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Now, I'm not claiming that global warming due to our CO2 emissions is real. (that's up for a debate that I won't get involved in). But our temperatures are raising every year (at lease across the Mediterranean) and consistently. I'm afraid they are getting a bit too high for stability and if the trend doesn't somehow reverse; there will be real tragic consequences.
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"Known things" and "common knowledge" are specific to your context of existence. The tactic to weave in the threads of logical statements or irrefutable facts together with person's/organization's agenda is used by everyone from radical individuals to sects to popular political parties. However, you cannot turn this argument on its head by saying that a reasonable statement shared by "bad" people makes it bad or inva…
Godwin's Law, "if you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in."
By the way, Godwin’s law[0]: “Godwin’s law is the proposition that the longer an internet argument goes on, the higher the probability becomes that something or someone will be compared to Adolf Hitler.”
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It was on Reddit, was not it? I got banned from a sub just because of having opinion that contradicted OP, when I asked which rule did I broke, My account was suspended on whole Reddit... I have been member since Digg exodus and never had any problem till that day. Unfortunately Reddit is ruled by moronic mods who can perma-ban your account, and admins can't be bothered. If your opinion is not in line, your IP is goi…
> your IP is going to get blacklisted This is easily circumvented by resetting your router and starting fresh with an account. Who cares about "karma" anyway? > so either you are extremely left wing, or you are out. Or don't participate in political/culture war subreddits that encourage idiots on two sides to sling text feces at each other all day.
Reality check I got after being accused of having anti-minority opinion while arguing for protection of all categories of people, just without double standards and without giving priority to some over others. This got me instantly banned from a community I had professional interest and participation in, which made me realize the damaging effects of culture wars that are about to get worse for major corporations. With…
I think there are two points: first, 'all lives matter' is a typical dog whistle for a lot of people who are racist , even if you are not. If you're going to argue that line, you have to try and put some clear water between you and them. The second point is that, in an unjust society, not accounting for the effects of that injustice on people (say candidates for a job position) compounds that injustice. So like, if y…
The problem with this is that this is applying a fix in the wrong place, making the effects of original injustice exist in a different form for a vastly longer period of time. In your example, the society can pay for the livehood, training and education of such ex-slaves, and help them fit back.
But blindly giving them positions that require experience and skill is going to sound nice, but ultimately your whole society is going broke. And people will once again start associating low quality and untrustworthiness with the very same people you wanted to uplift in the first place..
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yes. I live in Scotland and am not a conservative voter but through the Cameron/May days I found myself in disbelief but the current PM and government are playing the trump playbook
Sturgeon is doing the same thing. Towing the Globalist/Neo-Liberal playbook. Allowed to get away with stoking nationalist ideology because she's pro-EU. Which reminds me - how is independence for Scotland a meaningful pursuit if you'll immediately attempt to join the EU?
She is definitely stoking nationalist ideology, but she is absolutely not towing the neo liberal playbook. Scotland is consistently pushing in the opposite direciton of the England in the areas that would come under the neo liberal agenda. She's also not taking the same plays as the UK government by doing things like trying to leave the ECHR to ship 1000 migrants to rwanda, and she's not taken the Trump play of "if I have enough scandals, none of them will stick".
> Which reminds me - how is independence for Scotland a meaningful pursuit if you'll immediately attempt to join the EU?
The Scottish government have published a document [0] which explains it, but the key point is this (from the linked document)
But the point is this: in an independent Scotland, crucial decision-making power will rest with the people who live here – not with Westminster governments that do not command the support of people in Scotland, and which pursue policies, for example, Brexit, that are deeply damaging to Scotland's interests.
The argument for Scotland leaving the UK isn't "we want to join the EU", it's "we don't agree with the direction the rest of the union is going in, we're still open to working together but we want to work with you, not for you".
[0] https://www.gov.scot/publications/independence-modern-world-...
[1] https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-w...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_el...
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Only recently?
The Uk was a pretty decent place up until around 2008, now its much further along the train of stripping back every function of government than even the US. The entire media is in the government's pocket, we even had a literal conspiracy to intentionally lose elections from members of labour.[1][2][3] Unlike the US, even the police departments don't escape cutbacks... [1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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Interesting. I'd never heard that that could be a cause of cognitive decline. In any case, no, I have teens. I've been wondering if maybe I caught covid without knowing it (asymptomatic) and this is brain fog.
Something like this turned out to be Lyme for me. Good luck.
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There is nothing in the question that seems to imply that we should keep it strictly about tech work, and various answers do not seem to be about it either.
Fair enough, I assumed wrong since this is HN.
1) Execs complaining that it's hard to find skilled workers nowadays, while doing their best to make the company an unattractive workplace and not bother retaining existing workers who are leaving (including me soon). Guys, it's not rocket science, just ask your employees what's bothering them. If people are leaving by the numbers, then you have some serious issues that need to be fixed, otherwise the churn will neve…
> Guys, it's not rocket science, just ask your employees what's bothering them. That requires confrontation, which many executives (and even low-level managers) don't want to deal with.
The vast scale of the organized child sex abuse activity among Catholic clergy. I have a hard time understanding how such organized activity can be performed by people who literally fear divine judgement, so I am alarmed by the number of clergy who are evidently atheist.
Obviously they don't fear divine judgement. In other words, it is evidence that a large percentage of Catholic clergy simply doesn't believe in God. There are websites out there dedicated to religious clergy who doesn't believe in God but has no choice but to continue spreading BS.
In what sense they don't have a choice? Catholic church won't kill you if you quit.
First, you can leave the religion entirely, then they have no power over you. Second, you can quit your job while staying in the church (as Pope Benedict did), and I think you probably can quit priesthood... but if even you couldn't, quitting the religion is always the Plan B.
So I suspect that the main reason for staying is that getting paid for talking BS is just too convenient. Not believing in God, but preaching to people who believe in God and believe that you are the speaker of the God.