lumberjack

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by lumberjack 6y ago
Autism diagnosis does not really focus on social interactions. Difficulties in social interaction are a side effect but it is not how they diagnose the condition.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
Most (like 90% or more) autistic people are low functioning. But they are completely invisible to people like you. When you hear the word you think of the border line cases that fall under the label "high functioning autism". But
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by lumberjack 6y ago
The argument holds no water and it is pretty disgusting of this uber-for-porn pimp to pretend he is doing good. Porn is like weed. If you want to consume it ethically you need to verify your sources. These cam sites have their own serious e
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by lumberjack 6y ago
Yes in some ideal environment a sex worker and a pimp could have a mutually beneficial relationship. But that is not why pimping is looked down upon. And you made no honest attempt to address the issues that exist in practice.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
The author is trying to hijack contemporary moral outrage against legitimate cases of sexism to try to legitimize a pimp business.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
They are literal pimps doing literal pimp work: recruiting young girls, connecting them with clients, and taking a cut of the profit, while keeping control of the whole business. It is not my fault you are offended. I would have no problem
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by lumberjack 6y ago
The article is not about sex workers but about virtual pimps and it is not advocating for sex workers but for the pimp's business. Big difference.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
Looks like the porn industry is bankrolling a PR campaign to legitimize their business. It is particularly amusing to see them pretend they are feminists when in truth practically all feminists hate porn. And I also find amusing the implica
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by lumberjack 6y ago
Don't buy drugs off the street or promote their use.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
I have the same exact problem! I wanted to delete my account, just in case, but I cannot login. I haven't used Paypal in over 10 years. Their "service" is really not needed anymore.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
I calculated fuel savings if I owned an EV. I did it for Germany. The fuel savings are basically negligible (it was about 200 Euros per year). This is due to high electricity prices. In the US at least you can say, I will pay $15k more upfr
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by lumberjack 6y ago
It's a psychology thing. People feel less if they are sharing a road with somebody who is sitting way higher than them. Also big cars feel (and probably are) safer (for the occupants). So now there is a sort of race to for SUV adopti
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by lumberjack 6y ago
You are right that you also have to include taxes, but you also have to account for the fact that taxes are dependent on income and coverage is always guaranteed. So it is not the same as paying for a service. It is something else.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
Working link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-25/danish-nu...
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by lumberjack 6y ago
That's no secret, ... that's exactly how it is supposed to work.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
The "online" part is the inherent problem because suddenly every user has access to 10,000 other users, which creates problems for both sides. When you have people meeting irl, they are meeting far less new people at a given time
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by lumberjack 6y ago
>I think the main problem is that the prime selection criterion for most women is not looks. Says who? The men who do best with women are the most physically attractive. No other demographic does better. You can have $10M in the bank and
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by lumberjack 6y ago
You can make persuasive arguments that might not appeal to the scientifically literate rationalist, but will appeal to the somebody who is just using very crude heuristics and might have ended up believing in a conspiracy theory. For exampl
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by lumberjack 6y ago
I see scientists who put themselves in the public sphere behaving like this mostly. They double down on the science, when people are questioning the whole institution rather than whether or not some particular science is correct.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
The "anti-science" crowds are all about trust. They aren't anti-science per se. Education as it is currently done won't really help much because it is not focused on what are actually persuasive arguments to these people
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by lumberjack 6y ago
To me the electric bit is the least interesting aspect. Going with a cabin-less design is an ... interesting business strategy. What's the farmer to do when the tractor makes an error? Call Deere customer support? With the current des
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by lumberjack 6y ago
I use wolframalpha and convert everything to millilitres and grams as appropriate. Most times you don't even need to distinguish between volume and weight because wolframalpha also does that conversion for you.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
>The absence of these regulations will create room for businesses who would vet investments for you at different risk levels. Those already exist and are called managed funds. The problem is, there is often a conflict of interest and the
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by lumberjack 6y ago
Americans won't know this history. They also don't know that weak countries prefer to remain neutral rather than join NATO. Joining NATO also makes you a target. US tried hard to get everyone to join, including a fair bit of meddl
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by lumberjack 6y ago
Used ICE cars will very quickly go up in price making them less affordable for the poorer classes.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
conflict of interest, they are implying they are TSLA holders or shorters
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by lumberjack 6y ago
I never tried e-ink for prolonged times, but I always found the contrast to be a bit lacking, which is something that contributes to eye fatigue. Last I used such devices was over 5 years ago though, so maybe technology has improved now.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
To me it is not obvious. What causation do you think is at play here? A lot of commenters seem to think it is some kind of emotional mechanism, mentioning things like social media and such. But it might just be a physical mechanism, like be
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by lumberjack 6y ago
Could go either way, though. People don't want to upset mean looking people either.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
They don't care about you because you're not a politically influential demographic. Notice how the demographic that dominates this debate is the second most privileged and influential demographic in the country: white women; yet t

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