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by jlawson 8y ago
RebelTV is not alt-right; it's founder has explicitly disavowed any association with the group/term. (Not to mention all the non-whites and women they employ.)
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You're right. But in natural language, statements about causation don't have to be 100 percent guaranteed to be valid. Otherwise there's very little you could really say about the world. Consider: "smoking causes cancer.
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Not really, causation doesn't have to be 100%. Example: Getting shot causes holes in your lungs. Holes in your lungs cause you to die. Therefore, getting shot causes you to die. All the above, including the inference in the last senten
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by jlawson 8y ago
>As for lung cancer, that's a straw man, vapes and edibles make that a non-issue. Isn't that kind of like saying "drunk driving is a straw man, Uber makes it a non issue"? Of course we know there's less harmful w
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by jlawson 8y ago
It's well-acknowledged that they're not following the same curve as USA or Europe. This isn't a matter of the future; it's already happened. That's why the UN has increased it's estimate for peak African popula
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by jlawson 8y ago
I hate to say it, but you've got it exactly backwards. QoL is much better after population crashes. I'll give two examples and explain the simple reasons. For example, life in the early 1300s in Europe was awful. Life in the middl
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>Smoke too often, cut down and get sharp again. Unfortunately not. If you spend a long time smoking you'll end up permanently slower in the brain. Also, let's not forget our friend lung cancer.
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I think we just invented a way to get people to put away their phones during concerts, plays, and comedy shows.
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Yep, none of these satisfy and it's obvious if you take them seriously and not literally, and put them in context. >"I don’t agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are ac
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by jlawson 8y ago
Extant hyper-fertile populations haven't caused the existing problem in the past . That's not what people are saying so there's no such blaming going on. The point is that they'll cause the impossible-to-solve exponenti
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by jlawson 8y ago
Carrying capacity is related to quality of life and technology. With very poor quality of life, Earth could probably carry quite a large number of people. But why build such a world? Why is 100 billion people packed in tenements, living off
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by jlawson 8y ago
You can't get people out of poverty, you can create opportunities for them to get themselves out of poverty. But what if some never do, for whatever reason? Even if 99% of humans climb out of poverty and stop overpopulating, there must
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by jlawson 8y ago
Well, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot were actually trying to lower their target populations pretty explicitly. But grandparent is way off about the numbers. The populations Hitler targeted lost about 50%; if he won the war they'd have done
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by jlawson 8y ago
I've been following this debate for years. I constantly see people arguing against this position that "nope, no greenhouse gases, no global warming". Yet I have never, not once, not ever seen this point expressed by any perso
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by jlawson 8y ago
Your comparison examples prove the points your arguing against. Both your examples are about fantastical violence and/or animal predator/prey violence - things that have little or no connection to a kid's real life growing up
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by jlawson 8y ago
Come on, be fair. There are tons of administrative tasks that HR takes care of that have nothing to do with liability.
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by jlawson 8y ago
Interesting. You agree, then, that women gossip more than men. But you think gossip - which means talking about people behind their backs - is good for social cohesion? This really sounds like a complete inversion of reality. Straightforw
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by jlawson 8y ago
What's your point? That men have a distinct gendered nature that makes them wrongly describe women this way? Or that women have a distinct gendered nature that makes them engage in such social interaction styles - and men have been not
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by jlawson 8y ago
Yes but at the end of the day all they can do is use that money to try to convince other voters to choose to vote their way. The power to convince is different from the power to flatly override the wishes of others. If you start trying to
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by jlawson 8y ago
I read HN with showdead on. There's some pretty unjustifiable censorship going on in this thread. I'll just call their attention to their own rule on this: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what som
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by jlawson 8y ago
Thieves usually don't give you something in return. It's more like "a deal you can't refuse". You get something back, but it's probably not just what you wanted. But it's something. Taxation is much more l
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by jlawson 8y ago
It symbolized solidarity, not so much authority. The small sticks work together and act as one.
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by jlawson 8y ago
A globus cruciger is a small sphere with a cross affixed to the top. Christian medieval rulers would hold one as a symbol of dominion over Earth (with the cross dominating the Earth's globe). Even before Christ, they used to just hold
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by jlawson 8y ago
Those countries you mentioned are under ~5% of the Asian total. The poster above is talking about the other 95%. Asia is 4.5 billion people. The Asian population is over four times that of all the Western countries combined.
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by jlawson 8y ago
The managers are pursuing legibility . There's a great book about this called Seeing Like a State. It's about the conflict between top-down planning and bottom-up development of complex systems - things like cities and forests. O
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by jlawson 8y ago
Growing food yourself is one thing. But that's not what we're talking about. Eating food grown and prepared by other people in a community of 70+ people, in exchange for your labor in other areas, and paying no tax on any of it...
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by jlawson 8y ago
Stop crying wolf (about this issue at least) for a start. 1. Guardian: "President Obama has four years to save the Earth" (2009) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jan/18/jim-hans...
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Wow. That sounds like something he could sue PayPal for. $50,000...
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by jlawson 8y ago
Not really profitable. It's largely a tax dodge actually. They avoid using money to artificially underreport their production and consumption. If they paid tax on the real values, would they still be profitable? Maybe, maybe not, but i
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by jlawson 8y ago
This is a pedantic overly literal reading of what I wrote. Please use your brain while reading to interpret what's being said in the form that makes sense. Otherwise we'll just spend all our time dragging you away from hostile, id

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