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by slibhb 3y ago
> That's exactly the point, at least how I'm reading it. Between the US and Japan peace and diplomacy was allowed to rule instead of constant violent retaliation. What diplomacy? The US destroyed Japan's military, bombed T
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by slibhb 3y ago
Hamas can't go toe-to-toe with the IDF. They are hiding in tunnels and among civilians, so these ratios aren't surprising. To some extent, you can't blame Hamas for these tactics. They would quickly lose a conventional war. A
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by slibhb 3y ago
From wikipedia: > Johnson also dismissed the poems' quality. Upon being asked, "But Doctor Johnson, do you really believe that any man today could write such poetry?" he famously replied, "Yes. Many men. Many women. A
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's not a crank article. It exaggerates but does include specific criticism of a certain influential study. I'm fairly skeptical of SSRIs. Most psychiatrists still parrot the "your brain needs more serotonin" line which
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by slibhb 3y ago
I'd be more impressed with LSD's supposed power to permanently change personality if we had cases of violent criminals reforming after a trip. But it's always well-behaved, hippy scientists making these claims.
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by slibhb 3y ago
We're nowhere near "head transplants" or "creating braindead clones" (not to mention keeping them alive and healthy for decades). This is science fiction. Actual cancer treatments are moving forward at a good pace.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Not quite. The report says it's "virtually certain" that heat waves have increased but only "highly likely" that this increase is caused by climate change. That aside, I don't believe we have the data or the st
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by slibhb 3y ago
> There’s overwhelming evidence that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are causing climate change, that those emissions are supercharging deadly weather disasters, and that transitioning to clean energy is the only way to tackle
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by slibhb 3y ago
> It's shocking to me that anyone thinks of Hamas as anything but a terrorist organization and ruthless regime. Hamas is more than that. It formed a government that provided services to Gazans. Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Bro
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by slibhb 3y ago
The idea that Netanyahu is responsible for Hamas' popularity is false. Yes, Israel has played Hamas off against the PA, yes that was a very bad move, but it's not the reason Palestinians prefer Hamas to the PA. Money doesn't
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by slibhb 3y ago
I'm just curious, do you live in a high crime area?
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by slibhb 3y ago
> It also regulates a lot of other words, like “ketchup” and “ice cream”. It shouldn't. > The government regulates what “12 fl. oz” means when you buy a can of root beer, and regulates exactly how the number of calories should be
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by slibhb 3y ago
If you sell ethanol as a cough medicine, you are breaking the law!
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by slibhb 3y ago
Do you really think the government should regulate use of the word "medicine"? Ditto for claims like "works naturally". I think it's pretty clear that this stuff is alternative medicine. Your suggestion would be lik
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by slibhb 3y ago
Yes there is. Marx views wages and conditions under capitalism as a race to the bottom that will only go down.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Selling poison is illegal.
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by slibhb 3y ago
And you can buy homeopathic remedies at CVS. At best this is a kind of placebo. At worst it's people being dumb, which is not illegal. Move on!
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by slibhb 3y ago
Improving working conditions and wages clearly prove that Marx was wrong. It is ironic that, in some cases, Marxist arguments led to changes that disproved Marx's teachings.
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by slibhb 3y ago
My summary of Marx is accurate. In his view, working conditions and pay would get monotonically worse. That objectively has not happened.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Working conditions get better and worse over time according to politics and economics. Marx predicted that they only get worse. Conditions were in some ways better in the 50s. They are in some ways better today than in the 50s. And they&#x2
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by slibhb 3y ago
In Marx's model, inequality indeed increases. But so does absolute poverty. Marx predicted a future in which a tiny handful of people own everything and subject their workers to slave-like conditions. The latter part hasn't happen
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by slibhb 3y ago
You and other posters in this thread are reacting negatively because you don't like the idea of incels being depressed. You would prefer if they were just sociopaths. I think the article is right, though. To me it seems clear that ince
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by slibhb 3y ago
Piketty hasn't been "falsified" but he has been challenged in various ways: 1. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/deciphering-the-fall-and-... (Piketty underestimates the extent to which inequality is du
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by slibhb 3y ago
I got most of the way through this and found many things to disagree with. I started to write a reply and then I read this part: > Expertise is, in a certain sense, a bourgeois concept, a by-product of the ideological imperative to organ
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by slibhb 3y ago
Whether Satan is the hero (anti or otherwise) of Paraside Lost is hotly debated. I don't think Milton viewed it that way but plenty of English Romantics did.
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by slibhb 3y ago
> I used these techniques to break a bad habit. Every time my mind so much as wanders in that direction, I have a mini speech I give myself. "Boy, I am so glad that I have escaped the slavery of that dopamine cycle, where I wasn&#x2
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by slibhb 3y ago
> What's especially weird is the number of people here who are fiercely defensive of the arrangement, with the only rationale being it's the status quo Most Americans (roughly 70%) are happy with their health insurance. That&#x
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by slibhb 3y ago
If you want to start restricting people's freedom to improve healthcare, start by banning alcohol and tobacco. It's worth considering why we don't do that.
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's obviously unworkable to restrict free speech like that. According to the article, we'd have to jail Trump and Macron. Free speech issues aside, there were plenty of doctors who recommended Hydroxychloroquine. I know a (good)
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by slibhb 3y ago
That's absurd. Can't we just make peace with the fact that freedom means freedom to do dumb shit?

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