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This sounds like you are urging people not to disregard racism when comparing superpower regimes.

Whataboutism is a very useful game to reveal whether people are being honest or not. If someone is vocally complaining about country A doing some oppressive activity, while ignorin…

Disagree. When tool limitations meant that this was the way people had to work, many people could do this. It was much more inefficient, because it's easier to find bugs after comp…

You don't think neural networks are going to be a factor in drone wars? How far out do you think this prediction will hold?

You know that when there were COVID related supply chain disruptions to microchips coming out of Taiwan, Europe and the US actually found it impossible to make the right number of …

Offshoring into China was literally invented by Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese companies. We see high quality tech products coming out of the countries and assume that they're very…

It's not a lot of reviewing if you simply find the first thing that makes the document unusable and call them out on it. If it's genuinely hard to find that single bug .. perhaps t…

Just keep on spinning cotton thread the old way, ignore what they're building in Manchester..

Don't know if you are serious, but why become part of the problem? Why not just review a single document quickly, find an error which invalidates the document, and send it back say…

I think that's exactly the grandparent's point. Those conflicts are all the pretexts - they believe that it's actually class war and the other labels are all used to avoid calling …

This is not true. Plenty of Europeans have credit cards which work exactly like US credit cards. The main difference between credit cards in Europe and in the US is that poor peopl…

No offense to the OP but this game is much more fun.

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Does history record whether Hitler was using the good ol' giggles-and-joy pseudoephedrine meth or the evil psychosis-inducing P2P biker meth?

Have you ever been an addict? I have, and the argument that everyone addicted had some other issue going on is pretty pointless imho. Yes, they had some other issue, and now before…

This is complete rubbish. The peak years of the war on drugs had a variety of hard drugs available on street corners across all major cities. At best it kept some amount of some dr…

The original Atlantic article, which this one is trying to refute, also doesn't present any evidence for the theory that 'new meth' has significant different effects on health. Aft…

Any exact number of countries is offensive to several groups of people.

I mean tons of back pain is medically unexplained. It's not like physiology has a perfect record here that can be used to dismiss alternative theories.

In California weed is legal but highly regulated. It's easy to buy weed in the legal market but very difficult to be licensed to sell or grow it. The result is that the illegal mar…

Umm no, they submit thousands of random pages of business communication and system spec in discovery. This does not include the source code of their algorithm, which in any case if…

The "transaction outside usual hour range" seems pretty basic. I don't usually buy gas, coffee or snacks at 2am. But on the very rare occasion that I do, I'm dealing with some kind…

But I used nonstandard nonces!

Not sure that quote has aged well from a close personal friend and spirited defender of Peter Mandelson.

Non-energy uses of fossil fuels are not problematic from the point of greenhouse emissions. If we stop burning fossil fuels and get energy from renewable sources, the remaining hyd…