sykhic

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by sykhic 8y ago
Some ideas are so idiotic - like flat Earth belief - that one should not waste their time engaging with said ideas. There are people who deny that Sandy Hook happened. I see no need to understand such fools.
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by sykhic 8y ago
The same way that I know the flat Earth position is insane.
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by sykhic 8y ago
It seems to me that the problem now versus 30 years ago is one of scale. It's much easier sequester oneself from sources of information we don't like for political reasons. It's easier in terms of time and money to get masse
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by sykhic 8y ago
If the world's population were 100 million people then pollution would probably not be an issue.
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by sykhic 8y ago
If the numbers favored men, we wouldn't be having this conversation for a number of reasons. I think you missed my point. I was responding solely to the above quote that you made.
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by sykhic 8y ago
Judging by my Facebook feed Americans are perfectly capable of vicious, polarized discourse without foreign influence. It's gotten quite bad in the U.S. Common political discourse has devolved into a back and forth of insults, hyper
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by sykhic 8y ago
I was born and raised in the Canal Zone. While it was still an American territory. Went to American schools and was taught about the U.S. I too once had the patriotic fervor you display. Then I came to the U.S. and slowly realized that r
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by sykhic 8y ago
It's increasingly hard to justify not doing business in China for moral reasons whilst doing business in the U.S. If the moral high ground could indisputably be claimed by the U.S. then peoples' views would be different. Now it&
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by sykhic 8y ago
There hasn't been thousands of years of gender bias in favor of women so it's expected that results that show men are better than women in some areas are not necessarily newsworthy. Sometimes such results are newsworthy.
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by sykhic 8y ago
I like how joering calls me the troll! I do not have proof in the mathematical sense that Michelle Obama is a woman. I merely have an overwhelming preponderance of the evidence that she is a woman and absolutely no evidence to the contrary
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by sykhic 8y ago
Say what you like about his content, but it is not fringe. This is a man spouting off that there is evidence that Michelle Obama is a man [1]. If that's not a fringe idea I'd like to know what you think one is. To me a fringe
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by sykhic 8y ago
So they get the tougher cases to begin with. Do you have evidence that this happens in the ER? When my wife did her ER rotation it wasn't like this. We have a study that shows women with heart attacks do worse in ERs unless they are
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by sykhic 8y ago
You don't believe that having fewer people in the world would lead to less pollution and less harm to the environment due to human activities? Or you don't believe someone is suggesting that there needs to be fewer people? It see
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by sykhic 8y ago
I mentioned that it's not practical. Forced sterilization - I'm not advocating this - would do the trick. Again, it's not practical to implement just now but I think it's clear that having fewer people would be ideal a
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by sykhic 8y ago
It’s not just energy production and consumption that is the problem. Resource extraction, pollution, toxification of the environment are all contributing to the creation of a planet that sucks to live in.
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by sykhic 8y ago
Yeah, it’s not a practical solution in terms of implementation. However, if implemented it would work and not require Star Trek levels of innovation. There are simply too many people in the world.
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by sykhic 8y ago
The uncomfortable reality is that 7 billion people can’t all live like Americans (or Europeans). Extracting the resources necessary for everyone to live like Americans would be very bad for the environment. The effective action is to grea
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by sykhic 8y ago
I think it is undeniable that Sung would, with Chinese and Soviet help, would have revolted against anyone who was in power at the time. Regardless of US actions. (The Sino-Soviet split occurred later.) Without US backing Sung would have
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by sykhic 8y ago
There’s a commonly held belief (myth?) that mathematics is a young person's pursuit in the sense of great discoveries. If you look at Erdös you see most of his great contributions occurring when he was younger and he was prolific thro
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by sykhic 8y ago
The Korean War ended up benefitting South Korea in the sense that they didn’t up like North Korea. The free trade agreements have largely been responsible for large numbers of the world's population improving their living standard. T
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by sykhic 8y ago
It's totally reasonable for someone to like Dell and want to stay with Windows. It's not for me though and my point to the OP was that it's not irrational to prefer Macs. I don't buy them for status symbol (at least no
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by sykhic 8y ago
In 2008 I bought a high end Dell laptop. It ended up running way too hot and it would freeze up playing some games. I got fed up with the Windows ecosystem and tried out a MacBook Air. It was easy to setup out of the box. No crap Ware w
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by sykhic 8y ago
As with most beliefs my belief about "Ayn Randians" comes from anecdotal experience. I can't cite a study or source. Just going by my experience with such people.
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by sykhic 8y ago
We Americans have a pathological fear of socialism and since the 1980s it's been ingrained in the collective psyche of the nation that government is bad. You'll hear people talk about how government can't do anything right b
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by sykhic 8y ago
I don't think I can. I gave an example of how people speak colloquially. For instance, one can mention Christianity in a discussion but that term means different things to different people. People will say things like, "Christi
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by sykhic 8y ago
There is colloquial and there is technical usage of terms. I’m speaking colloquially. Like some people generally refer to the US as a Christian nation. They typically mean this in the sense of history or values and don’t necessarily mean
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by sykhic 8y ago
Countries do make agreeements on water usage. Even countries that don't like each other. Like Pakistan and India.
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by sykhic 8y ago
I use Any Randian to describe those who publicly cite her and they tend to have a certain political philosophy that is best described by me as, "I've got mine, fuck you." I'm not critiquing her personally or her philoso
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by sykhic 8y ago
Supporting that 5% who really need it would effectively be a means tested pension system. The point of a pension (retirement savings) is to prevent masses of destitute elders. The goal is to have a society in which masses of elderly are n
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by sykhic 8y ago
We do have massive deficits.

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