syzarian

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by syzarian 4y ago
Before the internet - I’m old enough to remember those days - we hung out more. People conversed and engaged in banter and whatnot. You could hang out for hours with friends. Kids especially were outside a lot more than now. As a kid we
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The absence of government just leads to a situation in which some group takes control of a given area. In effect government will then exist again. During the absence of government there will be chaos and rampant crime.
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Nobody is charging enough that revenue from fare collections can provide this. So what is your point then? Clearly funding from then government can be enough to make fare collection an insignificant amount when it comes to paying for upgra
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I agree. Our society needs an overhaul. It is unhealthy in many respects.
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The “I did it, therefore anyone can” line of reasoning is overly simplistic and entirely unhelpful when looking for solutions. I don’t have a predilection for alcohol and will never be an alcoholic. I don’t say to the drunkard, “Just sto
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How society is constructed, how our food supply has co-opted our satiety instincts, how advertising works and how social media and other dopamine inducing passive activities have co-opted our brains and willpower play no role in your Ayn Ra
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I don’t believe it is correct to lay the blame at the individual level. American society has evolved into a country where people, for the most part, spend their lives indoors and only go outside to get into a car to drive themself to anoth
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If a person works from home they have to actively choose to do the walk around their block. A person who has to walk to go to work doesn’t have to actively choose to go for a walk. Americans don’t walk much and many people simply don’t wa
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Your first sentence is wrong. Not charging for service does not necessarily mean less money for investing into better service. It’s possible for government to fund the service well enough that revenue from fares becomes insignificant. In
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According to the article linked below teen suicide rates declined from 2000 to 2007 and then increased 56% in the following decade. It seems to me the teen suicide rate would serve as a useful heuristic argument in favor of thinking someth
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Most of the things you believe are not backed evidence that you are personally aware of. Each of believes things to be even though we have at best only a heuristic argument to support them. It is clear to me that the American diet is poiso
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A typical American reaction is to feel less outrage or feel absolved so long as we gave victims money. I say this as an American. The DOD initially lied about the events. We did not in any meaningful way take responsibility. We didn’t c
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At the end of my second paragraph feel free to add, “In my opinion.”. I was stating my criteria for evaluating whether or not someone is a kook. While no one has appointed me an arbiter of such things I do have to evaluate claims and reaso
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The U.S. shot down an Iranian passenger airliner and promoted the Navy captain who was in charge of the ship that did it. U.S. fighter pilots accidentally killed 20 people in Italy because they wanted to showboat. The Soviet Union shot do
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We all evaluate factual claims and determine whether or not we think they are true or plausible. Each of us is an arbiter of what constitutes and extraordinary claim in the same way each of us is an arbiter of what is moral/immoral. A
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Intuition tends to breakdown when dealing with infinite sets. This is especially true for uncountable sets. Instead thinking about enlarging or merging sets think of indexing things. The odd numbers can index in a unique way just as many
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I know it’s a concept that is hard to grasp for CCP followers to understand but it is possible to criticize the CCP and past American actions. The U.S. is not a saint. Neither is China.
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It’s not paranoia to think that China and the U.S. are engaged in a cyber conflict. For quite some time China has engaged in cyber warfare to steal American technological secrets and to spy on the U.S. We spy on them. Both nations are ad
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I don’t live in the world of extremes that you do. There is room for other emotions between hate and love. In arrogance neo-liberals thought China embracing market reforms and “free” trade would liberalize/weaken the CCP. It did not
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It’s possible that I’m a victim of propaganda and it’s possible you are. The way to determine who is more likely to have fallen for propaganda is to compare respective beliefs against known facts. It is indisputable that Chinese hackers h
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China has been waging a cyber war with the U.S. for some time now. The conflict is already existing . China is not a media created adversary. They limit the types of U.S. businesses that can operate in China and it it’s not unreasonable t
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I try to be consistent in my application of judgments. If Hunter committed a crime then I hope the appropriate punishment is given to him. It seems obvious that he benefitted financially when his dad was Vice President. I don’t approve o
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The Taliban in Afghanistan think women should not be educated. I am intolerant of their views and look disdainfully upon them. This does not make me an asshole. Some views are repugnant enough to merit intolerance. Each person decides fo
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There are instances where both words apply to the same situation. You have a serious deficiency when it comes to applying judgements consistently.
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It is not a fact. You are wrong on this. What meaningful left leaning policies have been implemented in the U.S. in the last 15 years? Obamacare was a Republican idea designed by the Heritage Foundation in the 1990s. It was first impleme
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The average person with no training in teaching or education isn't going to do better than the average person with said training. Your stats aren't all that meaningful for the following reasons. What percent of homeschooled kids
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The U.S. is not moving rapidly to the left. Your perception is being skewed by how far to the right the U.S. is in comparison to other OECD nations. The Republican party is far more right wing than any other major comparable party in the
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The U.S. has moved so far to the right the last 50 years that it has distorted the electorate's idea of what 'centrist' means. Regan believed the tax on capital ought to the higher than the tax on labor. Bush Sr. supported
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If you think AOC and Trump's level of corruption are even within one order of magnitude of each other then you need to seriously question how you evaluate the information you are receiving. Trump is orders of magnitude more self-servi
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Yes, the disconcerting thing is really the inability of too many voters to be consistent in their beliefs/views. Defense of "my" candidate takes precedence over applying, in a consistent way, one's moral beliefs. We ha

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