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I don't really like the faux-investigative tone of the article either, but it's misleading to accuse him of calling for vigilantism. He drove around a rich neighborhood, concluded …

Would you mind elaborating? What kind of views are you talking about?

Would you mind elaborating on this with specific examples?

I'd love to see what those exact same students would say if the prevailing attitude changed and a massive wave of right-wing ideology took over campus politics. I'm sure that they'…

Agreed. Just read the first paragraph. But their student brains have been replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and programmed to conform. To the untrained eye, they seem…

UberX recently became available: https://www.uber.com/cities/philadelphia I've taken several in center city! (unsurprisingly, a much better experience than CC cabs...)

There is UberX in Philly now, although as far as I know there were no regulatory changes (and Black still operates legally). The PPA actually did a handful of "sting" operations ag…

I agree with your first point. Personally, I draw the line at the ability to suffer. It is well understood that dogs, pigs, cats, cows, orangutans, lambs, and many other animals fe…

I don't think this sort of empty, dismissive comment helps anyone. Besides, is there even that much difference between someone who is genuinely hateful and someone who's just sayin…

Which crashes in particular were caused by attention to systems problems? I believe you - I'm just curious.

Were you recharging them?

Are they actually allocating resources for this? I read it as the police would no longer be giving people a free pass where they used to

It's not really a policy change though is it? Aren't they enforcing laws that cyclists previously were breaking with impunity? I would like them to show their work too, but I don't…

I wasn't saying that meditation isn't measurable, or that it's a waste of time, I was talking about the idea of the brain as a "receiver of consciousness". Meditation is definitely…