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That's right, every single culture ever has been exactly the same, with exactly the same traits and emotions distributed in equal proportions across the entire population.
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Two sides is the most stable form of competition, it's why there are very few sports that have more than two teams. (Card games, maybe.) A few years ago I saw a great essay/blog post/paper/something that made this point
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> I have the opposite view. No matter what individuals do, they won't turn the system around I don't think we have opposite views; I don't think individuals will willingly stop consuming sources of emissions. "Systemi
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"Things aren't looking good unless more is done" is literally the point of my comment.
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I am continually frustrated by climate doomerism by people who aren't willing to make the lifestyle changes that would be requiring to stop using so much oil. We don't have enough raw materials in the world to replace the current
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I work in the aerospace industry and know several current and former senior engineers at SpaceX. None of them would agree with your assessment that Musk has done no meaningful work for SpaceX, or is a poor engineer incapable of valuable wor
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I hear a good number of people in contemporary musical academic circles talk about how overly simplified western music is, given its 12 tones, mostly rigid adherence to predictable rhythmic structures, and reliance on transcription. But I t
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If they do bring you back, charge 5x your salary as a contractor.
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I worked at a clinical research tech platform startup and the lack of tech experience in the leadership of the larger orgs actually paying for the tech is hysterical. Like, people cutting $10M deals for remote international drug studies don
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Ad revenue from increased user count, spying on browsing habits, scraping user-input data, and promotion-hunting by product managers who want to advertise how their new feature led to X million more clicks per day.
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We all know it's happening. What, if anything, could the voting public do to remove the ability of the intelligence community to spy on citizens?
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The people in this thread are nuts. I play music at a very high amateur level and know a lot of people with both absolute and perfect pitch. They all enjoy showing it off and are great sight-readers. It's a little more annoying for the
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That is a very insightful comment, thank you for making it. I think I understand your original point a little better than I did. > To think ourselves as civilized because we repress those urges into complete subjugation is foolhardy. Giv
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> If you separate someone from their community, their relationships, and the very things that cause us to change (people) -- you create monsters. You and I agree that the current method of imprisoning criminals teaches them to be worse,
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> Isn't the job of the State the betterment of society? We may have fundamentally opposing ideological views here, but I see what you're asking. I would actually say that the job of Society is the betterment of the state. Ultim
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There are so many things that would have to change about society for a suitable alternative to modern education to be put in place that my answer would be so politically radical that most would find it either unpalatable or unpractical. How
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Why do you think the system is supposed to rehabilitate? I would argue that the system is supposed to separate people who cannot be trusted in society from the rest of us. I think the major failure of the justice system (apart from corrupti
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> To them, I would need to also point to the sizable fraction of my student population who absolutely despised the project, and may have found that project as the last straw in making their decision that they hate coding. There are many
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Barracoon is the greatest work of anti-slavery literature I've ever read. It wouldn't have been as effective if they'd removed his dialect. "Sometimes I think I die in my sleep when I dream bout my mama." I had te
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Did you ever find yourself offended by Augustus Gloop?
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I don't know what his ethnicity is, so I don't know if I know the heroes of his ethnicity or not. I know an unusual amount about world history and non-western cultures compared to the average person with my general characteristics
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> If someone else takes issue with my pov, they can also take solace in knowing I don’t respect them as people I won’t ever acknowledge. This is a strange perspective. Do you think if I went through the heroes of your own ethnicity that
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I haven't seen anyone that doesn't like the edits give the real reason that they are so upset about the edits. If the edits were politically slanted in a different direction, the edit-opposers would only oppose edits on principle.
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I don't share your values, and I don't want you or people like you to have any control over what I read it or how I read it. There are many people who agree with me. It's "sacred" to the Post because the people writ
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Ah, there's the edit, right. One of the principles that I hold to pretty strongly is that the more performatively famous someone is surrounding a certain idea, the more likely it is that they don't have any real principles, and th
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After reading this article, I agree with the words of Thich Nhat Hanh, thank you for the recommendation. > The religious right in the US just wants to suppress it out of ignorance I tend to agree that the religious right in the US is a l
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> There's plenty of alcohol, weed, cocaine, and hallucinogens, I'll give you that, but they're not gateways to opioid addiction. This is only partially accurate. There are two primary "pipelines" to opioid addict
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Obviously he doesn't mean that, there's an enormous body of media and art that glamorizes drug dealing and using. It stretches across ethnicity and class. It begins with alcohol and weed, stretches into cocaine and hallucinogens,
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That's fascinating. It must be so frustrating to exist in a world where everyone you talk to is constantly hallucinating alternate versions of the past, and you're living the real version of it.
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It's stuffed with anecdotes explaining how to succeed in an extremely complicated and competitive business. With a very small bit of creativity you can construct clear analogies to white-collar work. Here's an example, in a story

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