tomrod

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by tomrod 1y ago
I'm old enough to have seen them live!
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by tomrod 1y ago
Identitarianism is bad. We agree. Why was the first thing you reached for a claim that Democrats are bad because you hadn't yet heard any sympathies from Democratic politicians (alleged creators of the term stochastic terrorism)? That
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by tomrod 1y ago
First off, not extremist. Let's give you the benefit of the doubt there, perhaps you simply didn't recognize you undercut your credibility in a discussion when you dismiss people having a different view of history by assigning the
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by tomrod 1y ago
Maybe it would help to pluck out the few good ideas from the bad slop. What do you consider specifically unique in the American experiment that transcends the toxic swamp of suppression of freedoms America often engages in?
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Daryl Davis(en.wikipedia.org)
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by tomrod 1y ago
> Fascism has never in history been stopped by scholars. It is uncomfortable to directly acknowledge "what worked well." Your comment maps precisely to: we've had zero network intrusions, why are we paying these cybersecur
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by tomrod 1y ago
> This is the kind of rhetoric which seriously undermines the history of American philosophical thought. Hard disagree. Ignoring it is what allows systemic injustice to persist -- why do we care, today, what Eugenicists in the early 1900
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by tomrod 1y ago
Many of those values were not coherent nor beneficial. Slavery, patriarchy, indentured servitude, excessive religiosity, monarchy, rejection of other cultures, all these seem to be good things to leave in the rearview mirror.
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by tomrod 1y ago
This may well be true in terms of absolute rate, but still satisfy "uncommon."
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by tomrod 1y ago
Because the other comment was flagged by people acting in anger, I want to make sure you knew that several folks are speaking up from both sides of the aisle. Here are two quotes from people whom you consider your political enemies: > JO
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by tomrod 1y ago
Overplayed the card should read "warned early and were proven correct", right?
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by tomrod 1y ago
Agree. It's unfortunate that violence often becomes the settlement when folks let norms dissolve.
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by tomrod 1y ago
The air itself would be concussive. But regardless, the specific mechanism of his death is clear. He died by gunshot.
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by tomrod 1y ago
I don't understand this comment. This happened a few hours ago while the decedent was commenting on 5/5700 mass shootings being performed by trans people being enough to take rights, which the decedent normally argues should not b
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by tomrod 1y ago
Not too far removed from current Democrat party planks. Overton window is wild.
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by tomrod 1y ago
The other indicators are pretty clearly a spinal shot. Extremely likely he is dead. I'm going to hug my family a little tighter tonight. 46th school shooting of the year, and the 47th also happening in Colorado.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Must consume more utility, rawr.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Correct. My apologies that my comment was unclear such that from my comment's content one could not distinguish particle accelerators built by sentient life and woo-woo New Age claims of "The Secret" or manifesting.
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by tomrod 1y ago
Sneaky sneaky natural logs and that precocious savant, Euler!
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by tomrod 1y ago
Was your comment meant for me or someone else? I don't follow.
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by tomrod 1y ago
I find this sort of claim really common (the commenter you responded to). Skin color is unfortunately correlated to socioeconomic outcomes in the United States. Once poverty is controlled for, at least in my analysis, most of this differenc
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by tomrod 1y ago
I disagree. Were this an academic symposium I would agree. But this is the internet where folks who know how to establish causality and understand research methods and proper citing are uncommon. Fortunately, I do appreciate the author&#x27
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by tomrod 1y ago
How might we formalize these anecdotes and prove them out from a systemic issue?
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by tomrod 1y ago
I see where you're coming from, but I think you're thinking across too far over the boundary. Quantum mechanics aren't ordinarily affected by non-sentient life, they're just primitive to the environment at the macro leve
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by tomrod 1y ago
Likewise. Reddit just took the preference for old UI away on mobile for my account (seems to be some sort of testing they are doing maybe?). The new UI is jarring an not useful to me. And "old*" always seems to have a broken failu
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by tomrod 1y ago
Relative the amount of corporate malfeasance that occurs? Hardly anyone.
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by tomrod 1y ago
That is far afield what I'd consider appropriate use of my data. I'll be discontinuing my very old subscription.
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by tomrod 1y ago
It does offer a potential backdoor to UBI while also encouraging desirable outcomes -- increased birth rate for wanted children, more people willing to foster, optionality for women to enter workforce, etc. I suspect there will be some frau
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by tomrod 1y ago
At the median: probably. At the tails: probably not.
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by tomrod 1y ago
So sewage wasn't dumped, because the law prevented it? Or sewage was dumped, and it was against the law? I'm having a hard time reconciling the theoretical claims made in the thread with the blinding light of what actually happene

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