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by powerslacker 4y ago
Good for you. For the most part I agree on the denial bit. Particularly when the "lived experience" is centuries of casual human trials.
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by powerslacker 4y ago
1) Take a short break of at least a full day and do something you enjoy. Get some exercise and some fresh air if you can. 2) Mentally prepare yourself for the grind ahead. A lot of the jobs you are applying to are already filled by the time
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by powerslacker 4y ago
These behemoths are a major vertebrae in the backbone of the US economy. Without Equifax, Transunion, Experian and Dun & Bradstreet a huge portion of economic activity would come to a grinding halt. The vast majority of sales of housing
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Not all taxation is theft. However, taxation taken specifically from one person or group in order to benefit another is theft. Taxation for the purpose of maintaining the military, police, roads, and other necessary public infrastructure i
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by powerslacker 4y ago
This kind of response tells me I've struck a nerve. I don't have these kinds of conversations because I want people to vote for conservatives in the upcoming elections. While I certainly would not mind that outcome, what is far mo
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Laws are non-material by definition. You can't eat or touch the law of gravity for example. Using "caught up in a religion" or "means something different to every member" as a reason to ignore an argument is arbitra
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by powerslacker 4y ago
> I fail to see a distinction here. The government defines what is legal. I suppose one can appeal to some higher power as the source of all law or something idealistic like that, but that's not how the IRS or the Texas State tax as
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Well this whole thread is regarding whether or not someone ought to vote for a non-conservative government. So the first thing you could do to avoid such a situation is vote to elect individuals who are true to their word and argue against
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Sharing is usually voluntary. If the government levied a 100% tax on your income and assets, kept the vast majority of it, and then redistributed you a year supply of beans, rice, and a tent you would consider that to be a violation of thei
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by powerslacker 4y ago
It sounds like you are saying "Yes, but its justified because they stole first". Is that what you meant?
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Isn't that just stealing?
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by powerslacker 4y ago
We would need to limit the state in some way so that it would be unable to grow beyond a certain set of powers. The populace would also need to agree that such an arrangement was a preferable alternative to being subject to a state which at
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by powerslacker 4y ago
How would electing a non-conservative government help?
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by powerslacker 4y ago
The Federal government in the US is (on paper) extremely limited in comparison to other countries. The US constitution was written specifically to limit the potential for tyrannical or mob rule. To regulate or disarm the citizenry of the Un
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by powerslacker 4y ago
I wonder how this will affect housing prices in the rest of the states. The bay area has a lot of people, if half of them migrate that's bound to have an effect.
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by powerslacker 4y ago
The timing of the publication of this data is telling. The data is gathered from a total of 1018 total cases from 2017-2019. The CDC has also published totals of the national rates of maternal mortality: https://www.cdc.gov/
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by powerslacker 4y ago
As @a-user-you-like has pointed out, your interpretation is a common misconception about what 'freedom of religion' means. The framers certainly did not mean that the laws passed by the state and federal governments were to be com
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by powerslacker 4y ago
A significant amount of people aren't looking at this as an issue of metrics, convenience, economics, or anything of the sort. That's a utilitarian approach. The vast majority of people opposed to legal & regulated prostitutio
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Your bias and the bias of the study you cited are painfully obvious and assume a particular point of view as valid while rejecting others. The whole concept of the study is framed in a utilitarian value system. If you had a thousand similar
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by powerslacker 4y ago
> I don't think I've ever seen a clear separation of these things. That's really too bad. Maybe I'll write an article or something. > Also, I would like to thank you for taking the time to reply thoughtfully! I do
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Sorry, but I will not elaborate.
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by powerslacker 4y ago
All appeals to an ultimate authority are circular by nature. Its the philosophical equivalent of bedrock. That being said, you can understand Christianity and the Christian philosophy/worldview perfectly well without faith. You need f
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Sent you an email.
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Happy to talk with you outside of HN. I used to be LDS and so was my wife. I'll send you an email.
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Not all conversion therapy is benign. If you are talking about using shock therapy then we are in agreement. That's not really what I'm talking about. Counseling could be an example of benign therapy - depending on the context. An
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by powerslacker 4y ago
I would mind. I can tell you that I have personal connections to persons who have abandoned their so called "sexual orientation". It is trivial to search for examples. There have been entire organizations of individuals claiming s
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by powerslacker 4y ago
There are numerous cases of changes to "sexual orientation".
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Anyone who spends a few afternoons in the shady parts of San Francisco can tell you that the issue is not a lack of housing. There are some people who cannot live unsupervised in any kind of housing because they are a danger to themselves,
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by powerslacker 4y ago
I'm not calling the author an expert on sugar babies. I was providing an example to show that it is illogical to dismiss everything a person says, even if they have said something outrageous in the past. Absurd: wildly unreasonable, il
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by powerslacker 4y ago
Calling it a market is a bit odd, but I'll play ball. Marriage. Unequal rules for participants based on financial success would be another. Arbitrary age limits. I am generally a supporter of these concepts and this kind of meddling.

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