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by wellbehaved 4y ago
If the judicial and legislative branches were doing their jobs properly, and if the public had some due diligence about knowing what is the proper role of government, and if the media were truly aimed at educating people on the pertinent fa
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
How do people learn better: lots and lots of practice with varying levels of quality and published examples, or against a single powerful adversary that's trying to conceal what they are doing? I.e. your question is stupid.
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
If you prohibit it then it will only be done secretly by governments and then used against naive populations. At least this way the population can learn how to identify and defend against it. If we had transparent governance then maybe this
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
"He prefers iconoclastic approaches, whether by directly funding asteroid detection or advocating for nuclear power to combat global warming." Ooh, scary dude. /s Kids nowadays. I remember when nuclear power was a futuristic
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
Beware David Gorski: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/how-david-gorski-defends-...
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
This is what happens when you let non-technical people direct technical people. Really the only kind of person that should manage and direct a technical person is an even wiser technical person.
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
There's nothing more silly than presenting the appearance of reasoning that tries to undercut reasoning as such.
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
Censorship morons on parade. Obviously we need to return to a First Amendment ethos. Obviously we never should have abandoned it in the first place.
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
Says you? Present your proof.
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
That'd be your troll logic not mine. According to my logic, he has no moral right to speak about it.
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
This is mere hand-wringing; Steve Jobs never cared to consider the aspects of our political system that leads to this, on the contrary, he positively exploited them for his own gain, e.g. patents and his app store tyranny. Steve Jobs is amo
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
As if that's a good thing or makes it all OK. I understand there are complex reasons why "workers" would not be engaged, but this is a horrible ethos.
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
I think open source is a kind of compensation for the fact that our political economy doesn't create meritocracies, analogous to how when one part of your body is injured some other part compensates. The compensation isn't "g
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
Most people lack the philosophical chops to opine on this subject. Not that that stops them from doing so.
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
Everything is politicized and weaponized.
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
Like all principles, if you don't understand it, then you're going to misuse it, and then some people will wrongly blame it for being "over-rated" rather than blaming their own understanding of it.
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by wellbehaved 4y ago
"Are Cows really Bad for the Planet? Why did we start blaming them?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdrhpThqlCo
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Contrarians vs. Milquetoasts
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by wellbehaved 5y ago
"Fact checking" by social media giants is an inherent farce, which would be laughable if it weren't leading to people getting oppressed and killed and governments being perverted.
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by wellbehaved 5y ago
Such a sad commentary that you so blithely assume that if it's on a government website then it's not misinformation. Across the ages, governments have been the most heinous purveyors of misinformation, and are the biggest misinfor
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by wellbehaved 5y ago
So? Some people need exercise, does that mean the government should force everyone to exercise?
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by wellbehaved 6y ago
Because insidious connections between government and big business is called "fascism", and free market people are opposed to that. Those who don't acknowledge/comprehend this issue yet are claiming to defend a "free
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by wellbehaved 9y ago
I don't appreciate your victim-blaming. "A lot of time" is probably not enough. I've spent enough time riding to have had at least 3 objects thrown at me, including a beer bottle, a wet wad of something, and some unknown
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by wellbehaved 10y ago
Lots of rotten prohibitions would have "beneficial effects." If we prohibit medical treatment for people over 65, the rate of Alzheimer's will go down. If we prohibit driving except to and from work, traffic accidents will de
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by wellbehaved 10y ago
Yes, you missed my point, because no, I don't want the demand side of the equation ignored.
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by wellbehaved 10y ago
You missed my point, which was that factors that influence productivity are more fundamental than those that influence consumption. Nobody (sane) enjoys going the doctor.
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by wellbehaved 10y ago
Barking up the wrong tree. Costs are driven down mainly by innovations at the production side not due to consumer behavior. The cost problem is almost entirely due to myth, paranoia, and authority worship, which means innovation that would