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by skellington 2y ago
I'm only talking about the 'shutting it down' aspect. It may very well be objectionable to a group of people. Almost any speech is 'objectionable' to some group of people.
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by skellington 2y ago
Are you arguing that communities should be allowed to moderate behaviors that that community finds objectionable?
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by skellington 2y ago
Yes, we all know the "it's a private business they can do whatever they want" when they are suppressing right-leaning speech and then "social media needs to be regulated" when they allow right-leaning speech argumen
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by skellington 2y ago
I'm not automatically pro or anti Stargate (the movie and show were cool) BUT Who gets the benefit of all of this investment? Are taxpayers going to fund this thing which is monetized by OpenAI? If we pay for this shit, it better be fu
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by skellington 2y ago
You don't get to shut down speech by just adding -phobia to everything you have a strong opinion about.
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by skellington 2y ago
I'm not saying that Rand or Marx themselves said that altruism was a necessary component. I'm saying that it is and that neither was aware of that pre-condition/axiom of their philosophies. To be fair, I think Rand was aware,
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by skellington 2y ago
It is boring. It's hyper-boring. It's just more efficient to read her direct works on Objectivism than trying to slog through a narrative form of it.
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by skellington 2y ago
Isn't it crazy that these topics show up on HN whose audience is generally aligned with the 1% of highly educated, wealthy or wannabee wealthy people, who believe they should all be CEOs and whose actions in their day to day lives are
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by skellington 2y ago
Biased take probably... I have yet to meet a person that isn't primarily self interested. They must exist, but they are exceedingly rare.
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by skellington 2y ago
Kind of like Marxist books that work in a hypothetical universe? Marx and Rand exist as reactions to the perceived problems of their days, but they shouldn't be taken as recipes for utopia. Ironically, both philosophies depend on every
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by skellington 2y ago
Those tests are a joke. They've lowered the standards to capture the minimum physical requirements to do the most basic of firefighting tasks. And 10 minutes, how about they test them for 8 hours of that kind of work? Who is going to l
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by skellington 2y ago
It is a thing that happens and it also includes small women (and sometimes men) who aren't able to carry the weight they should be able to. It is verifiable fact that the LAFD has lowered the strength requirements considerable in order
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by skellington 2y ago
You're being too reductive. There is no simple one sentence answer and the path to modern western liberal values spans 400-ish years. It wasn't really that long ago that all/most societies believed that slavery was normal. Ju
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by skellington 2y ago
It is fully within their right to demonstrate their beliefs via book burning or other legal means. What they did not do is achieve a book ban. And the "recently banned books" they are referring to were removed from schools, not &#
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by skellington 2y ago
Zuch was granted his wish and was turned into a real boy. And now he knows he can do a lot better.
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by skellington 2y ago
That's almost certainly a lie...but weird things happen. I keep hearing about Republican book bans, but I've only heard they don't want certain books to be available to children in schools, not that they should be banned in g
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by skellington 2y ago
It is commonly understood that 'men' in that context and in the context of the time is a reference to 'mankind' or 'the race of men' which means the human race, not males specifically.
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by skellington 2y ago
Yes, you do everything except measure merit. Equal outcomes for everybody. This is how you get 100lb women in the fire department who can't even control a fire hose at full pressure.
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by skellington 2y ago
The gaslighting from the DEI types is unrelenting. I've been in the corporate DEI training courses. I've read the CRT papers and books that are the influences of the DEI types. They all define equity as EQUAL OUTCOMES not equal op
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by skellington 2y ago
This only reduces the working memory, not the base model itself?
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by skellington 2y ago
DOJ/DEA already said they are stopping the practice in airports. But what about the rest of the country and all the police departments that do the same thing every day?
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by skellington 2y ago
Almost all of the middle class tract homes built in California (for example) in the 60s/70s are around 1200sf. They also used cheap materials, had no insulation, maybe 2 bathrooms but often 1.5, very simple kitchens, etc. The stuff tha
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by skellington 2y ago
Type A people who become CEOs don't dream of sitting around on yachts. Some might be driven by money, but at a certain level it probably switches to a sense of responsibility, but also, it's intoxicating to be at the top where you
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by skellington 2y ago
It's just a tactic to get a higher average price while being able to advertise a lower price. What makes it infuriating is memory is dirt cheap. That extra 8GB probably costs them $10 at most, but would add to utility and longevity of
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by skellington 2y ago
lol....a key tenet of journalism is objective reporting: Objective Reporting: Journalism aims to report events truthfully, objectively, and fairly, without bias. This involves verifying facts, seeking multiple perspectives, and presenting i
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by skellington 2y ago
You're the perfect example of "holds an irrationally strong opinion about something they know nothing about."
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by skellington 2y ago
Deflection. Cuba has an entire world they can trade with, and they do. Russia, China, countries in Europe, Canada, Mexico, etc.. Only US companies are mostly blocked (and there are exceptions there too). Nothing about the status of Cuba can
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by skellington 2y ago
He was being sarcastic, obviously, because that's what the proponents of Marxism/Communism say about the hundreds of failed experiments with it. They "did it wrong" or it was "real communism."
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by skellington 2y ago
We know that. The problem was the theater. Biden praising GM for "leading" in the EV space when they are so many years behind Tesla. Even now they sell a tiny fraction of the EVs. UAW will be the reason why the big 3 are all bankr
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by skellington 2y ago
Watching stupid people criticize brilliant people is pure popcorn fun! You have no idea what the future of Tesla is and it isn't cars....

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