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by larnmar 7y ago
Conclusions of article not supported by actual data. In particular, just because people don’t change their mind immediately after a debate doesn’t mean they’re not being strongly influenced — they might just take a few days to turn it over
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This whole thread is based on whataboutism! It’s supposed to be about Chinese influence, and then someone derailed it into talking about American influence, and now the whole thread is 90% comments about America and 10% comments about China
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Is that nationalism or just a background knowledge that your whole family could wind up in a prison camp if you say the wrong thing?
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It should read “Chinese Government”, not China, too. The Chinese government was not elected by the Chinese, is not in any sense a legitimate representative of the Chinese, and has no more right to rule over China than I do. Conflating criti
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> A new menace: Disinformation—false information spread deliberately to deceive people—helped distort elections in 26 of the 30 countries studied that had national votes in the last year. Describing disinformation as a “new menace” seems
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That’s the thing about slang, it rarely actually gives you totally new meanings. It usually just gives you less formal and deliberately impenetrable-to-the-outgroup synonyms for existing words.
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Permafrost is permanent on the timescale is years, not on the timescale of interglacial periods. Most of the permafrost we have at the moment thawed in the last interglacial period and refroze in the last ice age.
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I couldn’t find that specific one, though I did find this article from 2007 predicting an ice-free Arctic summer by 2013... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm Edit: Also I just found a
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And this would be a net bad thing because?
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Yep, I’m old enough to remember the global warming warnings of the 90s — one that has stuck in my head in particular was that New York City would be underwater by 2020. Now there’s still six weeks to go, but it must be said that this predic
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At least you can afford peace and quiet at home though, instead of having to live with flat mates and commute via public transport.
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I trust Google much as I trust the sun. I believe it’ll keep doing its thing, and that this will probably overall be beneficial. I’m glad there’s a sun. But the problem with the sun is that it doesn’t give a crap about me. If I have a probl
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by larnmar 7y ago
I agree, empathy is about being able to see things from another’s point of view, not the feeling of “tender, concerned feelings”, and particularly not of restricting those feelings to those less fortunate than yourself.
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I certainly would. A little more empathy for slaveowners (that is, the ability to see things from their point of view) would have enabled the US to abolish slavery without the bloody civil war. Every country in the western henisphere abolis
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Isn’t employment fraud a form of organised crime?
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And, importantly, it won’t look like a cross between a Lego clown car and a prop from Tron, like the old i3.
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Flat Earthers are like Nazis in that they’re numerically insignificant but tend to get an awful lot of media attention because reasons. I think people find it convenient to have a boogeyman who is so obviously either scientifically (flat ea
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It’s not necessarily assuming bad faith to realise the existence of the context which leads to the selection and writing of the articles at the New York Times, or Fox News, or Buzzfeed, or Xinhua, or any other outlet.
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> I wish the argument against pollution would be the simplest one Arguments against pollution would be valuable if someone were actually arguing in favour of pollution.
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The stark black and white colour scheme with bright red markings was chosen for a very specific reason.
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Has this study been replicated? It seems a lot like one of those terrible “priming” studies that won’t. Statistics aside, the experimental methodology is terrible. You ask a bunch of people to think about being poor, or not, and that’s supp
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This appears to be a terrible interface put on top of a very simple table. Why am I scrolling around on my phone just to see the map? What are the underlying numbers? What do they mean? Is the actual number I’m looking at the area of the ci
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I’d rather go back to the early 20th century when income taxes weren’t even a thing, and yet everything still worked somehow.
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On the other hand the allegations themselves are carefully selected in order to create a false narrative.
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If the effect were present, and as large as implied, you’d expect low IQ test results in ultra-polluted Chinese cities such as Shanghai and Beijing. And yet... http://www.city-data.com/forum/world/2348902-china-iq-
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It certainly does seem that he had a lot of fair-weather friends who only liked him when he was pissing on one side of politics, but not the other.
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Because they paid money for that land?
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Indeed. Even the relatively harmless example of going up to a hotel floor to look at the view out of (I assume) the lift lobby is something that only works if you’re the only one doing it. If a bunch of people start doing it then all of a s
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There are certainly city pairs where it would make sense, if the rail lines were to be built for free by some genie. But if you add up all the people who want to travel between Chicago and St Louis in a year, and then multiply by the hour-i