ceilingcorner

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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Sorry but I think they are entirely different things with entirely different lineages. Woke comes from the Puritans, (American) libertarians come from the Western frontier.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Not at all. The woke thing is not liberal universalism, because it is actively hostile to any competing ideologies or definitions. That makes it explicitly anti-libertarian.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
So obesity rates haven’t increased dramatically? If that’s your argument, I’m afraid you’re simply misinformed. And no, there are plenty of videos of normal people that have nothing to do with “the fashions of the motion picture industry.”
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
It is a pretty common thing for researchers to study. Here is one: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17436...
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Diet, sedentary jobs, lack of walkable cities, and (for better or worse) removal of shame culture. If you’ve spent any time in east Asia, you’ll notice that being overweight is strongly looked down upon by society at large. This shaming doe
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Wokeness is essentially a New England Puritan movement with some minor modifications. Even the sources (Ivy Leagues) are the same. If you view it through this lens, the lack of tolerance and crusader zeal becomes very apparent. It is perhap
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
No, actually testosterone levels have been dropping, sperm counts have been dropping, and American men are vastly more obese and overweight than they were even 50 years ago. That is a change. Just watch one of those old “Berlin in the 1920s
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
This is fairly obvious if you read fashion magazines. It is presented constantly in the same way that bell-bottoms or skateboarding shoes used to be. Which doesn’t mean that it’s all made up, but it does certainly appear to be amplified by
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
People in France or Japan or most other countries don’t default to the English language version of Wikipedia.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Sounds like it imported an outdated database of global geography / politics.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
English native speakers (myself included) seem to have a real issue understanding that languages vary and aren’t all interchangeable collections of sounds. I blame the lack of bilingualism.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
If more language editions relied on Abstract Wikipedia as the central source of truth, then this dominant point of view could replace alternative perspectives. But Vrandečić countered that each volunteer community could decide for itself
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Nowhere did I say that “objectively useful = beneficial to society.” This is obvious if you consider another example. Imagine a marketplace for hitmen. Clearly some people would pay for such a thing. Does that make it useful ? Maybe? Does
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Yes, one can’t really blame the individuals themselves. Especially when the incomes are double or triple that of academia. It is a deep structural problem.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
To quote Margin Call, “The money is considerably better.” [When a rocket scientist is asked why he joined a Wall Street firm.]
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
No, that isn’t what “objectively useful” means. Wealthy people pay for this engineering because it helps maintain and increase their wealth. That’s about it. There is zero societal benefit from something like a CDO.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
The amount of human capital that has gone into financial engineering is depressing. Thousands of brilliant minds who are designing complex financial products instead of useful technology.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
This was covered by Plato 2,500 years ago. But we don’t learn about that ancient outdated stuff anymore, as it isn’t beneficial for the economy.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Democracy is rule by the media. This has been a criticism of it for hundreds of years.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Being a gray man is probably the realistic solution for most people.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Crime rates have been going down for decades in the Western world (including Oz). Yet governments continue to pass surveillance laws to “fight crime.” If that doesn’t highlight their true aims, I don’t know what else does.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
While lotta stuff you can learn by studying that you won’t learn on the job. Why not use your free time and go through some higher level CS stuff?
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Sure but for some of these stories, the provider is clearly just incompetent. I’ve read of PayPal holding $100,000 for 6+ months with no reason given or response. That goes far beyond an anti-fraud measure.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Whether it’s paypal, stripe or whomever else, it’s completely absurd that they can just hold your money hostage for indefinite period of time for no reason.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
That’s kind of how the media works. Invent problems, harp on them for weeks, then either move on or offer your own new “commentary” about solutions. All while making big bucks off the advertising eyeballs.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
No, I’m basing my predictions on a thorough study of history and the phases of civilizations. There are several deep cultural and structural problems with both the US and the EU, and I find it difficult to not see this continuing. And as fa
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I’m not basing my prediction on the doomsayers, more on general decline of the Western world overall. There are too many issues piling up and to my mind, this will eventually cause some serious economic problems. But I’m not an economist,
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
If I found an animal on the side of the road, I don’t think the first thing I’d do is whip out my camera and record it. So these types of videos always seemed inherently fake to me But I’m not a big social media user, so maybe it’s normal t
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Personally I am trying to be more self-sufficient. Growing food, cooking common items from scratch (like bread), learning how to repair things, etc. And so I put money into items that are both durable and help further this goal of self-suff
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I originally wrote 5-10 but didn’t want to seem too ominous. But yeah, I’d bet on some serious issues in the latter end of the 2020s.

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