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by slibhb 10mo ago
So far you're right but the tide can always turn. China has massively overbuilt housing supply, which is the kind of mistake that a freer economy couldn't make. China's failed birth policies (1 child until 2015!) are another
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by slibhb 11mo ago
I don't believe that low birth rates have anything to do with "natural resources". That seems like a crank argument to me.
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by slibhb 11mo ago
Why the focus on immortality? I don't want to be immortal but I'd take a few thousand years. That aside, I think longevity-skepticism is still mostly adaptive. I haven't seen any concrete progress and the people who are true
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by slibhb 11mo ago
The term "wage slave" is a cop-out. People -- all of us -- are stomach-slaves, not wage-slaves.
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by slibhb 11mo ago
> Fake or not, I do believe that an ad with the text from the troll image would show up on a smart fridge, I don't trust Samsung to tell the truth^1 I trust them more than some reddit post. Samsung has at least some incentive to tel
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by slibhb 11mo ago
The solution is learning to tell people "you do not meet our criteria for being disabled". Alternatively, Congress could amend the ADA or someone could sue and win a court decision changing how it is interpreted.
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by slibhb 11mo ago
We will end up with everyone identifying as disabled (or at least "neurodivergent"). Then we'll all be back on the same level and someone will have to invent a new category that will also grow until it too encompasses everyon
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by slibhb 11mo ago
That's like saying "why bother banning insider trading? People can just obfuscate their illegal trades". Yeah, sometimes people can break laws and not get caught. But that's no argument against laws. Some congressmen mig
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by slibhb 11mo ago
Despite Congress' general dysfunction, this seems like a problem that could feasibly be solved. It would make most Congressmen of both parties look good to pass a bill that e.g. restricted sitting members to index funds/mutual fun
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by slibhb 11mo ago
Yes, just like computers and later the internet. The technology always preceeds the cultural/economic changes by decades.
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by slibhb 1y ago
> Sure, you can get good bread here Yes.
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by slibhb 1y ago
Search Google maps for "bakery" and sort by rating. It's not hard to find a good bakery in any dense area in the US. I have to imagine people claiming otherwise are indulging in Yankee-bashing, a favorite European pastime.
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by slibhb 1y ago
Seiobo There Below was really hard to get through. Earlier stuff is much less so.
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by slibhb 1y ago
> And it's especially egregious when people use that meme to then weaponize it to exclude people from the groups with shared experiences, weaknesses, skills, and needs. > If you really feel the need to be exclusive, and tell othe
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by slibhb 1y ago
> when in reality the survival rate without significant injuries is very high You better pipe down about this. An isolated teenager might read it and decide to shoot himself in the head rather than swallow some pills. Maybe the next NYT
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by slibhb 1y ago
It's nice to be able to put things in perspective rather than glomming on to every monthyl moral panic in a sad attempt to reassure myself that I'm a good person.
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by slibhb 1y ago
> They all survived because they didn't have the knowledge of "known to work" methods and the survival rates of other methods Are we seriously going to pretend that "how to kill youself" is arcane knowledge that
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by slibhb 1y ago
It's notable that the NYT is suing OpenAI while publishing this article (and at least one other) about ChatGPT's involvement in suicides. Well, I imagine more people kill themselves after reading Nietzsche. In my view, OpenAI has
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by slibhb 1y ago
https://www.thefire.org/news/hundreds-books-removed-florida-...
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by slibhb 1y ago
It is notably weird to react to this article by criticizing "free speech absolutists". Who are the people you're criticizing? Be specific. Free speech absolutists are mostly principled people who want to defend civil libertie
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by slibhb 1y ago
Maybe a good trade if it was just a loss of employment. But there are other downsides...like fewer hours and higher prices.
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by slibhb 1y ago
"Decades of relentless propaganda" also known as the "the 20th century"
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by slibhb 1y ago
There was no nuclear taboo in 1945. Looking back, people forget that.
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by slibhb 1y ago
You're making the same mistake as the researchers who invented "three cueing". They asked themselves "what do I do when I read?" and tried to reverse-engineer a teaching method. Well, turns out that approach doesn&#
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by slibhb 1y ago
Compare space flight/living to signing up to work on an age of exploration clipper ship. Compare scurvy to the various ailments enumerated in the article. Some small fraction of people are willing to live in discomfort. Either to seek
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by slibhb 1y ago
All of the offers seem acceptable to me. In the first offer, the Jewish state was quite small. None of the offers were acceptable to Palestinians because they include a Jewish state. Virtually all Arabs want to fight a war against Israel an
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by slibhb 1y ago
Palestinians have been offered a state 5 times starting in 1937. They rejected each offer. They don't want a state of their own; they want to conquer Israel. I don't see a solution. Maybe establish a somewhat repressive non-democr
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by slibhb 1y ago
> That is not what I said (per my comment "Yes, sure, lifestyle has something to do with any or all of these.") But it seems likely we'll find that lifestyle and diet are not the only cause, maybe not even the primary one.
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by slibhb 1y ago
Disposable fashion is driven by customer preferences. Lots of people like frequently buying cheap clothes.
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by slibhb 1y ago
But it's true in book stores. It's not only old classics; there's a lot of well-known 20th century literature, often in new editions.

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