remarkEon

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by remarkEon 3mo ago
Why are you continually making up a strawman to argue against? If a country has regressive views that are one standard deviation more regressive than the mean view on that topic in Europe, and you allow 1 million people from that country to
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by remarkEon 3mo ago
It’s a little befuddling that you are pretending it’s not possible to simply observe the nature of the countries from which these people arrived and make high probability conclusions about the mean views on, say, women’s rights. Is your bel
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by remarkEon 3mo ago
Not all monocultures are created equal.
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by remarkEon 3mo ago
Amazing comment. Accepting for a minute that the comment on economic extraction is true (it isn’t), you are admitting that mass migration from low-trust/dysfunctional societies is in fact a deserved punishment for “the West”. I wish mo
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by remarkEon 3mo ago
The big ones, like Facebook, instagram, TikTok, twitter, maybe Reddit. But I suppose you’re right, the line between “messaging board” and “social media” is a little challenging to define.
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by remarkEon 3mo ago
This is also a great example of map resection.
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by remarkEon 4mo ago
I haven’t had any social media accounts since I gave it up for Lent in 2018 and I’m increasingly starting to wonder if that’s a liability for me because there’s no social graph that whatever agency would otherwise use to, idk, confirm I’m n
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by remarkEon 4mo ago
Sorry is the idea here that we’d cover the Sahara in PVs? The Sahara desert, in Africa, the most dysfunctional continent on the planet. And, what, we’d lay a billion miles of transmission lines? You can’t keep reliable electricity running i
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by remarkEon 4mo ago
Yeah I too long for a future (or a present, I guess?) where entire fields and mountainsides are covered in glass on top of the natural landscape, instead of a football field sized building used to hold rocks close together to boil water.
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by remarkEon 4mo ago
This is a mischaracterization of what happened. The economics got bad because of regulatory pressures, and regulatory pressures increased because of anti-nuclear sentiment, and … … Anti-nuclear sentiment is directly downstream from organize
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by remarkEon 4mo ago
Yes. It is a solved problem. It has been a solved problem as long as I’ve been alive, and the only reason we are in this situation is because a very sophisticated and organized network of activists convinced people that it is not a solved p
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by remarkEon 4mo ago
> Ofcom, which has powers to enforce online safety regulation, will conduct a rapid study on what is effective age assurance for verifying whether someone is over 16, while it is being asked to publish a “clear enforcement strategy.” Jus
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by remarkEon 4mo ago
A riot is the language of the unheard.
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by remarkEon 4mo ago
>it does not control for pedagogical variance This it total gibberish. No one cares about this sort of academic correction for observed outcomes. "Hmm some kids are continuously scoring better on math exams. Our pedagogy must be wro
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by remarkEon 4mo ago
>Anybody can learn math. I'm actually surprised that sentiments like this still exist. We work in technology, we've had enough contact with enough people to know that there is a difference between motivation to learn a hard tec
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
This is not true. Math aptitude is not evenly distributed.
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
This isn't always true, if it makes you feel better. In order for a game like this (what you described is a type of game) to work, all players need to have the same level of trust vectors toward the other players. This type of situatio
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
There it is.
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
Would you prefer the United States didn’t exist or something? What is even the point of this comment. “Bad things happened in history, there was violence and war and conquering, woe is me” this is what you sound like. Profound, truly.
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
Did you roll a dice and pick one or are you actually familiar with Navajo history or something and that’s why you tried to use this retort as a way to imply you’re not allowed to have opinions on American immigration policy unless you’re fr
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
I think you have to be on drugs to think that American democracy came from Indian tribes. I grew up in the Midwest, so this mirror universe explanation for the origins of my country isn’t going to work on me. >1000 years ago Arabic count
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
Right, a law that made it easier for white people from Europe to become citizens.
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
This entire thread is filled with people willfully lying about history like you are right now. It’s incredible to see. I can’t tell if it’s because this is a simple is vs ought distinction and you are having a hard to reconciling your ought
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
Cato is doing their usual thing here where they lie by omission. >These foreigners, if not properly disposed of, will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its directions, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.[
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
Oh well as along as the food is good.
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
Why? It is demonstrably superior. If it wasn’t we wouldn’t be debating whether it’s immoral to not let everyone else on the planet in.
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
I like how you think you’re dunking on immigration restrictionists but in your hypothetical you implicitly admit there’s a hierarchy of belonging and claim to a nation, and temporal proximity to its discovery and founding is quite obviously
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
This is not true. It’s a pernicious lie that the United States has always been doors open, and this falsity makes discussing this topic increasingly impossible because it’s like there’s two different realities that aren’t reconcilable. The
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
This is hysterical nonsense. When these things come up people tend to venture into hyperbole. Probably because it's an incentives issue (it gets clicks and upvotes). If "preserving order" was the number everyone in the judici
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by remarkEon 5mo ago
The rule of law is and always has been based on a monopoly of violence. That monopoly is increasingly tenuous, frankly. Even the word "oversight" implies that, if said entity being overseen ventures out of the bounds of the overse

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