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by lurk2 11mo ago
This wasn’t on my radar at all. Was this kept quiet or did I just not hear about it?
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> Sometime around 2021-2023 there was a wave of people claiming their pets as "service animals" or "emotional support animals" and bringing them everywhere in public. This has been going on for over ten years.
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> As a Belgian, it does frustrate me that this is what we’re getting known for. Waffles and domestic terrorism.
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Well, this one is at least pertinent to the time period we’re discussing: > One-half of the people found in a Mesolithic cemetery in present-day Jebel Sahaba, Sudan dating to as early as 13,000 years ago had died as a result of warfare b
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> What an absurd request. If you can show me archaeological evidence of mass graves or a settlement having been razed during the paleolithic I would recant my claims. This isn’t really a high bar. > Where's your archaeological ev
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> meaning lacking in certain knowledge on the topic Clueless has a pejorative connotation. I am struggling to imagine how anyone would read a comment like: > because most people are as clueless as you about the reality of how things w
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> Or do you mean we shouldn't be allowed to call out people we notice are clueless? That’s exactly what it means. You’ll note I’ve been very polite to you in the rest of the thread despite your not having made citations for any of y
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We were talking about the paleolithic era. I’ll take your comment to imply that you don’t have any information that I don’t have. > but killing each other over valuable resources is the most common human trait after reproduction and seek
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> because most people are as clueless as you Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. When
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> And right now, a lot of people in supposedly-rich Western countries are having their basic existance threatened by the greed of the elite. Which people are having their existences threatened by the elite?
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> and the defeated tribe would have its men killed or enslaved, and the women bred to expand the tribe population. I’m not aware of any archaeological evidence of massacres during the paleolithic. Which archaeological sites would support
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Even within the last 10,000 years, most of those systems looked nothing like the hereditary stations we associate with feudalism, and it’s focused within the last 4,000 years that any of those systems scaled, and then only in areas that wer
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> which has always been a feudalist type society of a small elite owning all the wealth and ruling the masses of people by wars, poverty, fear, propaganda and oppression. This isn’t an historical norm. The majority of human history occur
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Why would a company pay for fonts?
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> The main examples seem to be Creationists and Alex Jones and similar inflammatory content creators having paid speaker invitations rescinded due to student pressure, which is an radically different topic than what I thought the thread
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> We expect universities to have a pro-truth, pro-reality, pro-knowledge bias, which are things the Republican party overtly rejects. The people you’re pretending to be harbingers of truth believe that men can get pregnant. > or they
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> Untrue. You know these people exist. Try asking them where the money is going to come from to finance this education and see if more than 10% of them can explain it to you. > "Free" has a specific meaning in English You’ve
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> I'm not sure what evidence you would expect to see if it was self-selection because of an in-group mentality versus explicit hostility to intentionally keep some out. What about an explicit roadmap? https://en.wikipedia
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> What mechanisms do these department heads use to suppress conservative viewpoints in research? DEI has likely had a minor influence. In the articles I linked above, the bias towards liberalism is weakest among Asians, then whites, and
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> Conservatives are split into 2 groups. Conservatives who are in it for the money and conservatives who are in it because they don't know any better. An inane assertion made without evidence. > nor is it a job that someone who i
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> I figure it's an emergent property based on the self-selected group who join the respective organizations plus some exposure to new ideas. There are plenty of conservatives interested in anthropology; there’s no reason to think th
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> "Free" doesn't mean "has no cost paid by anyone" and never has in these discussions. Calling these programs “free” obfuscates the issue because there are people (even college-educated people) who genuinely beli
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> The fact that paying taxes is required of all members of the community that organizes, collects and distributes resources in this way doesn't change the relationship between the person and the service at the point of service. That
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> And don't tell me it wasn't. It wasn’t, other people paid for it.
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There was a user here a few months ago trying to promote his startup. He was being somewhat obnoxious when people offered criticism so I looked him up and found he was some 21 year old kid. Profile read: > Founder & CEO of Nitrility
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> when partisanship has to be disguised. The conservatives are right about the partisan bias of universities. See this survey by Mitchell Langbert. https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the
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> the evidence to date is that it's ability to destroy counties ends somewhere around Iran's strength. Only if Geneva enters the equation. > the US has already been undermined by the likes of China, Russia and India What is
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> Anti-globalization as a movement completely collapsed during the Obama administration and it's more accurate to call those protests the dying gasp. Occupy occurred in 2011; Obama was in office from 2009 to 2017. If anti-globalizat
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Trump did not create the support for border control and immigration enforcement among the American general public. He won because these policies were third rails for anyone involved in establishment politics, whose donors rely on illegal im
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Anti-corporate attitudes were completely normalized in the 2000s and arguably only really lulled during the mid-2010s. There were several films from that period that featured countercultural messaging: Disney’s Incredibles had allusions to

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