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by syzarian 4y ago
You quoted some assertions made by the gentleman in question. I thought this meant you agreed with said assertions. If you don’t agree with the assertions you quoted then I don’t understand why you quoted them or why we are having a conve
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I think there is no reason to believe any of the claims he makes are true (or false). Like all punditry it is part performative and part pandering to whatever the target audience will buy into. Being ex-CIA doesn’t indicate, necessarily,
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by syzarian 4y ago
A former sergeant is very unlikely to have any knowledge of what the CIA or any other secretive U.S. organization is doing in Russia.
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Bill Clinton and Donald Trump are notable examples of people who have not reaped what they sowed.
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The idea that women shouldn’t have sexual and intellectual autonomy is antiquated, immoral, and should be fought against. As it pertains to women’s rights the views and mores of Afghanistan’s men are abhorrent, disgusting, and worthy of r
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by syzarian 4y ago
It’s possible that in Elon’s mind having a poll dictate that he step down could be a face saving measure.
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by syzarian 4y ago
I had a similar experience to yours. I used to do MMA and got fairly good. I’ve trained with people who fought locally in the ring and did ok with them in sparring matches. They were clearly better but I did ok against them. One day I e
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by syzarian 4y ago
I’ll rephrase. There are too many parents who don’t care about their kids or what happens to them. This tendency goes up a bit, I think, if the kids are not necessary for retirement or care when old age sets in.
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by syzarian 4y ago
I think that it is a thing for a shockingly large percent of parents. Historically children were the retirement plan (in addition to labor for the family). That type of thinking is fairly common.
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My example was geared toward those people learning beginning algebra in 9th grade or so or the great many students who place into pre college level math during their first semester of undergrad. I used the word “ring” because as I was writ
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by syzarian 4y ago
Most of the capturable value in education is signal of acquired knowledge and other factors. I misread what you wrote here. I thought your point was that the value of education was merely as a signal for knowledge rather than in the acqu
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by syzarian 4y ago
I’ve taught mathematics for over 20 years in higher education and I strongly disagree with your view on the relative ease of learning math on one’s own. Let’s take a simple example. Here’s the distributive property for rings: a(b + c) = a
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by syzarian 4y ago
It has been possible for a century to self-study to the equivalent of a bachelor's degree using textbooks but it is… With the exception of a small percent of the population this isn’t true. Most people don’t have the ability, patien
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by syzarian 4y ago
I think you don’t comprehend what is written. You are stuck on a narrative and go with it regardless of what is written. An example of this. Clearly I brought supply chain issues as a way of demonstrating fragility in the global system.
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by syzarian 4y ago
I don’t think you know what you are talking about. It’s hard to build adequate infrastructure on melting permafrost. One can’t naively think, “we’ll just build what is needed” without taking into consideration the conditions. Humans have
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by syzarian 4y ago
The focus on temperature is a bit off in my opinion. Warming the planet by a few degrees centigrade should be thought of as massively increasing energy into the weather system. This will necessitate a period of dramatic “turbulence” (wild
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by syzarian 4y ago
The detachment from reality is thinking that your few moments of contemplation on this topic is worth more consideration than someone’s expertise.
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You lack in imagination then.
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I don’t know all the nuances of the deal between Germany and Russia and I suspect neither do you. Is it plausible that a NATO country wanted to blow it up? Yes. It is also plausible that Putin or some faction within his government wanted
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by syzarian 4y ago
When you write they deduct the $30 donation I thought you were meaning deduction on taxes. Your first paragraph is misleading. There is no tax write off since the money donated is not revenue and is not deducted in the tax sense. It’s jus
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by syzarian 4y ago
Edit: Misread what was intended.
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Russia has an interest in sowing energy chaos amongst European countries. When dealing with a personalist dictatorship one has to take into account the state of mind and beliefs of one person and such a thing can be erratic and irrational.
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by syzarian 4y ago
In every language with a finite number of words there must be words that are not definable in terms of simpler words/concepts. Perhaps you’ve stumbled upon such a word with “truth”. I think it is obvious what I meant to most people.
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There’s a theory that human reasoning evolved in such a way that humans collectively don’t search for the truth or the correct decision but rather for the most convincing reason. Whether or not this true it does appear to be how groups of
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by syzarian 4y ago
Western governments may not want a regime collapse in Iran. Westerners by and large do want a regime collapse and side with the people who are demonstrating for an end to the Islamic Republic regime. Spy agencies, defense ministries, and
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Do you know what the violent crime rate of poor blacks was vs. poor whites in 1950s/60s?
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Pattern recognition does not seem to be a forte of yours.
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White flight became inevitable with forced integration of schools.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight https://the-ard.com/2022/05/31/the-jim-crow-roots-of-loiteri... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_the_United_S
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I contend that the logic of segregation became unsustainable legally, morally, and in the social conscience of a large portion of the public. With the demonstrations, riots, etc. it became necessary to make the appropriate legal adjustment

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