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by mandmandam 1y ago
> There’s a non-trivial chance that we will never come together, even on a millennial time scale If you really believe that, then why do you think we deserve to infest the rest of the galaxy? We'd be planet killers, bringing death a
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by mandmandam 1y ago
I think I can answer this for you. You ask ChatGPT if combining bleach and [chemical] is bad. It says there can be some dangerous irritation to the lungs, and not to do it. You prompt it a couple times with new data that suggests the reacti
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by mandmandam 1y ago
As much as I despise insurance companies, risk assessment is their whole bag. And their money is on the line here. If they say it's significantly worse than the IPCC is estimating - and specific reasons are given in the article - the
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Yay, space serfs. Buddy, sci-fi warned us about this one real hard. Also, it's not as if our biggest problem is shortage of work. That's not even in the top 1,000 of our problems.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> There’s a very high chance that if we wait for those things to be solved before going out, we’ll simply never go out. I think the opposite is true. Right now, humanity is unable to solve genocide, nuclear proliferation, starvation, inc
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> 'Bashing' is a human trait. Software on the internet carries no such emotion. > software doesn't have this emotion you are trying to personify. Your best defense against accusations of classism is that you're so
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by mandmandam 1y ago
I have no problem with any of that, though it sure would be cool if we dealt with the worst of our climate, war, inequality and poverty issues before burning money to privatize space. But clearly laying out the very real risks and discomfor
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> Author is clearly not a happy bunny. Scouring the article I see no evidence for this claim whatsoever. > Having the right spirit and the right motivation creates mental well-being, not material or social conditions. The right spirit
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> Only poor people care about test scores as they imagine high test scores is how one can pull themselves out of being poor. Bashing 'poor people' aside, it's safe to say that on a national level, declining test scores ar
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> The stories have been routinely retracted by the BBC, NYTimes, Washington Post, NPR, etc after they’re later shown false. Do any of these stories compare to the mainstream media's systematic lies about 40 beheaded babies? Or babie
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Just to clarify - are you referring to the tunnel which Israel built itself in the 80's [0]? The one which was admitted not to even connect to the hospital in your own article? If so - were you aware that Israel built it? Or have you b
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Even the IDF now admits it had no evidence of Hamas systematically stealing aid [0]. Yet the talking point - which attempted to justify genocide and never had a shred of evidence - will linger for years. I still meet people who think Sadd
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by mandmandam 1y ago
If you want to bomb 33 out of 36 hospitals you should need better evidence than a single photo of a tunnel near a hospital. One which Israel built themselves in the 80s btw [0]. And let's not forget that Israel were caught lying abou
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> As a condition for joining the controlled tour, The New York Times agreed not to ... publish geographic details > according to the Israeli military > There are no known entrances to the tunnel within the hospital itself > Acc
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Hind Rajab being used as bait to murder aid workers was kind of a tell also. Or when they bombed all the hospitals [0], or targeted pediatricians and oncologists, and their families [1] for assassination. Or leaving preemie babies to rot
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by mandmandam 1y ago
It was flagged, but was restored. Sadly, that's still a bit effective at suppressing the story. The flags often have the effect of pushing things off the front page, even when they're restored within an hour or so. Not always th
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> it’s not because they are afraid of America. In some cases, it is precisely that. Ireland, for a fact, has been economically threatened for putting forward measures against Israel, ie [0]. We only know this because of investigative jou
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> are rapidly moving towards the sixth ones by all accounts The scientific consensus isn't that we're "moving towards" a mass extinction. It's that we're deep into one, and accelerating. "Current extinc
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by mandmandam 1y ago
As was the last one - which I believe was a significant part of OP's point. Neither side represents us.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> this platform actively encourages the likes of JK Rowling to doxx, slander, and harass people. What an interesting lie. You see women encouraged to protect each other, and 'women' gets autotranslated in your brain into "
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> Surprisingly, and refreshingly, it seems PG himself sees through all of the bullshit and consistently asks questions to understand why people have become ok with the murders of innocent children. He does, and that was decent. Still, P
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by mandmandam 1y ago
When all is said and done, the heart of your anger is that women might be "secretly publicizing" (your exact words, lol) things about men - sometimes about "their looks", and sometimes about the threat of assault and rap
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> You have no idea what else he is or isn't up in arms about. I actually looked back through 6 months worth of their comments. This is the angriest they've been here. > Given that the concern is users of this app /makin
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by mandmandam 1y ago
My argument was that because women can not rely on the justice system, you can't blame them for resorting to talking to each other on the internet about potential predators. That's not a "strawman argument", it's ju
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by mandmandam 1y ago
"Women having a platform to talk with each other without men is somehow equivalent to killing medical workers and torture". See, it's easy to "boil arguments down". However, this is a forum where we're supposed
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by mandmandam 1y ago
For all the gloating in here about doxxers getting doxxed, there sure are a lot of HN accounts exposing themselves as utter creeps in here.
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by mandmandam 1y ago
Here are some statistics for you to consider: * Out of every 1,000 sexual assaults, approximately 310 are reported to the police. * Of those reported, only about 13 cases are referred to a prosecutor. * Ultimately, only about 7 cases lead t
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by mandmandam 1y ago
To be fair, and not that you're saying otherwise: that seems like a pretty natural and chill response to the fact that men have always been assaulting and raping them. Like, it would be weird if women didn't ever speculate on wh
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by mandmandam 1y ago
> The purpose of sexuality is for relations with one’s spouse That's not actually true. That doctrine has been used to guilt-trip people and control their lives for many hundreds of years - but it isn't true. People are complex
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by mandmandam 1y ago
That's not how we talk here. Also, I was defending your argument lol. But still, I'll bite - how so? Because I see videos like this: https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1947556095779610961 or this: https:&#x

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