sky-kedge0749

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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I don't know about this particular guy's opinions but usually what transphobes think is that there's no such thing as being transgender, trans men are actually women, trans women are actually men and in both cases they'r
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're looking for. There's a lot of info out there about fossil fuel subsidies and fossil fuel lobbyists. If you have some particular subsidy in mind then you can research it yourself. Your claim > Capit
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
> Bathrooms are closed to non-customers because the burden of dealing with the occasional mentally ill drug addict isn't worth the risk or expense. This can't be the whole story because a "mentally ill drug addict" is
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Try searching for "fossil fuel subsidies", "fossil fuel lobby" and so on. There are many examples.
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
The "Reality's Last Stand" Etsy stuff in your Twitter link is hate speech, since it implies being trans isn't a real thing. In terms of Etsy's "Anti-Discrimination and Hate Speech Policy" https:/&#x2
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Gobbling down food is the correct mental image, along with someone in the middle of taking a bite being approached by an apologetic coworker, sighing, putting the food down and plastering a big smile on their face as they ask, "What&#x
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Oil companies routinely and vigorously advocate for subsidies. If oil company owners aren't capitalists then I don't know who is.
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
In some places this can develop into the expectation that everyone eats while working at their desk every day. You're not shifting the free time, you're just losing it. Then anyone who announces "okay, off to a cafe, see you
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
A problem with biofuel is scaling it up, see: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7498153 . According to that article the U.S. would need to devote "an area bigger than Texas and California and Pennsylvania combin
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
There are no viable replacements for fossil fuels for a tremendous number of uses. There is currently no plausible way that, for example, long-distance flights could run entirely off solar. Your economic analysis of > Oil is still used a
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Sentience as in "the capacity to experience feelings and sensations": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience . I don't want to be too philosophical, just consider that both chickens and cats will complai
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
You raise an interesting point -- which you may not have intended, I don't want to put words in your mouth -- that once you treat sentient animals as disposable property, it becomes difficult to draw ethical lines. Surely a chicken and
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Also lentils are filling and have a lot of protein. Boiled lentils with salt and other seasoning taste fine, are easy to make and as unprocessed as it gets.
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Counterexample: I'm lacto-ovo vegetarian but not vegan partly because the anxiety and stress involved in checking ingredients for ethical purity, or worrying about honey or bone-bleached sugar or rennet in cheese, is not good for me.
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Another angle on your and GP's comment is environmental. The most environmentally friendly meats come from the most mistreated animals, particularly broiler chickens in warehouses, but most veg*ns aren't going to say, well, if you
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Could it be someone else's business if you, say, killed a dog or cat every day, or are saying that you should be able to do literally anything you like to any animal in the privacy of your home?
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
It might be uncomfortable for the team to have a naive developer constantly bring up well-intentioned strategies to improve support for third-party ad-blocking in meetings.
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Someday I'd like to hear the inside story of how third-party ad-blocking discussions go inside Google. Do managers take new hires out to a one-on-one lunch and quietly tell them, "It's come from on high that we want to gradua
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Legislators have to think about so many issues that no one science specialty could prepare them. What does it matter if some legislator has a PhD from Podunk University and wrote their dissertation on the mating habits of red-billed geese?
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I'm not sure they understood it, for example people like pre-existing condition protections but not mandated coverage, but the latter was intended to support the former. Basically people wanted the benefit but not the cost, which we mi
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
The law is pretty technical. Having people who don't understand law as legislators is like having a product manager or stakeholder for a tech product that doesn't understand tech. It's not impossible but requires some extra w
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
You want lawyers writing, implementing and judging under the law if rule of law is important. They're the experts, by definition. My understanding of Chinese government is that the law as written is, let's say, more flexible.
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
It really seems like you're making the argument I said you were making, that Georgia Democrats are basically Republicans actually and that the Democrats ought to have run a Republican-lite Joe Manchin character (who would have gotten s
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
The big benefit of the ACA is that anyone can buy real, solid health insurance just like they were ordering something off Amazon, and if they fall into certain categories the government will pay for it. That's huge. I don't know i
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
When you say unnecessary training it's not clear to me whether you're making a general statement or talking about details. For example if a servicemember volunteers for paratrooper school and gets badly hurt on a jump then I'
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Because all of them are Americans and deserve protection under our common laws. All states are in the union with the understanding that the union will protect everyone, including unionists in a state with significant support for secession.
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
Having keenly paid attention while the ACA was debated and passed and implemented I would say a lot of those opposed were as clueless about it as they are about Glass-Steagall.
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
I agree with this and will add that the cost of the risk of having to pay to support a disabled veteran for life needs to be considered part of the whole deal. If you can't afford the servicemember, properly trained and properly insure
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
You think a significant portion of the population has strong feelings on separating commercial from investment banking?
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by sky-kedge0749 4y ago
If the situation is such that a mass of state residents is physically attempting to overwhelm a military base like at the end of "V for Vendetta", then the political situation will have long been obvious and preparations will have

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