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by yucky 4y ago
> People who participate in and contribute to society are entitled to things. They should have a sufficient wage, safe housing, food and clean water. This is the /antiwork crowd we're talking about? The ones too emotio
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by yucky 4y ago
> In general universities should be pretty inefficient I think. They are places where young people go to learn and try things out. Including student employees. If a university has no waste, that indicates that it hasn’t given enou
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by yucky 4y ago
How on earth do people justify supporting mandates (especially for kids) with data like this?
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by yucky 4y ago
No, they're too emotionally delicate to even function as adults. And it's a problem.
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by yucky 4y ago
Fewer people are "drinking themselves to death" now than in previous generations, so that can't be it. Maybe the issue is that they literally have had it too good, and were too coddled, and now they can't handle regular
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by yucky 4y ago
That's a cop out, and only reinforces their internalized belief that literally nothing is their own fault. Find a Gen Z person who is fully accountable for their own actions and you will have located a unicorn. It's uncanny how in
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by yucky 4y ago
A huge chunk of the "female" profiles on Ashley Madison turned out to be (suprise) bots. I wouldn't read too much into any of that data.
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by yucky 4y ago
This reads like you think women are below men though. I assume you don't mean that, but it's hard to think up an alternate explanation. Power dynamics maybe? I dunno, I could list thousands of women more powerful than a youtuber o
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by yucky 4y ago
I'm confused. They're too broke to move away from home, but their mental health is bad because they were coddled while they were at home and now they're no longer at home and struggling, but also more of them live at home lat
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by yucky 4y ago
> that's hardly a reason against doing science Determining what people should be allowed to say is not scientific by any measure, and trying to pretend it is completely discredits the argument. What should be acceptable to
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by yucky 4y ago
> It would probably be worthwhile to have a much more empirical approach, trying to actually measure what the impact of prohibiting certain speech is. Who gets to do the measuring? Same people that get to define (and redefine
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by yucky 4y ago
> Even what seem like sensible categories like inciting to violence immediately get spun around and we get all sorts of things being called violence in order to try and suit political aims. Case in point, a scary number of peop
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by yucky 4y ago
> Democracy works best when unhelpful fringes cannot speak. This reads like it's straight out of a dystopian book.
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by yucky 4y ago
So...eat the rich? Seize the means of production? ACAB? Things like that qualify?
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by yucky 4y ago
This is a criticism of Apple though, so why would that be a defense?
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by yucky 4y ago
I would imagine authors get compensation from their books purchased by US libraries too. But it's not going to scale with how many times a book is checked out, or even prevent it from being copied after checkout.
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by yucky 4y ago
> By the way, the answer to your questions is yes. You say it's theft to take pictures of the pages of a library book? I would need you to cite your sources please. If it matters, I recently ordered 6 hardcovers from an aut
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by yucky 4y ago
> you can decide who is the government Not really, not in any meaningful way. We can vote for a handful of people every couple of years, but we get no say in the many thousands of people actually running the government from adm
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by yucky 4y ago
> So the obvious retort is that you may not have bothered to purchase the author's work, forgoing your opportunity to read it, thus the author did not lose their sale. I can't speak for all pirates, but I will pirate
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by yucky 4y ago
> Or do you mean a system where people can steal what they want because 'reasons' and 'they want to pay less because xyz'? If you have a copy of something, and I make a copy of it, and you still have your co
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by yucky 4y ago
Are we still pretending COVID-19 was unrelated to gain of function research or have they finally admitted that yet?
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by yucky 4y ago
I remember my teachers saying the same back in the 80's (in between threats of nuclear annihilation, global population bomb, acid rain, hole in the ozone and global cooling). They're all retired and collecting social security now.
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by yucky 4y ago
How does it go? Silence is violence or something? They didn't call it out from day one, then the purity test they would apply to others applies to them. Simple as that, right?
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by yucky 4y ago
In other news, two creations of the US government work together on mass surveillance initiatives but are totally not an extension of the US intelligence apparatus because capitalism or something.
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by yucky 4y ago
This is exactly what "equity" policies are for, right? Seems to be working as intended.
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by yucky 4y ago
> I've heard a number of Christians talk about how many of them dislike people like Pat Robertson. Why don't they speak up? Couldn't tell you, I'm not a religious person. But I agree that these "warrior
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by yucky 4y ago
> Every entertainment is equally at fault Clearly not. That would be like dismissing Siberian tigers as just cats, and pretending they're no more dangerous than the average housecat. The taxonomy is the same, but the simil
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by yucky 4y ago
Not until these supposed "good activists" loudly and vociferously throw these toxic people out, and under the bus (and very publicly). Until that happens, they are mucking around in the same mud as the pigs, which makes them indis
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by yucky 4y ago
Careful now, this is an unapproved thought divergence.
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by yucky 4y ago
Seatbelts are removable, the analogy makes no sense.

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