Noos

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by Noos 6y ago
the "childless" het couple was a good argument that caused no end of trouble. To be honest it was a darker sign I think, that heterosexual couples themselves had internalized cultural norms and the institution itself was no longer
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by Noos 6y ago
I use it because I feel people are fundamentally dishonest sometimes about the implications of their ideas. Some political ideas are not "we must both give up something to exist together." Some are "My idea is morally right,
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by Noos 6y ago
See, its easier to accuse people of bigotry than look at their actual problems. Trump didn't win because the modern left sucked hard at actually helping the poor, they did because they were gaslighted by bigots.
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by Noos 6y ago
I guess I misused it some. I felt it more was "pay the conqueror his due when he asks, and get on with the business of living." The Dane is already here, and we aren't getting rid of him.
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by Noos 6y ago
The marriage rate is at 6 per 1000 in the states, and its a historic low; it used to be high as 15 per 1000 maybe 20-30 years ago? I posted a link upthread. Actually what's ironic is that my state's capitol is heralded as "on
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by Noos 6y ago
I'm saying it because the left learned very quickly that you can bypass the hard work of arguing positions by instead arguing the holder of them is irrational and or evil in a sense. It's much more effective to call someone else e
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by Noos 6y ago
I don't think you understand how tiny the numbers are for the war people fought. Like let's assume in my state we take the fairly average assumption of LGBT population at 5%. Now let's also take a marriage rate of 5 per 1000,
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by Noos 6y ago
Why? It works spectacularly well. It's funny to watch all these people who use it suddenly get up and bashful about it now and then; the democrats won house, senate, and presidency very much focusing on identity politics. I think if an
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by Noos 6y ago
It's not their job to "take a stand against hate." I don't buy books from Amazon because I like their opinion on the homelessness situation in the world today. I don't ask my cashier at the grocery store his thought
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by Noos 6y ago
it's not incredible. It's pretty much an open double standard at this point, because political leftism is seen as the only true ideology a rational person can have. The rhetoric about conservatism is increasingly casting conservat
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by Noos 6y ago
there is very litle discussion here any more; its pretty much tribalism by people who aren't honest about being naked tribalists. The irony is that despite the leftist ideas, the actual age is incredibly conformist and conservative; th
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by Noos 6y ago
people forget the dominionist gaslighting of Sarah Palin. Pretty much every republican is seen as mini hitler these days-the shit that was said about George Bush Jr for example.
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by Noos 6y ago
no, people here want to censor the right out of existence. I mean come on, Fox News? Really? The bar suddenly lowers to a point that is indefensible. It's really obvious these days that its one-sided, to the point where I throw up my h
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by Noos 6y ago
One of the things I worry a lot about is that the main issue is that there simply are too many people and too little jobs. Like we can only legitimately support a small amount of workers in any field; if we have more it drops earning potent
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by Noos 6y ago
They also don't give "alt-right" a voice, and that is a term that is often just a perjorative for "conservative." We also know how many people use something like "fascist" to mean "person I don't
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by Noos 6y ago
The link worries me the most. I mean, apparently the solution is social networks running a private list of "authoritative" news sources and making sure the feed is weighted towards them. The three listed have a clear left-wing bia
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by Noos 6y ago
Well, so much for "you can always make your own alternative if private companies censor you!"
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by Noos 6y ago
Given this is Hacker News, I await the solution of LSD-assisted therapy to counter phone addiction to be proposed soon.
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by Noos 6y ago
They hack it perfectly fine in microbiology,(71% female) and veterinary science (65%). The main issue is that they really aren't represented in computer science and engineering STEM fields, as well as research scientists. But if you lo
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by Noos 6y ago
I don't agree. You can learn to read complicated schematics and technical texts in a vocational/technical high school; I don't think they are linked to educational achievement as much as people think. Disclosure: I am an ex-v
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by Noos 6y ago
There have been modern kids authors that focus on boys: Darren Shan's vampire series, Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider books, Rick Riordan, the Artemis Fowl series, etc. Jon Scieszka did his Time Warp Trio books for example. Dav Pilk
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by Noos 6y ago
Supply side is an issue, but I don't think it explains everything. I think also some problems are that boys and men only like to read nonfiction and are too hyperactive to sit still. Could you imagine if it was said that men only reall
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by Noos 6y ago
A big issue is that boys read less than girls overall. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-gi... Boys read for pleasure much less and apparently don't read as well as girls whe
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by Noos 6y ago
Actually I'd bet the less and older population, the less people will even care about the environment at all because they don't have the excess productivity to worry about it. Environmentalism is a luxury good that people think abo
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by Noos 6y ago
...well, it's essentially a primer for mildly autistic and very smart people to deal with modern life outside of their narrow fields, and most of it is the kind of advice the average grandmother would give someone if they asked her. We
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by Noos 6y ago
No, not really. This is kind of a "converts mistake," in that they assume that the religion they convert to is only the educated, attractive apologists that won them over. The popular church venerates Padre Pio and really believes
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by Noos 6y ago
I don't get this. Go out and drive on a highway sometime. I do, and I'm not in a particularly big state (small New England one.) Yet I pass empty miles and miles of forest, often without a single building in site. Even in normal s
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by Noos 6y ago
Don't need VR for that at all, Konami did a great arcade boxing game that was also quite the workout in 2001, called Mocap boxing: https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8724
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by Noos 6y ago
Not sure about the risk. Like you said, we'd have to massively redo infrastructure on a huge level to see any penetration beyond luxury alternative use. If we'd start to also see increased carbon taxes or various efforts to reduce
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by Noos 6y ago
Look, I get people saying "use LSD for depression!" even if i dislike it thoroughly..their ideal goal is to deal with mental illness and chemistry in the brain using a different substance. I cannot look at this and not say "

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