snackbugs

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by snackbugs 8y ago
Hey HN slow down let me chime in here, i used to work in the lying profession and i just need you to know that lying is not ok, and that lying is not the same thing as lying
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by snackbugs 8y ago
You're better off just not posting if the first infantile misfiring of your brain is what you decide is fit to type into the comment box.
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by snackbugs 8y ago
How do do you shut down a town in an orderly fashion? More to the point, how do you avoid putting the people you displaced from their homes on a high-rent, low-wage treadmill?
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by snackbugs 8y ago
The people who lived in towns which thrived long before the economy failed them don't need to justify their existence in economic terms. The question you should be asking is whether or not this economy has any benefit to those people.
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by snackbugs 8y ago
Testimony of lived experiences is evidence. It's enough to convict. When you serve jury duty and the case involves domestic violence, you are explicitly reminded of this because most people will assume it is not. Still, we end up with
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by snackbugs 8y ago
With such disproportionately high rates of domestic abuse in law enforcement professions, you really can't say they are competent to investigate them either. So whose responsibility is it? https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea
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by snackbugs 8y ago
The US also didn't have a national highway system and other social services for much of its history. Interesting.
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by snackbugs 8y ago
I have this nagging belief that advertisers know well that nobody in this generation wants to be advertised to, and that ads generally don't work as a direct call to action. Something that allowing podcasters to loosely do ad reads ach
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by snackbugs 8y ago
Work culture in general is harsher, but a lot of professional jobs include benefits like housing (usually not too far from full rent) and full commute expenses in their compensation. These are perks usually added to your base salary, which
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by snackbugs 8y ago
Correct. For the strict purpose of protecting private property, something which slaves were considered to be. Thank you for agreeing with the historical facts.
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by snackbugs 8y ago
>Police serve themselves and the state Just a minor nitpick about this, forgive me. Overall this post is perfectly agreeable. Police primarily serve private property owners, with private property being different from personal property. P
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by snackbugs 8y ago
No, it just means your boss likes you.
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by snackbugs 8y ago
Whatever you have to tell yourself to keep believing what you do.
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by snackbugs 8y ago
>For everyone. Efficient markets raise per capita productivity, which raises quality of life for the vast majority of the population. The majority of the US can't financially bear an emergency $1000 expense without going into debt,
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by snackbugs 8y ago
>The conclusion that free markets work better is empirically supported Better for whom?
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by snackbugs 8y ago
To take this critique to an even lower order of problems, economics as a field is strictly centered on capitalism and the base assumption that markets are the only efficient distribution of resources. By this nature professionals researchin
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by snackbugs 8y ago
I've never seen a clear explanation of the right's grievances regarding Soros, but what I can put together contextually is that he is a wealthy source of finance or power brokerage for political action involving anything left of f
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by snackbugs 8y ago
I'm asking because when someone says they are offended by someone else's words, it's because the use of that word makes their daily normal life more difficult to live in a direct material sense. That's the measure being
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by snackbugs 8y ago
I don't know how to ask this without it seeming dismissive, but how much more difficult is it to live your normal life by someone's use of this word?
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by snackbugs 8y ago
Remove it or not based on your company's rules and values. I don't know how to make this any more explicit. Hate speech having a clear and defined concept (which both you and that other commenter can research on your own) gives us
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by snackbugs 8y ago
Unfortunately, politics directly affects the safety, health, and livelihood of everyone. People get sick die because of political decisions, and people gain great amounts of wealth because of political decisions. People maintain comfortable
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by snackbugs 8y ago
Hate speech specifically comes from a position and perspective of power. Stop making up your own terms.
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by snackbugs 8y ago
In order to make your points, you keep skating over the first principle: there is a clear definition.
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by snackbugs 8y ago
In a vacuum, I would not say that's hate speech. But there are complexities in the advocacy for capital punishment in the current context of the US's criminal justice system. Our carceral system is widely recognized to be deeply r
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by snackbugs 8y ago
That's terrific. I'm sincerely happy for you that you're fortunate enough to be in a comfortable enough place in society that hate speech isn't an obstacle in your life. However it seems as though your idea of a free soc
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by snackbugs 8y ago
There is. Many people use it. Have you ever gone out of your way to examine it? Or do you just infer it based on your internal beliefs and limited experiences?
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by snackbugs 8y ago
Every reply of yours so far has hinged on my definition of terms being arbitrary. I'm strictly talking about well-defined terms. Maybe you have never examined them because you never needed to interface with them in practice, or maybe y
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by snackbugs 8y ago
We're discussing the clear and defined understanding of what hate speech is. You lost the thread of the conversation the moment someone confronted your belief that it doesn't have a clear definition. The reason you lost the thread
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by snackbugs 8y ago
Ben Shapiro has said, quite proudly, that Middle Eastern people inherently prefer living in open sewers and therefore violently destroying their means to have a functioning society is perfectly rational. This is unambiguously advocacy for v
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by snackbugs 8y ago
>Rather, violations are based on arbitrary criteria of "dominance" - which is popular with certain ideologues but has very little support in showing that this is actually a good metaphor for understanding our society. I'm

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