ltpowers.bsky.social
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What's the context of that video? I don't think our political leaders should be leading crowds in hymns.
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Good lord.
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You have a weird definition of "just".
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But who tells them which orders are illegal?
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They haven't been trained to think for themselves.
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Logic
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This looks cool. I can't think of any reason it needs to be VR, though.
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"Pluto is a planet. Salt is bad for you. Or maybe not."
Not great examples. "Planet" is an arbitrary designation; what changed is not our knowledge but rather our definition of "planet".
No one ever said salt was bad for you. Salt, like most nutrients, is essential -- in the right dosage.
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Yeah, seems like putting statutory rape of 16- and 17-year-olds in the "pedophilia" bucket along with child molestation and forcible rape just serves to muddy the waters.
Just like calling adolescents "children" isn't really all that helpful in other contexts, either.
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She'd probably rather stick with Mushu's smiling porridge.
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Uh, what's wrong with that Best Buy?
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Then we get Peter Thiel as shadow president instead of Elon Musk. I'm not sure if that's an improvement.
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I had the After Dark TNG edition. (Probably still have the floppies, though at least one of them is dead.) Not enough Wesley Crusher though.
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So, if you don't immediately realize that this headline must be false, then you're a conspiracy theorist. And also it takes three days to verify the information. And also you're an idiot if you don't take three days to verify the information, or if you don't just move on because it's clearly dumb.
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That's like a couple years old.
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Where were these voters last fall?
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I was dimly aware of CAD at the time but never read it regularly.
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The fact that a Trump voter wants me to know that they did not vote for mass deportations is not interesting to me. What is interesting to me is what they plan to do about mass deportations, and I hope the answer isn't "I plan to ask you to assure me that I'm a good person."
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That doesn't make any sense.
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He did mention the "German and Jewish" scientists.
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He corrected himself in the clip.
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I'm not sure how we can reliably do that without knowledge of the other person's circumstances. I can take educated guesses, but I don't usually know if the other person had a rough childhood or brain damage or watches Fox News.
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Demand action from whom?
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Moreover -- and this is part of What's Wrong With Politics, too -- certain people see others' public choices as implicit rejections of all alternatives.
Like if you choose to get married in a courthouse, you're somehow saying that church weddings are bad.
And people react badly to that.
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Okay, I get it, but at the same time, I don't post anything unless I intend to invite discussion on it. Do other people post stuff just to ... I don't know, see it in print?
Now, if the debate is about something tangential, yeah, that's annoying.
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Well, sometimes it's mystifying. And if I try to ask others for insight it usually doesn't go well.
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Can we at least try?
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While it'd be nice if DVDs converted Line 21 captions into subtitles, shouldn't the blame here be on the HDMI standard? Captioning data should be included in that standard if it's intended for video output.
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If there's one thing I'll never understand, it's why conservatives are so vehemently against doing anything to save energy.
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I mean, isn't everyone one stroke or heart attack away from collapsing?
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Sure, though I don't think Disney is the worst of them by any means, especially in news media.
But yes, there is a significant difference between a monopoly and an oligopoly.
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Trouble is, I can't find any reference to the headline quotation in the article, nor in the CBS News article to which it links. And the CBS News article doesn't say anything about BlackRock, either.
www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedh...
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Man that was a hard news article to find. It's on Medium. medium.com/@hrnews1/bla...
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They own a lot of things, but to be a "monopoly" they have to have very little competition.
Disney has lots of competition. In media, from CBS/Paramount, NBC/Universal, Fox News, HBO Max, Dreamworks, and countless movie studios.
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What does Disney have a monopoly over?
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Six corporations doesn't seem like a monopoly. More like a hexapoly.
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No, because plenty of Democratic voters don't care either. The vast majority of the American populace is too stressed/busy/apathetic to pay attention to everyday corruption like this.