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  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • You've got a bit of circular reasoning going on there: Homeschool is inferior because it leads to lower income averages but then income matters so much that an education that doesn't increase it as much must be inferior.

    Look, I'm not a homeschooling stan. I just don't like bad logic or incentivizing antisocial behaviors. We probably agree on, like, 99% of this and my nitpick about half a sentence is a blip comparatively.

  • What band/artist have you seen live more than once, would gladly go see again, and what keeps you coming back?

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  • It was the tour for Earth vs. the Pipettes

  • Do libertarians and anarchists have a similar world view?

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  • Both have a somewhat idealized view of human nature, specifically vis-a-vis power vacuums.

    But there are in fact both right- and left-libertatians. Right-libertarians more-or-less see people as a kind of business and think the government shouldn't get in the way of businesses unless they're engaged in unfair anti-competitive practices, because competition is the highest good. Left-libertatians see corporations as more-or-less hostile but useful entities that should be yoked to human interests, and that this kind of regulation is the role of government while leaving human individual behavior completely unregulated, because human liberty is the highest good.

    Whereas anarchism is pretty much orthogonal to any economic axis. Ideally, there's no entity to regulate economic forces and there's no central currency, so who gets regulated and for what reason is an absent question. Corporations can't exist under anarchism because they're so clearly a predatory hierarchy that frankly I'm surprised we even allow them in regular society.

    So, uh, teal dear long-story-short, no, they're incompatible world views because libertarianism presupposes power structures abhorrent to anarchism.

    Edited to fix a typo that significantly changed the meaning of a sentence.

  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • Being poor sucks. But above fairly low baseline, income level signifies antisocial tendencies more than hard work, education, or intelligence.

  • What's the best thing made from potatoes?

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  • pierogi, duh

  • How did you feel after your first breakup?

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  • fine

    wasn't much of a breakup but then it wasn't much of a relationship

  • What band/artist have you seen live more than once, would gladly go see again, and what keeps you coming back?

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  • They headlined a show my wife's favorite local band was opening. I'd definitely see them again if they did another stateside tour.

  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • I have to object to using income level as metric of success.

  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • It's a tool parents have to improve their child's education, but it can also be abused to damage the child's education. The state has an interest in regulating it and making sure children receiving it are still meeting educational benchmarks.

    I think it works best in tandem with public schooling rather than as a replacement, but I know most people talk about it strictly as an opposing option.

  • What makes Pulp Fiction special?

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  • Sam Jackson and nothing else

  • What cultural programming have you overcome?

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  • I managed to stop calling all women "ma'am", even though I still think that's more polite but whatever

  • What band/artist have you seen live more than once, would gladly go see again, and what keeps you coming back?

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  • Can't believe I forgot to mention the time I played hackeysack with Dashboard Confessional

  • What band/artist have you seen live more than once, would gladly go see again, and what keeps you coming back?

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  • I would love to see NOFX sometime

  • What band/artist have you seen live more than once, would gladly go see again, and what keeps you coming back?

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  • The Decemberists - multiple times, always a good show

    The Long Winters - multiple times, always a good show

    Electric Six - multiple times, absolutely amazing live, highly recommended

    Weezer - past their prime, you're better off listening to the albums at home

    The Hold Steady - multiple times, not that good live

    The Pipettes - amazing performance, very fun

    Aleks & the Drummer - multiple times, sadly now defunct but so much better live than their already great studio work

    Side Walk Slam - multiple times, mostly at music festivals; really fun guys and generous to fans

    Zapruder Point - once live, fun but not a big experience change from their studio recordings

    The Mountain Goats - once live, venue was terrible, makes it hard to evaluate the performance

    Amy Ray - electric performer, worth seeing, I'd love to see her live again

    Franz Ferdinand - too commercial, very rehearsed live, no real improvement in experience over studio recordings

    Torres - good energy, nice show, would see again live but not as a priority

  • What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify?

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  • I doubt gas stations will make very appealing AirBnBs

  • What phrases/sentences instantly reveal someone as a chud?

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  • me too but my interlocutor was using UD and it seemed prudent to do the same

  • Have you ever had intrusive thoughts about getting murdered by people you live with while you're asleep?

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  • That that specifically, no.

  • How effectively will the AI of the future be able to replace real sexual partners or friends?

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  • A lot less effectively but at such a low fraction of the cost of actually human relationships that a lot of people will get sucked in anyway.

  • What phrases/sentences instantly reveal someone as a chud?

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  • Cannibalistic Humanoid Underdwelling Demon

    See movie : C.H.U.D. or Donnie Darko

    This one from 2003 (still copied from UD) is what I'm more familiar with, still an insult, but one more about appearance and demeanor than behavior, and a very different aesthetic than above. Synonymous with "troglodyte".

  • What phrases/sentences instantly reveal someone as a chud?

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  • Does "chud" mean something different than it used to?

  • ADHD memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Modeled on Myself

  • All things bugs @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Music

    Fries on the Side — "I'm a Bug"

    open.spotify.com /track/1r6MBzQquDpw7ZDXh8imHF
  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml
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    RESOLVED

    Looking for a way to make links to posts that don't leave the instance.

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    found my Civilization ][ poster while going cleaning

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.ca
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    1986 saw the release of both the Henson / Bowie film Labyrinth and the Ravensberger board game Labyrinth. What was going on in the zeitgeist that created these two seemingly unrelated classics?