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by jlawson 7y ago
This is just part of the larger pattern of anti-male expression in the media. It's remarkably consistent. If there's a study about differences between men and women, it will only be published if it can be spun such that the women
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The most extreme-left political advocates, who dominate green advocacy because of their high motivation, aren't interested in solving climate change alone. What they want is to dismantle what they see as an entire system of racist sexi
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It's easier in the sense that more people are able to do it. Not in the sense that doing it incurs less suffering, or in the sense that making yourself do it requires less willpower. The spectrum between easy and difficult is multidime
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There's actually survey data about this. They ask people, basically, 'How much do differences in parenting style and decisions affect a child's personality/behavior?" Everyone in the survey thought there was a stron
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How do you know what really influenced your life outcomes? We all have stories about a great teacher or a terrible parent. But these are anecdotes. You don't actually know what would have happened if you had different parents, or diffe
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by jlawson 7y ago
The other side of this is expressed in the classic comedy video, "It's Not About the Nail" (1:41). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
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They'll just nationalize the factories. Not just existing military factories - civilian infrastructure will be converted where possible. E.g. a car factory changes to making military vehicles. If necessary, guys with guns will arrive t
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Lots of data here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_and_intelligence
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CI doesn't have to be 0. That's total nonsense. You think if you eat one grape per day suddenly you won't lose weight, or something? Who said anything about 0? CI-CO is accurate if CI<CO. There is absolutely no way it cann
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Wait so you think neolithic tribal people didn't live in rural areas? As in, you think they lived in cities? I feel I need to cover the first point because it's so bonkers there's not much point going into the rest, which see
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This is a fixed-pie fallacy. Someone of mediocre intelligence is not harmed by being in a society of people much smarter than him. On the contrary - he benefits greatly because smarter societies are safer, fairer, and take care of citizens
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I think you're not really appreciating what a tribal lifestyle is actually like. Live in a rural area. No education except what you can do yourself. No travel. No books. No movies. No music except what you can make yourself. No shoes.
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Medieval and previous people were always at the limits of the resources they had the technology to access. The past was a Malthusian world. No economic growth and no population growth for thousands of years, in a world without birth control
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I found it helpful. In a world where a million distracting influences are promising cheats, shortcuts, and easy ways to get to the goal, a single true statement to focus attention and wipe away the bullshit is incredibly useful.
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Last week I discovered a wonderful sushi restaurant near my work. I told my work friends about it and now we all love it. It doesn't mean nobody in the world knew about that sushi restaurant before me. It means nobody in my group knew
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by jlawson 7y ago
Yes, sometimes companies are 'legal persons' when discussed in a legal context as I mentioned. We are not in a legal context, so to use such language in a normal context without elaboration will obviously mislead most listeners. I
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Is there any technological reason we couldn't use nuclear-powered container ships? They're the same general scale as nuclear aircraft carriers. Trains can also be electric and powered by a third-rail type system. Trucks and drones
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Companies aren't people, legally speaking. This is a bizarre myth that just gets repeated as a sort of mindless anti-corporate shibboleth. Companies are legal entities which can sign contracts, hold debt, open bank accounts, etc. So ar
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Culture has always adapted around technology and products available. Think about food. Pretty much every world cuisine is rooted in a bunch of non-optional requirements imposed by local climate, soil, etc. Even language has shifted to adapt
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We should finely differentiate between eliminating a source of bias, and adding a new bias to try to counteract a bias we think already exists. These are not the same thing.
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What an atrocious article, exemplifying and worsening the problem it claims to discuss. It starts out with a bit about the importance of dialogue and how bad polarization is. Then immediately switches to automatically, and totally assuming
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In the far-left worldview, all society-scale problems can be traced to the moral turpitude of straight white men.
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The health of democracy requires that individuals be able to speak their mind and advocate their beliefs. This doesn't work if their livelihood is controlled by a group of hyper-intolerant political totalitarians. What GitHub is doing
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Right, and when different human rights conflict, then we resolve the conflict through a political process. Simple example: Religious freedom/freedom of speech and gay rights. So should the Christian baker be _forced_ to make a cake wit
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Dude, you can get banned permanent from Twitter for writing "men aren't women". Happened to a famous Canadian feminist [0]. Or, I dare you to write some spicy tweets about "white people" and then try the same ones a
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I know some blue collar folks who have talked about it. It's a thing.
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Anxiety and depression are terrible issues, I hope you figure out the key for that lock soon. The other side of this is 'lazy as shit' - in terms of psychometric measures, you're largely describing conscientiousness, one of t
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Lots of ways. Simple ones: 1. Time. Each test question have 1 minute to answer. The test author took 4 hours to write the question (before having an organization put it through a battery of tests and analyses to validate it). 2. Group effor
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Tax audits can largely be a matter of interpretation and what kinds of explanations the authorities are prepared to accept. Not fundamentally different from a traffic ticket. And IRS reviewer can send the cops after you. It's not that
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Good point! And look how fucked up that is.

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