bairrd

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by bairrd 7mo ago
Can you give me examples of where police were actually defunded?
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by bairrd 5y ago
"I would strongly recommend you to reconsider wether thats truly the root of our problems - it's not." Can you back that claim up? "Try to understand the underlying systems that drive our behavior." Is the financial
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by bairrd 5y ago
Needlessly politicizing a refusal to engage with science that doesn’t meet a pre-determined narrative of YOLOing freely to oblivion! How rude of me! Of course healthcare is political!
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by bairrd 5y ago
Risk mitigation whilst hospitals are at capacity? Nah, gotta live my life! Otherwise they might perceive me as weak-willed, and more important than my continued existence is to ensure I am not perceived as a weakling! Anything else is other
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by bairrd 5y ago
Willful missing of the point. Also not implying that the outcome is anything approaching a good outcome, just a grim Darwinian one, where thinking responding to covid in any way to improve life expectancies is just some sign of weakness. Ou
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by bairrd 5y ago
Flu season doesn't lead to insanely high excess death rates, and overwhelm hospital capacity, making things like biking now a much higher risk activity as any visit to a hospital due to a broken bone or something is far more likely to
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by bairrd 5y ago
What would you define the events on that day as?
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by bairrd 5y ago
People are very quick to cry "someone should do something" when these extreme events happen. You offer the same people something, in the grand scheme of things fairly moderate like the Green New Deal, and they calcify back to thei
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by bairrd 5y ago
Enjoy the crime wave seems similarly inflammatory and impolite, but I find HN moderation frequently falls on a certain "if you say something rude/inflammatory but phrase it a certain way it's okay" which drives me up the
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by bairrd 5y ago
I always am asked when I say we should reduce policing budgets, "have you ever needed police?" In my experience, they've always been either so late that myself and neighbours have had to get involved in breaking up a rape &#x
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by bairrd 6y ago
No one in these situations ever talks about political capital. These shame based tactics arise from our powerlessness, as whether consciously or not, people who care about the environment realise that neither party, nor any private industry
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by bairrd 6y ago
Those in lower socioeconomic classes are the ones I've known who've gotten it, mostly because they were forced to work in offices or some public facing role where they had to interact with a lot of people. There is a terror of sma
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by bairrd 6y ago
Firing whistle-blowers is pretty egregious. If we can't try to fight for a better world after all this is over, what are we even doing besides just idly watching hundreds of thousands die?
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by bairrd 7y ago
May I ask why you hate linking to wikipedia?
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by bairrd 7y ago
Fiscally, yes.
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by bairrd 7y ago
These women were sex trafficked.
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by bairrd 7y ago
There's a difference between holding diverging opinions, and defending someone who had sex with a sex trafficed minor, right? If we don't uphold at least that as a society, what are we?
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by bairrd 7y ago
Yet I find the discussion focusing on the meta level of the conversation medium, and not on the higher-order level of society in general, and how a paid collective of actors can overwhelm the power of the individual, to be disingenuous, and
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by bairrd 7y ago
As Australia's "left wing" shift further right after their recent election loss, and the most popular newpapers reflect a right wing Murdoch perspective that seems to sell well, one which frequently decries any green party in
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by bairrd 7y ago
What does the continued distractionary tactic by those in power in government and the media, (especially in the UK relating to trans issues) of wringing hands over gender and sex have to do with a site ostensibly about hacker news, especial
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by bairrd 7y ago
I'd have to disagree about work strikes and riots, given how conditioned this country has been to lick the boots of the powerful, as a large chunk of this country sees itself as "temporarily displaced rich". Hacker News comme
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by bairrd 7y ago
I feel like the outcome of the case discussed here runs completely opposite to the outcome of the Marvin Gaye estate against Robin Thicke and the other writers on Blurred Lines, whereby the song, without any sort of similarity note-wise, wa
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by bairrd 7y ago
What would you define as the third party in cigarettes? Smokers and cigarette manufacturers seem to not have some negative third party by your definition, yet I find it pretty hard to accept that the current legislation against cigarette co
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by bairrd 7y ago
Why not both? People selling physical goods bake a certain percentage of shrinkange into the price of their goods whilst also finding new ways to prevent theft.
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by bairrd 7y ago
I find FT's reporting far superior to The Economist and the Wall Street Journal
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by bairrd 8y ago
I get your point, but isn't the parent to my comment equally as sarcastic a rhetorical response?
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by bairrd 8y ago
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by bairrd 8y ago
Get everything in writing. EVERYTHING.
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by bairrd 8y ago
"Find an employer who doesn't use that operating system" might be a viable option if we lived in a world where healthcare wasn't tied to employment, teleportation made geographic realities feasible, and no borders existe
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by bairrd 8y ago
Can you explain why you think $1.5 trillion in defense spending stopped the US from being a third world country? With the state of infrastructure & healthcare in this country, and the absolute lack of over-site in military spending beca

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