yesman

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[–] yesman 8 points 3 weeks ago

Meanwhile, Putin is going to visit Twitter (formally X) to thank all the people who are helping his war effort.

[–] yesman 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Too many innocents go to jail behind false arson accusations. You never know if the building was into it at the time, but then felt ashamed later and cried arson. And then it's just your word against the fire investigators. Just the accusation can destroy your reputation, no trial or nothing.

[–] yesman 0 points 3 weeks ago

Regardless of what you do, the people you love will get hurt, suffer, and die. You're going to have to let that go, or you'll be the one suffering. If you want to protect your loved ones, buy insurance.

[–] yesman 60 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Is there a way to learn this power?

[–] yesman 32 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

This isn't a rule. Some bureaucrat was mistaken.

The same thing happened to another girl a couple weeks ago.

[–] yesman 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why does this article make the US sound like a battered wife in the situation? We'll just go along and hope for the best!

[–] yesman 40 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

This isn't a partizan issue, just like immigration, Democrats are fucking horrible on homelessness too.

[–] yesman 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The problem with this "econ101" thinking is that it insists that the whole system runs on the choices of actors in a deterministic system.

[–] yesman 15 points 3 weeks ago

Keanu must really believe in this stuff because we know he's no good at pretending.

[–] yesman 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you read the article, this is minor plagiarism. Four sections, of about 2 paragraphs each have been shown to be copied. However, the content copied were factual: dates and definitions, not ideas or the thesis. It's reasonable that all of this is explained by the bad sourcing of an ameture author.

[–] yesman 7 points 3 weeks ago

Take each article one by one and look into the source

This is a page out of the conspiracy playbook. We commonly weigh material for bias with no evidence or reasonable justification. A paper confirming climate change seems more credible if it was funded by Exxon than if it were paid for by Green Peace.

This generates exactly the kind of "just so" reasoning that underpins all of conspiracy theory. It literally the belief that powerful forces are manipulating everything from the shadows.

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