stevenAthompson

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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
The thoughts in your head, and the information you gather belongs to you and you get to make decisions about how it's used. If it helps think of it as intellectual property, or perhaps an extension of bodily autonomy in less corporate
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You're almost certainly correct from a technical legal perspective (although I loathe the way legal experts extract "extra" meaning form the spaces between the words of the constitution). I was speaking from a more practical
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
It's from the bible. He's citing God as the authority.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I think it was Locke who talked about the "Social Contract". The idea being that society robbed man of the opportunity to live as a "feral" by inventing property rights and restricting their right to roam; therefore soci
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I'm not sure I follow. In all it's variants the ability to trace unpopular speech back to the speaker puts their life in danger and robs them of their freedom under threat of violence. Am I missing something? The United States, fo
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Freedom of speech can not exist without private speech. Yet, my privacy rights always imply a lessening of someone else's right to knowledge. There will never be a perfect balance between these competing needs, and the line will be pus
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I know what all of these words mean, but not in this particular order. How does reading make you more steadfast in having a "wrong" attitude toward learning?
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> My personal experience as a gamer and running a gaming community I think that's the rub. Your experience is with people who care. For example, I'm a cinephile. My personal experience is that people have home theaters with 100
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Maybe if you tell us what the point is we'll know what the point is?
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> You are implying that people don't understand the world if their reading level is low? I'm not implying anything. I am directly stating that people who can't read well do not, and can not, understand the modern world. Fo
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> "More books than ever" will be eternally true unless we actively destroy books (god no). You are right, of course. My phrasing was off. I meant to say that we produce more books than ever. Although that is also a bit of a m
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
There are more books now than ever, and we've been producing books in vast numbers for hundreds of years. Even if the vast majority were garbage there would still be more great books available than could be read in several lifetimes. H
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> People aren't watching TikToks while video gaming. I'm aware that the plural of anecdote is not data, but I can say from personal experience that most of the people I know pick up their phones whenever an unskippable cut scen
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Fifty four percent of Americans read below the sixth grade level. All effective PSA's must primarily target people who don't understand the world around them, and likely never will. It's not condescending, because it's n
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Early in life I learned the rule: If one person is a jerk, he's just a jerk. If you feel like everyone is a jerk, you are probably the one being a jerk. The same is true of books. If you think one book is bad, it's probably the bo
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> People may binge a series but they are still on their phones half of the time scrolling for dopamine. This. Both movies and series are now FAR less popular (and profitable) than video games, and video games are far less popular than so
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
My mother had a dishwasher in the late 70's that didn't work properly. I think it was very expensive at the time. She used it's crumminess as justification both to wash all of the dishes manually, and to never buy another dis
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Why don't we just build the dishwasher into the cabinets? Then putting them away and washing them is the same chore.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
You are thinking like someone who buys the dishes, rather than someone who wants the person who buys the dishes to get off their case about it so they can do something more interesting.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> Make a tradeoff that favors one of the things they miss for something they're myopically focused on? Ok, I'll bite. If boosting the economy isn't the goal of his economic policy what is it?
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
I wonder if you're being downvoted because people disagree with you, or because they agree and it makes them feel yucky? I hate everything you just said, but feel like you're at least partly correct. The metaphors we live by might
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
> Everyone seems to be saying it's "tough medicine" and will help bring industry back to the USA Everyone just assumes that bringing manufacturing back would be a good thing. I can't see why. It will make everything c
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
> I think that Trump’s approach, while more theoretically valid than it is being given credit for, is the wrong one. I disagree that Trumps approach is "theoretically valid". So do 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists and the ent
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
Everything you said is true. It could be abused. So could guns, and they already have been many times. I don't see why this thing is higher risk than that thing which is already allowed and common?
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
When you say that those unable to work "have to rely on voluntary charity" it is functionally equivalent to saying that people should be left to starve when others don't have extra money (IE - During a recession). She was eit
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
You are half-right. She did say that it should be left to charity, but that of course implies that when nobody gives the street corner beggar money they will starve.
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It is not a lie. She felt that the government had no right to assist, and that they should be left to depend on "charity" (IE - Begging). There are also tapes of her saying that the retarded should not "be allowed to come nea
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
> I don't know what it is, my hunger for a system? Karl Popper called it "monocausotaxophilia". Humans want everything to have a single cause.
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She wanted to let the disabled starve or beg on street corners so she'd have a tiny fraction more wealth to fritter away. We don't owe her the benefit of the doubt.
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
To be fair, Rand herself said (to paraphrase) that because the state took it from her against her will it was fair play to take it back and I think that was self-consistent. That said, she wanted to let the disabled starve to death so I don

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