I don't block ads on YouTube because I want to support the content creators.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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I think people don't even want to discuss options for surveillance online and offline because they never were and don't actually fear to be victims of violent crimes.
I also think people who say surveillance and police need to be abolished believe (subconsciously) in the "just world" hypothesis or they have main character syndrome and think that bad stuff only happens to people who somehow deserve it.
I think Vim bindings are dumb and get in the way. I will never understand the appeal of modal editing. Emacs was always the superior program since it was released by Richard Stallman in 1985.
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Not all migrants are good for the country. Many come with views incompatble with western culture. Stuff like homophobia, transohobia, mysogyny. And they are often brought over as cheap labor, undercutting local labor.
The right to keep and bear arms is an inalienable right. We should be able to carry on all public lands, and other places open to the public.
Tattoos look bad like 90% of the time.
The government is not to be trusted.
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The US left wing has a lot of great ideas and some really really terrible ones that are completely out of the mainstream.
That's probably specific enough, right?
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We need oil gas and plastics. Oil and gas in the short/ medium term (meaning 10-20 years) but plastics potentially for the foreseeable
we have alternative energy sources and so oil and gas should be (needs to be) the priority to wean off of but the scaling up of these needs to be properly managed
Plastics I do not see an alternative to as an end product, however it is possible to use "bio sources" to make plastic precursors so there's a route through there but the scaling is nowhere right now
Single use plastics are a viable target but durable plastics I think are with us for the long term
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