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by bedhead 5y ago
Jonathan Haidt has done a ton of research on this and it's terrifying. His thesis seems to make a lot of sense: boys bully each other physically while girls bully each other reputationally. This is likely why mental health issues for b
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by bedhead 5y ago
You’re right that some schools have had a vaccine mandate. But neither the private nor public sector ever have. And we didn’t have the accompanying dystopian nightmare as a reality and further threat. So I would say your argument is tired
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by bedhead 5y ago
Endless studies and real-world data showing no efficacy and half the world doesn't care. A new one every week, nobody cares, they're stuck in their religion. Last week: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article
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by bedhead 5y ago
Mass loss of life. Novel way in which people died. People dying randomly (hard to avoid). General hysteria. Paranoia over a minority group. Moral outrage against anyone not falling inline politically. Overreaching government plans to keep p
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by bedhead 5y ago
One of the more interesting parallels I see is how injecting morality into the matter poisoned everything and ensured terrible policy decisions. How many people and politicians got effectively bullied into going along with the idiotic Iraq
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by bedhead 5y ago
Things like this are why I'm so cynical about COVID stuff. We have an unconditional commitment to stupid reactive policies that elevate symbolism far above sensibility, and boy does it have a lot of inertia. The parallels between COVID
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by bedhead 5y ago
COVID: come for the newfound hatred amongst family and friends, stay for the perpetual commerce dysfunction and dystopian nightmare! Are we having fun yet?! Yay!!!
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by bedhead 5y ago
No, it's the same. He created $100 million for himself that might have otherwise be spread out amongst employees, suppliers, investors, etc, who would've used their "share" of the $100 million for consumption and savings
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by bedhead 5y ago
Excellent question. I believe technology is the primary culprit. Think of something like WhatsApp, which Facebook bought for about $20 billion and would be worth who-knows-how-much today. I think WhatsApp had like 70 employees, a couple fou
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by bedhead 5y ago
The Fed is reactive. The Fed doesn't set interest rates, the market does. I believe this is one of the biggest misconceptions about our central bank. Yes, the Fed plays an obvious role, more to do with printing money for whatever the i
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by bedhead 5y ago
I've argued this for years. Interest rates peaked at about the same time that wealth inequality began to diverge around 1980 or so. I don't think any of this is terribly complicated. Money is a commodity, and like all commodities,
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by bedhead 5y ago
I love how people who drive cars, fly on planes, use plastic, get goods delivered by truck, etc etc, act like oil companies just pump oil out of the ground for fun then light it on fire. The mental gymnastics are impressive.
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by bedhead 5y ago
First of all, you have no idea whether that's true anymore than I do. Second, so freakin what?? So 0.01% of the population says mean and ugly things - so what ? It's very, very easy to avoid and ignore it. Meanwhile, policing spe
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by bedhead 5y ago
Allow it. Let the racists be racist. Let them expose themselves so we all know who to ridicule and ignore. Not only has this wacky notion of free speech worked well for a long time, society has grown far less racist despite no official poli
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by bedhead 5y ago
Perhaps injecting partisan into it was dumb of me, however, in my experience it was the very liberal people who were the ones who spearheaded some of our largest long-term planning blunders. But you're right, the pervasive attitude i
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by bedhead 5y ago
Yeah, like I said, these people all failed Econ 101. It's really bizarre, they never accept that they can't have things both ways. So we've ended up with a town that's shockingly beautiful and unique, but it's becom
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by bedhead 5y ago
I live in a small mountain town. You could swap many towns (usually tourist destinations) in place of Ketchum in this article, it's the same story. These towns tend to be fiercely anti-development, and many people demonize anyone who w
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by bedhead 5y ago
"Controversial" has no meaning in this context and I dislike the framing. Insider trading is defined as both material and non-public. The notion that a senate briefing about COVID by some random person about their personal opinio
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by bedhead 5y ago
My dyslexia had me thinking this was a sexual thing...
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by bedhead 5y ago
This is fairly normal for certain "glamour" industries. Back in the day when it was relevant, MTV was infamous for paying people almost nothing, for no other reason than they could because MTV had a coolness factor associated with
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by bedhead 5y ago
I mean, doesn't that alone kinda point us in one direction?
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I did, carefully. It's just as pointless.
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This is a bigger charade than a North Korean election.
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by bedhead 5y ago
These bullets are conspicuously free of important details. "Podcast usage has been a factor" - okay, how much? Answer: no idea. "The strength in Ad-Supported revenue was led by our Podcast, Direct, and Ad Studio channels, wit
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by bedhead 5y ago
Last year I moved from a top 3 city to a small mountain town in Colorado. In my experience, your hostility is extremely common in small towns that have big seasonal influxes. I continue to be amazed by the overt disdain long-time locals hav
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by bedhead 5y ago
This is one reason why CEO pay has skyrocketed: hazard pay. Something goes wrong, even if the CEO had no idea about it, and who gets vilified and maybe even prosecuted? The CEO. Just saying...there are trade offs for everything.
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by bedhead 6y ago
There is a ton of selection bias here, these are already generally speaking very unhealthy people.
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by bedhead 6y ago
I am super centrist also, and all it's done is make me angrier and angrier at the state of things. I guess it's pushing me more libertarian watching all this insanity. The craziest thing is that R's and D's have basicall
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by bedhead 6y ago
LOL. Just the other day, Elizabeth Warren, a US senator, pushed a conspiracy that Stacy Abrams won the Georgia gubernatorial election three years ago. This would've gotten anyone banned from Facebook or Twitter if it was a different &q
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by bedhead 6y ago
My point is partly, let's check in a year from now. I'd wager not one of your coworkers switched. Zero.

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