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by tdfx 5y ago
The only thing holding this back is the economic dominance of white people. There's nothing inherently favorable about being white except that, in most cases of human history, white groups have been the dominant economic actors throug
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by tdfx 5y ago
> I never used any of these tests, it freaks me out a bit to be in some database Use a fake name.
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by tdfx 5y ago
> I don’t think anywhere in the US did anything that could reasonably be called a lockdown. Agreed, yet people still clamor for more of the same ineffective nonsense while dousing their hands in sanitizer and erecting plexiglass barriers
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by tdfx 5y ago
> "We go hard and we go early" works. "We go hard and we go early" works *in a small, remote island nation that is willing to hermetically seal itself off from the rest of the world.
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by tdfx 5y ago
> I've been barely outside at all over the past 18 months because the risk of infection has been too high. I'm truly sorry you've had to go through that. My mom has a compromised immune system so she went through much of
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by tdfx 5y ago
You mean places like Australia, that are still in strict lockdowns 18 months later and deploying soldiers to ensure people aren't leaving their house without government permission? It boggles my mind that some people desire to live in
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by tdfx 5y ago
I know people who moved from Austin to southern California and moved back within a year due to their surprise at the how far left California society is in general. Austin is fairly left-leaning but "extreme left" in Austin is sti
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by tdfx 5y ago
I think people underestimate the black mark of even being investigated , much less charged by the police. Even if they find you didn't do something wrong, even if they drop charges, even if you are found innocent after a trial, the m
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by tdfx 5y ago
You know you're getting a bad deal when politicians start calling your profession "heroes".
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by tdfx 5y ago
I can only speak to the situations I've encountered, but: (1) There's churches nearby that offer lockers for the homeless (2) They don't need to go anywhere, these jobs drive around looking for them (3) See #2 (4) Illegal imm
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by tdfx 5y ago
You're right, their situation does prevent them from jumping into a white collar, professional life with a good credit score and personal references. But I don't think that's what anyone is suggesting. Most of the problems y
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by tdfx 5y ago
Adding the military makes it extra draconian-sounding, but even what Canada is done with their police is pretty alarming [0]. I have a feeling that in 20 years or so, history will not be kind to the politicians that put these policies in pl
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by tdfx 5y ago
> People seem to want to believe big government and lockdowns can be beneficial I'm surprised how many otherwise rational people aren't more inquisitive about the efficacy of lockdowns. Where's the proof that they have be
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by tdfx 5y ago
It's interesting to compare the Spanish Flu pandemic timeline from Wikipedia with this pandemic: 2.1 Timeline 2.1.1 First wave of early 1918 2.1.2 Deadly second wave of late 1918 2.1.3 Third wave of 1919 2.1.4 Fourth wave of 1920 Thoug
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by tdfx 5y ago
> I'm not sure how I'm losing. My employers contribution plus mine is less than what I get out. That's because of inflated provider costs. We are drastically overpaying for each medical visit and it's coming out of a
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by tdfx 5y ago
I don't understand why you think sustaining human life anywhere beyond earth is an absurdity. The large technological hurdles you mentioned aren't going to solve themselves, we have to start somewhere, and the sooner the better.
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by tdfx 5y ago
> it may even contribute to our literal suicide as a species Much as choosing to stay on earth is guaranteed suicide for humanity, on a long enough timescale. I would hate to see all of our eggs in one basket.
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by tdfx 5y ago
> I don't buy the idea that spending on getting the hell off of Earth is the best way to save the species What are the alternatives? On a long enough timeline, it won't be possible for life to survive here. And even on shorte
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by tdfx 5y ago
> UBI or other safety net would be a good way to avoid social upheaval as well. I know it's not an apples to apples comparison with any proposed UBI implementation, but looking at the social upheaval caused by the COVID-19 quarantin
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by tdfx 5y ago
Insurance companies easy to hate. It's harder to vilify the doctors because people have a more personal relationship with them. Also, many people don't realize they're paying the doctor in the US 300-500% more than other co
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by tdfx 5y ago
You're part of the (I would guess) about 25-30% of the US population where the stars align perfectly and you receive a mostly positive experience from the US healthcare system. You are employed full-time, with an employer that provide
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by tdfx 5y ago
> working a second job This is the part I don't understand. If your job's expectations are so lax, why not potentially double your income?
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by tdfx 5y ago
It sounds like a joke but: if they company was paying you and giving you good performance reviews, your effort was obviously meeting expectations. Why didn't you get an additional full-time job?
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by tdfx 5y ago
Move fast and break things!
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by tdfx 5y ago
I did not downvote you, but I want to explain why some people might be. I don't doubt that the majority of people here, even people downvoting you, don't disagree that the vaccine seems to be mostly safe and effective, based on
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by tdfx 5y ago
> they want to believe that the virus will go away on its own Pandemics have never "ended". Their effects just slide to a level that people stop talking about it.
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by tdfx 5y ago
> If we demobilized, we'd probably never really need to remobilize This is a very 1990s/2000s point of view. We have a real global competitor now. China's military spending is rising faster than their fast-rising GDP. S
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by tdfx 5y ago
This actually seems very reasonable. Due to its size, no unilateral action taken by Switzerland is going to have any meaningful effect on world CO2 output. Kneecapping your population with taxes and restrictions that cannot have any meani
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by tdfx 5y ago
This poll doesn't say much about whether Americans are willing to pay to stop climate change, it just says a lot about whether Americans trust their government with a blank check to fight climate change. I wouldn't support "
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by tdfx 5y ago
Bypass paywall: https://archive.ph/v9mZM

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