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by jlawson 6y ago
Everyone uses slippery slope reasoning in their personal lives, because it's a completely valid form of reasoning in the real world. Otherwise we'd be fine with the concept of e.g. trying methamphetamine just a few times and then
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This is a surreal reversal of the situation. Upper-class whites are obsessed with race, especially in the last few years. Every news story - and the news comes from the upper whites - gets twisted into something about race, as in this cas
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by jlawson 6y ago
Hitting is not the same as targeting, so no. Also, one needs to indicate the difference between e.g. a hospital building acting as nothing but a hospital, and one that has been evacuated of patients and used as a militant staging post.
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by jlawson 6y ago
If "telling people that the election was a fraud" is equivalent to encouraging insurrection, you'd need to convict everyone who pushed the Trump/Russia narrative for years. So basically every leftist media entity and per
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San Francisco spends over $40,000 per year on each homeless person in the city.
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Lots of people can do useful work without being sole breadwinners, and can use money even in small amounts. Homemakers doing part time work, kids or young people making money (and getting experience) after school, retirees, disabled people
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by jlawson 6y ago
Nah, this is just you projecting your perception of 'simpleness' onto the beliefs of others. Very classic self-serving biased perspective. "They want certitude, but we can, in our superior way, handle the true complexity of r
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by jlawson 6y ago
Nate actually gave Trump a reasonable chance of winning (I want to say 20%?) which if you understand how probability works doesn't really hurt his credibility. 20% chances happen all the time. The people who really took the hit were or
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They seem to simply take it on faith that it's impossible for darker-skinned people to just have a higher chance of taking poor photos. This could be mediated by culture of income or a hundred other things. They offer no way to evaluat
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Another important point here is that genes don't divide infinitely, so that if you go back some distance, you start finding ancestors from whom you actually didn't get any DNA. The book Who We Are and How We Got Here talks about t
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This is better described as a tragedy of the commons, not a prisoner's dilemma.
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The implication is that if one genetic group is getting poorer outcomes than another group, you can't automatically assume it's due to discrimination. This is an important implication because it completely undercuts many extremely
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I wonder how long the Egyptian pyramids would last.
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Yeah, but consider the base rate. Even if the things we create are more permanent that footprints, there are just so many footprints that some of them, by unbelievable triple-corner case coincidences, end up here for us. Even if the chanc
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by jlawson 6y ago
>discrimination cannot be overcome without intervention There have been many people in history who have overcome discrimination without intervention, so this can't be true. Just because it's harder doesn't mean it's i
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by jlawson 6y ago
The word you're looking for is 'norms' not 'precedent' (since this wasn't a court case). And yes, I agree, the norms have gotten way shittier over recent decades. Both sides participated in this, back to the ch
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Fine - used established, legal processes.
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Interesting, so if Trump can nominate and pass another judge, it'll be by using the rule that the Democrats changed in 2013 to benefit themselves.
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by jlawson 6y ago
This is a laughable inability to distinguish between 'I don't like it' and 'it's unconstitutional and illegal', mixed with obvious massive hypocrisy. When the Republicans refused to confirm Garland, they did it
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But you don't really have a straight line. You have an instantaneous step change. Of course, when you're zoomed in that much the concept of 'price' becomes a lot more complex. You need to distinguish between bid, ask, an
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by jlawson 6y ago
>The problem with “white” is that “white pride”, “white power” were coopted by racist and terrorist groups decades ago. As were "black pride" and "black power", but people are still allowed to say those things because
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by jlawson 6y ago
And yet, if you tweet the words 'it's okay to be $ethnic_group', the only value of $ethnic_group that gets your career ended is 'white'. And yet, if you tweet 'I support $candidate for president', the only
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by jlawson 6y ago
This was a victory for the common sense right to make fun of things. A parody brand of soap called "ogay" simply is not harmful any more than a gentle parody of white people, America, southerners, Christians, etc as seen all over
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by jlawson 6y ago
Reminds me of a quote from JK Simmons' character in the prison drama Oz. The other prisoner was asking if it was okay to have a black man's tissues used in a dental graft on his gums. "Define purity."
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>law enforcement agencies would have an incentive at doing their job (unlike today, when more crime = people are less opposed to increase taxes and funding the police), competition would drive the cost of law enforcement down for consume
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by jlawson 6y ago
When you're blocked on the highway, you cannot leave. You're confined . No matter how sick you are, how hungry the baby is, how hot the car is getting, how low on gas or how late you are for work. Stop being disingenous about wha
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It's easy to criticize without suggesting any alternative.
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If you're an anarcho-capitalist, that's cool and interesting, but I think it's quite distinct from the more left-wing forms of anarchism people usually talk about (that revolve around self-organizing democratic cooperatives).
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If that's true, your complaint isn't with them police at all, but with the fact that "the system is rigged in deep ways against a young man of color". To justify these protests, you would have to make the case that it&#x
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by jlawson 6y ago
Funny, I never said "only voting". I also said you have a voice, use it. You seem to have completely ignored that paragraph. Perhaps you'd like to take a shot at actually responding to what I wrote. It is absolutely possible

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