weirdwallace75

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hm. You have very little knowledge of American healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That's beyond bad taste and into active stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This towel is warmer and bitier than usual.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There are whole-ass companies selling laptops with Linux preinstalled now. They work. Even with Bluetooth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You skipped glass as an option.

Glass is heavy and fragile, and dangerous when it breaks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The dollar is representative of the work you contributed to the economy

If that's true, nobody on Social Security Disability would be getting money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So basically, the more people who believe in the value of some thing, the more that thing holds actual value?

Yes. That's how value works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value

The paradox of value (also known as the diamond–water paradox) is the contradiction that, although water is on the whole more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Real money is backed by a country’s respective economy

True.

its an IOU from the government

False.

An IOU from the government is a bond.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If someone says something that a lot of people want to be true with no evidence... it ain't true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A coaster does not necessarily violate minimalism, but true minimalism would not need a coaster because surfaces would not be harmed by a drink with condensation.

Your variety of minimalism means people don't buy nice things, which is bad because nice things last longer. Plastic chemically decays, sometimes in harmful ways, whereas wood is a long-term investment if you maintain it properly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So they're helping Trump win. No actual difference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sanders couldn't even win the primary. Look at how poorly he did in 2020, too.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

A good post about the kinds of arguments people use online, including tactics which are about the argument itself or some of the people involved in the argument, as opposed to being about the argument's supposed topic.

You should know this to, one, avoid pointless "debates" where no actual issues get debated, two, to improve your own debate style to focus on the issues that need to be debated most, and, three, to see when others are merely acting like they're debating without actually debating the core issues the debate is supposed to be about.

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