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by boppo1 4y ago
Thank you!
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by boppo1 4y ago
> decent books Such as?
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by boppo1 4y ago
Interesting topic aside: What does the author mean by "sexual sublimation"? I can't be sure from context and google says 'sublimation' means phase change, but the referenced usage is 'before antibiotics' w
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by boppo1 4y ago
Interesting, I'd never heard of SICM, only SICP.
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by boppo1 4y ago
Are you printing & shipping them yourself? I considered selling stickers at one point but print costs under 500 was too high, plus the hourly requirements of doing my own pick& pack. I thought about hiring the neighbor kid, but casu
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by boppo1 4y ago
>somewhat respectable careers Only somewhat? I was under the impression Fauci et. al. were regarded as extremely competent.
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by boppo1 4y ago
>post delta when Covid stopped becoming very deadly Is covid no longer very deadly?
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by boppo1 4y ago
>to enable the government to spy on white people is... sketchy My contention is that the government would like to spy on everyone/erode the bill of rights. I'm not worried about white people.
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by boppo1 4y ago
Why is the supply not monotonic?
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by boppo1 4y ago
What's discrediting about scheme?
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by boppo1 4y ago
Yeah, that book is 75% fiction, at least. But it's a fun read.
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by boppo1 4y ago
I don't disagree. I'm not saying how they should feel, just that I think they feel less of it lately.
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by boppo1 4y ago
From your first article: "hundreds of police officers have been caught posting racist and bigoted social media content" According to Statista[0] there were 660,288 officers in the US in 2021. Even one racist cop is too many, grant
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by boppo1 4y ago
I'm just very wary of the 'white supremacist terrorism' narrative that politicians and alphabet agencies have been trying to sell lately to justify increases in domestic surveillance/police state infrastructure. And don&
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by boppo1 4y ago
The coolest use-case I saw was controlling a humanoid robot to repair a pipeline in a hostile environment. Now we just have to wait till humanoid robot tech catches up.
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by boppo1 4y ago
Iirc there was some face-punching resistance to people recording discreetly. I suspect that may have subsided some in many areas due to the longer them of high-res-video-recorder ubiquity.
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by boppo1 4y ago
>At large enough companies the aggregate ratios give a rough picture. Could we apply this to entire fields? Does the fact that nursing is 84% female roughly indicate discrimination against men in the profession?
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by boppo1 4y ago
The crazy people complaining about "cultural marxism" weren't totally wrong. A broken clock is right twice a day. There are people who sincerely think companies should hire employees of color more-or-less just for their being
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by boppo1 4y ago
How do you accurately measure discrimination?
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by boppo1 4y ago
Because we all know that human intelligence is practically undetermined by genetic factors vs social and economic factors.
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by boppo1 4y ago
I wish I had a good reason/project to use this. It looks super cool.
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by boppo1 4y ago
Indeed, going off the executive summary it is quite shady. But it is also short of the standard for 'evidence' Biden is straight-up in bed with the CCP. It would be nice if the public discourse allowed for more consideration of th
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by boppo1 4y ago
ESG isn't capitalism.
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by boppo1 4y ago
I'll take a look after work and edit this post in the evening or morning. I followed the laptop on conservative outlets and recall there were emails referring to 'the big man' or something, but it was too vague/tenuous f
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by boppo1 4y ago
>For the sake of steelmanning: do you see the ~30 countries around the world that have legalized gay marriage as being more advanced than the rest, or as merely having different customs and cultural values that aren't translatable?
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by boppo1 4y ago
Please provide the evidence so I can evaluate it myself. I do not like Biden and I fully expect he/his admin's probably up to nefarious stuff. But I have not seen any such evidence.
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by boppo1 4y ago
>offer up jokes about men but any jokes about women are disrespectful. The funny thing about this is that it supports the sexist anachronism that "women are emotionally sensitive and must be treated gently/with kid gloves"
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by boppo1 4y ago
Any discussion about Jews in finance not held by Jews themselves is a hair away from devolving into an antisemitic /pol/ discussion about 'white genocide'. Any professional who touches the subject with even a ten foot po
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by boppo1 4y ago
Yeah definitely. There are some people who are real passionate about the magic-mushrooms-caused-cognitive-evolution theory because it validates their lifestyle choices.
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by boppo1 4y ago
That is basically the correct interpretation of the youth slang. "Bob observed some of John's best qualities and successes aloud to the group. Bob really gassed him up."

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