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by speedybird 5y ago
> In my personal life, I was deeply affected by the guidance that was given by authorities on 9/11 re: evacuation. The decision made by the police was pragmatic “we don’t know the downside of evacuation, which creates more problems
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by speedybird 5y ago
Solution, be honest: "Masks work, but we don't have enough and need them for hospitals so you're not allowed to buy any. Wrap a tshirt around your face instead, it's probably better than nothing."
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by speedybird 5y ago
Toilet paper scalpers... Last year I scoffed at the people buying two or three packages of toilet paper. I thought that was selfish, and refused to participate in that hysteria. Then a few weeks later, I was wiping my ass with paper towe
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by speedybird 5y ago
Pre-Nixon example of high levels of distrust: https://news.gallup.com/poll/165893/majority-believe-jfk-kil... > Americans were skeptical about the "lone gunman" theory almost immediately after Kennedy
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by speedybird 5y ago
It's much easier to lose trust than it is to earn it. Lie just once and you can wipe out years of hard-won good will. Isn't it a bit unreasonable to lie but expect people to still trust you as they did before? This is not some
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by speedybird 5y ago
Anecdotally, I use a bike bell and I've never collided with a pedestrian. And when in the role of pedestrian myself, the only time I've ever had trouble with cyclists is when they didn't ring their bell (or have one to ring)
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by speedybird 5y ago
Isn't damage to the environment the most important consideration? Crash pads are made of polymer foams and doubtlessly degrade over time, polluting the environment. That seems indisputably worse to me that stacking a few rocks.
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by speedybird 5y ago
Just because it's been said many times before, doesn't mean it was wrong each of those times. There may be periods where children get worse, and times when children get better. I believe your 'rebuttal' is whig history
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by speedybird 5y ago
Maybe you really believe this, but to me it comes across as gas lighting. I know what I remember, all the blabbing heads on the media were telling us to stop buying masks because they won't help us. Maybe you earnestly believe other
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by speedybird 5y ago
Maybe they spent too much time socializing on the internet (where manners are in short supply and consequences for rudeness nonexistent), and not enough time socializing in the real world (where being rude will eventually get you punched i
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by speedybird 5y ago
Can you explain the hate for rock cairns to me? I don't hike so I'm not creating them, but to me they seem to violate the letter of "leave no trace", but not the spirit.
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by speedybird 5y ago
This seems short sighted to me. Playing loud music might make it safer for you to cycle, but will also contribute to the public's general resentment towards cyclists. That resentment manifests as opposition to bike lanes, and unfortu
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by speedybird 5y ago
Public relations doesn't distinguish itself from propaganda by not lying; that is itself propaganda about "public relations". Public relations lies nonstop. Public relations is nothing more than a rebranding of propaganda b
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by speedybird 5y ago
I also worry for Taiwan. If China chose to invade and the first invasion wave were not successfully repelled by the military assets already in the immediate area, other nations might try to intervene but few would be in a position to act i
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by speedybird 5y ago
'Public Relations' is the result of the word 'propaganda' being given the propaganda treatment. To corporate PR, lying comes as naturally as breathing. Every time an executive gets publicly disgraced they "decid
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by speedybird 5y ago
A social network that automatically prunes friends I haven't talked to in years sounds benign. Except I'm quite certain that once they get into the habit of pruning friends without asking me directly, they'll start to distan
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by speedybird 5y ago
I mean, how many P-8 pilots does the navy have? A P-8 is a 737NG.
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by speedybird 5y ago
North Dakota is generally considered the mid-west, no? I suppose mid-west is a sort of west, but I tend to think "the west" starts when the Rocky Mountains start; about half-way through Montana.
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by speedybird 5y ago
Don't fix what ain't broke. The strategy SpaceX is presently using seems to be working well. Changing strategies now seems like a bad idea.
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by speedybird 5y ago
> Science itself is a non-holistic way of looking at the world, blind to what is not measured. This is unfortunately a broad class of error; qualitative metrics which are difficult to measure and quantify get brushed aside by people wh
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by speedybird 5y ago
Is it feasible for organic farming techniques to feed 8 billion people? In conversations about the environment like this one, pesticides and fertilizer (runoff particularly) get raked over the coals for causing huge environmental disasters
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by speedybird 5y ago
The opinion regarding firefox of one who would recommend Chrome is lower than dirt.
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by speedybird 5y ago
How do you read that comment and conclude that Australia was the instigator? Do you really believe that China's claims to the South China Sea are legitimate?
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by speedybird 5y ago
Today you've told us to use chrome, trust google, and that spyware is okay if it's "normal in marketing". Do you work for google, or are you full of shit takes today for another reason? You clearly don't get what
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by speedybird 5y ago
It seems equally unlikely to me that the Pentagon would let loose the nukes after losing a single SSN and having no other indication of an invasion. For one thing, it would probably take days to confirm the sub was sunk, and by that time t
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by speedybird 5y ago
> I doubt that shaming individuals works. But having thoughtful discourse about it is probably much better - let people hear the arguments and make up their mind. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Have a nice long thoughtful conversat
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by speedybird 5y ago
> The problem is that bad behavior is normalized and rationalized in our society, 'everyone needs a paycheck.' The movie Thank you for Smoking , about a tobacco lobbyist, calls this the "Yuppie Nuremberg Defense."
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by speedybird 5y ago
If the Chinese were really so hot-headed to start a nuclear war because they were annoyed by an American submarine doing typical submarine things (an SSN no less, with no nuclear weapons of its own..), then there is no telling what other pe
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by speedybird 5y ago
Surface ships are very noisy so submarines listen for other ships in the area before surfacing. They have dead zones in their sonar coverage, but can usually deal with that by turning to listen in those dead zones before surfacing. Nevert
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by speedybird 5y ago
Blue whales are basically everywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale#/media/File:Cypron-...

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