TomMckenny

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by TomMckenny 4y ago
True but then none of us would be alive to comment about it.
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by TomMckenny 4y ago
Shouldn't that be “e e cummings”?
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by TomMckenny 4y ago
Logically I don't see how a n>2 person marriage would be more likely to be abusive than a two person marriage.
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by TomMckenny 5y ago
A variation on Poe’s Law essentially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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by TomMckenny 5y ago
> We really don't have any direct, past precedent for this type of situation. Unfortunately we do have precedent. Through all of history almost no one owed their own home. It was by extraordinary government intervention in the 20th
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by TomMckenny 5y ago
They may lobby and campaign finance their way to some very inconvenient legislation but to consistently hurt EV they would need to turn it into a political shibboleth in the way the oil industry did with climate change. Naturally I hope thi
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by TomMckenny 5y ago
Rent seeking kills innovation. Patents as currently legislated, issued and resold are overwhelmingly just tools for rent seeking. There probably is a theoretical way to do it that encourages innovation but it’s hard to see a society ruled b
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by TomMckenny 5y ago
This means that raising housing costs, interest rates and debt, taxes, and medical costs reduce his figure for foreign imports as a percentage of spending. That increasing the amount spent on those things is “good news” regarding trade defi
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by TomMckenny 5y ago
But if they called it ‘rent’ instead of ‘tax’ there would be far less outrage. Strange value system.
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by TomMckenny 5y ago
> so far it seems like "no", or "not yet" On the contrary, it does indeed and has been known to do so for many decades [0,1] Indeed, in Citizens United, SCOTUS in the concurring opinion claimed the founders intent in
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Note it is backwards to think that if a platform _fails_ to carry the regime's message then _the platform_ is impeding freedom rather than noting that it is _the government_ that is applying anti-freedom pressure on a dissenting _non g
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
>Even if what you described about current American elections was actually the case (it isn't) https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13301372676801863... https://twitter.com/realDonaldT
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
I'm am guessing you do not live in Hungary, Poland, Brazil or Turkey either. Everything in the US is political now: face masks, 5G networks, vaccines, mail. Facebook dominates people's lives yet is an endless spam of politics. Goo
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
It is indeed as physics is an abstraction of reality. And both are conspicuously accurate far more often than not. "An adjustment to suffering that requires powerful people to loose some power" means exactly the same thing as &quo
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
>Yeah, it's almost as if human beings care about concrete, meaningful changes that affect their lives and not some all-encompassing, abstract class struggle. The plantation owner worries only about the bottom line and the suburbanit
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
[edit] I had a lengthy more thoughtful post here but it seems I had mistaken a pronouncement for a discussion. The near instant voting response made me realize that absurdity, especially in light of the fact that I am responding to the seco
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
It might seem that way but, as the many posts bellow show, that is literally what is being advocated. There should be no disclaimer on posts advocating drinking Lysol because: the parents would have hurt the kid anyway, there are already wa
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Facebook is not the web, it is a toy devoted to advertisement. It is not were potential Einsteins or Galileos debut their big new ideas. It is not were cover ups about WMD or anything else are initially exposed. All of that is very sensibly
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
I'm pointing out a problem with a real post that actually exists right at this very moment.
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
So the enormously popular post telling parents to make their kids drink Lysol should not have even the slightest warning next to it because the poster could be like Galileo or Einstein?
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Because they were hammered into submission by demagogues and their supporters who rely on disinformation and conspiracy theories to retain power.
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
>...the bifurcation of the American dream. It used to be that working-class folks could reasonably aspire to buy a house. ...So unemployment is going to be bad for one part of America... Housing as institutional investment and institutio
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
> the risk of getting Covid19 and not getting access to hospital resources is much lower than expected, so it was true. Not quite true, NYC was over stressed and there is at least one mass grave and are still corpses in refrigerator truc
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
yeah, dictatorships and leaders with and autocratic mentality like to downplay disasters. An obviously harmful policy.
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Perhaps the propaganda efforts are comparable but I submit that it is a topic separate form Chinese censorship that extends well outside China. Likewise, in a discussion of US propaganda, to bring up Chinese censorship as a rebuttal would b
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
It's absurd to compare the US to China because: 1: It's not the topic 2: it's a blatant falacy 3: it distracts from the main point adding unneeded emotionalism and 4: Even with it's current slide toward Eastern European
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Another perhaps core issue is whether the party in power gets there by majority will or is there due to legalisms, archaic power distribution and voter suppression. The party that people didn't vote for is not likely to run anything in
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Even if Popcorntime was considered functionally the same as Grokster, GitHub certainly isn't. In order for GitHub to be held liable, not only would the DMCA have to stretch to Grokster like tools but even further to anyone who provides
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
All accurate and objective and good for everyone to know early rather than late. Moving a bit further from the specifics, it's worth noting that this is not a natural state of affairs. Humans evolved to be in groups of about 30-100 peo
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Will there be objections from companies that have been part of the biggest stock rally in generations, large companies that took piles of the small business bail out money and, companies like Domino's that have thrived yet had to be fo

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