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2017-05-12 at 8:29 AM UTC in Porn Suggestionsbill the cat is so retarded he can't even find his own pornoThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-12 at 3:21 AM UTC in Your daily reminder.So there were like 8 pages and in the first 4 I didn't see a definite answer on why you, Sophie, don't choose to pursue a lifestyle that doesn't require payment of taxes.
Off the top Qatar and the Cayman Islands don't impose income tax. There are also plenty of places where you can easily avoid taxes like any wilderness areas or most of the second and third world. If you start enumerating the options you have for finding a way to live without paying taxes a striking pattern starts to emerge: they're almost all shitty because they involve next to no infrastructure with a very small minority being a situation wherein you have to be incredibly wealthy to have a high quality of life.
Funny how that works, huh?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-11 at 4:05 PM UTC in Your daily reminder.
Originally posted by Open Your Mind Sophie, I really am genuinely interested in hearing your opinion. If you don't want to talk about it anymore I understand. I'm not trying to be a dick. But I'm not convinced.
Originally posted by Open Your Mind Isn't that exactly what I suggested earlier? Convince others, together change society. You got mad at me for suggesting that. Wtf bro. Anyways, convince me at least.
From the statist point of view this would mean getting into politics and becoming the leader of the state. Also i am trying to convince others, but i don't want to compromise my principles in order to gain political power. I can only try to tell people why the state is an amoral institution that derives it's perceived authority from a monopoly on violence. If i become the leader of the state how can i possibly advocate for it's abolishment with a straight face. If you have to do something through force or the threat of force it just means you don't have the arguments to defend your position in any other way.
All i can do is argue the true nature of the state and work around it as much as possible through counter-economics, like bitcoin and other technologies, and peer to peer trade. this is the idea behind agorism, which is a more practical form of anarcho-capitalism.
The reason i reacted in the way that i did is because i thought you were saying that i should get into politics to change society. I'd rather do it through reason and counter-economics and i try to apply those things to my life to the best of my abilities.
Originally posted by Open Your Mind I already told you I think it's only fair that I contribute to a system that I benefit immensely from.
It would be fair, but only if the relationship between you and the system was voluntary to begin with.
Originally posted by Open Your Mind Doesn't feel like I'm being stolen from.
And this what makes people not see how it is wrong. But just because it doesn't feel like you are being stolen from doesn't mean that when you come down to it, it still is actually is theft, fundamentally. No matter how much you think you may or may not benefit from it.
Originally posted by Open Your Mind Feels like I'm part of a big team.
Being a part of a team is a voluntary association. Your association with the state is not voluntary.
Originally posted by Open Your Mind Convince me why this is wrong. I'm listening.
You can feel however you want to feel about it. If you are ok with being stolen from, good for you. This does not mean however, that theft is good and proper by any rational standard.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-11 at 1:13 PM UTC in Your daily reminder.Your about as superior as the next flesh bag walking Down the street and just as fragile and insignificant too. The only thing you have more of is an egoThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-10 at 8:12 PM UTC in Your daily reminder.Depends on the model. Here in Germany it definitely isn't. I lose about 50% of my income to taxes. I used to buy 1g TPAIN for 10 bucks, now I only pay 5 but on the box it says 55,89. They claim that's what those pills are worth but hey I pay 24.7%(?) healthcare taxes so I only have to pay 5€ extra instead of the full price. That those 25% are about 1k and I could buy a fucking kilo 99% pure TPAIN with it is irrelevantt, right?
I mean I have to think about the other people who are also getting robbed instead of choosing freely what they do with their money, right? Like, for example all the Bill Krozbyes of the world and the 90 year olds on 12 machines in hospitals.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-09 at 12:32 PM UTC in I gave drugs to my sister's kid tonight
Originally posted by Kolokol-1 I know the whole "vaccines cause autism" thing is generally regarded as false, but in the original package inserts of some vaccines (can't recall which) it literally listed "autism" as a possible side effect.
Uh huh.
Originally posted by Kolokol-1 Whenever there's an outbreak of a virus that people have been vaccinated against, people seem to catch it whether they've been vaccinated or not, which suggests they are ineffective.
That's probably because once a virus enters the body of someone who is not vaccinated, it has a chance that it will mutate, rendering the original vaccine useless. Maybe that person should have FUCKING VACCINATED. Idiot.
Originally posted by Kolokol-1 IMO the reason these viruses are so rare now is improvements in living conditions and sanitation, not due to vaccines.
"IMO" means jack shit. Why should your opinion mean anything when there are literally thousands of medical professionals that disagree with you and have facts to back it up?
Originally posted by Kolokol-1 Babies have very weak immune systems. It seems to me that injecting them with these potentially deadly viruses, even if they are "weakened" is a bad idea. Why can't they wait until the child's immune system is developed more?
Because the longer you wait, the longer they are vulnerable to deadly illnesses, which would be immeasurably worse than any imagined negative scenario that morons like you come up with.
Originally posted by Kolokol-1 I don't really have anything personally against vaccines but it definitely should be parent's choice, not a requirement to go to public school.
It's part of the social contract to live in a civilized world. Why should someone else's kid be put at risk of catching some mutated virus from another kid whose dumbass parents didn't vaccinate?
Originally posted by Kolokol-1 I won't be having children so I haven't really done enough research
Then don't even say shit.
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2017-05-08 at 10:27 AM UTC in Would anyone in the Bay Area be wiling to keep me on suicide watch?Bill Krozby kind of sounds jealous that people like Malice and wish him well and nobody ever does that for him.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-06 at 8:11 PM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshin
Originally posted by Malice My visual perception helped me notice an elderly man had dropped some paperwork and something seemed wrong. Helped a blind person, one good deed done. Hmm, then again, superior moral character would be shown by not bragging. I suppose it just feels good to help people and see them appreciate it.
It's a very common and good human trait to have. If more people shared this school of thought the world would be a truly better place.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-06 at 8:10 PM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshinMy visual perception helped me notice an elderly man had dropped some paperwork and something seemed wrong. Helped a blind person, one good deed done. Hmm, then again, superior moral character would be shown by not bragging. I suppose it just feels good to help people and see them appreciate it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-04 at 5:05 PM UTC in Just got out of the ER
Originally posted by Darth Beaver Its not my data. You haven't read it. You have not presented any documented data to support your position or undermine mine position. You are still just posting an opinion.
It's the data you gave. For the sake of this conversation it's yours. If I'm just posting an opinion "it's not about strong or weak" is just as much an opinion, and it's fine to respond in kind.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-30 at 10:28 PM UTC in Thank goodness I gave away my tickets to Fyre FestThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-30 at 10:15 PM UTC in Thank goodness I gave away my tickets to Fyre Fest
Originally posted by Open Your Mind Like 3 or 4 times I've had to have minor surgeries to remove lodged kidney stones. Sucked ass. Especially after the surgery. They leave a "stent" inside you, to keep the passage between your kidney and bladder from swelling shut. The stent is attached to a string, the string hangs out your dick. about a week after the surgery, you pull the stent out through your peehole in the shower.
It sucks.
I never knew that.
I know the pain only we can know. I guess we are brothers now.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-30 at 5:12 PM UTC in greenplastic has the best trip phraseObbe's almost makes senseThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-28 at 9:41 PM UTC in IdentityNot to ask myself but to answer.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-28 at 4:45 PM UTC in IdentityI haven't stated a single opinion during this conversation. But whatever dude.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-28 at 4:39 PM UTC in Identity
Originally posted by Darth Beaver The very concept of a machine does not exist without 100s of thousands of years of random human actions and interactions. The very fact that the random results of the machines can be calculated to be random automatically negates the randomness.
But chew on this. On earth machines need humans. Humans don't need machines.
Post last edited by Darth Beaver at 2017-04-28T16:24:07.566514+00:00
The concept of a human does not exist without 100s of millions of years of random mutations and chemical reactions.
We are organic machines that have been around longer than artificial machines and thus are more complex. All you're doing is proving my point further. Enough of the pseudo-philosophical nonsense. Make an actual argument please or just stop posting in the thread.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-28 at 3:28 PM UTC in Identity
Originally posted by Darth Beaver A human cannot account for all the variables "young man". Random…
What you're saying here disproves your previous statement:
Originally posted by Darth Beaver A computer is incapable of generating a truly random result. Humans solved that before we moved out if caves.
We have computers nowadays that generate "random" numbers with algorithms that use natural phenomena as a variable such as atmospheric noise, which for all intents and purposes can be regarded as "random" by your definition.
So we already have computers that can generate random results. Far more random than a toddler flipping a coin, anywayThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-28 at 3:10 PM UTC in IdentityThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-28 at 1:14 PM UTC in IdentityI'll make it easier for you, just answer this. Other than being made of different stuff and having been around for longer, in what ways are we different from machines?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-28 at 1:08 PM UTC in IdentityOk then I'll go first I guess. The big difference between a human mind and a computer is that while a modern CPU might have a few billion transistors, our brains have something like 100 trillion synapses. We're just more complex than any artificial machine because we've had billions of years to evolve naturally while machines have only been around for a couple thousand years.
The other obvious difference is that computers are created artificially using inorganic matter whereas living things are a naturally-occurring self-sustaining organic chemical reaction.
Now to your counter argumentThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
