rule_follower

8 年前議論

If the particular research is non-falsifiable and the critic is convinced the entire field is not an academic discipline at all but a cult with its entirely own internal logic with no relation to reality, how would an objective rebuttal be constructed? Is the right way for atheists to engage with religious scholars to critique the most nonsensical output of theologians?

rule_follower

8 年前議論

The rabble are now inside the walls and even ensconced in its offices.

rule_follower

8 年前議論

How to accomplish this without exacerbating continued asset & fixed cost inflation?

rule_follower

8 年前議論

Should have specified NSLs that cannot be disclosed but the IC activity is far more significant.

rule_follower

8 年前議論

Those are actions with judicial oversight. I believe OP was referring to NSLs and other IC actions.

rule_follower

8 年前議論

>dey turk ur jerbs

This sniffling condescension toward those in our society who have and continue to lose out to corporate interests who have sold out the American worker is vile. When employment and income prospects of citizens are reduced and dimmed at all levels, be it farm workers or IT gods, because corporations are importing foreigners to replace them (whether directly or indirectly) and the government is either complicit in or utterly passive toward the situation, it is entirely reasonable to be angry and feel betrayed. Early labor organizers would have long ago (hell, as recently as the mid-90s) risen up in arms over this. That organized labor utters not a peep tells us very clearly that such movements are dead.

rule_follower

8 年前議論

It's good to have the experience of interacting with someone far more intelligent than yourself who nevertheless believes things you think, with good reason, to be nonsense. It teaches one humility, to question the nature of "knowledge" and how it is attained, and the limits of "intelligence" alone to divine reality and arrive at consensus.

rule_follower

8 年前議論

There was no prior mention of the person being a prison abolitionist. There was mention of concern about private prisons. I don't know how I am to intuit what a person is truly concerned about vs. what they state they are concerned about.

rule_follower

8 年前議論

You were the one who mentioned financial incentives/conflicts vis-a-vis private prisons.

rule_follower

8 年前議論

Isn't it one of the great assumptions of our age that everyone is "equal" and ought be proportionally represented in every endeavor? And that inequitable representation is evidence of a moral or actual crime against the under represented? (At least in cases when an official oppressor class is over represented and an official victim class is under represented. And also when participating in the endeavor is desirable.)

rule_follower

8 年前議論

Private prisons house a tiny fraction of US inmates, an estimated 8% in 2015[0] and the federal numbers are exclusively for the detention of foreigners illegally in the country.

[0]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/11/u-s-private-...

rule_follower

8 年前議論

>Arguing that it’s good for them is paternalistic bullshit.

Sitting in a cage or a large room with other inmates with nothing productive to do can itself be considered a form of psychological torture, which is precisely what some proponents of prison industry have argued: https://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/1147470

rule_follower

8 年前議論

But they don't shut off your power because they do not like the type of business you run or you personally.

rule_follower

8 年前議論

>allow people to be terrible on social media without taking responsibility for it?

This is a euphemism for banning users and a misrepresentation of the the points I have seen, which is that it is hypocritical to seek government safeguards against ISPs favoring/disfavoring traffic/content depending on the source while clamoring for just that from giant internet media corporations

rule_follower

8 年前議論

Consider how the men who toiled on the ships of that era lived: https://www.newworldexploration.com/explorers-tales-blog/lif...

rule_follower

8 年前議論

The man who founded the seedbank was sent to the gulag and sentenced to death for calling out Lysenko as a fraud. The Soviets failed to evacuate the contents of the seedbank, leaving it to be destroyed or raided. I don't understand how allying with such a government can be deemed a natural consequence of seeking to preserve knowledge and culture. The heroes in this story are solely the individual scientists.

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