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Blood requirements are set by the tribe, not the federal government Source: am member of a federally recognized tribe that only requires one parent be a member for their children t…

Being likeable is more desirable than being an amazing programmer People would much rather work with someone mediocre who is pleasant than someone very talented but who brings ever…

I don't think you can justly punish people for an unquanitifiable "group harm" with regards to speech You could easily use such a justification to ban anti-war speech (something th…

Should all opinions based on bad reasons be banned? Should people be compelled to explain their beliefs? Who decides if these opinions are good or illegal? I don't believe fairly a…

Should all speech be up for vote? Should all opinions that the majority disagree with be banned? I believe weakening protections such as free speech, which are used by the vulnerab…

Who decides what is antisemitic? It seems to me that based on your logic all speech can be prevented assuming some arbiter declares it antisemitic Boycotting can hardly be consider…

Do you believe boycotting is protected speech? Do you believe American citizens should be allowed to choose who they boycott?

> Israel is its own nation and it isn't America's business what it does to its own citizens. I would argue that as long as Israel is lobbying the US to make it illegal for American…

I have heard that the IRS doesn't have the resources to go after people who can afford good lawyers Though I was referring more generally to things like known pedophiles getting sl…

Only when enforced equally, which is not typically the case in America

The problem is that the more likely a job is to help people the less likely it is to pay well, software engineers are expensive and is helping people going to outweigh things like …

Because monopolistic business practices tangibly hurt consumers by reducing incentives to produce a good product and by artificially raising prices that get passed to the consumer

My Dad is on a similar diet for health reasons after a cardiovascular scare (not even nuts or avocados allowed), apparently the amount of oil and protein the average sedentary pers…

> People think it's magically going to solve all the problems created by the government No one other than extremists (which exist in all groups) believe this, using this as a reaso…

Your implicit claim is that NFTs offer nothing more than decentralization which is not true, as it's basis is a public tamper resistant ledger that is difficult to censor. How many…

Maybe I misunderstand your point but intellectual property can only exist under a legal system, this seems like a shallow 'gotcha'

Can the NFT be cryptographically verified to be authentic? If so then it should be as good as any other proof of purchase

My understanding is that this is not correct, it conflates all NFT transactions without nuance, if one buys intellectual property via NFT and can prove it (which is ostensibly NFT'…