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by jaspax 6y ago
All Journalists Are Bastards (In precisely the same sense as All Cops Are Bastards, namely that they have a job which purports to be in the public interest, but which is highly distorted by a bunch of societal factors and mostly winds up se
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I read that article and found myself thinking... what else is left for geo if we've rejected as "unethical" all four of military, policing, oil/gas, and advertising? I'm sure there's still some nice projects ar
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The Restoration of L'Aurora(youtube.com)
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A very minor nit: Your placeholder text begins "What every message", where I'm pretty sure you meant "Whatever message". Initially confusing until I figured out what you meant.
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This is exactly the point of the article, and yet I ask myself... should I care? The existence of zillionaires does not per se harm anyone, and if they decide to improve the plight of the masses in order to save themselves from violent ba
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... yes? Of course I look at the subset of people who are today counted as weirdos. How else would one evaluate the social treatment of weirdos? If you're going to argue a change, I think that you need to show that either (1) the tot
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I have my doubts that being a weirdo is actually that much easier today, and I see that others have made the same point. However, the kinds of things that qualify as weird have definitely shifted. Wanna be gay? Sure, no problem (in most cit
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This is the answer which makes the most sense to me.
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Wait. My intuition says that the mass of ice cannot possibly have a gravitational influence on nearby water big enough to create the effects described. Back of envelope calculation: surface area of Antarctica is on the order of 10M km^2,
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This was inevitable given the way that Twitter and other large platforms have behaved. They want to hide behind the idea of platform neutrality so that they can't be held responsible for everything posted on their site, since it's
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> YouTube is not sending people to prison or calling up your employer to tell them you're a dangerous agitator. Correct. This function is outsourced to Twitter mobs.
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> Respectable news reporting organizations are bound by an obligation to research and vet their stories. Bound by whom ? Where is this obligation written? Who holds them to it? What are the consequences if they break it? Or more to the
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I understood the OP correctly, and I stand by my point. If someone claims that their legal name has changed, it makes perfect sense that any organization which needs to operate with legal names will be checking to see that the papers suppor
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> there is almost always a human in the loop somewhere verifying that the documents submitted by the user are valid. This is harmful to the user... This might be the first time in which I've heard someone call the human in the loop
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That's 1,208 per million . The actual number of deaths is 41 as of today.
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Kids who are homeschooled their whole lives quickly get used to learning from a textbook rather than a teacher. Furthermore, homeschooling textbooks are written with this in mind, and tend to be more easily accessible without a teacher pres
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by jaspax 7y ago
"RSS Feeds for the 20th Century" feels pretty dated. I want to see "RSS Feeds for the 19th Century".
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Both of your "taboo thoughts" seem blatantly obvious to me, and not especially taboo. Intelligence obviously exists and some people have more of it than others, even if the metric "IQ" doesn't perfectly capture it.
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Now if we would only get to work on global warming we could restore the Antarctic jungle to its proper Mesozoic glory.
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You're underselling your case. COVID-19 has already killed 20x as many people as the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak, infected 40x as many, and it's still going up . Responding to this with "lol we've had this problem befor
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I actually think that this understates the degree to which LeGuin critiques the anarcho-communism of Anarres. We are presented with a society which is overtly anarchic and which finds its entire raison d'etre its its rejection of coe
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This guy has great intentions, but he himself admits that the reason that inflammatory stuff gets spread is because low-effort readers retweet or share things without clicking through and reading the actual articles. And using Ctrl+F is le
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What a peculiar combination of tone of subject matter. It was ultimately an industry case study, the kind of thing that you might find in any number of general-interest magazines, except that the author feels the need to remind the reader t
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No, they're both deception, and they're both strong negative signals. Think of it this way. Out of the 1000 people who will outright lie about having worked some place, 999 of them are sociopaths or grifters who will do serious ha
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Increased focus on racial and sexual minorities to the exclusion of working-class interests (which has been going on for decades), spilling over into outright contempt of lower- and middle- class whites (which has mostly become prominent in
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My read on this was that it's a useful metaphor for the economy, with the state as the rider and the horse as the industrial base. The original communist idea was to direct industrial output in some detail, which worked about as well a
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You are indeed mistaken about this fact, and it's somewhat telling that this is the version of the story which reached you. Go ahead and read the explanation from the moderator herself - https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.
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I don't think that Greer is claiming that we should "welcome all invasive species" as much simply pointing out that Nature doesn't stand still. What we call an "invasive species" is, from a broader perspective,
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I was about to say something similar. About half of the "dark patterns" on that site strike me as completely ordinary persuasion techniques. They're "dark" only if you think that the art of sales and marketing itsel
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People forget that institutions take time to develop. They also forget that high-trust institutions frequently begin with a dictator. The end-point is high-trust/low-coercion, but you can't get there from low-trust/low-coerci

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