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by whythre 4y ago
In favor of that other system that definitely hasn’t been tried in its mythical ‘truer’ form, no doubt.
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by whythre 4y ago
A lot of that is because there is very little political will to seriously prosecute petty crime. In my city theft is basically handwaved, and the DA won’t prosecute it even if the cops did arrest someone.
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by whythre 4y ago
They doth protest too much. Seems like someone doesn’t like the tenets of their weird cult and wants to bang people on the side, while still feeling morally superior due to their cult membership.
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by whythre 4y ago
“What would be a natural response to the formation of that gang? Wouldn’t it be a gang of “also baddies but baddies whose interests align more closely with ours?” Yes, and this is so obvious I can’t believe you are being downvoted. If autho
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by whythre 4y ago
The response is ‘welcome to having a government?’ Monopoly on force is one of the key points of having a government. When it is run well (or at least not to the point of being irredeemably corrupt), this is a positive. When the government b
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by whythre 4y ago
Bizarrely, we Americans treat our EMTs worse than other first responders. They are trained to a lower standard and paid less but still have demanding hours and lots of stress.
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by whythre 4y ago
Gross. At the risk of sounding like an old man yelling at a cloud, almost nothing of value can be communicated in so short a span. It’s like all the big players suddenly think that Vine was right all along, and blink-and-you-miss-it short f
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by whythre 4y ago
Increasing the reflectiveness of the earth via high altitude aerosols seems like an insanely shitty idea.
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by whythre 4y ago
“If this does provoke copycat lawsuits, a lot of copycat litigants are going to find out that precedent is only useful in its original court jurisdiction.” I mean… duh? Kenyan jurisprudence doesn’t count for much.
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by whythre 4y ago
Most arbiters are paid by the corporations that participate in arbitrage, which ‘encourages’ them not to bite the hand that feeds.
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by whythre 4y ago
“Are there any mechanisms in the law for somebody who is soon to be dying of some illness to volunteer as a medical research subject, possibly with their families getting heavily compensated in some way?” That last bit sounds like a powerfu
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by whythre 4y ago
Supposedly Martian fantasy is DOA in Hollywood thanks to Disney’s John Carter of Mars, which did very badly.
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by whythre 4y ago
This whole article is written to imply that Tesla is complicit in the harm of children. I have stopped reading most news articles because of these naked attempts to send a message, facts be damned.
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by whythre 4y ago
“ If the theory of your publication is to herald the formation of a United States for white people only (or whatever is on the Breitbart masthead), that is not analogous to if you were, as Jacobin, explicitly socialist.” Both ideologies res
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by whythre 4y ago
Because Amazon is not (yet) the sole employer in our nation ?
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by whythre 4y ago
That the derivative works ‘must be’ protected by copyright isn’t obvious. Hell, it might help fix a lot of the idiotic spam. All the low effort ‘artists’ and ‘authors’ wouldn’t be rewarded for their middling efforts in making a few alterat
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by whythre 4y ago
Assuming a mechanistic worldview, how could our world not have many grievous problems? We clawed our way from the mud and for all our cleverness, we are still the product of a messy and imprecise evolutionary process. ‘Good enough’ is wha
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by whythre 4y ago
Politician is happy to siphon tax dollars away from workers forced to commute. Shocker.
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by whythre 4y ago
I think it is just a generic ‘no necromancy’ policy that a lot of forums have to stop people from dredging up old stuff constantly. However, if you want l to discuss that topic, maybe you could start a new thread and link the old one ?
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by whythre 4y ago
“ somehow the hard right is always in charge.” lol what Maybe you don’t like what the government is doing, and fair enough, but you seem to be conflating that with the other team. I think we have a pretty centrist, self interested gove
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by whythre 4y ago
Situation’s heating up.
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by whythre 4y ago
I feel safer already
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by whythre 4y ago
Except the Christian God ostensibly does allow for people to make their own choices, rather than be micromanaged for their own good? Jehovah apparently guides with such a gentle hand there is debate about whether he even exists.
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by whythre 4y ago
> Of course, though moreso the latter. Eugenics, as a term, to have meaning, is an extreme of breeding behavior. It isn't just regular assortative mating among local populations. Thank you. Having preferences =/= eugenics.
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by whythre 4y ago
There are some harmful genetic mutations that associate with particular sex chromosomes. I wonder if ease of detection in some varieties of abnormality may play an inadvertent role too.
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by whythre 4y ago
Sure, but I think the question still stands- if the outsiders are going somewhere other than Silicon Valley, where are they going, or what new space is being created?
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by whythre 4y ago
… that is only there because you are putting chemicals in your body. ‘Love beyond comprehension’ thanks to a drug doesn’t sound very fun to me, it sounds like something out of Brave New World.
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by whythre 4y ago
Is it an option to put your son in online courses and keep your daughter going to ‘regular’ school?
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by whythre 4y ago
That is probably the most charitable interpretation of the phenomenon possible. I do not think it is about holding people accountable at all, I think it is a new way to enforce shifting social norms that allows people to judge others with
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by whythre 4y ago
You do not have to be right-wing to dislike the autocratic and brutal CCP.

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