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2024-09-15 17:14:11

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That's part of the official 9/11/01 narrative
A plane hit the budget office where they were working out what happened to the trillions (with a T) of dollars announced missing the day before
Or perhaps something else exploded that office

2024-09-12 13:15:47

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I have indoor plumbing, so apparently pretty far

2024-09-12 05:35:07

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How do you know that Christ said that?
How do you know that Christ had the capacity to truthfully make such a claim (ie by virtue of divinity) ?
Presumably scripture, but then how do you know what is and is not scripture?
What is at the bottom of it, if not reason?

2024-09-12 04:22:24

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The Catholics like to talk about being guided by tradition and the magisterium rather than scripture alone, but ultimately how do you decide which tradition to follow? How do you decide what is legitimate magisterium and what is not?
For that matter, how do you decide what is legitimate scripture and what is not?
If it comes down to reason, then there is nothing bold about my move.

2024-09-12 04:17:04

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I personally have not regarded Paul as a Christian for a long time (and don't regard his letters as being comparable to scripture)
I also don't believe in ghosts or spirits in general, though, so probably my opinion is of little interest

2024-09-12 03:43:14

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This would seem to rule out Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox as valid Christian denominations

2024-09-12 03:21:14

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Fiat bottom girls make this rocking world go round

2024-09-11 18:39:23

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Would you please link the cholesterol scam article he describes?
I don't have Twitter and don't think I can view the comments without an account

2024-09-10 16:31:02

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Welcome!
I am a carnivore also

2024-09-08 02:53:24

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I listened to the Fridman/Trump interview. Trump definitely said there was cheating in the 20 election

2024-09-07 23:53:33

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Jimmy Carter carried the South in 1976.
Reagan swept the country.
Only with Bush the Elder in 1988 and 1992 do we start to see the modern electoral map, with the Pacific Northwest & Atlantic Northeast going Democrat while South, Midwest and West go mostly Republican.
In other words, the "big switch" wasn't a bunch of racists in the 60s but instead the middle class in the 80s.

2024-09-07 23:41:53

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Yes and no
Dark chocolate has a substantial fat content
Really dark chocolate (the listed category maxes out at 85% but darker is widely available) has much more fat than sugar
During my transition from keto to animal based to carnivore, I stopped eating dark chocolate because of the oxolate toxicity (I started getting rashes whenever I ate chocolate) rather than because of the sugar
https://tools.myfooddata.com/nutrition-facts/170273/wt1/1

2024-09-06 22:42:11

Is it just me or is this retarded?
If you can build and maintain a rail line why can't you build and maintain an electric line to power the train? Especially over such a short distance... why use batteries?
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/tesla-launches-worlds-first-electric-111535136.html

2024-09-04 21:08:57

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He doesn't have a whole lot of future either way

2024-09-04 21:05:55

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Biden isn't even a boomer, he's older than that (born in 1942)

2024-09-04 13:26:54

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Why would Peter Schiff be in disbelief?
If you know anything about gold mining this should be unsurprising. Gold is not economically recoverable at average crustal abundance. You have to find deposits where some geologic process has concentrated the gold.

2024-09-03 22:23:56

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If OnlyStans manages to turn into a celebrity engagement engine rather than a porn site I will be stunned
I suspect that was part of the original vision before they realized that semi-personalized porn was a gold mine

2024-09-03 20:18:08

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Orbot is an Android app (and thus also Chromebook) that makes a Tor connection into a VPN for your Android device
Basically you can take any app and route it through Tor by using Orbot

2024-09-03 20:15:15

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I call them to abandon delusion for truth
Is this love?

2024-09-03 20:01:41

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If someone gains physical access to my passkey they can use it to access my accounts (which are also password protected) regardless of whether they have some fancy way of copying it
I think this is a theoretical vulnerability rather than a real vulnerability
Maybe if I was a spy or diplomat or something I'd have to be concerned about Chinese customs cloning my key, but for a normal person if an attacker gets a hold of my key they're probably going to keep it rather than clone it

2024-09-03 18:34:00

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I don't believe that modern Jews are followers of the ancient religion (nor generally their descendants)
If you want a demonic religion, Talmudic Judaism is certainly a candidate.
They interpret everything to mean something other than what it plainly means. For example the 10 commandments are meant to be punishable by death, so they conclude "don't steal" means "don't kidnap a Jew" (since theft or kidnapping a gentile would not be punishable by death)
As the above makes obvious, they believe a different moral code holds with regard to the treatment of Jews and the treatment of gentiles, with Jews being favored above the "beasts with human faces"
Prohibitions on rape and adultery get interpreted as prohibitions on vaginal intercourse only, and anal rape of gentiles is considered acceptable (as the recent military incidents make clear)
As a funny meme I saw recently said, all of Jewish history is the Jews technically not violating God's laws and God technically not smiting them

2024-09-03 14:44:49

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Your link recommends Threema but also Signal Wire & Session (and is ambivalent about SimpleX)
And I don't see the numerical ratings you gave

2024-09-03 12:14:01

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A transnational state in which the public has no real control, and instead the political class selects its own leaders internally

2024-09-02 21:15:45

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totem?

2024-09-02 18:42:17

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with the kneeling chair my legs are lower than 90 degrees, so if your graphic is accurate it should reduce pressure

2024-09-02 16:16:50

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Sir Thomas Wettington

2024-09-02 10:17:54

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I use a variant of this: https://www.chairoffice.co.uk/blog/i-used-a-kneeling-chair-for-a-week-heres-what-happened/

2024-09-01 14:12:54

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Let's do a little arithmetic
4 crematoria times 24 hours per day times 365 days per year times 4 years (already an over-estimate) divided by 2 hours per body = 70,000 people who could have been cremated at Auchwitz
Not 4 million, not 1.1 million

2024-09-01 14:08:30

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You're not fooling us any longer
https://www.icj-cij.org/node/203454

2024-08-31 21:26:20

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How would an anarcho capitalist state look?
About like a married bachelor
How would an anarcho capitalist region look?
It's ultimately unpredictable but there are several good models. The US "wild" West is one, with armed self-defense and an "outlaw" system in which criminals are denied the protection of the law and thus fair game for anyone. Another good model is medieval England, with a common law system in which people who have disputes choose for themselves the court (or arbitrator, etc) who will hear the dispute. Criminals there (and in both England and the US until the mid 1800s) were often apprehended by ordinary citizens (as in old movies where someone would yell "stop! thief!" and somebody else would tackle the thief) Another good model is Somalia during its stateless period, in which people seek justice within the tribe and tribal elders get together to negotiate conflicts between tribes.
In any case, I think the features that people expect are:
1) Armed self-defense
2) For-profit negotiation of disputes
3) Strong cultural norms respecting private property rights

2024-08-31 12:30:21

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IMO they were clearly trying to reach the Kursk nuclear plant and use the threat of a nuclear event as a bargaining chip

2024-08-29 15:18:50

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"Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way"
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/

2024-08-29 03:24:48

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They claim to have tested quicklime experimentally with a reasonable control, so I'm inclined to believe the ultimate conclusion
I am skeptical that the volcanic ash is not actually helpful (assuming the claims about its ancient use & reputation are accurate)
Perhaps both are relevant
Is there some other error in thinking you've found?

2024-08-28 18:55:12

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emptiness

2024-08-24 12:37:34

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I agree with that
However, I think in practice it would more closely resemble the ancien regime, with punishments like death and exile much more common. I think the "outlaw" system of the American West worked very well, with criminals denied the protection of the law (and thus subject to death or other injury). I also think in a sytem of private law there would be armed self-defense, and thus another avenue by which the death of criminals would become much more common.
Murphy seems to think that a private law system would become nearly pacifist, but I strongly disagree. The ability to be soft requires very strong security which in turn requires that somewhere along the line there is iron determination. We are seeing exactly that tension unravel in modern Europe and the Anglophone countries.

2024-08-23 22:31:26

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There is no scenario where nobody innocent ever dies. It's just not on the table.

2024-08-23 16:59:43

Was Stephen Hawking a genius, or a retard in a chair which other physicists used as a convenient mouthpiece?
https://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/311/kausel.html

2024-08-23 15:07:16

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I do this also (try to relate concepts to each other) and I think it's responsible for my apparent intelligence

2024-08-22 04:05:34

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The lefties are quite Christian, especially the atheists
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/

2024-08-22 00:31:43

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Lefties have it bad
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-highest-moral-allocation-by-ideology-Study-3a-Source-data-are_fig6_336076674

2024-08-21 22:25:08

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How do you know that a subcellular obligate parasite caused your illness?

2024-08-21 22:05:07

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People get sick, our "germ theory" failed so it must just be a smaller germ
Same issue with particle physics - the collider doesn't find the particles we predict so they must be smaller than we thought

2024-08-21 21:39:09

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Our ancestors lost a foot of height and 10% brain mass when they started eating grain.
You implicitly admit the amount of sugar is what matters, and ignore the fact that modern processed food (including bread) has an order of magnitude more refined sugar than the foods of our grandparents.
If the "long" history of human grain consumption (a blink of an eye compared to our millions of years eating meat) shows the relative safety of grain, why does the short history of seed oil consumption (less than 200 years) not indicate a lack of such safety?

2024-08-21 19:47:06

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the buns are usually the worst part (grain, seed oils, sugar)

2024-08-21 14:16:40

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🪙

2024-08-21 14:12:24

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"Bitcoin is the most scarce form of money to ever exist"
Too right!
There isn't an ounce of the stuff in the whole world

2024-08-21 14:07:39

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The point is that any fluctuation at all means the Bitcoin doesn't represent a specific unit of computing power.
If the dollar is just a name for a certain weight of silver (as it was in 1780) then any fluctuation at all makes the label "dollar" meaningless.
This may seem strange, but let's use a different unit: the gram. If I promise to pay you 10 grams of gold 2 years in a row, and I give you 2 different masses of gold, then either I've cheated you or "gram" is just a measure of whim (or both, especially if it's my whim).
So if "Bitcoin" is a monetary unit that represents 10 petaflops of compute, and then next year it represents 8 petaflops, it's not really a unit at all. Similarly, a "dollar" that represents 10 grams one year and 8 grams the next isn't actually a unit.

2024-08-21 14:02:07

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There's a huge selection bias there.
If I take 10 hours to study Bitcoin and conclude that it is impressive from a cryptographic point of view but economically illiterate, why would I then spend thousands of further hours studying it?

2024-08-21 12:10:56

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Bitcoin aren't fungible - each UTXO can be tracked on the blockchain

2024-08-21 12:09:14

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What can you do with Bitcoins? Are they good to eat? Perhaps you can melt them down and make useful tools?

2024-08-21 03:46:20

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The computers have value, yes.
But how much of that power does a certain unit of Bitcoin buy me?
If the answer depends on the conversion rate between fiat and Bitcoin, that power cannot be the source of the value of Bitcoin (because it would provide the valuation at an arbitrary and fluctuating rate)

2024-08-21 03:44:35

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Subjective value doesn't mean it's just made up, it means it relates to the subject.
So if I have one gallon of water, I will put it to the most highly-valued use available to me (probably drinking it so I don't die)
If I get a second gallon, I will put it to the second-most-highly-valued use (which might be different than your second most highly valued use)
So the value of the water is subjective (it depends on who is getting it, how much water they already have, and what uses that person can imagine to which to put the water)
But it's also objective in that if you knew all the uses of water available to me and how I rank them in terms of the satisfaction of my needs, you could predict how I will use the water, and there is an objectively correct usage of a given volume of water (conditional on knowing the unknowable)
Bitcoin has no physical form and therefore no subjective or objective use. The first unit of Bitcoin I get doesn't allow me to do anything whatsoever, nor does the second, nor does any further amount. It's true that I can sign the chain to create new UTXOs for the next person, but that person also has no use for Bitcoin. The whole thing looks reasonable only in comparison to centralized fiat currency, in which the same drawbacks apply plus a privileged group is allowed to monkey with the system.
A thought experiment: Suppose Satoshi had promised to pay 1 Bitcoin for each Bitcoin mined, and the ledger tracks how much Bitcoin he owes you for maintaining his records, rather than being the "money" itself. Then suppose Satoshi disappeared and it became apparent he would never pay. Presumably the value of these promises would go to zero when it becomes obvious they would not be fulfilled. But, how is that any different from the current system?

2024-08-21 01:53:10

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I'm partial to the double conspiracy theory
(that neocons blew a hole in the Pentagon but Israelis learned about the plan and destroyed the towers)

2024-08-20 18:25:45

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The victory of reality over delusion is inevitable

2024-08-20 16:19:24

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Yeah I've met some Africans who I regard as assimilated into middle-class Anglo-American culture.
I've also met some Africans born abroad and clearly assimilated into global Anglo culture.
However, this doesn't mean all Africans are assimilated, nor that such assimilation washes away all meaningful differences.

2024-08-20 15:20:12

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Plainly not

2024-08-20 15:12:59

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I don't hate Africans, I just don't believe that race is merely skin-deep
I don't hate hippos but I wouldn't want them loose in my neighborhood

2024-08-18 23:46:07

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only 6% more inflation left

2024-08-18 22:07:48

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"Just say no to Tucker"
"Why?"
"Am I not entertained?"

2024-08-17 19:28:55

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To be fair natural "intelligence" is also out of control
https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=jdanSzYmjFM
(see 1m45s for a particularly clear example)

2024-08-15 18:02:49

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It's leveraged long, so the ETF aims to recreate 175% of the movement of MSTR
So if MicroStrategy goes up 10% in a day, the ETF should go up 17.5% on the same day (and similarly for declines)

2024-08-15 04:06:03

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That's his argument but it seems to be wrong
As I already quoted from wiki:
"Pit bulls are responsible for more than half of dog bite incidents among all breeds despite comprising only 6% of pet dogs."

2024-08-15 04:05:14

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"Pit bulls are responsible for more than half of dog bite incidents among all breeds despite comprising only 6% of pet dogs."

2024-08-15 01:27:59

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"Pit bulls are responsible for more than half of dog bite incidents among all breeds despite comprising only 6% of pet dogs."
"Dog bite severity varies by the breed of dog, and studies have found that pit bull–type dogs have both a high rate of reported bites and a high rate of severe injuries, compared to other non–pit bull–type dogs."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull

2024-08-14 21:23:34

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How slow?
What's the typical rate of warming?

2024-08-14 21:00:58

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Well we're in an interglacial that should continue for thousands of years, so even without human activity of any kind we would be warming

2024-08-14 20:07:41

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It says earlier in the article that the volcano could warm the Earth noticeably
Other sources making that same claim:
https://eos.org/articles/tonga-eruption-may-temporarily-push-earth-closer-to-1-5c-of-warming
https://www.carbonbrief.org/tonga-volcano-eruption-raises-imminent-risk-of-temporary-1-5c-breach/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/climate/tonga-volcano-climate.html
Here's a published paper saying it raised the atmospheric water vapor by 13%, this will last for years and will warm the surface:
https://communities.springernature.com/posts/hunga-tonga-eruption-the-most-remarkable-climatic-event-in-the-last-three-decades

2024-08-14 19:56:15

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The last 2 years have been unusually warm due to water vapor from the January 2022 Tonga eruption, which increased atmospheric water vapor by 10%. Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas on Earth and much stronger than CO2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga%E2%80%93Hunga_Ha%CA%BBapai_eruption_and_tsunami
https://www.nasa.gov/earth/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/

2024-08-14 18:52:30

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The context is we're in a CO2 drought and not all that far from the death of all plant life on Earth (if CO2 falls below 200 ppm)
We're also in an Ice Age and should welcome any warming we get

2024-08-14 18:27:56

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CO2 is good actually

2024-08-14 00:35:28

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search for "Parthenon"

2024-08-13 13:16:09

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https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Bolshevik-Revolution-Capitalists/dp/190557035X

2024-08-13 12:45:45

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antifa

2024-08-12 06:50:45

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That's what the math says, but is it correct?

2024-08-11 03:52:28

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"As the electrical demand goes up, the alternator puts an increased load on the belt, and therefore the engine, to make that juice."
https://community.cartalk.com/t/alternators-extra-electricity-if-battery-is-fully-charged/87354
"If the engine is spinning the alternator is spinning and producing power. This is regulated by a voltage regulator that will raise or lower the output voltage to either charge or maintain the charge level (float charge) in the battery.
So an alternator cant be turned off directly as it has a direct belt connection to the engine. However you can turn off the resistance of the alternator and have it freely spin by the regulator setting a voltage slightly lower than the battery."
https://www.quora.com/Does-the-alternator-run-constantly-even-if-the-car-battery-is-full

2024-08-11 03:12:05

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why is absorption the "real" color and reflection is not the "real" color?

2024-08-11 03:10:40

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The alternator resists spinning (otherwise you'd have free infinite energy)
so some of the fuel that could have been spent spinning the tires is instead spent spinning the alternator

2024-08-09 16:52:32

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u serious?

2024-08-09 16:50:58

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won't someone think of the mushrooms

2024-08-06 00:19:12

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I'm strongly anti-bitcoin but pro-FOSS, pro-decentralization, pro-free-speech, etc

2024-08-05 16:41:50

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They are tautological but not axioms
2+2=4 can be proven as a theorem of mathematics
Another example:
"Every effect has a cause"
Can you think of some way this could be tested?
Can you think of some way the human action claim can be tested?
A more familiar example:
"A binding minimum wage will result in higher unemployment than would otherwise have been the case"
Can you think of some way to test this?
You would have to apply and not apply the minimum wage to the same group of people at the same time (or perhaps you can find a large population of clones in identical circumstances).

2024-08-05 16:16:38

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-20% on the week....

2024-08-05 08:12:06

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It depends on the nature of the theory.
Suppose the theory is that all unmarried men are bachelors, or that 2+2=4, or (to take an actual example from Mises) that human action is aimed at some goal.
Can you imagine an experiment that could disprove any of these?
On the other hand, suppose the theory is that an electron has a certain mass, or that ice melts at a certain temperature and pressure. It is very easy to imagine an experiment that might disprove such a theory.

2024-08-05 03:57:28

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you have a government?

2024-08-04 21:04:17

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US Nickels are real cupronickel (and already worth over 5c)

2024-08-03 16:30:10

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"The accelerated deterioration of our limited constitutional decentralized republic established by the Framers into a fascist (corporate socialist) welfare-warfare state must be reversed."
Good luck with that. Once you accept that State officials can legitimately impose arbitrary rules which bind the people and can legitimately steal arbitrary amounts of the peoples' income or wealth, then the State officials effectively own the people in a system of mass public slavery. There are no more limits.

2024-08-02 23:51:48

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https://odysee.com/@printshootrepeat:5/this-war-is-being-fought-with-3d-guns:4

2024-08-02 20:24:40

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Do you have an argument?

2024-08-02 20:01:08

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Freedom means you are free from physical violence when you castrate yourself, and I am free from physical violence when I call you a deranged lunatic for doing so

2024-08-02 19:15:47

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women shouldn't box
women shouldn't box against men
if a woman does box against a man, then she deserves a share of the blame for what happens

2024-08-02 15:59:20

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my FAANG shorts finally printing

2024-08-02 05:05:51

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IIRC women are supposed to have an advantage in endurance swimming due to higher body fat

2024-08-01 22:49:36

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test-demic + normal seasonal "flu" deaths classed as Covid deaths

2024-08-01 18:36:14

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The woman knew she was getting in the ring with a man, it's her fault too

2024-07-29 11:42:10

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I have family in the medical field who have seen me lose over 100 pounds and still caution me about how risky my diet is

2024-07-28 17:27:17

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Reagan's rhetoric was good but he basically turned the evangelicals into useful idiots for the security state (eg HW Bush)
There were some tax cuts but Carter had more deregulation & Reagan's security spending went to the moon

2024-07-27 15:23:34

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Is Israel a puppet or is the US?

2024-07-22 16:28:46

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The Dems are allied with permanent Washington (the bureaucrats, the Intel agencies, etc)
The Republicans are allied with the security forces (military and to a lesser degree law enforcement), but have been too timid to cross the rubicon and undo FDR's authoritarian-bureaucratic revolution by force
So to a first approximation, yes, the deep state is pro-DNC and anti-RNC (although it's a bit more complicated than that)

2024-07-22 15:31:29

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Supposedly the Dems were pushing Trump under the theory that he would be easier to beat than the normal RINO/neocon types

2024-07-21 21:09:57

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https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/21/air-force-swears-our-nuke-launch-code-was-never-00000000/