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rendang
10mo ago
Have you ever taken a decent dose of an amphetamine? It isn't going to make you smarter but it will almost certainly boost your energy and ability to get stuff done.
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10mo ago
I think the user you replied to is referring to things like the Putnam findings on the effects of diversity https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FvFN8ACY6taivkcbzDGgYy1-EPb...
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10mo ago
The type of person who gets elected to Congress is likely to be far above average in charisma/intelligence/skill, and hence underpaid relative to what they could attain in the private sector
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11mo ago
I'm curious what are the shortcomings you find with SageMaker?
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1y ago
If a given person's labor is of poor enough quality such that its value is not enough to provide whatever is considered a reasonable quality of life in a given circumstance, adding a UBI or other welfare payment is not just subsidizing
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1y ago
If insurance and other carrying costs keep going up as in FL, for the real monthly cost of housing to stay the same, prices must fall
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Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, Aug 2025
(wolfstreet.com)
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1y ago
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1y ago
Did you like the rest of Donna Tartt's work as much as Secret History?
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1y ago
It's definitely about money, but "inequality" makes it sound like the fact that other people out there are wealthy is the cause of antisocial people destroying property to pay for drugs
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1y ago
Maybe a turning point for Airstrip One, if overreaches like this prompt people to take to the streets.
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1y ago
What is the connection between the claim and the link?
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1y ago
The selection effects of this transition will be really fascinating to see after the fact. The species has spent a long time under selection pressure for "having more kids", but is being subjected for the first time to "havin
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1y ago
Which people are saying we need to curtail womens' rights because of underpopulation?
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1y ago
One that comes to mind is https://polymarket.com/event/which-company-has-best-ai-model...
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1y ago
Just what?
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1y ago
Israel in 2025 is very hostile to a 2 state solution. However your original claim was "for decades", and decades ago the situation and politics were not the same
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1y ago
True, this is mentioned in the above. Also notable because doubt has been cast in some quarters on the GHM's trustworthiness
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60k Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names
(washingtonpost.com)
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1y ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/bfdAt
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1y ago
> Can you not see how Art Spiegelman's 1980's "Maus" is nothing like how it is told today? In what respects?
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1y ago
Nationalism could be seen as a "left" movement in the first place in that it often served as an ideology of revolution against the (imperial) powers that be. There have been many prominent leftist nationalist movements and parties
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1y ago
US has much higher tertiary education attainment than the OECD average. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_... People with tertiary education who paid a lot for it or are in debt for it do not
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1y ago
What do you mean by education? The USA has higher PISA scores than peer countries and also has high rates of tertiary education. Do you think that middle class educated people having high student debt burdens causes crime?
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1y ago
The kind of people who destroy public spaces and public toilets will also destroy any free housing you give them. If by "mental health" you mean involuntary commitment, then yes, that will do the job
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1y ago
Unfortunately, that isn't a correct use of a comma
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1y ago
I've read only perhaps 1% of Siskind's work and don't have a particularly close familiarity with him or opinion on his work, and from that position I'm pointing out that the blog post is not particularly persuasive. It j
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1y ago
Not necessarily, egalitarian cultures like N Europe practice eugenics through selective abortion of the disabled.
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1y ago
This is just a preaching-to-the-choir description of the fact that Siskind does not hold 100% to egalitarian leftism. Unless you're already a doctrinaire egalitarian leftist, I don't see why reading this would change your opinion
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1y ago
You're saying that CEOs shouldn't be accepted in a democratic society? Because CEOs also have laws restricting what they can do
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1y ago
Couldn't you say the same thing about parents?
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