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by sacrosancty 4y ago
As with the German umlaut and the Chinese pinyin tone marks, it's also easiest to ignore ;) New Zealand has a few generations of people who pronounce Maori words by ignoring the macrons and with more English-like vowel sounds. It'
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
If you declare just about everything to be a disaster then, yea, I agree the future will probably be full of disasters. But Blade Runner iirc is about people who seem normal but have some "bad" origin which makes them eligible for
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
I'd better not get too involved in this because it's ugly politics nonsense, but it's easy enough to find criticisms of California for its power grid, leftism, pro-abortion-rights (which is obviously seen as a bad thing by ma
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Nonsense. Farm animals are unnaturally bred and essentially slaves. We somehow have them. Are you opposed to their existence too? Yes, people have disagreed about slavery and farm/working animals and all those grey areas of animal and
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Who says they'll be property and not have the same rights as normal people? Slavery was banned. If this becomes so objectionable, it'll be banned too. Why are all you people assuming laws and civilization will stop existing in the
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
None of that sounds like a disaster. What's wrong with a defacto slave enjoying their life doing what makes them most satisfied? Doesn't seem all that different from a normal human who works for pleasure, or even an artist who may
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
You're probably living in a filter bubble. You'd be hearing only the same kind of things about California if you were in a different bubble.
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Didn't happen with EU's internet laws. Instead, we get cookie banners all over the world. I don't think exiting a market full of money because of ideology is good business.
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Why would we abuse them? We treat disabled people OK, don't we? What exactly is your fear? Some kind of prejudice against people who were born through different procedures? We already have test tube babies walking among us and nobody m
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
If you say something's bad, you imply something else is good. So can you identify some contrasting technologies which didn't start out as a "garbage fire of greenhouse gasses and e-waste" or the appropriate equivalent? A
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
I've had my Paypal account frozen because I was cheating by living in a different country, not just on holiday. I managed to recover it by giving them the documents they wanted to "prove" that I lived in the country my accoun
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
human physical contact ftw. All these devices are just a substitute for a mother.
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Hockey sticks usually end up being S-shaped curves. The author is just doom-screaming because we're currently in the rapid change phases of lots of them but hasn't shown on any of the graphs the point where disaster will occur. Wh
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Pakistan in its current state could be what civilizational collapse in the west would look like. You can't fall off the floor.
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Any science behind your implied claim that port cities will stop operating because of sea level rise, rather than adapting or migrating? It's incredible how widespread misinformation about climate change is. All these replies from peop
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
So it's made up extremism?
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
> very likely collapse of civilisation Have you got a reference for that claim? I hear it a lot and assume it's just made-up extremism, isn't it?
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
That's just arrogance though - "Even if you disagree with me for any reason, including reasons I never thought of, but excluding the one possible reason I did think of, I'm still right so disregard your silly opinion and do i
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Well yes, but that's not what your parent comment said. Normal people watch the news and see all the prime ministers.
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Marriage in some countries comes with a bunch of legal rights and obligations, so you do need the government to agree if you also want it to enforce those things. In New Zealand, marriage has no legal value as far as I know. All the law tha
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
> Governments did not invent this; therefore, they do not need to be consulted when two people enter into an agreement. This is what I call argument soup. Stuff that sounds like logic but is nonsense intended to fool people who like the
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Just like every other 96 year old though, right?
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
None of those things you mentioned are real or big problems visible at an individual level any more than the problems of previous decades. If nobody told you they'd happened, you'd be enjoying the same stability and comfort as bef
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
No doubt. Or not even have such minor contributors as authors in the first place. Perhaps you should have to have actually written part of the paper, like an actual author, or at least done some novel research of your own. Technicians and o
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
What always seemed an obvious problem with Myers-Briggs is that there's no way to be "normal". Somebody who's at the mean of all 4 axes is going to get a random score and look just the same as someone who's extreme
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
You should kill pigs regardless of your stance on killing pigs?
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
You're not countering the parent's point. Of course you can agree to allow it if you choose.
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
If it's not illegal then it probably isn't causing any serious harm, so Cloudflare doesn't need to block it. If it is, say a direct death threat or telling others to harm someone, then it's already illegal and your expl
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
I'm 2nd author on a 2-author paper where my only contribution was answering a couple of questions on how to use some software, and then proofreading the couple of paragraphs that mentioned it. I didn't even read most of the paper,
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Worth noting that some mothers perfer not to test for it because there's an implication they'll decide to kill their baby if it's "defective" which they find horrible and unloving. Eugenics, basically.

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