travmatt

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by travmatt 8y ago
I find your viewpoint shortsighted and praising authoritarianism. Although I personally voted against him, I believe Donald Trump was elected by the American voters and those American voters have a right to have their policy preferences imp
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But that still doesn’t explain why. Hero of Alexandria created a rudimentary contraption that was an obvious predecessor to the steam engine nearly 2000 years before the invention of the steam engine. Why did it take two millennia to build
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Coincidentally enough, a judge actually recently passed a ruling that says the opposite.
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If I’m understanding your comment correctly, you believe the fact that Best Buy has been forced to price match as a way to stop losing business is evidence that they’re not losing business?
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The suburbs above NY (Connecticut) have lots of hedge fund employees and very elite prepatory schools, that’d be my first guess.
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I wonder how dolphins and elephants would compare to human intelligence if they had vocals pathways capable of speaking and limbs capable of grasping.
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The first thing staff screen incoming calls for what district you vote in - if you’re not from their district they usually won’t follow up on a call, unless there was some extenuating circumstance. Most representative’s offices do listen to
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by travmatt 8y ago
Hard disagree - I personally will never agree to the idea that fairness is achieved by taking away people’s representation in their elected leader. It’s a stretch to call the electoral college the genius of western democracy, since every ot
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I doubt democracy is kept in balance by the fact that Californian’s have a fraction of their vote count as compared to Iowans. I can’t imagine that the skewing of representation is actually a positive feature of the system.
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Even more egregious is the proportioned delegates within the electoral college.
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I remember reading the earliest posts on the Prenda case, when Steele was full of blister and thrwatenening to sue everyone who criticized him. How times have changed.
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I think the point was you can’t claim recreational usage when you are using the substance in such a way that you will be doing harm.
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MDMA is well understood to have the potential to induce neurotoxicity, so people may want to slow down and learn more about why that is before they take the ‘yolo’ approach.
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MAPS is one of the few organizations in the USA legally permitted by the FDA & DEA to conduct clinical research into using schedule 1 substances as medicines to assist psychotherapists and other medical professionals. If you genuinely b
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“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.” I suspect good lawyers refrain from falsely alleging a claim is baseles
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I think your argument pretty much ignores a major portion of American history post civil war through at least the 1960’s.
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Like the pizzagate conspiracy, or the targeting of sandy hook parents?
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It’s either the targeted harassment campaigns against parents who’ve lost children, or the attempts to push the idea that liberals are planning a civil war and they need to be violently resisted. It may sound like he’s trying to incite viol
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by travmatt 8y ago
It’s so weird to come on HN and read how money isn’t the solution and we’re just throwing money after problems, then go onto my Facebook and see gofundme campaigns from my teacher friends trying to afford supplies for their students. It rea
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Oddly enough, it’s usually the people not actually involved who are the experts on why we need to take more away from them.
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Can he vertically center a div though?
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To be perfectly clear and avoid the attempted reframing - he didn’t ‘refer to such slang’ at all. He used it directly, to convey the meaning it was created to convey. There was no sarcasm or levels of indirection. It was used exactly as its
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by travmatt 8y ago
Edited to respond to the edit: 1) Where is this magical context you keep pointing towards? 2) How is his ethnicity related to the article he wrote? 3) How is this not judging this reporter solely on the basis of his ethnicity? I understand
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by travmatt 8y ago
Do people who aren’t racist focus on your ethnicity when they’re looking to criticize your professional work? Do you believe pointing out someone’s ethnicity/religion is a valid rebuttal of their arguments?
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Literally google Aaron Nevins. He openly discusses it.
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Even stronger evidence shows the Republican Party worked with Russian intelligence to obtain the voter rolls that they used in their micro-targeting ad campaigns, but oddly enough nobody is talking about that. Aaron Nevins literally bragged
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There’s an irony in you critiquing someone about being under educated about the justice system, only to turn around and give a naive and starry eyed account of some idealized American justice system. You don’t have to be convicted of a crim
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by travmatt 8y ago
Cant currently look for a study, but IIRC the more in tune with your normal circadian rhythm the better - especially if you don’t need any alarm to wake up naturally. I do recall hearing overnight workers have higher incidences of cancers,
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I’m never going to understand the praise for Julian Assange. He may have started out with good intentions, but his turns towards Putin and subsequent actions are pretty unforgivable in my estimation. I can’t see how a moral person could sta
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That’s the point - there are other, slower, safer means to effect positive change on your mind that don’t run the risk of fucking up your brain from some random effect you had no way of predicting. The point is that it’s effects are powerfu

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