here but don't you think some of these backers might have serious issues. The promise of an infinite alternate reality in space that will be everything you want it to be is alluring, especially to people who aren&
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by rnernento 7y ago
There seems to be a tremendous opportunity in higher education right now. Costs are out of control, administrative positions like this will eventually result in lower quality education and likely less successful graduates. An institute that
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by rnernento 8y ago
I'm not sure why you're so against any sort of action here, but I am sure that that attitude is part of the reason we should be worried. Why are you assuming I want to force solar and wind? What if I'm a huge proponent of nuc
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by rnernento 8y ago
50% was an arbitrary percentage, does it matter? My point was where do you draw the line? My thought is that a billion people dying constitutes a threat to humanity. The reality is we don't know exactly how we'll react to climate
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by rnernento 8y ago
I take the question as humanity as a whole, not just the existence of humanity. If something is capable of wiping out 50% of humanity, I consider that a threat. I understand what you're saying though.
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by rnernento 8y ago
I know what you mean, I have kids and don't have a lot of time to learn about the things I want to. The thing is, people like that aren't who I'm talking about. I'm talking about people who will make no effort to learn a
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by rnernento 8y ago
I don't have a problem with this being downvoted, but I'm super curious what someone's reasoning for doing so is? I'm desperate for someone to convince me this isn't the case.
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by rnernento 8y ago
I guess if I'm being honest I'm kind of a human supremacist. I think most of us are. That's why we eat other animals. I'm not saying I don't feel guilty about it but I also don't feel guilty about swatting mosq
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by rnernento 8y ago
How many people have to die for you to consider it a threat to humanity. Not trying to be dramatic, just understand that small changes in climate and crops have the potential to starve millions if not billions.
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by rnernento 8y ago
What do you mean objectively? I don't see a lot of other species asking and answering these questions... That being said they're all good points.
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by rnernento 8y ago
I rank this guy as a pretty big threat... This sounds like something a James Bond villain says right before he releases the virus that kills 90% of the human population.
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by rnernento 8y ago
An overwhelmingly large (and growing) population of ignorant people who don't value critical thinking, learning, science, or anything but themselves and their immediate desires.
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by rnernento 8y ago
You're acting as if all of this is deliberate and planned. I'll give you a hint, it isn't. Everything is not going to be ok. The responsibility of these problems is societal ignorance. I'll give you another hint, that is
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by rnernento 8y ago
I think you're underestimating the fact that the boomers will be a bunch of sick old people literally relying on millenials to take care of them in nursing homes.
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by rnernento 8y ago
I don't just mean political power, physical power counts too.
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by rnernento 8y ago
It's cute that they call it a fleecing, as if millenials could really have done anything about this. Sadly (I guess...) I suspect the generation responsible for all of this is going to end up paying some unexpected prices when the time
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by rnernento 8y ago
What about the minority of residents that didn't vote for that government. What about the children?

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