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by nyolfen 7y ago
schools are safer across the board than ten years ago (all violent crime has been declining for all groups for 30 years); there are actually fewer shootings than there were in the 90s despite the media narrative. technology simply follows i
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by nyolfen 7y ago
yes, that is what the article is about, but the post i was replying to was speculating that it would be less safe for occupants
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by nyolfen 7y ago
presumably it must pass the same crash safety tests as every other car sold in the US
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by nyolfen 7y ago
an acquaintance had an interlock combined with a camera on his dashboard to address this possibility
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by nyolfen 7y ago
yes, shocking that someone might feel strongly about their interests and subculture
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by nyolfen 7y ago
you can get a finger prick test on amazon for something like $10
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by nyolfen 7y ago
> Evolutionary psychology may be the worst example of this. Or large areas of economics. Or the political implications of climate science. social psychology was specifically singled out by the replication crisis for having something like
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by nyolfen 7y ago
i would settle for not having our businesses hacked by their state
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by nyolfen 7y ago
no one is acting surprised, they’re acting upset, and rightly
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by nyolfen 7y ago
we are at something like a forty year low in violent crime
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by nyolfen 7y ago
yes, but it would probably be low quality and lack the magic of the real deal
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by nyolfen 7y ago
i would kill for that jacket
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by nyolfen 7y ago
my thought as well, particularly the bit about following amphetamine use and the death of their mother, assuming it wasn't figurative or an arbitrary example. as someone who has experienced mania it reminded me strongly of the way i&#x
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by nyolfen 7y ago
a nice video of the trip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1mzXFAzUjQ
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by nyolfen 7y ago
there's plenty in US foreign policy to criticize but maintaining the open nature of international waters for everybody is not colonialism
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by nyolfen 7y ago
the idea is that it was a false flag attack to lure the US into intervening in the 6 day war on behalf of israel; its appeal to antisemites, sympathists of liberty sailors, american opponents of israel, or even just trolls should be pretty
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by nyolfen 7y ago
> privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful
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by nyolfen 7y ago
> Put another way, if you are a genius in some field, the chance of having a child with someone of equal or greater aptitude is effectively zero. aka regression to the mean
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by nyolfen 7y ago
i don't have anything that fits that criteria specifically but you might be interested in philip mirowski's book on the social history of neoliberal thought: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=16D0875D5B
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by nyolfen 7y ago
there is crossover but you might as well lump together stealth bombers and SUVs. the vast, vast majority of firearms produced by US companies are for civilians.
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by nyolfen 7y ago
> My mistake, it's like saying there's a pathogen that makes you like rainbow bumper stickers. you ought to read about toxoplasma if you think complex behavior resulting from pathogen infection is outside the realm of possibili
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by nyolfen 7y ago
he is not saying that it is genetic; he thinks there could be a pathogen that influences brain development. did you even read what you were replying to?
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by nyolfen 7y ago
i know that invoking evo-psych is a thought-terminating cliche for many people, but saying “there are measurable common traits that could be associated with physical changes in the brain” doesn’t even fall into its realm
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by nyolfen 7y ago
anthropologist greg cochran has made the same point: https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2018/08/18/ptsd/ then again, from what we can tell about the premodern world it seems much more violent than what we ar
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by nyolfen 7y ago
yes, but we love them all the same
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by nyolfen 7y ago
it's just a fashionable rhetorical lever
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by nyolfen 7y ago
nero pretended to be an incarnation of apollo; were the romans ignorant savages?
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by nyolfen 7y ago
https://github.com/nopara73/ZeroLink/#ii-chaumian-coinjoin
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by nyolfen 7y ago
the transnational class of european factory workers didn't spend all day talking to each other for their whole lives. you could also easily reframe your post to be about liberals or nationalists instead of communists and come to the op
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by nyolfen 7y ago
okay, but you're opening the door to youtube being the arbiters of truth; once it starts going down that road, political agents take a keen interest in controlling it. it's a question of values.

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