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by whythre 3y ago
Indeed. Even if the IRS was ‘gotten rid of’ you will still need some sort of agency to intake taxes. How does America have a military, or roads, or public education sans taxes? ‘Just get rid of it’ is such a goofy take.
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by whythre 3y ago
… does it? It’s a kidney, not a brain. Brain transplants from a pig seem like a pretty obviously bad idea.
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by whythre 3y ago
It’s apples and oranges. Many, many human cultures live close to the water but none live on or in it exclusively, we are no longer an aquatic species. I think the arctic comparison might be more apt, but even so, it is such a staggering dif
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by whythre 3y ago
Only in a hand-wavy roughly analogous kind of way. The devil is in the details. We are just not evolved for an environment like space: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the... . Even with air and
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by whythre 3y ago
3% strikes me as a pretty extreme minority, which makes it seem like the opposite of ‘normal.’ They might be more common than most people think (IE, 1 in 33), but that isn’t something that makes them normal.
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by whythre 3y ago
Not a fan of pornhub or the industry in general, but the continued factionalization of the internet sucks.
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by whythre 3y ago
Seems like grandstanding. Why go nationwide? Why not try it at the state level (like Sanders’ home of Vermont), and see how it goes?
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by whythre 3y ago
So much for land of the free… we can’t even make our own genetically spliced super monster sheep(?)
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by whythre 3y ago
I don’t know why you are being downvoted. I think the closest parallel is Radio Free Asia, and that’s an irrelevant relic compared to TikTok.
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by whythre 3y ago
Remarkable man! Good on him for achieving all that. The part where he was able to learn how to breathe and leave the iron lung for short periods of time is particularly interesting. I wonder what he did on those outings…
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by whythre 3y ago
And it says they are factual and credible?
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by whythre 3y ago
This isn’t just merely witnessing something, a better take would be ‘have we evolved to be be raised by videos of pregnant spooderman.’ I think that’s a negative, ghost rider.
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by whythre 3y ago
I think Russian and German sound harsh and often rathe aggressive. I don’t know if that translates into ‘evil’ but I don’t love the sound of those languages.
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by whythre 3y ago
Is ‘threat actors’ really a better descriptor than simply calling them ‘hackers’? I have noticed a weird trend of shifting phrase usage in news. Mass shooters are now ‘active shooters’ (even in the post-tense, somehow). Soldiers are referre
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by whythre 3y ago
‘Young blood’ is such a grotesque thing. Gotta harvest the next generation’s blood so some crusty old zillionaires can extend their shitty self-absorbed existence.
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by whythre 3y ago
I met my wife at a party for a mutual friend… we both arrived early to help set up, and things clicked. I wouldn’t worry about being a non-chad, you sound kind of down on yourself. Have you tried E-harmony? I have friends that have gotten m
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by whythre 3y ago
To combat ‘violent extremism’ you apparently recommend the following: ‘No E2E Encryption When content is end-to-end encrypted, platforms can offer no content-based protections. Since violent extremism is typically illegal, recording traces
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by whythre 3y ago
Right? I saw the headline and thought ‘nothing of value has been lost.’
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by whythre 3y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive. If China invades and kills US soldiers in the process, training team or no, that’s still gonna be casus belli for the US.
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by whythre 3y ago
The troops stationed there are not meant to hold off a mainland invasion by themselves. The presence of US troops means that if China attacks, the USA is going to suffer military casualties, so there is almost certainly going to be war betw
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by whythre 3y ago
This can happen in theory, but it is pretty rare. What you or I might call frivolous is often entertained in the court of law, and serial abusers of the court system may still issue hundreds or even thousands of attempts at lawsuits. This m
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by whythre 3y ago
Harm can be all sorts of things, but taking money under false pretenses would qualify. Certainly doesn’t ensure Musk wins, but it’s enough to at least take a shot at beginning proceedings. As for lawsuit vs criminal prosecution, the waters
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by whythre 3y ago
You can sue for basically any reason in the US. If Musk is able to prove they are mishandling the money, which I think is debatable, then the case can proceed. Just because you donate money doesn’t mean the charity or nonprofit (or whatever
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by whythre 3y ago
Sounds like heresy. At the end the author declares that the universe knows everything, which seems fairly bizarre to me. That’s like saying my house knows precisely everything about itself and what goes on in its confines. It doesn’t. It’s
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by whythre 3y ago
I agree that it’s a foolish and unjust war that is getting a lot of people killed, but that does not mean the situation will just go away. WW1 and 2 were pretty damn stupid too, but they still happened, and those behind them were only stopp
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by whythre 3y ago
You know copyright is completely broken when this is even a going concern.
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by whythre 3y ago
‘Russian forces have an unorthodox view of acceptable levels of military losses, with a willingness to expend troops and equipment to make even small gains on the battlefield.’ Unorthodox is not the word I would choose. Perhaps a better one
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by whythre 3y ago
Because ‘harm’ isn’t an ever-lowering bar.
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by whythre 3y ago
‘Guys, let’s play both sides, beat those war drums, and then the line will go up! Hehe’ Greedy idiots. They should be prosecuted.
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by whythre 3y ago
Seem more like posers (literal and figurative).

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