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by angelzen 5y ago
This is the only possible future and the best possible future. Progress is intrinsically a very good thing. The disappearance of the home-cooked meals can't possibly be anything but a great liberation. We have better things to do than
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by angelzen 5y ago
Speaking of dirty secrets. There was a time not so long ago when there was not so much demand for dining out. Healthy food was generally prepared at home from fresh raw ingredients. Perhaps there was a small veggie garden in the back yard.
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by angelzen 5y ago
The owner won't hire a couple of cooks at $20 an hour because he won't be able to pay off his mortgages anymore. The banker sits behind all this and collects his fat percentage cut while laughing at the plebs fighting with each ot
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by angelzen 5y ago
Business does understand the free market. It is also strongly incentivised to exhibit perpetual exponential growth. Perpetual exponential growth is impossible even on relatively short duration spans (decades), see the parable of the rice an
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by angelzen 5y ago
I remember Soviet block dissidents being assigned a 24/7 surveillance detail to monitor all their moves and contacts. I remember Soviet dissidents having their correspondence systematically violated by the surveillance apparatus. I rem
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by angelzen 5y ago
There have been 24 years between Therac-25 and IEC 62304, with a clear smoking gun that everybody agreed it was a horrific smoking gun. With privacy, we're still in 'if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to f
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by angelzen 5y ago
This is getting better by the year. 'Don't use a browser'. 'Don't carry a cellphone'. 'Wear a mask'. Next: 'Don't go outside'. 'Don't speak'. 'Don't think'
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by angelzen 5y ago
How are we going to pressure the government, when regular people vastly underestimate the surveillance capabilities of modern ML + Cloud and willingly install surveillance endpoints in exchange of marginal convenience? Re tech solutions, I&
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by angelzen 5y ago
'will chew'?? The use of future tense is somewhat strange. We already live in a tech panopticon. Went the other day to an old friend's house. At the door, a Ring eye unblinkingly stared at me. For a few moments I felt like cr
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by angelzen 5y ago
Seattle, 2019: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/06/ethn-d06.html > School district leaders in Seattle, Washington recently released a proposal to incorporate ethnic studies in the mathema
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by angelzen 5y ago
It's a reference to the eighth amendment: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
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by angelzen 5y ago
Charitably: 3) (Some) minorities are not achieving the same scores in math and science, therefore math and science are racist and must be abolished. Something to consider: as the 'abolish math and science' movement grows in influe
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by angelzen 5y ago
WYFIWYG: What You Fund Is What You Get. Recent anecdote of notoriety: Twitter CEO publicly bankrolling Kendism. Though some read that as indulgence purchase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG https://www
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by angelzen 5y ago
OP: 'How many divisions does Kendi have?'. [Side conversation] As to the why question, consider: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-blame/201709/... > Willful ignorance occurs wh
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by angelzen 5y ago
This conversation could be a whole lot less acrimonious if we were to acknowledge the core conservative position: the intact nuclear family is the primary locus of children's rights.
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by angelzen 5y ago
That the outcome of the mass conversion has positive aspects is orthogonal to the point that mass conversion is happening. I'll let you ponder whether donning sexual behavior symbolism at all in kindergarten and elementary school is
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by angelzen 5y ago
Can equality of opportunity at individual level coexist with equality or outcome at group level? This is indeed a reasonable question to ask. Upvoted. We might imagine that humans are akin to gas molecules and human groups are ideal gases,
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by angelzen 5y ago
Have you visited any American school recently? No cross in sight, but plenty of rainbow flags. Not sure about the gunpoint (in both historical and contemporary sides of the argument), but mass conversion it is.
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by angelzen 5y ago
And dole out the harshest possible sentence, short of physical maiming: unbounded social ostracism. In old times we'd brand undesirables by burning their skin with a hot rod. These days we brand them 'racist' or 'sexist&
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by angelzen 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%E2%80%93Nogai_slave_ra... Same register as the vastly more mediatized Atlantic slave trade. This raises a fundamental question: Is it possible to mend centuries of abject & vio
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by angelzen 5y ago
You've got cancer and then died of pneumonia. These are both deadly.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Ibram X. Kendi: Any disparity in group outcomes is proof of a deeply flawed and malicious system. The darling of American academia and corporate. You can either have equality of opportunity and accept that the outcomes will be disparate, or
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by angelzen 5y ago
There is no such thing as equality of outcome. There will always be hierarchies. We can shift the core currency from $$$ to political favor or even ritualized victimhood, but we can't eliminate hierarchies. Remember the Soviet nomenkla
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by angelzen 5y ago
Occupy Wall Street died when infected with identitarians. Unions, as weak and pathetic as they are, become a whole lot more interested in pronouns, systemic racism and illegal immigration than fighting for a decent wage and decent working c
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by angelzen 5y ago
What is the long term plan here? The infighting is at an ever increased risk of leaking into real world and real violence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by angelzen 5y ago
I have a friend in Europe who informed me matter-of-fact that American corporate explicitly asked them to sport pronouns in their social media profiles. Or else I suppose.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Unstated assumption: I am hoping the pricepoint is high enough to eliminate 'random teenager in their parents basement' category. A single novel virus, possibly escaped from a one of a small number of elite professional labs, to
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by angelzen 5y ago
Love the techno-optimist vibe. Let's empower every misanthrope on Earth to mix and match pathogens at scale. I was hoping the covid crisis taught us a lesson on the dangers of biohacking. Next: With this CAD for Warheads, You Can Desi
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by angelzen 5y ago
Tidbit: UK, being 0-17 and unvaccinated bears a smaller risk of covid related death than being >40 and vaccinated. https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1420401034376224775
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by angelzen 5y ago
Tech industry workforce is not a representative body. Normally we'd describe the situation as 'greater female participation in the industry'. The dissonance is reminiscent of Russell's conjugation: https://en.

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