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by imgabe 2y ago
Hey what are some good stock picks, since you’re so good at predicting the future? In a few years nobody will think about this at all and the protesters will be throwing soup at paintings or glueing themselves to roads over whatever the nex
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Civilians getting killed is not a war crime. It is an unfortunate consequence of war, especially when cowardly leadership uses them as human shields. It’s a good reason to not start wars. If Palestinian civilians do not like being used as h
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They already hated Israel. So much that they attacked them and started this war in the first place. I doubt Israel is any worse off in terms of being hated than they were before the war. Hamas is not a rational actor. Their stated goal is t
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by imgabe 2y ago
Who did Hamas target on October 7? Remind me again? Was that a military music festival they attacked? Hamas hides behind civilians. They don't care about Palestinian lives. The Palestinians apparently don't care since they let Ham
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Hamas could have stopped it at any time by releasing the hostages. Or they could have just not taken the hostages in the first place.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Never heard of Ghosn before - but you mean this guy? https://www.dmarge.com/cars/nissan-bankruptcy-ceo-carlos-gho... The guy who's a wanted fugitive in Japan and fled to Lebanon by shipping himself in a piano box?
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What company was it, who was the CEO, and what's one specific thing one of the departments did? Or are you just copy/pasting LinkedIn drivel?
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Sure, that's great if you all work for the same organization and everyone involved asked themselves that and they all benefited from the organization's overall success. But that is not the case here. That is not how bike lanes or
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Man, I've been the engineer in situations like that bike lane and believe me, we care. Usually the engineers care. 99% of the time the contractor had some "value engineering" suggestions that the client was all too happy to t
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Do humans ever get overconfident and slack off and lose to opponents who work more diligently? Why, yes, humans do do that and that’s what the story is about. I think maybe you don’t understand fables, or possibly stories in general.
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No, I would be making the same point if someone wrote an article that we shouldn't use the boiling frog metaphor because it is insulting to frogs. And that is a good example. Despite the fact that the metaphor is not literally true it
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There are plenty of similar stories about real people though, that aren't true, but we tell them to make a point anyway. I'm sure there's lots of people who believe Einstein flunked grade school math even though he didn'
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That is a tortured interpretation of what is happening here, though. Cargo cults did happen. And some of them did in fact operate in the way explained in the stories. The point of the story is not to gloat and say "hahaha these stupid
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Pointlessly obfuscating communication is not "good behavior". Hope that clears things up. There is nothing good about this.
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Whelp, I decided to use language deciding for everyone what we are doing or not doing. You cannot make that decision for me.
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Ah, my mistake. I am but an uninformed goy.
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So, I'm white and I live in Hong Kong. Gwei Lo (or some variation) is a slur for white people in China that I think basically means "foreign devil" or something to that effect. There's a popular brand of craft beer sold
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The same people who will write a history phd dissertation about the obscure, problematic origins of some innocuous phrase will also tell you that you can't say "balls to the wall" because it's "sexually suggestive&q
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Yes, I would say you have a very different opinion on slander and defamation from me and also from all of the western legal tradition. You're going to have a bad time when you learn just how much of fiction is loosely based on / e
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> Otherwise I can spread all kinds of made-up stories about my work mates, and claim they illustrate truths about human nature, right? Yes, you actually can do this, and if those stories do reflect actual human nature that other people a
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It did happen for one thing, and for another such stories, even when fictitious, are crafted to illuminate a human behavior that does happen, even if that particular story did not literally happen. See, for example, all of literature.
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> How can it teach us anything about human psychology if it never actually happened? How can the fable of the tortoise and the hare teach us anything if a tortoise never actually raced a hare ?
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Well, all language has this fault that if you don't know what the words mean they don't convey anything. But you can learn what they mean and now you have a new phrase to easily communicate an idea to other people who also know wh
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> it doesn't come down so much to the idea that these people may be offended, but that it defames them. The story as told in popular culture gives people a skewed idea of what the cultists are like This doesn’t matter. Nobody is tal
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Nope, we’re not doing this in 2025. Cargo cult succinctly expresses an important concept. We’re not catering to imaginary offenses somebody hallucinates on behalf of some supposedly marginalized people anymore.
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> As a simple example, who is standing up for the LA fire chief? Why should anyone stand up for her? She is doing an objectively bad job. If you’re the fire chief and your entire city burns down, you will rightly catch flak for it. You h
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And before that there was The Running Man and The Long Walk both by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) that were about deadly game shows / contests in futuristic dystopias.
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I’m making a joke that a lot of existing work product is already bullshit that has to be generated by humans so we may as well automate that.
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I don’t know, we manage all right with the 1st party bullshit generators.
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I don't think the UN is the ultimate arbiter of what is or is not a right. Not that something being a "right" really means anything unless you have a way to enforce it.

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