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by wat10000 6mo ago
warmonger - noun: one who urges or attempts to stir up war And to preempt the inevitable "the dictionary isn't always how people use it" response, this is in fact how everyone uses the word. So yes, it's very much tied t
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Are you blaming the replication crisis on atheism? If you want to play the "lack of piracy is correlated with global warming," consider that secularism is negatively correlated with things like child mortality and firebombing civi
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Past performance is extremely indicative of future results. It's not a guarantee , but it's definitely the way to bet.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
The information believed by Americans isn't any better, anyway. We're closer to the source of information, but we're also closer to the source of misinformation. It's very difficult to discuss anything remotely political
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by wat10000 6mo ago
"They call us warmongers for carrying out an unprovoked invasion, and then wonder why we don't want to help them resist an unprovoked invasion." Think about this for just three seconds, I'm begging you.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
They didn't say those exact words, but "I guess it's better than leaving everything to the US alone" is directly aimed at the US. They did say they don't like that the only two serious competitors are from the USA
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by wat10000 6mo ago
A majority of American Christians support legal abortion, aside from white evangelical Protestants where support for legal abortion is 24%. Overall, 60% of Americans support it. So this doesn't really add up. I'm pretty sure Trump
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by wat10000 6mo ago
The US was 90% Christian and 5% None just 35 years ago. Today it's 63% Christian and 29% None. That seems pretty rapid to me. It has not reached anything close to a majority yet, so the religious still hold great sway. And the perceive
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I think you've got this backwards. People are inherently religious. We evolved to see intent behind everything. Post hoc ergo propter hoc is psychologically powerful. "Why has it not worked?" suggests that atheistic societies
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by wat10000 6mo ago
A reaction to that very same secularization. Religious nutjobs feel threatened and this is their answer.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I doubt it's quite that simple, but this does seem likely to be a big factor. I say this as an atheist myself. Religion does seem to give people a purpose and a community that's difficult to find elsewhere, and that translates to
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I wonder how avocados became the poster child for unreasonably expensive food. They're not actually that costly.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
It's amazing how bad these things can be. My kids will sometimes get computerized homework which gets graded automatically, and if you don't format the answer the way it likes, zero points. They spend as much effort fighting with
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Specialization is useful in pretty much all human endeavors. It would be extremely strange if this was an exception.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Of course, but once it happens, why not do what you can to mitigate it?
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by wat10000 6mo ago
The breathless tone of this article is irritating. Was this a bad decision? Maybe. Is $8 million some vast amount that merits this sort of wide-eyed crazy ranting? Uber's 2020 revenue was around $11 billion, so I'm going to say no
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by wat10000 6mo ago
If pain is a signal, then it's often a car alarm that won't shut up. Even if someone is actually trying to steal the car, I only need to be told once. Sometimes I get headaches. I don't know why. Maybe there's a cause. I
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by wat10000 6mo ago
A lot of decisions made with A/B testing are also made with insufficient relevant data, but it's less obvious since it's easy to think the A/B results cover everything.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
"Safety" is far too nebulous for that to be a criterion. Safety would be a conclusion reached from analyzing other factors. I'm guessing you're referring to the rankings from airlineratings.com, since their list last yea
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by wat10000 6mo ago
> But it wasn't a low award. Are you unaware, or are you thinking that awards above $1.4 billion is low? That was referring to dumping chromium. You said you've seen such judgments be tiny fractions of what was awarded against
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Because it costs thirty five hundred American dollars?
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Surely there's a number between $2800 quintillion and whatever low number actually gets awarded that would make sense. The actual damages awarded here is about $64 million per plaintiff, which is a lot, but not utterly absurd. If we us
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by wat10000 7mo ago
A significant chunk of the population thinks they'll get tortured for eternity if they do it too much, and finds it distressing to be exposed to it as a result.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Some more here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alex_Jones
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by wat10000 7mo ago
That's understating things rather substantially. He ignored court orders. He continued to defame the plaintiffs during the trial , including a statement on air that one of the plaintiff's death by suicide was actually a murder an
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by wat10000 7mo ago
I'm curious why you'd bring up those corporate crimes and not think that the obvious response would be that corporate crimes obviously need greater liability, Rather than Jones needing less. It's not the court's problem
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by wat10000 7mo ago
The amount of the judgment seems reasonable for years of harassment against a bunch of people, all done for a profit, plus a bunch of egregious misbehavior in court.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
When the 2011 earthquake happened, those particular folks in NYC got a cryptic notice from me shortly before the shaking reached them.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
I was in a chat with people in NYC when it hit. They got advance notice, although it was just “why is everything shaking?” Followed by me going silent for a bit, so they didn’t know what was going on until it reached them.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Yeah, transit through the US is pretty bad. I get the impression they don't really want people doing it. They sure don't put effort into making it easy.

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