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Post by callalex »

eru wrote: post #60
callalex wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain how your statement follows from the parent? To me it reads like a slippery slope type statement.

Almost any kind of spending that anyone, including the government, does is coupled with some arguments about the benefits it brings. For most claimed benefits, it doesn't require a lot of mental gymnastics to find some arguments why they would reduce some spending in the long run. If you give me an example as a challenge, I can (most probably) spin you the argument of how it reduces spending.

I still don’t understand why that’s an argument against government spending.

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Post by eru »

callalex wrote: post #91
eru wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost any kind of spending that anyone, including the government, does is coupled with some arguments about the benefits it brings. For most claimed benefits, it doesn't require a lot of mental gymnastics to find some arguments why they would reduce some spending in the long run. If you give me an example as a challenge, I can (most probably) spin you the argument of how it reduces spending.

I still don’t understand why that’s an argument against government spending.

It's not an argument against government spending, nor was it intended as one. What makes you think so?

It's an argument against this specific argument for government spending.

Making bad arguments is excessively easy, independent of whether the thing argued for is good or bad, or true or false.

To give a simple example: consider a faulty proof of Pythagoras' theorem. See eg https://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/FalseProofs.shtml

Pointing out flaws in these purported proofs is not an argument against Pythagoras' theorem; it's still true after all. It's merely an argument against the faulty arguments.

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Post by czottmann »

TaurenHunter wrote: post #23

Related: Dad Joke APIs https://www.dadjokes.io/documentation/endpoints/random-jokes https://api-ninjas.com/api/dadjokes https://icanhazdadjoke.com/api

Thanks for the links! I spent my free morning setting up a Mastodon bot [1] posting one joke per hour, the APIs made it easy and the whole thing made me laugh.

[1]: https://mastodon.social/@pleasestop

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Post by willcipriano »

tzs wrote: post #90
willcipriano wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember when we were told that insurance companies would go bankrupt without the individual mandate and then it was ruled unconstitutional and not implemented after the first few years and insurance companies made more money than ever? The insurance industry could've tolerated quite a bit of disruption. The ACA was successful in ensuring the donor class got to keep the profit levels they are accustomed to, the only…

> The ACA was successful in ensuring the donor class got to keep the profit levels they are accustomed to, the only thing it was ever designed to do. So it reducing the number of uninsured by many millions was just an unintentional consequence, or what?

Health insurance != Healthcare.

Now a bunch of people are paying hundreds a month for a ten thousand dollar deductible. Those people already pay for socialized medicine (the US spends the most on socialized medicine per captia), so I don't see that as a win as much as a gift to the insurance companies.

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Post by mark-r »

hotsauceror wrote: post #74
SeanKilleen wrote: post #18

"Dadabase" was right there.

That’s what my travel mug says. Best Father’s Day gift ever. Here’s a freebie for you new dads: What do you call a spider with twenty eyes? A spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiider.

Only works in print unfortunately.

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Post by mcculley »

That there is a Federally funded Natural Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse at fatherhood.gov and not an equivalent motherhood.gov reminds me of Paul Graham's "What You Can't Say" [0][1][2].

How much suffering could we avoid for children if we could convince more pregnant women to not smoke and drink and consume drugs?

[0]: https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html [1]: https://paulgraham.com/resay.html [2]: https://paulgraham.com/saynotes.html

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Post by addicted »

mcculley wrote: post #98

That there is a Federally funded Natural Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse at fatherhood.gov and not an equivalent motherhood.gov reminds me of Paul Graham's "What You Can't Say" [0][1][2]. How much suffering could we avoid for children if we could convince more pregnant women to not smoke and drink and consume drugs? [0]: https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html [1]: https://paulgraham.com/resay.html [2]: https://paul…

Paul Graham is obviously saying these things.

The “I‘n being suppressed because I can’t say these things” articles by extremely well placed people who constantly say these things is tedious.

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Post by lern_too_spel »

mcculley wrote: post #98

That there is a Federally funded Natural Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse at fatherhood.gov and not an equivalent motherhood.gov reminds me of Paul Graham's "What You Can't Say" [0][1][2]. How much suffering could we avoid for children if we could convince more pregnant women to not smoke and drink and consume drugs? [0]: https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html [1]: https://paulgraham.com/resay.html [2]: https://paul…

You mean like this? https://health.gov/myhealthfinder/pregnancy/doctor-and-midwi...

"Don’t smoke or drink alcohol"

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