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by ComposedPattern 2mo ago
The overwhelming majority of countries around the world have processes for naturalization [1]. They are often fairly onerous, but that is true of many European countries as well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natura
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by ComposedPattern 3mo ago
> What if after "age checks" are put in place many www users stop using these "platforms." No doubt EFF would try to argue that's somehow bad I would love for people to stop using the evilcorp platforms. But what
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by ComposedPattern 5mo ago
... Are you saying that it's Jews themselves who are to blame for having been killed or exiled from numerous places?
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by ComposedPattern 6mo ago
The "dawn of man" was perhaps 100,000 years ago. Humans, in some regions, have been raising cattle for maybe 10% of that time. And for almost all of that 10%, beef was a luxury good eaten only on occasion except by the very rich.
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by ComposedPattern 6mo ago
Living in a big city is usually better for the environment than living in a rural area. City-dwellers live in smaller spaces closer together, so they consume fewer resources and emit less carbon.
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by ComposedPattern 8mo ago
Muhammad is not a god, and he was very insistent on that point. The Buddha is also not seen as a god is most traditions. Elohim, Allah, and Ahura are generic terms for God or gods. One does not need to know the specific identity of God to j
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by ComposedPattern 1y ago
> It has, fwiw, also historically not been seen as a core right for thousands of years. Nothing has been seen as a core right for thousands of years, as the concept of human rights is only a few hundred years old.
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by ComposedPattern 1y ago
I'm not that convinced by this paper. The "impossible languages" are all English with some sort of transformation applied, such as shuffling the word order. It seems like learning such languages would require first learning E
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by ComposedPattern 1y ago
> The whole meta-story of the first few chapters of Genesis was about creation. Not just creation of the universe as we know it, but the pro-creation between a man and a woman in the sanctimony of marriage I find this to be a very strang
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by ComposedPattern 1y ago
It would be hard to argue that the bible actively promotes same-sex marriage, but I think you could reasonably argue that it says nothing on the subject and so leaves it for the church/community to decide. There are places where the
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by ComposedPattern 1y ago
I think there should be a new rule that any time someone writes an article bragging about how he's† a badass independent thinker just like Paul Graham and Eliezer Yudkowsky, he must in the same article identify his major disagreements
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by ComposedPattern 1y ago
> Have you read the Bible? It's shockingly different from what people believe is written there. It is a post-apocalyptic survival guide, as well as a collection of human stories and ideas that might date back hundreds of thousands o
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by ComposedPattern 2y ago
It's funny how people in this thread keep saying "well if you're going to complain about people being penalized for not using apps, you might as well complain about people being penalized for not using telephones/cars&#x
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by ComposedPattern 2y ago
I just use separate folder for the low-frequency feeds that I intend to keep up so they don't drown in everything else.
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by ComposedPattern 2y ago
> In fact in Judeo-Christian thinking, to do this requires people receiving a "new heart, a heart of flesh instead of a heart of stone" from God. (I saw "Judeo-" because the passages is from Ezekiel, which is common t
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by ComposedPattern 2y ago
TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) are generally left-wing, despite holding a reactionary view on trans people. That sort of comes with the territory of being a radical feminist . If someone is right-wing, or even just a centrist
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by ComposedPattern 2y ago
An optimistic explanation is that they don't want to be antisemitic. The present-day term for "Pharisee" is "Jew." The early rabbis who created Judaism as we know it were Pharisees, and theirs was the only first-cen
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by ComposedPattern 2y ago
In the schools I'm familiar with, this isn't really a skill that's taught. The emphasis is on carrying out steps correctly on paper. Making a good estimate without showing work would definitely be frowned upon.
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by ComposedPattern 2y ago
I would guess that Democratic and Republican politicians want to give more power to the USA government because they are the USA government.
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
> pretty loyal Pokemon fans despite being in their 30's Pokémon is 28 years old, so people now in their 30s would have been the core demographic of Pokémon fans at the start. I would expect them to be the most loyal fans, no "d
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
Games certainly have social value, but I'm not convinced that better graphics contribute all that much. I've not played Factorio, but looking at screenshots it seems not to have particularly advanced graphics. Indeed, I still get
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
Reading this makes me despair for our species.
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
This group said that previous attacks on state government offices this past summer were motivated by bans on gender-affirming healthcare for minors [1]. Idaho is among the states that have passed such a ban [2], but afaik the group hasn&#x2
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
Uhh... ok. If you drive a few minutes past the horrifying automotive blight you arrive at... a shoulderless road going through an empty field. It's not a suburb, but it demonstrates the problem with car-centric development and sprawl.
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
The problem is that your purchases in aggregate are used to profile you and decide how you should be treated as a customer. Companies decide whether to reject your returns, or to offer you deals on products, based on consumer scoring [1]. E
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
No comment on dates, but my phone has a higher screen resolution than my laptop. That doesn't mean it has more space for UI elements.
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
> Why do you think it was OK back then? Have you talked to any Native Americans about the effects of uncontrolled migration on their tribes? Plainly put, it was an unmitigated disaster and a genocide. They used to control the whole conti
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
> it was really difficult to travel anywhere except maybe between neighboring countries. Yet most of the inhabitants of the United States are descended from people who immigrated during the time period you're talking about. Why was
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
> Someone being able to prove they are who they say they are is only dystopian to a vocal minority. There are plenty of non-dystopian ways for people to do that. I was able to prove that I'm ComposedPattern by typing my password. Fo
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
Everyone deserves healthcare. It doesn't matter who they are.

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