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Lyrl

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  • Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe Performs Wildly Racist Set At Trump Rally In New York City

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  • I believe the fact that anyone, anywhere, of any group, supports mass murder for its own sake is damning of us as a species. I am looking to understand what you believe. I would be grateful for any details you are willing to share.

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  • I believe all humans, Democrats included, have capacity for fascism.

    Do you believe most Democrats are actively rooting for most of the millions of Palestinians to be killed?

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  • It sounds like you believe most people who identify as Democrats are actively rooting for the horrifyingly high number of Palestinian deaths, in the tens of thousands, to progress to the millions. Is that an accurate description of your viewpoint? If so, are there some key things that made you start believing that?

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  • The philosophical position is that if they pull the lever, they become personally responsible for the resulting deaths. If they don't pull the lever, that's sad so many people die, but it's the responsibility of the people running the train and who tied all those groups to the tracks. They have no personal blame in that case.

    It's not an intuitive position to many of us, but philosophers take it seriously.

  • White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth control

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  • Their utility in both sexual and nonsexual applications makes coverage for just one use impractical. Soil testing machines and powdered metal formers use condoms to contain the loose material in the pressure vessel. They make hilarious balloons. They can keep gunpowder dry in combat.

    I interned at a reseach lab that had powdered metal machines that used condoms. For a while, condoms were available as an open stores item. They pulled them due to way more being consumed than made sense for the amount of powdered metal research.

  • Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed in surprise encounter with Israeli forces

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  • They will select a new primary leader, but they are organized more as a confederation than a centrally controlled group. Very little of their action relies on there being a leader at all. Past Israeli assassinations of their leaders haven't weakened the group, and I don't see any reason this time would be different.

  • Texas reaches over 18 million registered voters, the highest it's ever been

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  • It's intended as a "this is the John Doe I'm talking about" kind of id, not a "the person with this card is John Doe" kind of id.

  • Elon Musk’s X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Million Fine to Wrong Bank

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  • "Housing" Proposals

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  • If a landlord who actually takes their job as servant to their tenants seriously gets some efficiency of scale - say enough units to justify a full time maintenance person who is available on call to support tenant issues - I don't want to punish them for that. Surely we can develop metrics to identify predatory landlords that are more accurate than number of properties.

  • "Housing" Proposals

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  • If enough more houses are built that prices stop increasing faster than inflation, housing will no longer be valuable as a speculative asset. Building more houses BOTH makes housing immediately available, and changes the market forces in a way that pushes out investors squatting on un-lived-in units.

  • Toilet-specific plungers get the job done faster with way less effort and mess

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  • Many sinks do not have overflow drains.

  • There are no trans women athletes at the Paris Olympics. So bigots manufactured them.

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  • There are no trans women athletes at the Paris Olympics. So bigots manufactured them.

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  • [Mega thread] - Biden ends bid for presidency

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  • In some takes on the trolley problem (do nothing, five people are run over by a trolley an die, flip a track change switch and two people are run over by a trolley and die) flipping the switch is the morally worse option because then those two people's deaths are your fault, whereas the five people who die because you did nothing are someone else's fault. I don't agree with that take, but it's taken seriously in philosophy circles.

  • [Mega thread] - Biden ends bid for presidency

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  • I don't get how in the Levant, where both Hamas and the Israelis have significant factions that want to genocide the other people, a situation where Hamas does the genociding (because an Israel without attack capability de facto also loses defense capability) is somehow more moral than a situation where Israel does it.

  • Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination

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  • The problem is the very pro-death penalty camp wants the dying process - not the being dead part after - to be the punishment. The pro-humane camp is generally anti-death-penalty enough they don't get a seat at the method-decision table.

  • Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination

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  • Alabama tried that and managed to screw it up. You have to remove the carbon dioxide in the exhales to prevent the feeling of suffocation, and they didn't provide enough nitrogen flow to do that. Took like twenty minutes of clearly desperate gasping and convulsions for the guy to pass.

  • OK at it Again

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  • "average person" and "contemporary community standards" are in tons of court decisions. It's not a simple definition, but any lawyer or judge in the US will be familiar with it.

    The legalese phrases don't bother me, it's the declaration that anything that might arouse a teenager is harmful to them. That's a fight against basic puberty biology they are going to lose, but hurt a lot of people in the battle.