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by cupcakecommons 3y ago
At the very least it will provide a really good real-world case study on deploying large sums of money to solve problems in society with seemingly no thought given to second and third order consequences. Definitely appears praiseworthy from
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They do take political action though. They act from the same diluted dialectical materialist frame many highly educated academics in the social sciences tend to act from. When I try to point out that their actions implicate specific truth c
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I think it's the job of universities to shape minds. Somehow all these universities seems to shape minds into the exact same dysfunctional shape. The seeming uniformity of shape is what's surprising.
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by cupcakecommons 3y ago
There are an inordinate number of people in sociology that undermine truth as a concept to reduce the possibility of ever being incorrect about anything. This is obviously completely anti-scientific. Almost miraculously, many of these peopl
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by cupcakecommons 3y ago
I have a very close friend pursuing an advanced degree in sociology. They're an excellent student, highly intelligent, from a well-off background having benefitted from extremely good schooling their entire life - yet seem barely capab
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by cupcakecommons 3y ago
This seems like a very cynical take of how private equity optimization works, it may be true in some instances, but it hardly universal as you seem to be implying. There is often a tremendous amount of low hanging fruit for businesses run b
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goody-2 is on the nightmare blunt rotation
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by cupcakecommons 3y ago
Intelligent, well-educated people who think the overton window hasn't shifted leftward are absolutely fascinating.
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by cupcakecommons 3y ago
It's not a jumpscare. Had to let it run to completion before using it.
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by cupcakecommons 3y ago
I tried to make the original statement very fair. I think facebook is definitely a propaganda tool. It's a propaganda tool of its high-level employees and moderators, founders and, more recently, US government agencies. The twitter fil
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by cupcakecommons 3y ago
This is an interesting take and I think it's a fairly common one. Is it possible that your first two sentences contradict one another? If, in this example, the US government can't repurpose it or use it for propaganda, can it real
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by cupcakecommons 3y ago
TikTok is a Chinese propaganda tool right? Honest question. Truly not attempting to make an unfair statement implying other parts of the world including the US don't have plenty of propaganda tools of their our own. But isn't it?
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I've lived in Portland my whole life. It's pretty obvious how the city has changed for the worse in the last couple years. The commercial real estate market particularly reflects this - and many of the policies that created the do
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NYC is also extremely abnormal because of the density
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It becomes good politics when people realize everything is much worse like in Argentina. It's remarkable Seattle, Portland, and SF haven't decisively reached this state yet.
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The class-war narrative is all this has ever been. Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, among others are all falling apart because of this incredibly stupid narrative. I'm not sure how it could get more obvious.
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Sure seems like many people would rather destroy low paying jobs and feel better about themselves than acknowledge that there will always be a place for such jobs - especially at the rate we are importing many segments of the world with muc
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The key here is that it's worked for restaurants with historically decent margins (pizza) it likely won't work for most restaurants
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2012 is far past the pro police glory days that I think started to end firmly around 2008 with Occupy Wallstreet and Occupy Seattle but I get your general point
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Could this be a natural result of the cultural shift away from viewing police work being honorable and decent like it was after 9/11? Seems like recent events could have applied selection pressure to make only those who could care less
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Gotta be careful negligently and irresponsibly toying with peoples lives in a city that gets so few sunshine hours. Six days of suspension is laughable.
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Despite my knee-jerk reaction to assume any policy changes coming out of Seattle are self-destructive; this seems very reasonable especially if there's precedent in other countries [1]. [1] https://law.stackexchange.com&#x2F
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by cupcakecommons 3y ago
Reminds me of openscad - https://openscad.org/ but for circuits instead of shapes. Turning complex wysiwyg editor operations into reusable code is such an improvement, especially with the advent of usable LLMs to help with
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by cupcakecommons 3y ago
Great synopsis of the book and an excellent synthesis of its real-world implications.
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Concise yet complete. Well done.
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This is really great
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Great point! If we're lucky!
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It's all so tiresome
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DNA isn’t all that matters, but it matters more than everything else put together.
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"a bit of a cause of mental issues" there we go

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