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by p0pcult 4y ago
You made two wild assertions without any evidence.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Isn't that a pretty cynical take, though? Like, who wants to hire a co worker who can't pull weight, or uses scarce resources?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
I think 9-10 years old is a bit young for sex. Did my brother? Apparently not! No one was making any claims about the ages of teenagers, just providing an anecdote that consensual sexual activity (insofar as two 4th graders can consent) c
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Based on your descriptions, it's hard for me to conclude that these books are "targeting children sexuality" as the OP put it. Teens are--shock of shocks!--sometimes sexually active, even by choice. My brother was sexually
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by p0pcult 4y ago
"actively practices" is the polar opposite of natural selection. To wit: "Charles Darwin popularised the term "natural selection", contrasting it with artificial selection, which in his view is intentional, whereas
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Oh, yes, there's the aforementioned hyperbolic fearmongering.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
>If I was being primarily judged by how performative I could appear on paper, it was a pretty dubious evaluation. Completely agree. It seems as if a lot of people here assume that a potential bias statement is the only factor being used
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by p0pcult 4y ago
And which biases, specifically, are asked to be accounted for? My count on that page is zero.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
This comment says a lot about your worldview, but not much about anything else.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Maybe I am missing the part where is says there is a particular ideological project beyond better science? You act like bias isn't actually a problem in science, but when I think back to the number of studies recruiting on campus at my
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by p0pcult 4y ago
"the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Sir Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenic
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Knowing, acknowledging and accounting for one's own biases is just good science. You wouldn't use a thermometer that was always 10C too high to measure and reports temperatures, without pointing out that the thermometer has a 10C
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by p0pcult 4y ago
https://conversations.vanguardstem.com/hotsciencesummer-faq-... >What is the intersectional scientific methodology? The Intersectional Scientific Methodology (ISM) is the concept that your identities and experiences inf
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Can you please provide an example of one of these books that is "targeting children sexuality"? A title will suffice.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Quoting from your source: >In the west, an advanced industry of NGOs, charities, and foundations has evolved which funds so much of the weirdness in our daily lives. A caste of activist-professionals have emerged, which inevitably captur
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Yes, this all would have worked out well if there were [checks notes] even less regulation of FTX. </s>
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Failure to regulate.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
I don't know what the actual economic term is (or if there is one), but what I am referring to is when a loss-running firm undercuts the competition until the competition no longer exists, and then because they have a monopoly, charges
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Is the cost of housing the people who can no longer afford rent or houses because of AirBnB factored into the cost of AirBnB? No. Therefore, externality.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
>They aren't externalities and shouldn't be priced in. If people in my city can't afford housing because of AirBnB, it has negative impacts on my city as a whole. This is an externality, which--by definition--is a thing t
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by p0pcult 4y ago
You mean, the fucked housing and rental markets? Or perhaps you were referring to the rent seeking on the restaurant industry? Or do you mean the "contractors" who subsidize Uber with their cars? Or was it the taxi drivers whos
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by p0pcult 4y ago
>have added tremendous value to ... society in general [citation missing]
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Let's just ignore all the externalities created by market-breaking and law-ignoring, tho!
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by p0pcult 4y ago
The kool-aid is strong in here!
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Right, 1000 years ago. Today, the courts are a bit different.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
No, that was the whole point of Bitcoin. Crypto > Bitcoin.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
This is the correct take, and why American regulators need to address crypto sooner rather than later.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
>truly high intelligence and problem solving grit are without a doubt correlated As both a former teacher and current parent, i can say for certain that this is not true.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-priv...
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Advertising only makes money for the platforms if we don't have non-ad options. So, now that the pandora's box of ad-driven internet has been opened, good luck putting it away. At this point, you will have to kill all social medi

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