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There's consequences.

Deplatforming works. A few people follow to other sites, but most don't. It also becomes harder to attract new cultists if one is shut out of major services.

https://gnet-research.org/2020/05/11/weighing-the-value-and-...

The ANTIFA CEO is sitting in his fortified command center underneath the Appalachian Mountains as we speak, cackling and torturing a Trump supporter to death for not calling xir by the proper pronouns. Our joke of a liberal government is doing nothing to eliminate this dangerous threat to our guns and precious, precious strip malls.

Luckily the difference in response is absolutely not emblematic of any serious structural issues in American policing, and we can all move on from this with no real reforms.

You don't think that the US government should be able to defend itself? That's an interesting opinion.

Yeah I live a few blocks away from where where ANTIFA was supposedly terrorizing and burning. The only danger to the public was the tear gas the police indiscriminately used and drifted into apartments and retirement homes. You are full of it.

I thought right-wingers respected private property rights? Surely you don't hold contradictory and illogical opinions, because the right also prides itself on "facts" and "logic?" Is this not true?

The facts of the war in Iraq were objectively bad. Should the media have hidden this to avoid accusations of bias? The problem is that the same critical coverage did not continue for Obama. Keep in mind too that all major outlets cheered the lead-up and start of the war - it's a big money spinner after all.

The facts of the war in Iraq were objectively bad. Should the media have hidden this to avoid accusations of bias?

The incentives are all wrong. Tests are money spinners, so hospitals and clinics push them hard. Over-testing is usually associated with worse health outcomes. For example, nearly anyone who gets a full body scan has a few suspicious looking blobs. It's almost always nothing, but it results in unnecessary treatment or exploratory surgery while not actually saving many lives.

It's so heartbreaking to see people who are very sick or even dying have to stress about bills. It's just not something a moral society does. It's not just mental, cortisol really knocks down your immune system.

To me it's an argument that there isn't enough democracy. Brexit would never had happened if the British political class (including Labour and libdems) were not totally hostile to the interests of the British working class over a period of several decades. When a government isn't responsive to the people, bad stuff happens.

I'll just drop in here to say that as a massive cycling enthusiast and former racer,

BUY A BROOKS SADDLE!

They are the best bike saddle I've ever ridden. I don't get sore or chafe even on 5+ hour rids Sure, they weigh 2 lbs instead of 10 ounces, but that just doesn't matter for 99.8% of cyclists. Since it is leather, the saddle breaks in to your particular nether regions just like a boot or baseball gloves.

It's neat that you are in such a position, but many aren't.

Why does that bother you so much? Language changes to fit needs. Always has, always will.

It's probably just that they wrote this for fun because I can't imagine anyone would fund it. Economists use a surprising amount of dry humor like that, I've noticed.

An old one:

  Remember the unfortunate econometrician, who, in one of the major functions of his system, had to use a proxy for risk and a dummy* for sex.

*(a discrete dependent variable)

Birth rates go down when people are in a secure situation. The solution isn't to make having children hard through impoverishment. That increases birth rates further.

Besides, in the case of this Somalian man, in subsistence-oriented societies having more children is often economically advantageous.

Yes, that is a moral problem that our society has.

If we reduced having children to pure economic calculation, humanity would go extinct.

Sorry, but that's not a reliable source.

Easy for you to say.

How do you know it does? The pro-surveillence side needs to put forth positive evidence. The precautionary principle is the only just, non-authoritarian option for situations like this. I know the targets are mostly in neighborhoods that you probably don't frequent, but those people have the same rights you do, and that includes the right to reasonable privacy.

Perhaps you need to change your news sources, because you have a very warped idea of how violent inner cities are. It's not the 1970's.

To add to other user's comments, linear types are useful for reasoning exactly about (some) imperative constructs, which is really, really hard to do with standard type systems. That's why reliably guaranteeing e.g. why it's still difficult to ensure safe and timely disposal of database connections in Haskell (maybe not now) or Scala, despite their powerful type systems.

There's many other such modal type systems/logics used for other special purposes like temporal logic.

Most people who become seriously ill from vaccines have previously existing conditions as well. That's totally irrelevant here.

I was seeing a specialist once who was being shadowed by two med students on rotation, and the doctor started talking about chemtrails. The look on the med students' faces when he started going into that...

Med school requires good analytical smarts and an excellent ability to retain information, but I'm quite convinced at this point that raw analyical ability has almost nothing to do with the ability to think critically to avoid insane beliefs. It's just not something that humans come built-in with.

To be fair, in the specific case of tomatoes, the more it's cooked/reduced, the more bioavailable many of its nutrients are. Tomato paste is just tomatoes. Usually these kinds of pizzas have tons of sugar in the sauce, though.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but there's plenty of evidence that they depend on these consumers, and they are certainly aware of them because alcohol companies have been known to engage in marketing activities. This is a broad overview:

https://www.recoveryanswers.org/research-post/alcohol-sales-...

As you say, it is completely predictable that beverage companies would adapt to a Pareto-like distribution of consumption. However, unlike for things like books or outdoor equipment, adapting to a Pareto distribution here means that a company is intentionally profiting from addiction. This is an absolutely huge negative externality in terms of the social , health, and economic harm that alcohol addiction causes.

Anglo law not historically having a concept of personal property...

That's a new one for me.

The US only protects property rights of some. Read up on asset forfeitures in the US. Police can seize cash on you with only "reasonable suspicion" with no conviction required.

It seems like these feel-good stories about benevolent capitalists get a little less traction now, although perhaps not in forums populated by the labor aristocracy.