eirini1

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by eirini1 6mo ago
what always strikes me as weird is how often the conversation is framed around "men competing in women's sports" when trans women cant really be said to be biologically male anymore. Taking Estrogen and blocking testosterone
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by eirini1 7mo ago
> While the IDF unquestionably committed various war crimes over the course of the conflict anyway, the bulk of what people found objectionable very well might have been done in total accordance with international law. I think this is so
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by eirini1 10mo ago
I don't agree with this logic. It implies that people who use Google, Bing and a million other products made by US-based companies are supportive of the huge amount of attrocities commited or aided by the United States. Or other countr
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by eirini1 11mo ago
Never agreed with this logic. For a lot of people (anyone that does political activism of some sort for example) the threat model can be a lot more nuanced. It might not be Mossad or the CIA gunning for you, specifically, but it might polic
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by eirini1 6y ago
I agree with the idea behind the paradox of tolerance, I just find the idea of this being only applied to a chinese-owned company because of things china does somewhat hilarious. America does much worse so its clearly not about morals or an
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by eirini1 6y ago
I find it interesting that you mention this offhand because I've been very seriously noticing this type of prudishness in a lot of gen z and younger gen y people and its begining to manifest as old style homophobia
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by eirini1 6y ago
how is that a good comparison, when you're given puppies you are being made responsible for living creatures, If you're given a bunch of code you can literally just drop it.
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by eirini1 6y ago
Is this a real book someone wrote? Incredible to me how you can call yourself an economist and just write basic observations and conclude they are the root cause of everything without even taking a cursory look at the history of things.
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by eirini1 6y ago
For real, all I want is for us to go back to the time where you could pop off the back cover of your phone by at worst unscrewing some screws, and the easily replace the battery.
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by eirini1 6y ago
If a virus cannot transmit itself at all it will eventually die off completely as it cannot reproduce.
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by eirini1 6y ago
maybe the solution is that parents shouldn't have to work during a pandemic if they can't.
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by eirini1 6y ago
>Lockdown cause massive unemployment, bankruptcy, mental health issue, kids not getting proper education, delayed treatment/care for non-covid cause, etc. a lockdown doesn't inherently cause this. These things are caused by a b
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by eirini1 6y ago
the problem is not people who are worried about their finances - that is understandable. The problem is people who want to put finances over covid, mostly because covid requires certain measures in order to be eradicated (objectively) where
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by eirini1 6y ago
i mean, at least where I live many records about average and max temperature have been broken 3 years in a row now. I suppose if this continues it will actually start to be not unusual for this to happen.
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by eirini1 6y ago
sounds like an excuse to me. How is a political organization in a country that has no jurisdiction over you in any way a threat to your individual freedoms, but the state apparatus in your own country somehow not even when its literally tel
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by eirini1 6y ago
how is this in any way in opposition to the free market? The information is freely acceesible, the fact that its hard to understand is the problem of the consumer no? The free market solution would be to have some kind of independent organi
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by eirini1 6y ago
in what sense is TikTok a "propaganda outlet"?
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by eirini1 6y ago
>Science is not advanced by eliminating everything that disagrees with the establishment. It is also definitely not advanced by presenting fringe theories that very few scientists actually consider relevant as actually being about as clo
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by eirini1 6y ago
... are you sure rent hasnt gone up massively over the past decade? I feel like it has.
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by eirini1 6y ago
demand for housing is somewhat inelastic though. It will only increase to the point where homeless people can now afford to rent a room somewhere. UBI would only significantly increase demand if it was so much money that a lot of people wou
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by eirini1 6y ago
>Basically our system is, we want every country to be able to elect their government through some sort of democracy. you are leaving aside the fact that your system also involves an armed invasion by the USA if a certain country does som
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by eirini1 6y ago
do you seriously think it makes any sense to make laws that forbid eating nuclear waste or bombs? Thats ridiculous.
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by eirini1 6y ago
Rand's education was made possible by communists - both monetarily and also by fighting for the right of women to enter higher education. Always deliciously ironic to see.
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by eirini1 6y ago
The US installed a dictatorship in my country in the 70s. China hasn't done anything of the sort, except ship me cheap stuff through aliexpress. I know who I would choose as my designated data thief if I had to choose between the US st
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by eirini1 6y ago
it should, obviously, be the entire population.
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by eirini1 6y ago
maybe not witchcraft accusations per se, but im quite unsure how you can be aware of events occuring in the world right now and think that exploiting the current socioeconomic order to gain land and wealth is not done.
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by eirini1 6y ago
not all, there are plenty of ways to phrase something without offending people - unless of course the content of what you are saying is itself, offensive :)
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by eirini1 6y ago
I wanted to make a very basic cabinet for my bathroom. It basically required two long planks, yet the price of these two planks was more than buying a ready made cabinet from ikea.
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by eirini1 6y ago
"the government" is much more than simply the currently-elected politicians. The currently elected politicians simply operate certain positions within the government.
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by eirini1 6y ago
> In the same spirit would you support war against China in order to save the Uyghurs and other suppressed groups? No, for two reasons: I don't actually have any concrete information on what is happening in China, and 2 the USA does

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