Comment on It is a statistical fact that white men in America couldn't get driver's licenses prior to 1850

• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That just shows whether they did or didn’t, not whether they could or couldn’t. Sloppy.

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  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Depends on your view of free will. If they never did, they never could.

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I like that view because then it isn’t my fault that I haven’t done the dishes - I just didn’t so I simply couldn’t. Nice.

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      • tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Let’s say you could temporarily reverse the laws of physics and rewind the universe to the exact state it was in this morning. Would anything have happened differently?

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