wu-ikkyu

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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Only in the extremely short term and only for those who are participating in the racket. It would be a great net gain for society.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Could be as simple as having the user input any other drugs, foods, substances, etc. they are currently consuming and then checking for interactions on the back end. There are already many sites that do this.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
There are many systems in which production requires the following of regulations but the purchasing and consumption does not, i.e. food.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Isn't that what the directions that are on every bottle are for?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Jokes are often used by victims of opression as a way of relieving their pain and expressing their greivances. Sometimes the most tactful way to communicate a terrible truth to someone who who is unwilling to confront it is to make them lau
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Then why do you concern yourself so much with past entities?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Our current scientific understanding in no way leads to such a conclusion. False: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(physiology... https://asknature.org/strategy/leaves-signal-pr
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
How did I misunderstand? It was not willfull. Maybe they were speaking tongue in cheek and I did not realize? It seemed they were willfully misunderstanding the life of Frederick Douglass which came across as malicious to the struggle for h
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>not harming sentient creatures Plants are sentient creatures
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>The default is not eating meat because the default is not eating anything. That's default for rocks and such, but not living things, whose existence requires by default the death of other living things
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>>Laws are meaningless if no one follows them. >Laws are also meaningless if no one enforces them. And still, Rule of Law requires that those who enforce the law, follow the law.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
That is an incredibly disempowering opinion. Is there any practical value to leading one's life in accordance with such a philosophy? >The answer: Get incredibly lucky; Does a human have no agency in which to improve their odds? &gt
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>stack the deck against them The question is: how should one react to learning that life is unfair and full of adversity against them? Perhaps the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass could serve as a good example? I wonder if Dou
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Frederick Douglass' autobiography is one of the most inspiring books I've ever read, a book which every American should read. However, after reading his story, one cannot help but be angered by the many who push the popular, patro
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>It is supposed to be slow and inefficient. Is there a historical document which suggest this, such as the records of the constitutional debates, or are you just making it up?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Do you consider the New York Times a “hateblog” for their endorsement of political violence against the former government of Iraq? No, that's war mongering/yellow journalism by a mass media company, far worse and more destruct
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>I'm willing to be it has less to do with pre-disposition, and more to do with inherent inequality in an adversarial and unevenly distributed socioeconomic system. Wouldn't it be best to start at the root of the problem then, r
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Being too hyper social inevitably leads to anti social behavior due to diminishing returns. In order to have deep, meaningful, long lasting relationships one must necessarily conserve their attention and forgoe social interactions with othe
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Starting at the beginning of your equation, is what constitutes a "crime" not defined by the legal system to begin with? Perhaps the US has run wild with their definitions and militaristic enforcement of crimes
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
The article that rayiner posted was in reference to overzealous policing of arbitrary culture based moral offenses (not being islamic). Are many of the laws in the US not overzealous and arbitrarily moral based as well? For instance non vio
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Haha never :) For someone so paranoid about privacy as to not even own a "dumb" phone, I was curious what type of computer/internet setup they would be using to work around all the privacy traps such as broswer fingerprinting
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
How did you post this comment?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Is country X's incarceration rate not related to the quality of it's legal system and institutions?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>What would happen if 100 million Bangladeshis moved to the US? Would we continue to have a first world legal system, etc? The answer is no It's ironic that people in the US who have such great fear of immigrants worry about being o
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small set
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
It's amazing how so many in our society wonder why kids naturally don't want to be forced to sit down, shut up, and passively consume arbitrary, impractical, and obsolete information. Our teaching and testing methods are stuck in
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>I'm surprised so many on here are defending or semi-defending Tether. Wouldn't the price of BTC take a big hit if the suspicions of Tether prove to be true? I suspect there may be some unconscious cognitive dissonance going on
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
"They're about to start piss testing for adrenaline in the workplace, that's how sad this country's gotten... 'Is that yours Donnie? It looks a little cloudy, have you been having fun on the weekend? Are we no
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Reminds me of the banishing of Chongo from Yosemite.

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