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Upon reflection, you're right. Thanks for the wake-up call.

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-... "...the IRS admits it wrongly used "heightened scrutiny and inordinate delays" and demanded unnecessary information …

OP already addressed that. When it's time to vote or choose your charitable donations or whatever, you can: > ...go read Wikipedia for 30 minutes and be just as caught up as anyone…

Golly, if hunter-gathering means I'm stuck in whatever group I was born in, and that other more organized groups can keep us off their turf, then maybe hunter-gathering just isn't …

Gaining acceptance by a tribe and finding ways to not die if you ever become disfavored seems like part of the whole hunter-gatherer package, don't you think? They tend not to be v…

It's true, hunter gatherer societies have a way of getting out competed.

Plenty of hunter gatherer tribes still around for the people crazy enough to want to join them

Go try it and let us know how it works out

And you too can go live in the bush and do all those things until you get a toothache, parasites and lose a few kids to infant mortality.

Ethically, everyone deserves all the blackjack and hookers they want, because we're all beautiful and precious creatures. Practically, giving someone a direct incentive to do worth…

Separate variables. Either kind of test can be done with a nasopharyngeal swab, or without.

You can have an okay economy without tech heavy hitters, but the point is that being dependent on US internet tech or Russian natural gas or whatever can be a significant vulnerabi…

Now that we see what ad based, centralized social media / surveillance companies lead to, more and more people have reasons to take their business elsewhere.

You're assuming government regulation is the only solution. When Facebook or Comcast or Google start censoring opinions they don't like, I want to hear about it on other places lik…

The Atlantic: It's Time to Stop Using the 'Fire in a Crowded Theater' Quote https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

Regulated utilities have their own failure modes. https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/18/...

Wikileaks is a pretty grim example to include in that list.

Take a deep breath and step away for a minute. You're not alone, and lots of other people right here in this thread are also opposed to censorship. Dying on a hill isn't what we ne…

Huh, that's pretty crazy, especially with AOC herself writing up impeachment papers: "Sunrise planned a sit-in in Pelosi's office and asked Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-C…

Not at all certain. Major outlets have cut him off on several occasions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/cnn-msnbc...

Wikipedia reports four shootings. And this killing sure looks like it was part of CHOP: https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/murder-charges-filed-a...

You're the one using ridiculous examples: dentists, boulders, canyons, rolling rocks up hills, pouring water on fires. The original topic was that various charities are saving live…

I too have seen the Facebook chain letter about how we could end world poverty for only $XX billion. But yes, let's definitely not fund malaria relief in the meantime.

> I'd absolutely sign up for a wealth-proportional share of a tax Very gracious of you to be willing to help but only if all of society signs up to do it with you. > system that's …