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by beedeebeedee 7d ago
Example: Surveillance state, endless propaganda. That is already happening and is the most frightening but not included in your list. Are you not worried?
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by beedeebeedee 8d ago
The only way to stop it is to regulate it. We’re almost there. Read the history about the war on drugs. David Musto has a great book about it, The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control. It was never designed to stop it. Its goal fro
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by beedeebeedee 8d ago
If you’re feeling down, go listen to music on Sixth Street, head to New Orleans or camp out at Enchanted Rock
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by beedeebeedee 9d ago
I think those two arguments converge into one- you can’t get the intent unless you have the process
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by beedeebeedee 10d ago
> The war on drugs definitely didn't cause the drug trade or the murders. Have to stop you right there. The “war on drugs” absolutely has created the conditions for the drug trade and the murders. If you criminalize a large part of
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by beedeebeedee 1mo ago
If Delaware was committing a genocide, you better believe people would be posting about it
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by beedeebeedee 1mo ago
There’s a great book called Paleopoetics by Christopher Collin’s that looks at exactly that
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by beedeebeedee 1mo ago
I’m from New Haven and if you went into a place and asked for a beef patty you would get a Jamaican beef patty, not a burger. It may not be everywhere, but pretty much every city I’ve lived in that is the case
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by beedeebeedee 2mo ago
Ha ha! Wow, the level of ignorance is staggering
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by beedeebeedee 2mo ago
I’d be curious to learn about what you were experiencing, what the astronauts experience and the third man syndrome that Everest hikers experience. I don’t know if they are similar but I’d be curious to learn more about how our perception a
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by beedeebeedee 2mo ago
Hi, this is a well known phenomenon in politics that is much discussed in political science and sociology, and goes by many names (strategic polarization, racial capitalism, split labor market theory, etc, and depending upon how you frame i
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by beedeebeedee 3mo ago
Stick around. The forum has some problems (like the confidently wrong commenter above), and needs curious, good faith folk to enliven the discussion.
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by beedeebeedee 3mo ago
The Times of London
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The theory taking the rich by storm: China funds data center haters(npr.org)
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by beedeebeedee 4mo ago
Yikes! That is not good
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by beedeebeedee 4mo ago
If you’re pissed you had to pay your HVAC guy to drive to your house and do something you think is trivial, why didn’t you do it yourself?
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
> No it means that perhaps the US should finally start looking at itself instead of just asserting that it doesn't need to because China. Agreed, the US definitely needs to do some introspection to sort out its own shit (and stop sp
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
The article claims that the whole project only cost $40,000, and then compares that to electric conversion offerings that cost $75,000 (and mentions that the global conversion market in 2024 was $5.9 billion). I think the implication is tha
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
Neat. I would have preferred the original interior over Tesla's, but I guess it would then just be an electric conversion and not a "Tesla" conversion with "FSD".
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
That could be, but you should also be aware that many people will have the knee jerk reaction to reject statements like yours as being paranoid and delusional. Assuredly sometimes that is an appropriate response, but the drive to immediatel
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
I've read their tweet: https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312 It's hard to take them seriously given the omission of the biggest catastrophe of the 2000s-2020s that underlies everything th
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
The best liquor I ever had was by a state police detective who had been home distilling since he was 12. It was made from rye and corn, but tasted like peaches. I think it is kind of magical to witness the process. I only experimented a few
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
Thanks for sharing your comment. I was skeptical about your claim that black mold would be a consequence of living near a distillery, but in fact, it is. It is called Whiskey Fungus and is related to the aging of the spirits. https:/&
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
Neat idea, but that sounds like it would eventually become weaponized if built; not only by using the energy beams destructively, but by choosing who does and who does not get power. One thing that has become glaringly obvious over the last
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by beedeebeedee 5mo ago
I don’t have kids, but suggested something years ago to my siblings when they started confronting similar issues: we should do a version of “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” for personal computers. Kids should start off with Commodore 64s,
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by beedeebeedee 6mo ago
That may be true elsewhere, but not in the US
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by beedeebeedee 6mo ago
That A-10’s can’t suppress manpads
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by beedeebeedee 6mo ago
Top-notch philosophical argumentation. All of your rare, educated and informed opinions really shine.
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by beedeebeedee 6mo ago
> That was never a question You originally made the statement that "Hegel is irrelevant in the age of measurement", to which I objected. Unless you're going to back pedal further, you did find studying Hegel questionable.
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by beedeebeedee 6mo ago
I don’t want to punch down, but that comes across a lot like trump saying he has the biggest words. You may not have the time or inclination, but there is a lot to learn from studying Hegel and the history of philosophy. No ‘measurement’ is

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