contourtrails

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by contourtrails 8y ago
I'm with you, prohibition of weed is very backwards. But that's hardly slavery.
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by contourtrails 8y ago
How so? Economic circumstances negatively impact certain people more than others in the world but how are modern western governments perpetuating racism?
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by contourtrails 8y ago
They broke laws and are being punished as criminals. Many people of all races are punished in the same way. I think drug laws in this country are way too harsh, but those are the laws. People should not break them if they don't want to
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by contourtrails 8y ago
>"What does the NSA so? Who are they protecting? You're comitting a logical fallacy. You think just because bad things sometimes do happen to US citizens that the NSA clearly isn't doing anything.... Clearly faulty logic.
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The Iran Deal Is Strategically and Morally Absurd(theatlantic.com)
2 points by contourtrails 8y ago|0 comments
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by contourtrails 8y ago
No, that particular case was a completely justified use of lethal force. Police we're being directly fired upon. Should officers not fire back when they are fired upon?
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by contourtrails 8y ago
That's naive, there will always be people looking to subvert the system because they want to see the world burn.
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by contourtrails 8y ago
It's funny, some people are so opposed to increasing capabilities of law enforcement but they conveniently ignore that the capabilities of criminals are increasing too. Law enforcement should be as many steps ahead of criminals as poss
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The Next America (2014)(pewresearch.org)
1 points by contourtrails 8y ago|0 comments
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by contourtrails 8y ago
I'm not arguing about anything, I'm just stating facts
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Deep Insight into Neural Evolution from a Crocodile Listening to Bach in an MRI(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by contourtrails 8y ago|0 comments
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by contourtrails 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that a minority group - Asian Americans - do much better than their white counterparts on the GRE. Don't paint this "white males vs everyone else" narrative since it's patently not true. The score di
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by contourtrails 8y ago
I think in general social media is hostile to conservative viewpoints because most social media users are young. There's really not much social media companies can do if someone gets downvoted into oblivion because 90% of people viewin
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by contourtrails 8y ago
It's not really that way. The universe has produced things that basically must exist given the laws of physics (when certain chemicals exist together under certain conditions we know they will react in certain ways, etc). We are one of
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by contourtrails 8y ago
>"The Third Reich was a diagnosis regime, obsessed with sorting the population into categories, cataloging people by race, religion, politics, sexuality..." It's never good to categorize people like that. Many groups throu
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by contourtrails 8y ago
Hive mind exists everywhere, the goal is to not encourage it.
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by contourtrails 8y ago
What is the purpose? What will downvoting enable aside from downvoting itself? I have a sense it will only worsen the mob mentality on Facebook and make it more like Reddit.
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by contourtrails 8y ago
I don't have much sympathy for major news organizations because they are publishing opinions more than they are publishing breaking news based on investigative journalism. Of course I can't blame them, because the industry's
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H-1B Abuse: Bay Area Tech Workers from India Paid a Pittance, Feds Say(mercurynews.com)
23 points by contourtrails 8y ago|5 comments
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EEG Accurately Predicts Autism as Early as 3 Months of Age(sciencedaily.com)
154 points by contourtrails 8y ago|53 comments
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by contourtrails 8y ago
The next season of Black Mirror may just be a documentary on China
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Columbia MFA Students Demand Full Tuition Refund(columbiaspectator.com)
33 points by contourtrails 8y ago|4 comments
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Saudi Crown Prince: Palestinians should take what the U.S. offers(axios.com)
3 points by contourtrails 8y ago|0 comments
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What Your Hand Strength Says About Your Marriage Prospects and Mortality(sciencedaily.com)
3 points by contourtrails 8y ago|0 comments
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by contourtrails 8y ago
Start with Mozart, move to Beethoven. Wrapping your head around classical styles is easier when you directly compare the Classical and Romantic styles since they are quite different. That gives you a foundation to understand other forms.
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by contourtrails 8y ago
But you read my comment, so you know I'm not saying what I am saying "because whatever", I'm saying it because in general I disagree with isolation and am in favor of partnership and integration. Obviously one incubator
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by contourtrails 8y ago
Your attitude is a tempting one, but it is socially harmful in the long run. The issue is that women are actually doing more social harm than good by isolating themselves. The more that women work side by side with men on equal footing in t
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China Rolls Out 'Social Credit Score' System(newyork.cbslocal.com)
76 points by contourtrails 8y ago|33 comments
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by contourtrails 8y ago
The issue is that the population sequestering itself in an isolated working space is stepping away from unity and partnership and backwards towards fear and mistrust. We learn to work together by actually working together. It's tempti
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by contourtrails 8y ago
Seems needlessly reactionary. The way to encourage cooperation is to cooperate, not to isolate.

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