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by sprafa 7y ago
What were the fundamental changes in the treaties that make you think it was a success?
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by sprafa 7y ago
What’s western supremacist about pointing out the ethnic and religious nationalism of the current Indian government
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by sprafa 7y ago
I think their fleet is quite new as well, and they keep it that way, for fuel efficiency. The guy is doing a cheap airline, not an unsafe one. He’s not a madman. He’s a ruthless business guy, and he knows a crash due to poor maintenance wou
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by sprafa 7y ago
You’re making no sense. You’re saying Ryanair has an impeccable safety record, but so does every other airline, but when Ryanair gets a crash, people will assume it’s because it’s cheap? So your entire argument is people are dumb and they w
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by sprafa 7y ago
Why would Ryanair ever have a crash? Their airplanes are usually quite new. The EU hasn’t had an accidental plane crash in ages. Have you ever flown Ryanair?
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by sprafa 7y ago
Pretty much. They don’t even disguise it - their whole marketing is “if you want to fly cheap fly Ryanair” that’s it.
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by sprafa 7y ago
You’re having a laugh. Living in east london I can get to Stansted far faster than Heathrow or Gatwick.
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by sprafa 7y ago
You have no idea what you’re talking about and you’re embarrassing yourself. Going to those airports is piss easy and they are 2 of the 4 airports that serve this city.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Lol wtf? Only one airport is “in” london and that’s London City. Which is an expensive thing mostly made for bankers to go to Frankfurt etc. I assure you all those airports serve London. I live here
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by sprafa 7y ago
They don’t fly to london? I live in London and I fly Ryanair from london Stansted all the time
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by sprafa 7y ago
Can we please stop with this false equivalence? This guy ripped servers worth of company information, he didn’t walk out the door with a bunch ideas in his head.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Thank you for this. Are you a Newspeak house guy? Your work is great and it reminds me a lot of the stuff I see coming out of that place
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by sprafa 7y ago
You have a point. I’ve only ever seen Pepe in r/The_Donald where it is a vile object
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by sprafa 7y ago
This is a Pepe flag, MAGA hat plus the “OK” sign with three fingers up. Again I like Peterson. But keep saying this is a coincidence or innocent photo... I don’t know, I wouldn’t be caught dead in this photo.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Relevant article. The plausible deniability of the gesture seems to be part of its appeal to 4chan and Proud Boy trolls. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white...
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by sprafa 7y ago
This is not guilt by association. He didn’t happen to be around when they took the photo, he’s clearly enjoying having the Pepe flag in it. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vkSEmNoqhZY/maxresdefault.jpg I wasn’t going to me
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by sprafa 7y ago
Ah well if you see the selfie you might change your mind. But yes. The main thing for me was I rarely if ever see Peterson smile. And in this photo he’s grinning ear to ear.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Peterson lost a lot of credibility for me when he took a group selfie with some guys with a big Pepe The Frog flag. I mean it’s kind of funny but 90% of the Pepe memes are actually racist and horrible (from what I’ve seen). After that I cou
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by sprafa 7y ago
Exactly. Behavioural economics can do this, but macro fails at this at every point, or has so far. I think of it as essentially we’re at the bloodletting level of economics - we sort of think we understand how things work, but really, we do
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by sprafa 7y ago
Behavioural economics has predictive power, so I tend to think of it as scientific
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by sprafa 7y ago
Also true
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by sprafa 7y ago
Behavioural psychology has actually given us a lot of the insights that have now been been expanded into behavioural economics, which is the only branch of economics that has some predictive power (and this in my view makes it scientific).
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by sprafa 7y ago
Absolutely, but politicians use it as if it was scientifically reliable
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by sprafa 7y ago
Friedman also defended a negative income tax which essentially was a form of UBI.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Good economists do it. What makes you think economics is scientific? To be honest it seems to me we’re at the alchemy level of economics - basically we barely understand what we’re doing
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by sprafa 7y ago
Blah I said “sounds likely”. Is this priests said in the Middle Ages
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by sprafa 7y ago
Also the article is openly quoting Brasilian forest agencies - you think that’s hearsay? That’s pretty silly
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by sprafa 7y ago
Sounds likely to me. If you mess around with any ecosystem enough it will change unpredictably
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by sprafa 7y ago
Everyone who is Brazilian will tell you it’s a long shot that this is anything but big landowners. They’ve been doing this for ages and they have murdered people who tried to stop them. The law in Brasil is not like in other places. You thi
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by sprafa 7y ago
I do feel temperatures have been getting higher than they used to be when I was a kid. Particularly in peak summer. In my hometown I don’t remember barely being able to be out in the sun for so many days as lately.

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