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  1. Re:Are we different by dcw3 · · Score: 1 · on Female Uber Drivers Get Paid Less Than Men, Says Study (recode.net)

    Wait, which gender...
    https://apath.org/63-genders/

  2. How to Create Your Own Religion In Ten Easy Steps by virtcert · · Score: 1 · on Swedish File-Sharers File For Religious Status

    As the world's leading authority on creating religions (seriously, I'm #1 on Google), I humbly offer my free guide:

              How to Create Your Own Religion In Ten Easy Steps

    This handy guide will help you properly structure your religion and help you gain legitimacy by copying what others have done.

    By making it look like similar in structure to other more popular religions, you will simultaneously have demonstrated your core principle of copying stuff while making the concepts seem more familiar (and therefore more acceptable) to the reviewing board.

    Cheers and Good Luck!

    All Hail The Great Lord Lardicus!

  3. Why My Religion is Right and Yours is Wrong by virtcert · · Score: 1 · on Subatomic Darwinism
    Here's a nice summary of all the religious arguments people use and a logical skewering of said arguments for your viewing pleasure.

    Religiously neutral to all faiths just to keep it fair.

    Cheers!

    - Brian

  4. Why My Religion is Right and Yours is Wrong by virtcert · · Score: 1 · on Subatomic Darwinism
    Here's a nice summary of all the religious arguments people use and a logical skewering of said arguments for your viewing pleasure.

    Religiously neutral to all faiths just to keep it fair.

    Cheers!

    - Brian

  5. INVEST Your Vote, Don't "waste" it! by virtcert · · Score: 1 · on Thinking About the SnitchCam
    In a fit of electoral frustration from the fact that there is not a major candidate that I actually WANT to win, my brain snapped and I went on a political rant about the concept of INVESTING YOUR VOTE instead of "wasting" it by voting for someone you don't actually want to win. The premise is simple: You get an accumulated return on investment if you vote for a party you actually WANT to win. It won't pay off today, but after a few elections and a slight change in voting 'spin' it could. Here's the short version, click on the link for additional commentary and your can post all the reasons you think I'm wrong:

    ...To summarize the rest of this post, here aremy basic personal political beliefs:

    (1) The Constitution is a great idea. We should try living by it sometime.

    (2) The job of the government is to protect the people from outside forces, not to control them.

    (3) Taking care of the people is the job of the people, not of the government.

    (4) Any organization will attempt to increase it's power until it reaches "absolute power" and will resist all attempts to restrain it.

    (5) Individuals should be free to choose their own actions, be responsible and accountable for their own actions, and accept the repercussions of those actions.

    Put those together and you can probably project my opinion on pretty much any topic.

    [Clarification: When I speak of "government" in the general sense, I am speaking of it at the Federal level]

    That being said, I just took The World's Smallest Political Quiz, which tells you where you basically fall in the political question with just 10 questions. I ended pretty firmly in the Libertarian camp, though I am not affiliated with the party.

    Fortunately, they seem to have the basic ideas that I support. Unfortunately, the very principles that make them attractive to me are the very qualities that prevent them from becoming a major political force. Sort of like Wicca in the religious arena, the very "decentralized power" structure it is based up is antithical to it obtaining sufficient power to make the changes you want to make.

    That being said, I'd like to offer some strategies that might help alternative parties, whatever they may be, to obtain at least enough power to weaken the major parties that they compete against. Quite frankly I'm not worried about diluting the election for either party, as neither major party supports the 5 beliefs I described above (or lacks the conviction to support them) and I think that they are both screwed up, unsustainable in the medium-to-long-term and are doomed to failure (at least from the perspective of a citizen that wants to live in a free country) in their current forms. That being said, here's my suggestion to counter some of the usualfull-of-crap rhetoric.

    Full of crap rhetoric #1:

    "Don't Waste Your Vote" - This is stupidest thing you could possibly say to a voter, so of course the major political parties say it often enough that people start to believe it. The only way you could possibly waste your vote is to: (1) Don't Vote or (2) Vote for someone you don't want to actually win. Here's my counter-proposal that I hereby release to the public domain in the hopes that some other political party or organization will pick it up and run with it:

    INVEST YOUR VOTE! Let's accept the fact that if you vote for a third party candidate (whatever the party may be) they are pretty certain not to win the election. But don't think of it as a wasted vote, think of it as an INVESTED VOTE.

    What is an investment? It is something small that you put away now and don't use in the hopes that it will grow into something more useful and powerful in the future. And that is exactly what INVEST YOUR VOTE means to do. You take your vote

  6. INVEST Your Vote, Don't "waste" it! by virtcert · · Score: 1 · on Thinking About the SnitchCam
    In a fit of electoral frustration from the fact that there is not a major candidate that I actually WANT to win, my brain snapped and I went on a political rant about the concept of INVESTING YOUR VOTE instead of "wasting" it by voting for someone you don't actually want to win. The premise is simple: You get an accumulated return on investment if you vote for a party you actually WANT to win. It won't pay off today, but after a few elections and a slight change in voting 'spin' it could. Here's the short version, click on the link for additional commentary and your can post all the reasons you think I'm wrong:

    ...To summarize the rest of this post, here aremy basic personal political beliefs:

    (1) The Constitution is a great idea. We should try living by it sometime.

    (2) The job of the government is to protect the people from outside forces, not to control them.

    (3) Taking care of the people is the job of the people, not of the government.

    (4) Any organization will attempt to increase it's power until it reaches "absolute power" and will resist all attempts to restrain it.

    (5) Individuals should be free to choose their own actions, be responsible and accountable for their own actions, and accept the repercussions of those actions.

    Put those together and you can probably project my opinion on pretty much any topic.

    [Clarification: When I speak of "government" in the general sense, I am speaking of it at the Federal level]

    That being said, I just took The World's Smallest Political Quiz, which tells you where you basically fall in the political question with just 10 questions. I ended pretty firmly in the Libertarian camp, though I am not affiliated with the party.

    Fortunately, they seem to have the basic ideas that I support. Unfortunately, the very principles that make them attractive to me are the very qualities that prevent them from becoming a major political force. Sort of like Wicca in the religious arena, the very "decentralized power" structure it is based up is antithical to it obtaining sufficient power to make the changes you want to make.

    That being said, I'd like to offer some strategies that might help alternative parties, whatever they may be, to obtain at least enough power to weaken the major parties that they compete against. Quite frankly I'm not worried about diluting the election for either party, as neither major party supports the 5 beliefs I described above (or lacks the conviction to support them) and I think that they are both screwed up, unsustainable in the medium-to-long-term and are doomed to failure (at least from the perspective of a citizen that wants to live in a free country) in their current forms. That being said, here's my suggestion to counter some of the usualfull-of-crap rhetoric.

    Full of crap rhetoric #1:

    "Don't Waste Your Vote" - This is stupidest thing you could possibly say to a voter, so of course the major political parties say it often enough that people start to believe it. The only way you could possibly waste your vote is to: (1) Don't Vote or (2) Vote for someone you don't want to actually win. Here's my counter-proposal that I hereby release to the public domain in the hopes that some other political party or organization will pick it up and run with it:

    INVEST YOUR VOTE! Let's accept the fact that if you vote for a third party candidate (whatever the party may be) they are pretty certain not to win the election. But don't think of it as a wasted vote, think of it as an INVESTED VOTE.

    What is an investment? It is something small that you put away now and don't use in the hopes that it will grow into something more useful and powerful in the future. And that is exactly what INVEST YOUR VOTE means to do. You take your vote