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by slibhb 4y ago
How on earth is it a strawman? The post I responded to is making that exact argument, I even quoted it. The temerity of those EMTs to treat a homeless man, probably mentally ill, bleeding in the street, without obtaining his consent! How da
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by slibhb 4y ago
> In the story itself, it says the EMTs were actively treating him. Not offering to treat him, just straight to it. No mention of them even asking if it was ok to treat him. Your attitude mirrors one that the article is criticizing, I th
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by slibhb 4y ago
> I made two mental notes. One, if I ever got to that point again, not to fail, and two, if I did try, definitely not to call 911. They aren't your friends. This is exactly the kind of progressive-libertarianism the article is argui
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by slibhb 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism
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by slibhb 4y ago
> So what’s the solution then? Well, maybe we should start by rolling back this common conception that when it comes to schools, everyone’s opinion matters an equal amount, and then listen to the teachers and academics. Oh please. Teache
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by slibhb 4y ago
Who says it's considered normal? It reads like unproductive catastrophizing to me. In the unlikely event of a school shooting, I doubt "metal doors" or "barricade procedures" will make any difference.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Before 1967, Egypt controlled Gaza and Jordan controlled the West Bank. They administrated those territories in a far worse manner than the Israelis currently do. The relationship between Egypt and especially Jordan and the Palestinians is
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by slibhb 4y ago
Your inability to come up with a solid reason why free speech is good is very telling. You don't think it's good! And I'm tired of reading comments written by people trapped in a legalistic fiction where the only thing that p
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by slibhb 4y ago
> In short: yes, it's a good thing. As written, the amendment is designed to prevent me from being arrested or killed by the Federal Government for speaking my mind, disseminating my thoughts on paper, or congregating with like-mind
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by slibhb 4y ago
Is the first amendment a good thing? If so, why? Does the reason you come up with magically not apply to twitter? Of course it applies. Twitter is not legally obligated to allow free speech but there are other reasons to do something than l
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by slibhb 4y ago
I just checked and Google Docs is not a single canvas. It uses a canvas for the text but all the tools and so on are good old html.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Compare to https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html (by Emily Bazelon, the sister of this article's author). Bazelon family Thanksgivings must be interesting!
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by slibhb 4y ago
I don't consider white Americans disadvantaged for reasons that are not empirical. I similarly consider black Americans and Native Americans (and to a lesser extent Hispanic Americans) disadvantaged for reasons that are not empirical.
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by slibhb 4y ago
How on earth are they "misperceiving" anything? If Jews were considered Jews and not white they wouldn't be 17.2% of the Ivy League. They'd go back to being discriminated against as in the past and as Asians are currentl
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by slibhb 4y ago
No we aren't. Carbon-emitting technologies are not necessary for human life in the long-term.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Pretending we're not animals is the right thing to do! Civilization is good and we only have it as long as we pretend we aren't animals. I don't think it's a serious analysis that predicts that mankind will go extinct du
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by slibhb 4y ago
These posts get downvoted because anti-humanism is a repulsive sentiment. I don't see any solid evidence that the planet is "strained" or, if it is, that it has anything to do with population. People have been talking about o
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by slibhb 4y ago
The idea that the planet is wounded due to too many people and needs to be "healed" is complete nonsense. We aren't close to carrying capacity. You're taking various complaints ("immigration policy," "no s
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by slibhb 5y ago
Don't know -- I saw The Shining when I was 11 or 12 and it freaked me out pretty badly but I don't think it left any scars. It's a lot scarier than Psycho at any rate which mostly holds up but seems incredibly tame today. 11-
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by slibhb 5y ago
> For me the ADD really is a part of my identity — not my persona, which is what I present to the world, but my innermost self, the way I am actually am. I would be a different person without it. I might be a better person, or a happier
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by slibhb 5y ago
> Is it really possible that this many people are ill, or is society expecting impossible things from people and ADHD-like symptoms are the consequence. Or is it something else? Civilization is humans, who are animals, pretending they ar
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by slibhb 5y ago
Deriding people based on their height is wrong. But preference for tall males is based on a preference for strength, athleticism, and ability to fight. This is true in all human cultures. If you think it's outdated, consider sports. Al
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by slibhb 5y ago
> It is unfortunate that a science communicator would express her research preference in such a way. Why is it a bad thing to have preferences? > but for people unfamiliar with science it may sound like "defund LHC" (that wo
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by slibhb 5y ago
I strongly agree with you. I find it disturbing that, in approaching their work this way, critics put themselves above their subject (the texts and the authors). I don't think it's a coincidence that the people who engage in liter
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by slibhb 5y ago
The point of the university was to give 20-somethings in their intellectual prime a socially respectable position where they have few obligations. Higher education was for weirdos to pursue their obsessive interests and society benefited fr
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by slibhb 5y ago
No I didn't. The twitter thread we're talking about used "lab leak" as an example of something that had to be censored but the author also admitted he thinks the lab leak hypothesis is true . Something that was true had
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by slibhb 5y ago
No, "low effort provocations" has nothing to do with "disinformation" or "spreading knowable lies". I am genuinly astonished that you think all those things are synonyms. news.ycombinator.com does this right --
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by slibhb 5y ago
I agree that NATO and the US made decisions that led to the war in Ukraine. But that's a causal question, there's nothing moral about it. It's like saying someone who walked through the bad part of town and got mugged made a
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by slibhb 5y ago
It's exactly what you said. I took your dissembling and accurately reproduced its message in one sentence. > More precisely: ideas are powerful, which means they can be dangerous. > Anyone who doesn't understand that is actu
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by slibhb 5y ago
I could easily do this job. It's not hard, it merely requires not being a coward. But my rate is quite high.

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