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

• tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s so far outside reality that it’s hard to say anything with any certainty. Do I know I’m Groundhog Day-ing? Because I’ve been trying to import some stupid csv files all day and I just found the solution 5 minutes ago so if I remember what I’ve done, I might skip all that nonsense and go straight to the solution. I might even do the dishes after. If I don’t know and all the matter I’m made of is reset to how it was this morning, I don’t see why anything would be different the second time around.

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