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by shaftoe 10y ago
Your description of drifting apart from friends resonates with me. I've felt the same thing, where it's increasingly forced to care about people I no longer can connect with. I'm married and my wife has gone through a simila
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by shaftoe 10y ago
The world doesn't exist for anyone's personal comfort, nor should it. This is the argument of luddites, nobility, and the lazy. The slave metaphor makes no sense: slaves have a master who cares for his investment. Free people ha
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by shaftoe 10y ago
Where do they work that still has a strict dress code? Maybe I'm just in the tech industry bubble, but this seems extraordinarily strange for interns, who likely weren't external sales or consultants or one of the few holdovers wh
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by shaftoe 10y ago
I'll be that guy. Forcing a person to do an action against their will is morally repulsive. Even if that action is to be a decent person.
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by shaftoe 10y ago
"In 2016, he was the victim of a crime, but feared calling police to his home. What was he afraid they would see?" :) To a certain extent, we have to live our lives and damn the consequences.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
I have to admit that I clicked this expecting to read about a fictional Los Angeles detective.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
With April 15 coming, it wouldn't be hard to convince me that there's no reason to fund THAT broken organization either.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Read other sources on the history of the sack of Benin. This article romanticizes a city with human sacrifices and slave trade. From Wikipedia's article on the Benin Massacre: But the way Benin treated its slaves and the public displa
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by shaftoe 11y ago
No state power is unlimited and all state powers end where individual rights begin. Any state that cannot be trusted to be responsible should be disbanded. See the US Declaration of Independence.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
He also ignores that cows were domesticated from Aurochs before the Bronze Age. Aurochs were as wild as American Bison and (depending on the variant) were the same size or larger.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Hillary, illegally, maintained a private email server for official correspondence and transmitted classified materials over it. The email server was hacked and the contents stolen and later published. She is currently under investigation b
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by shaftoe 11y ago
The profits go to the owner, whatever that is. The employees chose the company (and implicitly the ownership structure) when they began employment. It's not like citizenship where one is born into the situation and the contract is my
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Because I can't walk up to a stranger, do something (for them or otherwise), and demand payment. Why does anyone else?
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by shaftoe 11y ago
And without the production of the individuals and businesses that exist in a society, the state would have no ability to skim off the top and spend that money. I believe that the state (which isn't "society", it is the govern
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Maybe this is a telling indication on myself, but the pictures in your first link look significantly stranger and off than the picture in the onion article, text aside. Formal wear has basically evolved into a costume that is used for speci
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by shaftoe 11y ago
"Check your privilege" is also a concise way of telling someone that, based upon factors of which they have little or no control, whatever opinion they are expressing has little or no value because they do not or cannot understand
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Does Canada have no protections for freedom of speech? As an American, the idea of muzzling a scientist is strange. I had thought Canada was more free than this.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
So, instead of increasing demand we decrease supply by having people work and thus produce less? Simplifying that, we will gain more by producing less?
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by shaftoe 11y ago
The only reason anyone owns anything is because of government regulations? That's an interesting take on the philosophy behind private property rights.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Mine don't understand why live TV cannot be paused or fast forwarded. The first time they encountered a commercial, they became very frustrated as to why their show was no longer playing and they couldn't do anything about it.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
So, you have the right to tell someone what they're allowed to charge for access to their own property?
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Neal Stephenson covered this in The Diamond Age. People formed a massively parallel computer that performed computations in their blood stream with nanites and shared data between hosts via "fluid transfers."
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by shaftoe 11y ago
You generally can't do that and cook in a home.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
This entire article seems to carry the premise that lifestyle decisions are a thing to adjust with social policy, as if people are children of the bureaucracy.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Design considerations for handguns include: * Firing with the opposite hand * Firing with hands slick with fluid (blood, sweat, mud, whatever). * Reloading and firing with a single hand available. * Firing with broken or missing digits. The
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by shaftoe 11y ago
I have kids and guns and I don't trust this technology to work when it needs to work, both in a defensive scenario and with my kids. Keep-It-Simple-Stupid. Basic gun safety dictates that a gun is always loaded, even if your fingerprin
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by shaftoe 11y ago
While he's lambasting a caricature, it is a caricature that exists for a reason. For example, when is the last time anyone saw a street protest and took anything about it seriously? Politics is mostly trench warfare and startups are c
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by shaftoe 11y ago
I imagine it's not arbitrary. They're charging what they can get for renting their property.
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by shaftoe 11y ago
I think you miss the point. Of course someone with a stick against the NKVD is at a serious disadvantage. Of course Stalin didn't hesitate to murder millions. The point is the bitter shame at having gone quietly and meekly to the cam
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by shaftoe 11y ago
Totally agreed, but the fish sticks come out because dinner has to happen every single day, no matter what else has come up. As an example, I take my kids camping a few times a year. I show them all kinds of things, like how to stake a ten

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