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by verisimi 1y ago
I don't love lies or liars.
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by verisimi 1y ago
You don't think that it intruded into private lives, but I would disagree. If only certain information/ideas/programs are aired, you don't know what you don't know. You are not able to make informed decisions with
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by verisimi 1y ago
> people just love to hate the BBC, egged on by the cowardly, self-interested right-wing media, and it's just sad, because it's genuinely one of the truly great things about the country. it's our greatest artistic cultural
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by verisimi 1y ago
I hope it doesn't survive. But I'm sure it will. It is a propaganda outfit (and was from inception). It has special legislation to force TV owners to pay - this tax is called the 'license fee'. In the past only people
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by verisimi 1y ago
Government certainly is NOT the best disinfectant.
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by verisimi 1y ago
> Banks have basically become an extension of law enforcement, tax collectors, anti-terrorist operations, and morality police. Which is ironic Not ironic at all. This is the design.
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by verisimi 1y ago
Once the gene has been edited, things will work. But at some point that cell will die. Why would the replacement cell also have the edit? The DNA in the rest of the body's cells will still not be correct.
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by verisimi 1y ago
I didn't know about this, thanks for the explanation. > It's quite insightful to see how this error then spawned a whole new series of 'approved' explanations for why wine was supposed to be healthy for you, such as a
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by verisimi 1y ago
Yes, it is a source of endless, impossible, triumphant, science stories.
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by verisimi 1y ago
> You keep saying immoral. That's just an opinion. If I force you to hand over some percentage of your money - I think you would agree that was immoral. If I and 100 friends force you to hand over some percentage of your money - I t
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by verisimi 1y ago
How do you mean you can opt out of the economy? And why would you want to do that? Government does not provide the economy and everyone should be able to freely associate, right? I'm glad you put 'social contract' in quotes
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by verisimi 1y ago
> He attributes this to rising atmospheric CO₂ levels. "All plants grow faster with more CO₂, but lianas benefit even more And yet this extra growth all around because of co2 means that the will be more co2? This seems incoherent.
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by verisimi 1y ago
The top tax bracket is higher than I say. Once you add up all tax, inheritance, local taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, special taxes (petrol, alcohol), you will see that the percentage I suggest is quite reasonable at all levels. You need
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by verisimi 1y ago
Right. Also there was far less confusion - there weren't slaves that thought they were citizens. If the system is not voluntary, if you are forced to handover some portion of your wealth, what is the percentage which defines freedom o
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by verisimi 1y ago
It seems that you would tithe far less money and time in general. Not that we can go back and check.
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by verisimi 1y ago
Feudalism has a negative connotation for sure, but again isn't that just a branding issue? The existing system is not great, imo. I think one can argue that the feudalism of the past had a far milder impact on individuals and was far
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by verisimi 1y ago
> When we talk about "democratic government" how close is it to the Athenian democracy? Indeed. Rather than each citizen voting on each issue, we have 'representative democracy' where 100,000's (perhaps millions
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by verisimi 1y ago
It's amazing how many military drills preceed actual engagement.
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by verisimi 1y ago
How about this: we give all people all meals, clothes, housing, heating (all essentials) and spending money so that they can explore their interests, travel, etc?
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by verisimi 1y ago
I'll play devil's advocate, and you tell me the immorality of the position. Say you have no children. Is it an acceptable position to hold that 'those people who have children should also be the ones to look after them'
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by verisimi 1y ago
If you pay government 40-50% of your income to government to manage common areas, you think you have already paid for this. You would feel foolish to spend even more of your resources on this. It is someone else's job, not yours. In
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by verisimi 1y ago
I personally do not find the idea of endless life in this world appealing at all. I don't even get the desire to live to 100+, nevermind 200. I tend to think that the 'longevity desire' is prompted within oneself when one
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by verisimi 1y ago
How can one know what is real and what is choreographed optics? Maybe there is no master plan, sure. But this is not something you or I will ever know. We are told that there are secret courts, that produce secret orders. Trust in governme
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by verisimi 1y ago
It really does. But we are assured by experts that the painting is by a master.
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by verisimi 1y ago
I'm not privy to the plan, but what was right at one stage (funding a company to gain a monopoly position on search) need not be right at a later stage. Perhaps now a different strategy is unfolding. Perhaps it is obvious that govern
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by verisimi 1y ago
How separarate do you think google are from the governance system? Are you aware that their early funding was from in-q-tel?
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by verisimi 1y ago
Could it possibly be that governments are perfectly ok with restricting and controlling browsers as this allows them far greater control?
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by verisimi 1y ago
> In other words, you prefer red, but prefer not to admit it. No. I invite you to look into my historical comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=verisimi
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by verisimi 1y ago
Let's imagine we do go to warlordism and I do get to see how immoral it is. At least I won't have to pretend that the coercion and theft is actually moral and good, right? At least I won't have to doublethink myself, turn my
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by verisimi 1y ago
There was also all that nonsense about Hillary's laptop and emails. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/02/hillary-clin...

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