DFHippie

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by DFHippie 5y ago
> I've seen it hypothesized that higher risk-aversion from a media-inculcated culture of fear could be responsible for Americans' unique disinterest in international travel. I suspect it has more to do with the distance between
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I think this and many other comments on this article are taking the article the wrong way. The article isn't asserting that Nast created the image of Santa Claus for everyone on Earth but only in the US. This might be wrong as well --
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> No doubt the Great Stagnation was a complex, multi-factor event, but it is interesting that it happened when a naive model might have predicted a big surge. But there are a lot of different naive models making different predictions.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
There's a difference between deciding an ideal population size and enforcing it. Also, there are different ways of enforcing it, many involving little that we would term coercion: establishing child tax credits, for example; funding sc
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by DFHippie 5y ago
It's fun to think I'm running the show, isn't it. Yes, I fully own my unbounded contempt for the fragile-ego'ed patriots tearing the country apart. But I'm not running the show, am I? And that doesn't matter. T
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by DFHippie 5y ago
What are the measures by which the US is doing better than continental Europe? What are some things the NYT was publishing but stopped publishing when they didn't fit the defeatist storyline? I don't doubt that partisan propaganda
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Well, we're at a point where foreign attacks on our elections are a partisan issue, the response to a pandemic which has killed some 770k citizens is a partisan issue, whether or not we can use democratic elections to select our leader
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> Importantly, gravitational waves are not waves of Newtonian gravity. Gravitational waves do not "push and pull" along the direction of propagation. They stretch and compress space along axes perpendicular to the direction of
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The same decrease in crime that occurred under Giuliani occurred in other cities around the country and the world which had very different policing policies. See, for example, https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.125
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Yes, I shouldn't have mentioned Catholics and Mormons. The official bit of dogma the conservative Catholics care about is abortion. I'm not sure what the Mormons care about. But I don't think dogma is more than rationalizatio
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> the us alliance with israel is not about religious reasons This is simply not true. The base of the US Republican Party is evangelical Christians. This being so, religious reasons are close to the surface. There are surely other intere
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The problem with this interminable argument about government and force is that it implicitly involves unreasonable people. What allows the government to collect taxes? Lethal force! But also... What keeps people from driving on the wrong si
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Alas, it is doomed to stay unknown hidden behind this link.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Maybe this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyocell
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I assume the reason is that draining it just moves the toxins elsewhere. No one else wants to drink this stuff or have it in their surface water either.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I personally liked the reply further down the stack that said the German order is more useful in context of counting. You put the digit that changes with every count first and the one that stays the same for a while second (or mention it on
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> This is a powerful no-true-scotsman here. The no-true-scotsman fallacy only applies when an existence proof is sufficient to falsify a statement, not when the question is the central tendency of some group. If you claim "no X is Y
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by DFHippie 5y ago
We're trying to do both at the same time. And there's no reason not to do both at the same time. a) We are all pissing in the same bed, and b) if we truly believe the Mbuti and Twa are people just like we are and, ipso facto, dese
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by DFHippie 5y ago
You think my doubts aren't credible? What does that mean? You think I'm lying about my own doubts? I'm not at all troubled by the thought that green technologies might be harmful (well, I'd rather they weren't, but
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I'm fine with pointing out the negative consequences of environmental actions. It's absurd to think any sincere, and representative , member of the environmental movement is unfamiliar with this (are there nuts and poseurs? sure,
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The kicker is at the bottom: > The expansion of the ‘Green New Deal’ and the rise of ‘renewable’ industrial technologies may be the death knell for these archaic and peaceful people. Make no mistake, these green initiatives – electric ve
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> If the US wanted to have the moral high ground on this issue they shouldn't have done it themselves. In 1985. The US has tested antisat weapons since, yes, but not in this reckless fashion.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
It isn't common. The last time the US did it was in 1985, almost 40 years ago.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
This is whataboutism. As others above have pointed out, the India events and US events post 1985 are not in fact comparable.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> Interestingly enough, no author info/credentials on this article. This is typical for BBC articles. E.g., https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59358070 or https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Those are the terms of the debate because it keeps people at each other's throats and prevents progress.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> As soon as someone gets elected the do not give a crap about the public. This goes too far. Believing it is impossible for politicians to do the right thing is a counsel of despair that harms those who are trying to do the right thin
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Yes, the healthcare system is politically powerful in the US, but also we have a culture war that has existed since the founding of the country such that half the country considers is highest political priority avenging slights and punishin
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I remember this being explicitly stated: please leave the masks for front line workers. In the US in the early days of the pandemic one item that kept reappearing in the news was the insufficiency of the PPE supply, including masks. The Tru
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Some points: 1) It's about 1600 years since Britain was a Roman colony. A lot has happened since then, such as the Dark Ages. When Rome was in charge the local population was in effect the Welsh (and Cornish and Bretons). How's Wa

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