hotpotamus

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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Christian or apparently anything else; the specific religion doesn't seem all that relevant actually (which says some things about religion I think). I suppose I am currently mildly homeless which does tend to make the thought a bit ha
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Interestingly, in other contexts I've heard people say that equality of outcome is an unwelcome suppression of meritocracy.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I believe the biggest correlate is actually religion, and I've suspected for some time now that Nietzsche was really onto it quite early with the whole "Death of God" thing. That said, I can say that while I may in theory be
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
In those 11 years fertility has fallen near universally. Speaking as a millennial, I never saw my career as a means towards changing the world or some life mission driven by passion; I just wanted to find stable employment to hopefully find
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Perhaps lower and middle class people want upper middle class children.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
What if girls’ biological differences predispose them towards success in educational institutions? Then we need some sort of specialized education in order to provide the boys more intensive socialization?
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
What does it mean to “fix” school/college?
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
> we finally start recognizing that men too can be victims of systemic issues. This has always been known to at least some. There are reasons that the left pushes for universal healthcare - because they are aware that systemic issues c
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
If we're in a simulation, there's no reason that other beings couldn't have also arisen within the simulation with us.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I'll note that both your options there end in rejection.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Perhaps we could call it putting your best self forward to make a good first impression? The advice I've often seen is to treat a date like a job interview - is full honesty expected there? In fact, in a romantic context, is full hones
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I live with them rent-free so it would probably go against my own interest as well to force them out via pricing.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Would you have dated her at all if she had been honest about how miserable she is up front? If her inherent personality is just miserable, then how else is she supposed to navigate through life?
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Old people in Texas get their property taxes frozen I believe at 65. But honestly it might be better for them to downsize into something more appropriate and perhaps free up the larger houses for families. My mother has basically just turne
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I once awoke to see a large spider running away from me on my bed. I was a bit displeased with that until I learned that they hunt roaches. I figured if it was running away from me, then it figured (perhaps incorrectly) that I was not to be
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I don't know that hydrogen was a "scam" per se - I think of fuel cells as essentially an alternative battery technology. It wasn't clear 20-30 years ago that lithium batteries would progress as much as they did, and so f
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
You see, this even has echos of Red Scare era hysteria. It's hardly anything novel.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
You’ve read far more into my comment than I wrote.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Again, for as long as Hollywood has existed, it has been excoriated by conservatives as a din of leftist libertines (and not without at least a bit of reason on occasion). Before that, theater performers were seen in much the same light. Th
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Corporations were also engineered to be un-killable. The way to reach them is to go after the people who run them. Obviously, if that’s the analogy, then the miners are quite secure anyway.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Reminds me of Adam Nuemann's ambition to be the world's first trillionaire.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
If you've ever watched the extended edition of T2 (which I can mostly recommend), it actually gives quite a bit more development to Miles Dyson that shows him as a nerdy, focused futurist/engineer, and also a loving family man. It
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
What's funny is that any time I've suggested increasing taxes on the rich, I hear how I'm jealous and really I should be thankful for the incredible standard of living that I have as a modern human (as I struggle to maintain
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I have to admit I’d love to go to a wedding with realistic vows. I’d imagine something like, “I promise to love and cherish you until such time as it becomes inconvenient or I get tired of you or whatever”.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Perhaps we can derive the core beliefs of the Republican party from their 2020 platform. Given that that is how political parties typically express such things, it seems reasonable.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
It does seem like Gen X is going to get shafted a bit harder than others. Boomers are the richest cohort in history and their children are the Millennials; they may be on the poorer side now, but they do stand to inherit if end-of-life care
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
> Oh, I have 3 kids and no money. Why can't I have no kids and 3 money!? - Homer Simpson That all seems fairly apparent to me - perhaps people have just become more numerate/economically savvy.
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I didn’t read the paper but did read the article and one of the cool aspects of it was that they did go back in the timeline to find known historical temperature anomalies after calibrating the sponges against a modern period with good temp
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
I wasn't aware of the Little Ice Age being much of a denier talking point. It actually does seem fairly relevant to this story since these sponges lived through that time period. But I'm mostly just looking at the XKCD temperature
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by hotpotamus 3y ago
Interestingly you've left it somewhat ambiguous as to whether you view these immigrants as morally upright while being somewhat naughty. You could certainly say that they've found an exploit/hack in the system by claiming asy

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