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by whythre 3y ago
Surely there is middle ground here- I agree with the general sentiment though; the perfect need not be the enemy of the good.
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by whythre 3y ago
Yes it is a systemic issue. A cursory search for academic research fraud will reveal this. Some fraudsters are very high profile. There are all kinds of perverse incentives; prestige, grant money, not wanting to waste time with ‘useless’ ne
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by whythre 3y ago
Their high speed rail is a propaganda instrument. It is meant to be a high profile asset that makes their whole country look good, but it is a failure-prone money pit.
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by whythre 3y ago
Where does this end? Can’t any country squat on links and require (not just google, but whoever) pay?
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by whythre 3y ago
Yes. Adding more walls to the increasingly walled gardens of the internet is terrible.
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by whythre 3y ago
This seems incredibly naive. You seem to think a longer lifespan will somehow make a brutal tyrant more caring, but I think the cruel will likely just get more monstrous with age. A long life means power must be held that much more tightly:
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by whythre 3y ago
Death threats = silencing.
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by whythre 3y ago
Replace ‘certain’ with ‘either’ and you are on the right track.
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by whythre 3y ago
Sure, why not. American public schools are terrible self-protecting bureaucratic monstrosities. I would be fine with scrapping their funding and reworking the whole system.
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by whythre 3y ago
I agree, that is alarming. ‘Technology is too powerful to let the peasants have access’ is the opinion of a tyrant.
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by whythre 3y ago
Even if the warring factions agreed that the outcome of the E-sport competition would be binding… do we really want major conflicts to be determined by whoever is best at Counterstrike? That doesn’t sound ideal.
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by whythre 3y ago
Yes. I am in my mid thirties, and live in Texas. In my youth I used to see fireflies, damselflies, bright red and black flightless wasps colloquially called ‘cow killers.’ All vanishingly rare now- I think I saw a single lonely firefly this
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by whythre 3y ago
What risk could possibly be worse than a global pandemic? That seems to be what gain of function research purports to be studying to prevent- and in this case it appears that the research virus caused the very thing it was supposed to (indi
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by whythre 3y ago
‘Non consensual porn’ is vague and could be used to describe violent rape vids, which was likely the intent. Fabricated images of public figures is not the same thing.
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by whythre 3y ago
That’s largely just the brand of Buddhism that’s gotten the most bandwidth in the west. Historically some variants were exceptionally violent. Feudal Japan had entire sects of Buddhist warrior-monks they accepted and even celebrated violenc
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by whythre 3y ago
The uh… behavior you describe lends itself to a particularly gruesome kind of zombie apocalypse.
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by whythre 3y ago
Eww? Lots of nobles kept kennels.
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by whythre 3y ago
I am not sure it’s possible. Part of what defines addiction is that overpowers the will, which isn’t safe. It also is typically a long term decent, a series of poor decisions in the grip of a disease. Not easy to model.
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by whythre 3y ago
I mean… if you are comparing the last century of filmmaking versus whatever is on YouTube, sure. But if you are comparing the last few years of movies vs what’s available on YouTube, I’d much rather watch YouTube.
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by whythre 3y ago
I talk about politics with people I trust. I do not talk about politics with people who I can’t have an earnest, good faith discussion with, because it will almost certainly be a titanic waste of time.
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by whythre 3y ago
Seems more likely the local cannibals would be from Cali.
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by whythre 3y ago
What a fun country
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by whythre 3y ago
Now he doesn’t have to argue anything because the EPA’s broad interpretation of the law was overturned.
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by whythre 3y ago
I am not a marine noise expert, but it’s my understanding that noise transmits horizontally underwater way better than vertically. Since this sub is going really deep, getting the pings to go ‘up’ to a meaningful degree is going to be diffi
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by whythre 3y ago
150k each? I don’t give a crap about Twitter but copyright has become a cudgel, a weapon used to beat down expression and scare people into inactivity.
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by whythre 3y ago
Cosmopolitanism- more multicultural cross pollination due to trade and travel. Wealth disparity is another. The coasts are also richer than ‘flyover country.’ There are isolated places in New Mexico, the Deep South, and Appalachia that are
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by whythre 3y ago
Sounds like an overly simplistic answer. You got a source?
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by whythre 3y ago
I disagree. I think equity is impossible and more of a political device than an actual thought out goal. Equality is actually legally enforceable and achievable.
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by whythre 3y ago
‘Russia was provoked into this war because of things that happened 30 years ago’ is such bullshit apologia. NATO was a defensive pact against Russia- and just because the Soviet Union collapsed does not mean Russia is somehow now moral or b
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by whythre 3y ago
Enshittification is happening everywhere. I also mourn the vanishing old internet. Social media is increasingly difficult to curate, and our search engines are compromised to the point they don’t work. We are at the mercy of algorithms that

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