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by tsol 4y ago
How/why is failure inevitable? >Contrast to single payer, which is hard to kill because people are yes paying a tax but also seeing a benefit and seeing a benefit that they didn't have before Isn't that true for a public o
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by tsol 4y ago
>“Possession” is now recognized in the American Psychiatric Assn.’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Hmm, that's surprising. It does make some sense, there is a large part of the world where this stuff supposed
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by tsol 4y ago
I mean the last president won much of his fame not from political experience, but from media exposure largely in TV shows and news. Whether you like him or not, he's an argument that television opened a new dimension to the presidentia
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by tsol 4y ago
Because it's in a manner that humans aren't used to. People lie, but they can't literally put lies directly in people's mouths. Just look at the election in the Phillipines, it's clear people aren't adapting. O
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by tsol 4y ago
Yeah some people are talking about god, but that doesn't mean the "whole country constantly talks about god".
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by tsol 4y ago
So if you, say, grab someone's phone and smash it they're totally screwed? They can't buy food, can't get a taxi, can't do most things. Interesting
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by tsol 4y ago
True, but that is a lot more work so it's that much less likely. But sure if they want it enough they can do that.
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by tsol 4y ago
>Why do people these days not know how to act in their self interest compared to the past? Who said people knew how to act in their self interest in the past? People just have more options now, whereas in the past it was much more taboo
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by tsol 4y ago
I don't have depression but I still feel like that'd make you depressed. Just because something is exciting to you does not mean it's meaningful to everyone
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by tsol 4y ago
Did you try vorinostat yourself to treat depression, or was it coincidental? I never heard of that for depression, but looking at the mechanism it can make sense-- some HDAC inhibitors have powerful effects on mental issues
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How the AI industry profits from catastrophe(technologyreview.com)
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by tsol 4y ago
>I know I'm right because if these were the cure to society, religion would be growing, not shrinking, regulation would be decreasing, not increasing, and racial tensions would be decreasing, not increasing. ..why would that be? As
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by tsol 4y ago
Hmm I wonder.. does that count as electioneering?
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by tsol 4y ago
Thanks for sharing that, I think there's a lot to think about there
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by tsol 4y ago
Agreed. I used to be so jealous of the kids that could do whatever they want but now I'm very happy my parents did that they did. I would say, at least in terms of metrics that are important to me, I've ended up in a better place
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by tsol 4y ago
To put it in perspective; children in the west use phones with lithium mined by children in poor countries, and wear make up with mica mined by children in poor countries. Not saying that makes their problems invalid, but gratitude has been
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by tsol 4y ago
Wait are we not still treating the environment like a toilet? Do people younger than boomers not create mountains of plastic trash that will be here hundreds of years after their bones turn to dust? Do they not use phones with lithium mined
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by tsol 4y ago
Given that religion, especially the Abrahamic faiths(at least for the western and Islamic worlds) were a huge part in getting to the scientifically minded society we have today, I would think it might be an Alien species' way of making
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by tsol 4y ago
Something tells me you wouldn't forgive a foreign power for killing your children on account of "[having] dozens of equally-, less- and more-important items on [their] agenda". I mean even to say that you had a lot of more im
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by tsol 4y ago
It's much easier to take apart a system than put it together. Hell even nietzsche talked about these problems coming up, as a result of losing religious institutions that maintain societies cohesiveness. He said God is dead, and we kil
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by tsol 4y ago
Yes they know about that just like they know about the plague and the possibility of an asteroid stroke destroying life on planet earth. But is inflation a big part of their day to day worries? Probably not. Political extremism maybe, but t
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by tsol 4y ago
Teens are worried about inflation? I think these comments just show how out of touch people are with kids It reminds me of that Marilyn Manson quote; >Michael Moore : If you were to talk directly to the kids at Columbine or the people in
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by tsol 4y ago
I had to stop and I still gave a hard time. I can only imagine how hard it is for kids with poor impulse control
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by tsol 4y ago
That's just.. not true. It's mostly a first world problem, I don't see how it's mostly religious people. The third world still tends to have very strong communities. It's the first world where it's common to ha
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by tsol 4y ago
Love is the result of evolution? No, love is a concept from culture. The raw feelings we have are the result of evolution. But as some men live to say, evolution didn't make them monogamous it made them want to be polygamous. It's
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by tsol 4y ago
My point is that they have effectively the same outcome-- death. The only difference between murder and execution is one is against the law, and the other is by the law. So what you're saying is the president didn't execute anyone
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by tsol 4y ago
So they put confirm in quotes because it isn't actually confirmed. It is rather suspicious, but as stated >Zelikow, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, told Insider he's skeptical that Bayoumi knew about the plo
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by tsol 4y ago
Whether it's targeted or not, it's an execution. There have been countless civilian deaths, claiming it's unintentional is like driving into a park and saying you didn't target anyone so it wasn't murder.
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by tsol 4y ago
Love is faith. How else do you explain making yourself totally vulnerable to another human for no reason other than the possibility that they will be nice to you for life, rather than eventually changing as humans tend to do, and despite hu
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by tsol 4y ago
How does science fill the void that has caused so many people to be totally detached from society-- having no friends, no spouse, the only reasons to leave the house are work and groceries. There are practically epidemic levels of depressed

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