radiantswirl

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by radiantswirl 8y ago
Nothing is hellish when you’re waking up from ketamine, dude. If it was, not all of the soccer players would have survived.
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
No just build more housing in general The studies have been done bro, there is only one solution and I just described it Also we don't actually live in a capitalist system, health care and housing are already socialist in many many way
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
Whoever is higher on the dominance hierarchy gets to subject others to their opinions. On HN it's a non issue And for the record GATTACA is the story of a misguided insufferable asshole violating regulations and probably getting his en
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
Yeah but all the tedious hoops you must jump through to even get to that point are absolutely ludicrous and reveal college as the sheeple-manufacturing scam that everyone now knows it is.
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
Homelessness is an incredibly simple problem with an incredibly simple solution: build more housing. Since this is not a step in that direction, it does not seem like a "step forward" to me. If anything, all these "occupods&q
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
Finally that Elliott Smith lyric "Walk down the street like the Duracell bunny" is accurate !!
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
DONT DO IT ALEXXXXX
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
How is that in any way contradictory bro. Thiel is a boss
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
What is "financial heroin" in this analogy? Student debt?
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
This is a fascinating question. My guess is that all industries have different levels of collusion/wage-fixing. If something as big as THE TECH INDUSTRY can get away with colluding to keep a ceiling on wages, then surely every single o
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
No dude. It’s not the fault of the people for failing to “critically analyze language”. It’s the fault of the language for being so counterproductively nebulous and hard to understand. Democracy is a nebulous concept. There’s millions of di
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
>What I see as the solution is that the moderates need to adopt the same strategy of theatre. It feels 'spinge-tingly icky' to suggest it, like marketing cigarettes and sugar to children, but if your message isn't getting
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
I’m not extrapolating anything. The crux of her argument is a desire to CONSERVE resources (access to the public sphere), not dole them out liberally. She is quite literally making a conservative argument because her entire position is base
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
You just did, also IMO its a a really fuckin strong argument, ad hominems win debates. What’s your criticism?
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
Ironically, The author sounds super right wing in her critique of the right wing. She’s using incredibly conservative and right wing reasoning throughout this essay. She says she’s a liberal but her reasoning reveals that actually she’s con
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
I thought spaced repetition was a more powerful technique
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
The level to which you are removing Vanessa’s agency in your attempts to relieve her of responsibility is frankly sexist. Don’t be sexist. She has agency. She has responsibility. She made her bed and now she lies in it. People with your pat
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
I found this article to have zero value and zero cogent information because he boils the whole thing down to “gut check” (instinct — no real information here) plus “dealbreakers” (a nebulous category that he makes clear is always changing f
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
Companies with an "eco" or "humanitarian" angle are rly just selling newfangled Catholic indulgences.
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
You sound very logical and well-meaning and seem to be a good person in general, so I have to resist my initial urge to turn this comment thread into a flame war, but: 1.) a shared "purpose" to me is literally the same as a "
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
I do not suggest that, because obviously people can listen to each other and reach sensible agreements. But if that's possible then how "genuine" is their intellectual difference in the first place? My question is this: what
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
If "diverse" != mirroring the demographics of one's home country, then what does diverse even mean? What could possibly be a better metric than that? Mirroring the demographics of the world at large? If so, why would that be
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
It seems like a completely unattainable standard to me. Can you give me an example of a situation in which "genuine diversity of intellectual approach" has been a net positive for an organization, rather than a divisive detriment
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
Yes. Now that the prestige value of the blue checkmark has already been torpedoed by their various verification fiascos, it makes perfect sense to make the blue checkmark available to everyone because it would also solve a lot of their prob
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
Thank you for posting this. I'm pretty pro-choice for emotional reasons, but it's still extremely fascinating to me to learn the pro-life arguments (even if only to bolster my pro-choice views).
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
R O A S T E D Lol, your point is so good that it hurts.
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
Those children aren't being systematically murdered with the full support of the government tho. I'm pro-choice I'm just saying its not fair to compare abortion to child deaths in general.
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by radiantswirl 8y ago
Wait I don't get the point of this story. Is it meant to show that by the story's end, Lisa has become the bully? That's how it reads to me.