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by ss108 4y ago
I'll admit/concede I may have inferred a stronger and more specific conclusion than the one the author actually meant to make. "It's not that the elites are saying, "Start a family and stick with it," and there
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by ss108 4y ago
"I have never encountered an individual who claims to hate the 'elite'" I don't know what to tell you there. Go talk to more individuals? Go read some right-wing propaganda (e.g. almost anything that comes out Josh
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by ss108 4y ago
It's a shit article where the author lightly blames what one would generally call "elites" for the stupidity and moral ineptitude of lower-class people who avowedly hate elites and who make it a point of hating everything the
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by ss108 4y ago
Plenty of much more sophisticated and educated men continue to get married despite that, but you're suggesting that these less educated and knowledgeable men are incentivized by modern family law?
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by ss108 4y ago
"This highly educated and affluent person prioritized stability for her own children. But refused to publicly endorse this value so that less fortunate children could also benefit from family stability." As someone both from a som
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by ss108 4y ago
"It’s not like Einstein just published a paper that said “nuh uh, all the experts are full of shit and here’s why…” and then proceeded to use powerful rhetoric to convince everyone they had been wrong." Of course not. He made a Yo
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by ss108 5y ago
First the birthday thing and now this. Next up is some company that makes someone fight a bear when they retire.
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by ss108 5y ago
Cancelling and putting on pause for no reason, such as Mindhunter.
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by ss108 5y ago
I don't fully understand the use-case for this. Would one use the async function to import JS code from another team or something?
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by ss108 5y ago
Simple, dumb contrarianism explains a lot of radical political beliefs, esp support for Trump. Obviously, he got votes from a lot of normal Republicans, but there's a decent segment of support for him where people were apolitical befor
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by ss108 5y ago
I live in NYC and like it, but there are lots of legit reasons to dislike it. But it definitely is the most important city in the country, and to think Miami merits being grouped with NYC, LA, SF, DC, and Boston is a joke.
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by ss108 5y ago
I've had this experience several times as well. Last time was on a date. We were talking a little bit about board games and tarot cards, and some other third thing . I have never purchased any of the three things or even browsed them o
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by ss108 5y ago
"I meditate for 30-45 minutes each night. Without fail. Significantly improves concentration, focus. Meditating has made me realize, for the first time in my life- what I actually want with my life. I am much more calm, composed, and r
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by ss108 5y ago
I think Facebook is a good tool for this, but you guys are in a generation that doesn't use it anyways, so it may not be effective. Maybe a Discord server? During Covid, one of my friends made a Discord server for their high school gro
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by ss108 5y ago
NYC. I used to live in LA, never saw any such lockups there.
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by ss108 5y ago
I think promoting unisex bathrooms might merit that label lol, that's more than a slightly left view.
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by ss108 5y ago
I didn't see any of that in LA when I lived there. Common in NYC though.
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by ss108 5y ago
Neither are the rest of us.
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by ss108 5y ago
Wouldn't defining "harm" that narrowly mean defining "harm" for a lot of people in a 1984 way? Why should your definition of "harm" supersede theirs? (Mostly rhetorical; I don't necessarily disagree w
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by ss108 5y ago
> True authority automatically draws respect because it enables those experts to do things and explain things ordinary people cannot. Taking a generous view of what you're saying ("authority gets as much respect as it merits in
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by ss108 5y ago
"Ten years ago you coulda asked about Area 51 conspiracies and gotten the exact same response rates." And that's a good thing to you? I don't get what you're saying. Clearly there are people who believe in QAnon. An
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by ss108 5y ago
Oh I don't really disagree! I just think the limit on our knowledge that you describe should lead us more towards caution than the opposite in a lot of situations. Because it could be worse too.
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by ss108 5y ago
"Seeing this come from someone in the legal profession is deeply concerning, although I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a "Biglaw first year" is in favor of restrictions on speech that would elevate their corporate c
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by ss108 5y ago
"In general, more free speech is always preferable to less free speech." Again, why? This is something people are repeating almost dogmatically in this thread, and the examples from history they point to in order to support this a
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by ss108 5y ago
They do have that authority. One of the reasons I left tech is precisely this attitude I see prevalent among engineers where they don't respect other peoples' areas of expertise. Just because something is of general concern doesn&
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by ss108 5y ago
I think you made a good point; to me the result is that we have to work off of where we are now and we are going, in the contemporary moment. And to me, that establishes even further that, at minimum, big platforms should be allowed and enc
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by ss108 5y ago
Exactly. The combination of free speech and the internet has made things worse in a lot of ways.
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by ss108 5y ago
Wouldn't the very situation of a platform like Twitter censoring or moderating the speech on the platform represent a kind of middle-ground? It's a private company, and one can start another one that caters to a different crowd (s
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by ss108 5y ago
Fields of expertise have their own internal ways of determining authority; the Trump side of things has tended on the whole to not go with the most authoritative of thought-out views of things.
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by ss108 5y ago
It's funny, because a lot of the arguments in this thread in favor of maximal free speech use the example of past religious suppression and orthodoxy as support, and they act like they are on the side of the bloody Enlightenment, pierc

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