wagwang

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by wagwang 11mo ago
Your definition of choice is not really what I'm talking about then. I'm discussing natural obligations that have make society work. Of course you always have a choice to not fulfill your obligation and society always has a choice
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by wagwang 11mo ago
Can I unchoose my obligation to my 2 year old or am I a slave.
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by wagwang 11mo ago
Drafting people to fight in pointless overseas wars is a blatant violation of the social contract and the people who made those decisions should be hung. That doesn't mean you don't have a natural duty to defend the society that s
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by wagwang 11mo ago
When did I claim otherwise. You can have multiple duties and they can conflict.
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by wagwang 11mo ago
Does your family exist in a vacuum?
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by wagwang 11mo ago
No you have a duty and obligation to the society that raised you.
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by wagwang 11mo ago
At the heart of every fast destructive technology leap is the (econo-militaristic) competitive drive to not be left behind. Whatever sociological damage technology causes pales to the innate desire to avoid being subjugated. This is on the
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by wagwang 11mo ago
Can't wait for the battle of the Thames river between the British North Sea fleet (purchased from China) against the imperial Russian fleet (also purchased from China) On a more serious note, the problem with centering your economy on
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by wagwang 11mo ago
Saying AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service is a Dunning-Kruger take.
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by wagwang 11mo ago
Very ironic but so much of tech ultimately comes down to taste and Tim Cook obviously just doesn't have it.
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by wagwang 11mo ago
We should expose them to as much porn, sports betting, and gaming as possible so they don't do anything.
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by wagwang 11mo ago
Meta makes hundreds of billions on people collectively spending trillions of hours doom scrolling and you're worried about scams?
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by wagwang 11mo ago
These things are not remotely comparable. Smartphones, especially social media double depression and suicide rates among teens.
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by wagwang 11mo ago
I've gotten scanned at the airport on entry and for my greencard h1b/greencard applications, I had to go get scanned at a biometrics center. https://www.uscis.gov/forms/filing-guidance/preparing-for-yo...
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by wagwang 11mo ago
How is this news, the usgov has been taking my biometrics for the past 5 years
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by wagwang 11mo ago
OP asked for the slightest proof and I presented proof that the US is over contributing in food aid by 50% and now I'm goalpost shifting? lol... And just so we are clear, that meager 10 points that I'm goal post shifting for is pr
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by wagwang 11mo ago
The us share of world gdp was between 22-27% and it was contributing 36%. Secondly, this is only external aid, internally the US far outspend most countries with 100B towards SNAP. Most euro nations don't even have food stamp like prog
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by wagwang 11mo ago
> Is food a human right https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3951462?ln=en > Amount of food sent https://www.gao.gov/international-food-assistance
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by wagwang 1y ago
Step in as parents or step in as the unabomber?
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by wagwang 1y ago
Isn't listen/notify absurdly slow and lock contentious
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by wagwang 1y ago
There are cases with prescriptions where its actually better to claim to be uninsured
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by wagwang 1y ago
That fine and all but current trends point to the ss drying up because of demographic decline so it seems like it was just a big ponzi at the end of the day with millennials and younger holding the bag. Also, if its true that the boomers h
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by wagwang 1y ago
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/social-security-fund-run-dry...
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by wagwang 1y ago
Oh but I thought it was a saving program?
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by wagwang 1y ago
And when im old there sure as hell wont be any money left for me. Also its on the boomers for not maintaining the demographic pyramid required to sustain retirement benefits.
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by wagwang 1y ago
Here is proposal to the boomers from a zoomer. I've paid over 100k in social security in my lifetime. Apparently social security is "not an entitlement(lol)" but you can have it all. Take every cent, but starting tomorrow the
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by wagwang 1y ago
As usual with communist work, the critique is poignant but the prescription is trash. It is true that we live in a post labor society, that a fraction of the work done is actually required for survival and that automation and the forces of
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by wagwang 1y ago
Can we stop pulling tears for people who have million dollar salaries getting cut. But muh lifestyle creep... lol.
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by wagwang 1y ago
Cant wait for ww3 to be started because of a hallucination of an article sourcing an anonymous intelligence official.
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by wagwang 1y ago
I wonder if there are some other factors here considering the geographical clustering.

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