stareblinkstare

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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
You say "but" as if Orthodox Christians are contrary to this. Put another way, there is a greater overlap between the thinking (and feeling, and believing) embedded in religions than we can garner just from reading.
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
>China peaked about two years ago. You can't make this shit up.
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
Ah, so this is what privilege and luxury of time looks like. Thanks Seth - I'm sure the 99% will heed your wisdom to go surfing.
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
> "you civil libertarian types are all going to lose. We are going to steamroll you." And dismissed any and all concerns related to the technology. That's pretty spot on, matches with my experience as well as every histori
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
> but if a side effect of your life is to chew up the biosphere The biosphere will be chewed up with or without human activities.
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
You've answered your own question.
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
> [Just rich people saying rich shit, OP feigning shock and awe] > Animal Farm is truly an important read . Doesn't sound like it taught you much.
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
This is yet another social signal. You've created a group D by harping about Groups A, B and C.
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
Why does this read like a penance?
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
Edmund Burke covers this sentiment very well, and yet did not live to see it here: "They would soon see, that criminal means once tolerated are soon preferred. They present a shorter cut to the object than through the highway of the mo
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
>There's a reason why in scientific discussion anecdotal evidence is dismissed. You just read a blog post of a personal anecdote. What were you expecting? A dissertation?
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
> Children who quietly got to go to foreign universities, while their parents talked about the need for the lower classes to sacrifice their children for the revolution. Those same children who now run very successful businesses thanks t
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
Who do you think writes these pieces then? What's in it for them?
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
A large portion of the grow ops are owned by Chinese groups. This is "common knowledge" in circles where people want to grow weed as a business, at scale, and scope out their competitors. This is their competition. The small local
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
> not funding drug lords. I avoid illegal drugs for this reason. I hate to break it to you... [Edit: it's best if I expand this comment. The people who currently sell "legal" weed whitewashed illegal operations and coordin
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
>Do we want people to be able to use whatever drugs they want, including opiates, or do we not? Why look to HN for this?
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Pensees: Notes for the Reactionary of Tomorrow(wildwestcycle.com)
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
For ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/rh7anj/pelosi_rej...
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
Congratulations to Aaron Swartz and the team.
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
Some of us gladly would.
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
>Bly therefore saw today's men as half-adults, trapped between boyhood and maturity, in a state where they find it hard to become responsible in their work as well as leaders in their communities. Eventually they might become weak o
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
>Since 2020, the Reclaim Your Face coalition has actively put pressure on decision-makers by uncovering surveillance, publishing research reports, and mobilising people for a society free from harmful technologies such as facial recognit
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
Trying to find an angle to discredit Archive.org is a pretty low-brow move. As long as they continue to host works by George Lincoln Rockwell and his ilk, they will stand their ground for you and me.
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by stareblinkstare 5y ago
>[...] they believe the global economy is about to shift to much faster economic growth, driven by new technologies like AI, quantum computing, cheap sustainable energy, and space exploration. >Some of the smartest people I know are e