DFHippie

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by DFHippie 5y ago
It seems to me lying with facts boils down to two techniques: 1. Misrepresenting the central tendency by presenting outliers as representative. 2. Presenting credentialed but agenda-driven authorities who argue in bad faith to affirm that t
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I think the explanation is that it didn't occur very often, until recently, as a dye or pigment. Color terms are more useful to describe things, like shirts, that don't have an inherent color. In a society where everything just ha
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by DFHippie 5y ago
There are 6 orders of S, V, and O. All are attested, but the orders where O precedes S are vastly less common than those where S precedes O. The counter-argument to Chomsky's Universal Grammar is that commonalities across language exis
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by DFHippie 5y ago
It's not just the absence of an a academy resisting linguistic change, it's that the people who brought English to North America were English , so the dialects that have evolved in North America have been evolving from Old Englis
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I am pointing out a) that some people doing fine is not proof that no one need be concerned, and b) there is separate reason for concern. If the pandemic had not initially been treated as a political problem but as a public health problem a
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The ICUs are full. Millions have died. Millions more have long covid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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Apples and oranges are both fruit but one can differentiate them. A beggar does have the same impact on the climate as the CEO of Exxon. Asking someone not to support crypto is not the same as asking them to cease living.
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I don't know that the opera does. The expression "it's not over until the fat lady sings" is what portrays Brünnhilde as ridiculous.
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> This is totally because of fiscal deficit. I think it's because of supply chains inadequate to supply surging demand from people flush with cash. It's the toilet paper drought spread out across the entire economy.
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The poor and creditors. The poor, because they have less discretionary income and it isn't inflating to cover their inflating necessary expenditures. The creditors, because their assets are depreciating. The debtors in the middle see t
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I wrote a crate to facilitate this:* https://github.com/dfhoughton/pidgin As it says there, you can only build non-recursive grammars this way. And the reason I wrote that crate: https://github.com/dfho
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My grandmother was getting that way toward the end of her life. She lived to be 104. More precisely, she thought she lived to 104. She died a week short of her birthday, but she thought it was her birthday. We were told she cried in the m
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by DFHippie 5y ago
If we're talking about bang for the buck, there's more bang to going vegan than just saving animals. In particular, there's the reduced carbon footprint. I expect there are health benefits as well. Full disclosure: I'm n
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> nor do they necessarily want to buy into the false prophet scientists who have been claiming the end is nigh regarding this subject for decades now (always pushing the new end further down the line, but this time it’s for real, they s
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by DFHippie 5y ago
This is interesting, but I doubt this part > I have no data but can’t help feel this is somehow related to the death of nuance in discourse. It was a largely illiterate society that originally enjoyed the works of Homer and Shakespeare,
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Well, a few notes. As she said, it isn't really a solo instrument.
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The problem is that people are speaking of two different groups of people when they speak of the boomers (and the boomers were more than two groups of people): 1. the activists who, in their heyday, brought about enormous social change and
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Here's one thing to consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_theory#The_two_princ... Ordinary humans can predict what inferences their interlocutors will make. Their interlocutors know this. Therefore, bo
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I moved from DC to Vermont about 15 years ago. I lost the job I had when I first moved when they eliminated remote work and I refused to move back, and for a while I struggled a bit to find remote work. Ultimately I found a local job which
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The objects are made of bronze.
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You should read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_theory
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> Although I suppose there's a separate externality to creating friable material. The issue of discarding too much should be addressed with higher prices at the dump. If the dump costs more, people create unlicensed dumps. Thus the
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by DFHippie 5y ago
And it's still fairer to say not that party X and party Y are both corrupt but that both are corruptible. Rather than say everyone is bad, say everyone has the potential to be bad. Then you can react to individual instances of badness
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Eh, my mother has always spoken of stomach bugs and she's always known they weren't caused by insects. Her father was a botanist and her mother a geologist, so she grew up in closed proximity to people who spent a lot of time talk
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> More to the point, virtually every senior member of Presidential administrations do this almost blatantly, big-D or big-R, doesn't matter. This is the sort of cynical thing people say because other people say it. Spiro Agnew did i
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There are more than two sides.
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Sure. I was just responding to "In America, we discuss and debate and try to incrementally learn from our experience."
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> Yes, because "learning from our experience" is yet another form of oppression according to CRT pushers. I don't understand. Are you saying people who discuss critical race theory are opposed to learning from our experien
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Yeah, I'd push back a bit on the "red blooded American" = "rural truck driver/gun owner" idea, at least if "red blooded American" is supposed to mean "typical American" or "indisputably
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> In America, we discuss and debate and try to incrementally learn from our experience. Well, some do. The anti-CRT brouhaha is a reaction against that. Do you suppose they'll be teaching about the Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma hi

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