twomoretime

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by twomoretime 6y ago
This is such a toxic, selfish modern view. For most people, even with shitty parents, your still parents sacrificed for you and raised you. A loyal human would not abandon them without great reason. Cutting contact should be a last resort,
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by twomoretime 6y ago
I think the main issue is that most mental illnesses are vaguely defined clusters of problems - if you represented a diagnosis as a vector where each index corresponded to severity of a particular symptom, the diagnosis space would not prop
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by twomoretime 6y ago
I don't doubt that Google pre IPO probably believed in their motto. It's the investor influence that has gradually steered Google into lucrative but ethically questionable domains.
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by twomoretime 6y ago
Except people are by default being told their opinions are incorrect because they disagree with the so called experts. Experts in a soft, non experimental, survey based scientific discipline. Soft sciences are institutional dogma because
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>Moreover, a person's field of expertise doesn't have any bearing on whether their ideas are correct Nor does their expertise preclude them from succumbing to personal or institutional biases.
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>but once you’re in my ear with some misinformed ideas How the hell do you expect to get anything done in a society if you presume that any hurtful idea is misinformed? How can you seriously pretend that gendered differences in humans ma
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by twomoretime 6y ago
Multiple times per year in a country with 300MM people and what, tens to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of police interactions yearly? Obviously in the ideal case it would be 0 but that's not realistic and, again, the current r
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>You claim that police abuse of power is exceedingly rare I made no such claim. I said that being hurt or killed by an officer is an unlikely occurance for a typical person. That's all I'm arguing and there shouldn't be an
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by twomoretime 6y ago
Well then you are no doubt aware that these statistics skew overwhelmingly toward those who are noncompliant, combative, and/or felons, correct? Such that the actual rate for "average" people (including minorities, although t
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by twomoretime 6y ago
The implication of OPs post was that this was a frequent enough occurrence to legitimately fear interactions with police. My point is that this is excessive, and partly a result of the eagerness that the media to latch onto and sensationali
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by twomoretime 6y ago
1/6 is literally 2 orders of magnitude smaller than 1/291. Nonsensical comparison. More importantly, how many of those hospitalizations/deaths are justified? You realize that police are typically responding to crimes and de
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by twomoretime 6y ago
That's plainly hysteria and you're only encouraging unnecessary distrust. The overwhelming majority of interactions with police for any race are benign. You've been manipulated by a race baiting media.
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by twomoretime 6y ago
One man's trash...
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>they universally believe that immunity is real and at least moderately long-lasting I haven't seen a single publication to this effect and there's no way to no for sure until enough time has elapsed to verify. Viral immunity v
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by twomoretime 6y ago
You overestimate how much we know about COVID. Also herd immunity is neither guaranteed nor is it necessarily preferable to lockdown. We don't know how long immunity lasts on average post infection.
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by twomoretime 6y ago
Sure, clearly we should just be printing even more money...why stop at 80% wage? Why not 100%? What works in England doesn't necessarily work in the US, and presuming that Republicans are just being greedy is naive and counterproduct
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by twomoretime 6y ago
Society, I imagine
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by twomoretime 6y ago
Call me old school but after watching numerous people try and fail to learn online with courses and especially YouTube videos, I'm pretty convinced that to learn ideally people need to read textbooks. This isn't a question of lear
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>Has Russia recovered? Was there anything to recover? Sure they beat everyone to space but the economy wasn't exactly roaring. My family tells me you didn't really have any kind of choice when you lined up to "shop" f
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>You realize that alcohol related deaths top 80,000 per year in the US? Alcohol consumption is a voluntary, pleasurable activity for the vast majority of drinkers, and the complication rate is many orders of magnitude lower than it is fo
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by twomoretime 6y ago
problem with your utopia is that in order to provide the vagaries of a "dignified life" you are compelling people to labor for others. We have not yet achieved post scarcity and there is never a guarantee that enough people in yo
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by twomoretime 6y ago
I think that's the nature of public corporations. Once the board starts to gain influence, the company is gradually steered by people who are not interested in image or philanthropy any further than necessary for growth.
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by twomoretime 6y ago
You miss the applicability of the saying because you drastically overestimate the capability of the average American. Hell, ignoring the deplorable level to which standards have been lowered by perverse incentives to pass students, the US o
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>software engineers didn't want to acknowledge the privilege they've been living with Maybe people would be less hostile to the idea if you didn't dismiss the fruits of their labor with accusations of "privilege.&quot
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by twomoretime 6y ago
I feel like the only people who are surprised by the difference are those who have only ever held white collar jobs. They're totally different cultures. Weren't talking about two different classes of people. And unfortunately you
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>why would the workers organize and risk their careers without just cause Warehouse stocking is not a career. Most of these people are hourly workers with little to lose. You can't apply the same standards to white, blue, and no col
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by twomoretime 6y ago
There's an old saying that people deserve their rulers.
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by twomoretime 6y ago
You make the mistake of presuming that these human beings are all cockroaches. That's pure arrogance. It's not all 5G Holocaust deniers you're turning away. You think this is better or worse for a country that is sharply and
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by twomoretime 6y ago
What? I'm identifying a need and a possible solution. Now we have a civil discussion with the goal of exchanging information.
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>In the absense of capital punishment for corporations That's an interesting analogy that I've never considered, given we treat corporations as personlike entities. Why don't we have a capital punishment equivalent? Perhap

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