southernplaces7

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by southernplaces7 1y ago
>What does it buy you? Well, for one thing, it's not a transactional question of what it "buys". It's a matter of principle and defense against future repression or manipulation by politicians on a power trip. For exa
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
>but the more good faith reason for a database entry is it should eliminate fake IDs. Really? If anything it would make them easier. Hackers routinely break into government databases to exfiltrate information. An ID attribute databases w
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
An even bigger underlying problem is that people keep buying into and buying all this garbage, instead of rejecting it en masse through purchases of older, second-hand products or new products among the brands (admittedly less and less out
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
In september? Why not go whole hog and make it a January tradition, like where I'm from. Sissies.
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
So is Nazism, that doesn't mean all moral frameworks are created equal. Also, tit for tat is a type of cynical pragmatism, not a thing based on some principle (misguided or not) which is a basic requirement of a moral framework; the no
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
What does being a libertarian have to do with it? Do you take as for granted that unless you're a libertarian, you shouldn't bother with at least a few firm moral principles in your politics? That anything goes so long as it garne
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
The moderators of this site feel like explaining why they let this kind of post be flagged? No sense even guessing the idiot reason of whatever baboon did the flagging since they abound and have their own brainless logic, but the moderation
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
The funny thing about phrases like that is that they often get repeated despite being devoid of factual content. We should indeed keep an eye out for the defunding of medical research but as even a few quick numbers from the NIH (at least s
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
But i'm sure shareholder value saw some much healthier returns, so it all sort of balances out nicely.
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
As I said in another reply above, where's the room for a firm set of beliefs and moral framework, or perhaps a principled stand against or for something by this dogshit logic of yours? The only important thing is to get them votes and
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
well so much for a principled stand against or for something by this dogshit logic. I guess the only important thing is to cheer on whatever gets the votes, never mind how badly all things deteriorate as a result? I'm no fan of democra
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
This is pretty mild actually. If you do a google search for any remotely "salesworthy" word, like say, "microphone" (because you want a wikipedia article on how they work maybe, or links to organic results for whatever c
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
Since the very clear, repeatedly court-upheld, very specific wording of the 1st amendment protects free speech for anyone at all residing inside the United States (Yes, even including illegal immigrants, not to mention residents and visitor
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
Can vouch. Used to work in construction and cement hardening is a chemical process much more than it is a mechanical/moisture evaporation process. That shit will solidify on you no matter what you do unless you get it settled where it
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
This is your response? That the U.S healthcare system is full of problems no doubt, but you think referencing a Michael Moore documentary is a case of using good data? Hilarious.
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
>Yet they manage to have better healthcare overall. Really? You've got the numbers and overall view to know this, as opposed to simply the stats from a famously mendacious, repressive one-party regime that has been repressing all ki
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
Written by someone who apparently doesn't know a thing about Latin American healthcare and has no experience of it. As someone who lives in a major Latin American country and has for many years, and has spent time in several others, I
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
This is actually nonsense, and it's silly that so many people repeat it as a justification of the corrupt, repressive Cuban regime when it's so easy to refute. The U.S. sanctions apply mainly to US companies and entities, and whil
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
Honestly, this is just stupid in just such a way that it might work well for the right kind of person. I'm not at all joking.
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
Worth noting that many human cases of rabies infection involve bat bites, which (especially from vampire bats) can be hard to notice at all if they happened very suddenly or while you were asleep. The scarier thing is that once the virus is
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
I have no idea about the answer to this idea, but I did for a time know a dog that belonged to a friend, whose behavior profile across the board matched almost perfectly with how I'd imagine autism expressing itself in a dog. (the dog,
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
>Eichmann presents that he didn't like it at all, but really had no choice in the matter if he didn't want to be made a pariah or face severe personal repercussions Which by the way was largely false, for both low and high-rank
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
And nuclear could have drastically reduced that production of "poison" by the way. Arguments about how much we've contaminated with X are sort of immaterial to arguments in favor of a different thing with its own much more sp
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
You're saying a flatly mistaken thing in absolutist terms from pure fucking igonrance, as if you knew what you were talking about, at that. There are many ways to store nuclear waste very safely, just as there are many ways to store al
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
>I didn't realize it for 30 years, but it's hard to feel connected to nature, animals, and the environment when you are eating something you didn't kill yourself. Really? I'd think that living surrounded by a modern s
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
If people today believe this is something that happens to a terrible level, they'd just truly get a mouthful with all the myriad ways in which premodern life killed us and made us sick. The mortality rates for the prehistoric societies
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
>My smart home is barely hanging on to turning my lights on at dusk (something photo-sensors for lights just did without issue from the 90s on). Presumably, you were already well aware just how much new technology and apps tend towards h
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
grate? Nah, just amusing enough to mention.
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
From the post itself, no, but the top comment made the connection through a guardian article, though it's a bit of a stretch for this fairy tale. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300111
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by southernplaces7 1y ago
They can presumably include the vast troves of paintings and other artwork still held by many supposedly respectable collections in completely progressive modern European and other cities, which were originally stolen by the Nazis and pilfe

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