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by zepto 5y ago
> My opinions are backed by an overwhelming preponderance of evidence, which you seem to feel qualified to criticize despite not having been aware of its existence until today I feel qualified to question anything I like on an Internet f
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Where did you get your idea of how a normal adult lives their life, if not from society?
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> You done much reading on the subject to the contrary you can talk about? Any books on the topic you’ve read that you can name? Have you? Or did you just find some papers that support your view with a quick search? Remember, most social
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> It also means you struggle in life, resulting in suicidality, aggressiveness and anti-social behaviour. This is the stuff that seems like it could be dealt with by society being more accommodating rather than drugs.
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> If your life expectancy due to taking ADHD meds improves by a couple years because you're less likely to crash your car or overdose on recreational drugs Do we know that accidents are the causes of excess mortality for people with
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The drugs have been around for decades. Using them daily with increasing numbers of children during a decade or so of brain development, has not.
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If the vaccine altered behavior and was taken every day during a decade of rapid brain development, there would be a reasonable basis for comparison.
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Bizarre comment. You seriously think the modern American education system represents ‘the evolutionary process’ or that the only option is to drop out? Education in its current form is relatively new, but also outdated, having been develope
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> You are absolutely free to drop out of the "rat race", aka the evolutionary process, Modern American Education is not ‘the evolutionary process’. If anything it is quite the opposite. More like forced domestication.
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He does say that there hasn’t been time for evidence of the long term dangers to become apparent.
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> the AI whizbang still blurred it all to crap. Maybe… Or maybe the wind was just causing the leaves to move, resulting in some blurring.
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Ok - since you have peppered this post with replies, I am going to assume you don’t have an answer to this because there isn’t one.
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NFTs are not equivalent to fine art. They are equivalent to receipts documenting payments for a piece of fine art that is permanently hanging in a public gallery for anyone to see. In the case of an important work of art, it is likely that
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> I mean, all you need to do to check if the factory subjects workers to subhuman conditions is send someone from Apple there, look around, and ask a few questions to random employees. All the factory has to do is clean things up for the
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> But somehow even that is not enough to convince them to treat workers as if they are human beings. As has been said many times in this thread. It’s not Apple’s factory. Apple does have much higher standards than this, and has a progr
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What are talking about. Why do they have no choice? Why would it be ‘stupid’ to leave?
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Elsewhere you claimed not to hate Apple.
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They are. They are held to higher standards than any of their conpetitors.
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I wasn’t aware that the workers were prevented from quitting.
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Beat Apple at making a car? How do they figure that, I wonder.
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Is it? The records date back to 1991. Possibly a lot of them were still paper at that time.
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>> What do you mean ‘people like you’? What group membership are you claiming? Given that I also agreed that such policies exist, are you saying I am someone like you? > I and the author and several other people who have talked to
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Do you want me to believe that you have been trying to grant me generosity? If you are generous, be generous. Otherwise don’t. It seems like you are blaming me for your failure to appear the way you would like to appear. I am not asking
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> Nobody is stepping on anyone’s face > I mean, this just isn't true though, Bell was hurting people. I don't think these communities are making this stuff up; oppression is real. Who said anything about Bell not hurting any
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Nobody is stepping on anyone’s face and privilege is not a prerequisite for clear thinking. I really don’t know why you insist on portraying people as cartoon victims, whether we are talking about autistic people or deaf people. There is n
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I don’t think it helps to call the reasons ‘innocent’. Your description of Bell makes him sound like a eugenicist. Most people wouldn’t regard that as particularly innocent today. I think it matters a lot whether communities have the wron
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Here’s a quote where the author clarifies what culture they are referring to: “In the autistic twitter community where I and a lot of other advocates spend our time we are inclusive and speak frequently about ourselves as a culture -- not a
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> The phrase "call out" isn't a universal dog whistle for bogey men to come drag you to the gulag for wrongthink. Your reaction to it has been exhausting. Once again you are completely out of line with the site guidelines.
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> would go a long way to making it hard for deaf people to communicate with each other or form their own communities outside of hearing spaces. True. > One of the first things you do if you want to integrate a community or break up
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Re: call out. I think part of the issue is that chiming in to voice support for someone who is arguing on your behalf without adding any content automatically creates a ‘ganging up’ situation, so even if they hadn’t used the phrase “call o

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