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3mo ago
In 2025, peace broke out.
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3mo ago
Maybe general distrust of government and (healthy?) paranoia that once a government has some capability, it will eventually find a way to use it in evil ways. I'm sure all five principled libertarians that exist in the world have been doing that kind of thing long before Trump, so it's not like it's unprecedented.
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3mo ago
The difference is that domestic producers you compete with will also add VAT to their final price and transfer it to the relevant tax authority, so being an importer doesn't disadvantage you.
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4mo ago
If the doubt over Russian Propaganda is the basis of raising questions, then you have an odd way of going about clarifying the potentially lamentable situation.
I think what the OP meant is that it would be lamentable if some people are really considering leaving over their belief that this place is full of Russian propaganda, not that the OP himself believes that the Russian propaganda is here.
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10mo ago
OP doesn't sound very offended to me.
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1yr ago
But if someones recognizes that what you're saying there is 'fuck everyone not like me' and responds with 'hey, fuck you too', that person is not being polite and must be eliminated.
One man's recognition that his interlocutor is secretly saying 'fuck everyone not like me' is another man's uncharitable mind reading.
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1yr ago
From a SYG perspective, the key question is whether Perry was right on the merits, which comes down to how sympathetic you are to street protest in general and BLM in particular.
Isn't the fact that he was driving the car on a public street trying to get to his destination enough to make him right on the merits?
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5mo ago
I don't think optics are made from cloth, and anyway they can always fall back to iron sights.
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8mo ago
Couldn't you test saliva? I assume that the virus is present in there if the bites are transmitting the disease? Or maybe cerebrospinal fluid, though that might be hard to sample from a very smol animal.
This ham-handed effort to impose a leftist belief onto Title IX exceeds your authority as President. impose a leftist belief onto Title IX
I wonder if this is an example of the common criticism of conservatism in that yesterday's radicalism becomes today's normalcy and eventually becomes a new cherished tradition to be defended.
I think I remember seeing a lot of discourse a couple of years ago about how Title IX is this awful leftist thing that's the justification of universities' kangaroo court administrative proceedings against male students accused of sexual assault.
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11mo ago
How about multiple levels of Verizon customer support not being able to tell the difference between 0.002 dollars and 0.002 cents? The discussion somehow reminded me of this ancient saga: https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html
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1yr ago
Ah yes, people with different preferences that aren't aligned with your politics are all malfunctioning mutants. Of course.
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11mo ago
That leaves Trump 3-1 at the moment, and I would say the sentencing in the New York conviction (currently set for September) is likely to get delayed until after the election (when, let's face it, it ain't going to matter)
Wait, hold on. Is this actual optimism or am I wildly misreading?
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8mo ago
Wait, you can't test an animal for rabies without killing it? Wtf?
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1yr ago
the EROEI is not high enough to do so
Nuclear should have an excellent EROEI. The problems with profitability come from organizational dysfunction.
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1yr ago
Perhaps wild nature is in fact a giant suffering engine that should be abolished in its current form.
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1yr ago
It provides a sense of pride when beating the game. The fact that some people cannot beat the game but you can, is a potential source of pride. If you enable everyone to beat the game, it is gone.
If you're deriving pride from beating the game on normal then how does the fact that everybody can beat the game on story mode take away from that?
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11mo ago
Are you talking about the Vincent Weiguang Li guy? If so, then it seems like a very non-central example of a homeless bum. Guy had a degree, used to work steadily until his schizophrenia worsened, used to be married until his schizophrenia worsened. Wasn't on drugs. At the time of the happening was living with his ex-wife, so wasn't even homeless. And seems that he was in fact institutionalized for several years afterwards (up to nine, depending on how you count).
I'm taking those facts from Wikipedia, so grain of salt.
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10mo ago
David Friedman was a regular on SSC and is still active on one of the splinter forums, so chances are you heard about the book somewhere around these parts.
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1yr ago
This post kind of comes off as a self-indulgent power fantasy. You'd need God-empress level of political power to enact those policies, so the whole thing is basically implicitly assuming that you're infinitely stronk, and then writing a long detailed list of all the ways you'd use your unlimited power to put the screws on people whose life choices are (in your view) incompatible with the greater good of society.
And if we hypothesize some alternative society in which those policies would be popular, then would you even need them in the first place? Hm, maybe they would still be useful to fix the pro-natal attitudes and fight against any potential value drift.
Anyway, while I don't expect you to explain how you're planning on becoming God-empress, I'm still curious how would you roll out those policies? Would there be some transition period so for example people who were already old and infertile when the policies came into effect wouldn't get screwed up without any chance to avoid it, or would their unavoidable impoverishment be a sacrifice you'd be willing to make to keep things simple and on track?
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11mo ago
I think prescriptivism is of vital importance, because without it language is completely incoherent. I find linguistic descriptivism to be rather vapid, actually - all you can really say as a descriptivist is "that person sure is using word X to mean Y". You can't actually say whether it is correct or incorrect.
You can say whether it's correct or incorrect, it's just that "correct" means "consistent with language norms of a particular time and place" rather than "consistent with the eternal unchanging Platonic ideal of English".
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2yr ago
2013's middling dystopic sci-fi, Elysium
Oh, that movie was so disappointing. It's by the guy who did District 9, so I was expecting something eye-rollingly heavy handed in its messaging, but at least fun to watch with an interesting premise, and instead got... this. Politics truly is the mind-killer!
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10mo ago
(Presumably using group policy objects.)
A monarchy running on Windows? I shall fight against this travesty to my last bitter breath.
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1yr ago
Animals don't turn sunlight and rain into meat. You need to feed them plants. Which you have to grow first. Possibly on vertical farms run by hippy vegans.
Some animals can graze but I think this could sustain only than a small fraction of current meat production (after a quick googling, I saw the figures of 10% of beef production and 30% of sheep and goat meat production being sustained by grazing).
"Make America Great Britain Again"
I'm pretty sure I've seen that on a meme (complete with the not-yet-deceased queen) back in 2016. Life imitates art.
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