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by smhost 5y ago
That's funny, because public school is where I learned the difference between letter of the law and spirit of the law. We even did a "compare and contrast" worksheet with speed limits as one of the examples. Besides, the alte
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by smhost 5y ago
Ok, but geothermal energy creates pollution. It's considered a cleaner alternative to tradition energy sources insofar as it replaces existing energy demands, not when the demand is being created ad hoc.
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by smhost 5y ago
A one-way mirror is also called a two-way mirror. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_mirror
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by smhost 5y ago
"we can't have democracy because then the anti-democratic party would have to change" is my favorite talking point
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by smhost 5y ago
> When it comes to cybersecurity, the cloud bolsters protection. But now we’ve learned that the Trump Justice Department exploited this feature as part of a secret effort to obtain emails... So he's saying that it doesn't bolst
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by smhost 5y ago
the u.s. and chinese militaries are spending an absurd amount of resources to create cyborgs. see figure 1 on page 17: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2996.html it lists "modulating emotional sta
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by smhost 5y ago
how is private companies choosing to use a common supplier in a competitive market centralization? monopolies are not centralization either. you need to read a better book.
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by smhost 5y ago
if by "everything" you mean one thing, and by "centralize" you mean not centralized, then sure.
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by smhost 5y ago
makes me wonder what Rhee knew. for those of you who don't know, he was trained by americans and later smuggled out of the u.s. by someone high up in the army. he then received dictatorship of southern korea from the u.s. army, then we
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by smhost 5y ago
love to live in a workers' paradise of not having legal protections against being in a race to the bottom
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it's just a metaphor. in reality, they're just going to use the old Patriot Act mass surveillance infrastructure, which sits inside ISPs and processes every packet.
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i didn't say that we should eat bugs because insect populations are declining. i said we are going to have to start eating bugs anyway (e.g. there are no more wild fish), and also that insect populations are declining.
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i know, i'm just filling in the blanks
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by smhost 5y ago
yes it is. "we shouldn't mess with nature" and "we should be cautious when we are messing with nature" are two completely different things.
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by smhost 5y ago
insect populations are declining rapidly and are also in need of protection. we're probably going to have to start eating bugs for survival when all the animals are dead, since bugs are one of the most efficient sources of protein, so
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by smhost 5y ago
"we shouldn't mess with nature" is also a naturalistic fallacy, fyi
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Well, the bidet discourse isn't actually about hygiene, as you can see. It's a bad faith culture war discourse used to establish cultural superiority over other people. There's no point engaging with bad faith discourse and t
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by smhost 5y ago
You're calling me irrational, but you're using folk pseudoscience to justify using bidets over wet-naps, which are superior to bidets. You can even get the scented ones that make your asshole actually smell nice.
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Americans are so fucking stupid.
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by smhost 5y ago
If you actually cared about hygiene you'd be using something like wet-naps, since bidet nozzles aren't sanitary (would you rinse your mouth with a bidet nozzle?)
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by smhost 5y ago
> Korean unification is not impeded by the presence of US troops, but by the demands of the DPRK over the nature of what the unified state would look like. The fact that the American military gets to decide what the Korean people want or
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by smhost 5y ago
> Japan and S. Korea are particularly close to China and prefer we’re around to tamp down Chinese aggression. It's not that simple. American presence on the Korean peninsula makes reunification efforts overly complicated. By some es
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by smhost 5y ago
In the entry for "herbaceous": (hûr-bāshəs, ûr-) According to the Usage Notes, both "an" and "a" are correct in written form (since both pronunciations are correct). If you're reading it out loud, "a
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by smhost 5y ago
> with no real roots except egalitarianism taken too far This is a strange way of saying that it has roots in ancient philosophy. Every major ideology I can think of has forms of anti-anthropocentrism spanning from classical animal right
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https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?id=A5000200 > Usage Note: In writing, the form a is used before a word beginning with a consonant sound, regardless of its spelling (a frog, a university, a euphemism).
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by smhost 5y ago
I think trying to "reverse" something like this is not only untenable but actually destructive. The history of every language and culture is one of brutality and conquest as well as mutual exchange. That doesn't mean that we
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I mean, business/financial innovation is a legitimate kind of innovation. I'm not harping on Amazon for that. I just think that discussions about "loss of innovation" smuggle in some irrational fears about loss of techno
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"Innovation" refers to practices like staying in the red for a decade and bypassing antitrust laws by owning (rather than monopolizing) markets. It has little to do with technological innovation.
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> What would be necessary for the government to run a service like Amazon successfully? Anti-corruption measures to stop politicians from sabotaging those services. E.g., USPS.
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That might be a generational thing. I can't remember the last time I ever used my phone as a phone. Also, what you're calling complexity, I see as simplicity. In my ideal world, I wouldn't need to install three different vers

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