jwalgenbach

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by jwalgenbach 3y ago
The treatment is for type 1, not type 2. Very different causes.
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by jwalgenbach 3y ago
Campaign donations are not personal gifts, and regulated by election laws. This is a false equivalency and at best whataboutism. This is not to say Citizen's United shouldn't be repealed and campaign contributions much more tightl
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by jwalgenbach 3y ago
Cars don't run. And even if they did, or you tortured the definition to include rolling on fairly straight prepared paths as running, it is only better for specific definitions of better. Cars are faster on reasonable traversable terra
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by jwalgenbach 4y ago
Except it is the speech of those pressuring the company that is free. I can tell a company that supports things I don't agree with that I won't be a customer. If enough of customers vote with their wallets, the company will change
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by jwalgenbach 4y ago
I think it is the use of the term "landchad". I've never heard it before. Maybe it's a thing, but it sure sounds like a phrase from the incel world.
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by jwalgenbach 4y ago
I'm sure he didn't care. It's not as though there is video of him... Oh, right. There is. https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-i-will-be-appointing-pro...
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
The internet was meant to be used by people who knew how the internet worked. Herein lies the problem. This might sound like gatekeeping, and maybe it is. When these systems were designed, they were not designed to be used by everyone. They
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
Why not use all of it? I opted out of micropayments and ads, installed the full bevy of ad blocking on Brave, and use pihole for DNS.
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
Wow. This article aged badly in the span of hours. From the article, published this week: "...bringing back social restrictions is pointless so long as there is no danger of hospitals being overwhelmed." Also from this week ( http
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
No. They're all bullshit.
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
There is not a direct relationship between Fox News and Fox 45. That is true. But... Fox 45 Baltimore is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and corporation with a definite pro-Trump bias, and a history of making editorial decisions push
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
Unless Trump is challenging the terms of service that he had to agree to when getting his account, this is largely a non-issue. Trump _agreed_ that Facebook/Twitter could ban him whenever he crossed their usage policy, which they can a
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
Or because sequels often add new characters. And the Trump Republicans made themselves ridiculously easy targets...see the Four Seasons Landscaping fiasco, paying off Playboy models and pornstars, suggesting publicly that people inject them
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
That's actaully the problem. You can't change a fingerprint, but you can fake one.
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
No, we downvote things that are crap. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/31/fac...
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
That is a definition of God that is so amorphous that it is completely useless. God is whatever you want it to be in that particular moment. So much so, that there is nothing concrete there. You are simply living from moment to moment, with
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
The Church is composed of the people in it. And should be judged by the actions of those that comprise it, otherwise you are abandoning all agency, and it may as well be dismantled as it could not be responsible for anything it does. Also,
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
And no one is claiming that there aren't sinners in the Church, and no one is outraged that there are. The problem is that the "hospital" was moving abusers around from floor to floor to avoid responsibility. Heck, if the Chu
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
Religion is just a tool too. It's just not wielded by the flock, but rather by someone that wants to control the actions of the flock. Spirituality can be something else altogether, but usually just boils down to magical thinking.
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
"Virtually every youth-serving organization used to not handle abuse of youth properly." This again? The existence of others committing the same crimes does not indemnify the Church. Love the "Society has changed" argume
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
So the Church, an organization that sets itself up as the moral arbiter between God and man, doesn't have more of a moral responsibility than school districts across the country? And there is plenty of moral outrage for coverups, no ma
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
There's a lot of conceit in this notion that just because _you_ can't understand or explain something means that it goes beyond understanding and explanation. Religion exists because of that conceit, that notion that either someth
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by jwalgenbach 5y ago
"There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be." Oh, that's crap. There are more than 100 victims of c
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
Actually, yes. This is entirely reasonable. Hosting companies decided they didn't want 4chan or Stormfront or other hives of white supremacy and that's okay. Publishers are allowed to not publish a book. Fox News and CNN get to de
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
Except it wasn't. Carnivore was a thing that people knew about, and the US government backed away from it when it was publicized. Total Information Awareness was a thing that was known and not a conspiracy theory. The Patriot Act was a
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
Really? Your answer to Apple restricting information posted by people protesting elections is to ask how people would feel about restricting information from white supremacist terrorists. At the very least, this is a whataboutism argument,
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
This is a false equivalency. One is a group objecting to rigged elections and another is a group that advocates for violence against others based on ethnicity. Those are very different things, and it is necessary to differentiate between th
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
There is a segment of the Apple consumer-base that appear to think that Apple can do no wrong. It's a cult of personality just like any other, and pointing out the hypocrisy is satisfying for some, if ultimately futile.
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
Kroger buys wholesale, and sets the prices in it's store independent of what it paid (presumably they want a profit, but it could also be a loss leader). And there is no lock-in for a grocery store (i.e. I can buy the identical product
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by jwalgenbach 6y ago
Fair enough. a) As I stated in the argument about the difference between discrimination against protected classes versus hosting content on a private server, I'd say that legally, these are not equivalent. b) Ethically is an interestin

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