walkabilitee

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by walkabilitee 2y ago
Not a fan of how "bro" is now a slur for, "non-obese male who holds opinions with which I disagree"
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
Nominative determinism wins again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
One could also imagine a huge rotating, sun-orbiting ring with alternating openings that blinks a out message to astronomical observers, perhaps in some form of Morse code or binary.
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
>1. They dislike Tesla in general because it's controlled by an anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer. This sort of casual slander reveals more about your viewpoint than it does about the protestors, or Elon.
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
Peaceful protesting is generally legally protected in developed Western countries. Rioting, burglary, and assault are not, and police are legally and morally justified in using force to arrest the perpetrators.
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
Causation goes both ways. Intelligent, educated, and well-paid Hacker News posters often don't understand the cloud of chaos, crime, poor decision-making, and deflected blame that hovers over the lives of many poor people. Section 8 la
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
In case anyone asks, "why don't they just build more Atlas V rockets," it's because they rely on Russian engines which have been phased out due to politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
You did the meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/smugjak-but-how-does-this-aff...
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
The National Criminal Victimization Survey is not some anonymous Twitter poll. It is a gold-standard statistical instrument for measuring criminal victimization in the US: https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
Between 2021 and 2022 the rate of violent victimization reporting to police dropped from 46% to 42%. Data is not yet available for 2023: https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/criminal-victimizat... https:&#x2F
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
Crime reporting is down too, especially in cities which have progressive prosecutors and significant police staffing problems such as Portland, OR, Pittsburgh, PA, and Burlington, VT. I'll wait for the 2023 National Criminal Victimizat
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
This sort of historical and emotional incontinence helps no one. You talk as though white urbanites were unfairly prejudiced or deserved the uprooting and destruction of their neighborhoods. That's simply not true, but I don't exp
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
The criminals doing crime and the people who enabled them in the name of inter-ethnic conflict.
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
It's true that some white elites took a hand in destroying ethnic white urban neighborhoods, particularly among Italian, German, Jewish and Eastern European communities. Most Americans affected by redlining were white. "Urban rene
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
>It’s interesting how you keep up the divide between „us“ (good, law-abiding, educated, friendly and most importantly white people) and „them“ (evil, criminal, murdering,rioting, shooting black and Hispanic people). You can read the prim
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
You're right, I should have been more specific. Dense urban living was the norm for people who worked in cities. Suburbs were not a significant part of urban living until later.
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
>White flight was what created the crime This is ahistorical libel against millions of families who fled their homes in rational fear for themselves and their children. You may read the last link in my above post for a near-complete refu
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by walkabilitee 2y ago
We had walkable American cities for centuries. It was the norm. Kids played in alleys and walked to school, neighbors chatted over the back fence, we reaped the economic benefits of density and proximity. Then millions fled America's i