WitCanStain

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by WitCanStain 2y ago
Risking American lives? How many Americans have died in the war as a result of US aid?
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
The reason why terms like nazi, racist, sexist etc did not affect Trump's chances is because his voting base _does not care_ that he is those things. The right wing in America, magnitudes more than the left, does not care about the per
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
Not actively malicious perhaps, but prioritising profits over lives is evil. Either you take care to make sure the systems you sell lead to the best possible outcomes, or you get out of the sector.
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
Interestingly, according to the report in your link, UPenn pays over 3 billion dollars in salaries, but it has around 1,400 faculty for ~10,000 students. This means that either the instructors are fabulously well paid, or that the vast majo
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
Is the US responsible for any crime committed by members of ships that fly the star-spangled banner?
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
What is the difference between propaganda and someone expressing their view?
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
I think turning a fledgling democracy into a kleptocratic dictatorship and starting an unjust war that has caused 500k casualties is at least on par with the worst the US has done in recent history like Iraq.
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
Capitalism is a system that inevitably destroys its own guardrails.
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
Arguably it is far more authoritarian to enforce private ownership over social ownership.
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
Tinfoil? That is where we are headed. To handwave away concerns about where the current trajectory is going is very dismissive.
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
Why comment when you have no way of knowing, when the OP is themselves available to answer?
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
>why don't we have more prestigious universities? Legacy families need prestigious universities to be rare and exclusive so that them having gone there increases in value. They already know that their kids will get in so making top
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
What could we do with more accurate atomic clocks that we cannot do with current ones?
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by WitCanStain 2y ago
US will still have plenty of reason to defend Taiwan, if only because it is a crucial part of America's containment strategy - China would have a much easier time operating in the Pacific if it controls Taiwan, and the US won't al
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
It's not everyone's cup of tea but Kit Kat is an experience you won't find in many other places.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
I've been using only Linux (Manjaro) for the last six years, and although there's been marked improvement it's still in many ways buggier and clunkier for everyday use than even Windows.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
Perhaps in a near-post-scarcity world, resurrecting dead people is seen as one of the great humanitarian projects of civilization.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
Source?
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
If only you'll have the money to get high after you no longer have a job.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
Or just covertly tell Apple to hand over its documentation / to knowingly leave gaps in the defenses for NSA to exploit.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
Businesses exist to make money for their owners, full stop. Any needs they fulfill are largely incidental.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
While I broadly agree that that's a wise move, at the same time if I have to spend 8 hours a day working just to stay alive I can hardly be expected to also kill all non-work aspects of my personality for that time as well.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
And these are the people who have great say over AI safety. Jesus. Whoever thought that egomaniacs and profiteers would guide us to a bright AI future?
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
It is used that way in Finland and a fair few other countries and works perfectly well.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
Thermonuclear weapons are great for excavating large amounts of landmass in quick order. However I would propose that we nonetheless do not make them available to everyone.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
This is a strange argument. There is a vast difference between a world where you can buy semi-automatic weapons off a store shelf and one where you have to 3d-print one yourself or get a CNC mill to produce it. The point of regulation is to
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
If you execute all the staff at every power plant in the world and then keep executing the subsequent replacement cohorts, every power plant would have to shut down and we would dramatically reduce global CO2 production. Similarly, if you p
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
Why do you believe this?
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
The same could be said for traditional monogamy.
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by WitCanStain 3y ago
No, because it isn't.

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