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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Dismiss away, you do you. With, as I said, good reason. That's important. > I don't regard this as a "strong claim" requiring "extra-ordinary proof". Not extra-ordinary proof, proportional proof. For a
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Can you? Generally the burden is on the person making the positive claim. > I'm happy to simply continue to hold a different opinion to you. Sure, I have no qualms taking your opinion as just speculation/belief/Ameri
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Can you support your argument with some examples?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
That's not a US thing, that's an every country everywhere thing.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> and later tried very hard to delete all uploads of this video. I didn't know that, that's pretty interesting. > Because in the real world that strategy is more likely to get you convicted after all. I don't think that
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
And it only took them how long to do this? If our supreme court wasn't compromised, this kind of thing should be heard there to not only prevent this in all states, but hold accountable the thieves an make them return their ill-gotten
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Well then you ought to go somewhere more appreciative of your pitches ;)
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Where we struggle is maintaining attention on things that don't interest us for long enough to meet employer or school expectations. Yes, this is something I deal with as well. It's interesting because as a kid I got diagnose
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> As someone with this condition, I think it may be helpful to note that while your comment may not be intended to be disparaging, it can be interpreted in such a way. A lot of neurodivergent folks or people experiencing mental health is
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Thank you for answering. I don't doubt the research, it's more I doubt how many diagnoses were accurate. I was diagnosed with ADD as well, so I'm not being entrely dismissive. In this age of self ID I think there can be reaso
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I gave it my notes and pasted output. Yeah, don't do that, please. If you think it's something people will find useful, you can share the prompt. If the prompt isn't anything special, then you probably shouldn't bo
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> The customer is not always right, An uninvited door-to-door salesman is rarely, if ever right.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Were you the downvote I got instantly after commenting, lol? I'm simply curious and that should be sufficient, I'm not really sure what it has to do with you though.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
ADD/ADHD was over-diagnosed for a long time. Why are you so sure all the people you mention have it vs other explanations? What is it you think makes ADHD brains special?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
At least in the US the education system is so incredibly bad for anyone reasonably intelligent where homeschooling is an option it should be the clear preference. At least until high school.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Japan has smartly designed and compassionate infrastructure. Except for the justice system.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I put in the footnote precisely to try to pre-empt this tedious digression. Next time, just don't try to advocate for your personal view of language, and use a less contended term, as the parent said 'raises the question&#x27
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Language is a tool for communication, a phrase that will be misunderstood is worse than useless. Sure. > Where a particular usage makes a distinction that is important to convey then it may be worth preserving, but when a historical
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> English is defined by its usage To an extent, but people using language incorrectly isn't a reason for everyone else to start using it incorrectly also. > the historical sense of that phrase is not actually in live use outside
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> begs the question[1] > [1] in the usual sense of the phrase, not the historical one recorded in some dictionaries Wait, are you calling the correct usage here historical despite it still being frequently used in contemporary times,
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
I thought this post was going to be about avoiding using a GUI at all. 20 years ago or so I was running linux that way for a bit, just with every different take on a different virtual terminal. Mplayer playing video to the framebuffer if I
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
What does apt do that pacman doesn't?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
What role did Musk do other than invest? You could even say he just got lucky with a gamble.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Excluding hate, bigotry and wilful ignorance isn't being "held on a short leash", it's just excluding hateful people from spreading hate.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Before Facebook introduced the option to unsend or delete sent messages, you could only remove them from your view. Does anyone know if there is an option to restore them, so you can then remove them from the people you've sent them to
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> You have yet to show that tripling denials of a particular category of claims is even wrong in the first place. Honestly this is a pretty bad faith argument. They are denying at a significantly higher rate than their competitors, their
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Again, you exemplify the exact attitude I describe. That's fine. I think you exemplify the attitude that lead to Thompson's murder and will lead to many more similar incidents. > Can you point to any single decision that T
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Born into money and making obvious investments that plenty of people with similar opportunity would make isn't particularly impressive. It's not outright bad like failing to make money from a casino, but it's not particularly
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> vigilante justice (especially against nonviolent offenders) is considered to be wrong. I guess hiding behind the veil of legality and murdering thousands if not hundreds of thousands if considered worse. Rightfully IMO.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
You don't see a moral error with a health insurance company going out of their way to more than double the claims they deny, not because it's ethical or necessary but because they find ways to do so legally and the motive is profi

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