iammisc

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by iammisc 5y ago
> Maintaining a national culture, at that point, will likely be looked on very negatively. Only by those making a particular salary, which is ultimately the cause of the great right-wing movements in most parts of the world, America, Eur
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by iammisc 5y ago
Europe, the US, Canada, Japan, and S Korea are all incredibly nationalistic to varying different levels. How do you know someone's a European? They tell you all about how Europe is better than America? How do you know someone is americ
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by iammisc 5y ago
By all reasonable metrics, the covid vaccine makes the risk of covid negligible for all interested groups. If you're worried get the vaccine (I have) and carry on. Sticking your nose in everyone else's business is just unhealthy.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Because the attributes that lead you to be rich also make you a workaholic? This isn't rocket science. Relative wealth is ultimately mainly due to your decisions. That's why most lottery winners end up losing the money. If they ha
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by iammisc 5y ago
I think it's extremely telling that our culture equates love with sex so much, that you differentiate friendship (the most common form of relationship) with 'love without sex' rather than marriage (or whatever) as 'love
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by iammisc 5y ago
No. If you bought it, you own it. The thief now owes the original owner damages. This is true in the United States and I assume England since it's old common law stuff. It's why thieves try to steal and then turn over immediately.
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by iammisc 5y ago
The us doesn't have centralized land registries. While the counties record titles as a matter of convenience, the true title is determined by the courts. Other countries have centralized registries so that if the country's databas
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by iammisc 5y ago
I've played almost 25 years, including some professional. To answer you... I don't come up with fingering. I just do what my hands do. The fingerings in printed music are guidelines for pedagogy. Honestly I'm not even sure I
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by iammisc 5y ago
Personally, I foresee breeding programs for armies to create perfect soldiers. I foresee breeding programs for a permanent slave underclass. How can you not see the problems?
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by iammisc 5y ago
> 25 years old, and probably the most striking thing from this distance is the implicit assumption that all the readers would believe in racism, but not sexism. Sex and race are not two equivalent classes. There are material differences
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by iammisc 5y ago
Most people don't think it's a problem at all.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> This has become problematic when we use the plural. Grammatically, it's not problematic at all. Some people with new ideas completely out of line with the culture at large make a big deal of it.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Again, why don't you share your wisdom?
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Debt to your citizens is great Except it's not. Debt to citizens represents tax payments that are owed from all citizens to the subset of citizens owning debt. The rich own a disproportionate amount of bonds. This is expected. By
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by iammisc 5y ago
Debt is not different. How can you honestly say this? German WWI debt is widely recognized behind many of the lead ups into WWII.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Can't wait for the butlerian jihad.
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by iammisc 5y ago
I dunno what cargo-cult intellectualism is. Contrary to what it may seem, I rarely read economics blogs / political philosophy, etc. It just seems obvious to me that if you increase everyone's income by $10, price of goods will go
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by iammisc 5y ago
Honestly, you're right. That's why low-wage employees working in non-goods occupations (like clerks and hospitality) don't get mistreated. It has to do with access to goods, which are easily quantifiable.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Hey... I'm not tricking anyone. I used a term that was related to work I was currently doing. It's not the best term, you're right. But my meaning was quite clear. If you base UBI on cost of living, and cost of living depends
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by iammisc 5y ago
> And I am now curious about your beliefs that conservative politics will lead to a just society. Of course not. Politics will never lead to a just society. There is no such thing as 'conservative' politics; or at least, such a
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by iammisc 5y ago
> That only means at state level and most places will add taxes at a locality level. Oregon (my own state) has no sales tax anywhere, including localities.'
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Other countries raise more revenue (taxes) and pay for more things. That is "great", you say. The US could do the same. Well sure, but we'd have to pay off our debt first. If you want to raise taxes to pay off debt, I&#x
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by iammisc 5y ago
If his presence means nothing, then why exactly do we have a secretary of transportation?
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by iammisc 5y ago
> The fertility rate of the USA and China is the same - 1.7 children per couple. China's facing a huge demographic crisis in the coming decades, primarily as a result of the one child policy. Is this really true? No wonder America s
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Instead of trying to band-aid globalization to make a minority rich, how about we reduce the need for so much international shipping in the first place? Because if you propose any solution to such things, you are apparently a racist.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> So why are depressive disorders so prevalent there Because there's no such thing as 'depressive disorder'. We expect people to be happy, and when they're not, we call them diseased. Nothing is wrong with them. Also,
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by iammisc 5y ago
Endocrinologists are terrible at knowing what hormone ranges are good for your age and sex. As a man with thyroid problems, I am thoroughly disabused of the idea that most endocrinologists have any clue what they're talking about. Cert
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by iammisc 5y ago
> In addition you are using turing complete in a completely nonsensical way as nobody is using cost of living to compute with. And yet, emergent behavior does indeed compute the cost of living. When the emergent behavior itself is based
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by iammisc 5y ago
Pluralism is not a problem, because civic disagreement is not a problem. I was responding directly to the parent comment: > It's America--everybody thinks everybody else is living their lives the wrong way. I'm explaining why i
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by iammisc 5y ago
See my edit... I was asking about states with no sales tax. I agree that sales tax + no income tax is toxic. However, most states have sales + income tax. I'm asking if the states with income tax and no sales tax do better.

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