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by toasterlovin 1y ago
To be clear, I am not arguing that nuclear and extended families are exclusive of each other. I think most of the people arguing against me are confused about this. Anthropologists dichotomize societies by nuclear family vs extended family
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
> You seem to have a definition of nuclear family which differs from the consensus. I’m a simple man, so I like to use the dictionary when there’s a disagreement about what something means. In this case, my phone’s dictionary, which cite
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
It’s absolutely not a fiction that the nuclear family is the most important human social arrangement. In every language I’m aware of, a child’s first word is ‘mother’ and in most languages ‘father’ follows shortly thereafter. Other social a
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
> The nuclear family is neither a natural nor ubiquitous relationship Citation needed! My read of history is that it’s the single most stable and ubiquitous human social arrangement by a very long shot.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Yes, I was agreeing with you.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
I think the reasonable stance is for the state, in its various forms, to only expose kids to a (small c) conservative subset of what is widely agreed upon as factual and morally acceptable and to leave everything beyond that to parents. Kid
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Is cutting off a teen’s internet bad if they’re being bullied or groomed on social media?
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Hopefully you can see the irony of, on the one hand, arguing that the state should have the right to intervene in the parent/child relationship wrt what information a child has access to and, on the other hand, complaining that the sta
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Excellent riposte! (I’m already responding more thoughtfully in other areas of this thread, so won’t regurgitate the same points here)
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
FWIW, the most egregious issues you’ve mentioned about your upbringing are physical and mental abuse and there are already mechanisms for the state to intervene in those cases and nobody in this thread is arguing against those. Now it so ha
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
To what degree should the state be able to intervene if parents are preventing their children from access to the truth? Should homeschooling be allowed? Should children be taken from their parents? Should parents who don’t agree with certai
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Are you willing to take the inversion of your position: that you should have no ability to control what information the state exposes your children to? What about media with sexual content? Or content that promotes creationism or the idea t
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
The context of this thread is access to information, so that was the implied context of my comment. But to be clear: I agree that the state is right to intervene in the parent/child relationship in cases of physical abuse.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
A librarian (who is employed by and thus an agent of the state) giving children access to books with sexual content against the will of parents is definitely subverting the parent/child relationship.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Sorry that you had a bad childhood, but the answer to you, personally, having a bad childhood is not “the state should subvert the primacy of the nuclear family and the parent/child relationship.” Just consider things under Rawls’ Veil
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
Interestingly, one of the things cults and totalitarian regimes have in common is a singular obsession with subverting the primacy of the nuclear family and the parent/child relationship.
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by toasterlovin 1y ago
It’s always been like this, but the old media landscape prevented the coarse and low class from succeeding by making navigation of all the subtle prestige granting institutions of the upper class a prerequisite.
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
I should say: this would be for pure efficiency optimizations absent any other tradeoffs. What I think you should see in birds based on their more extreme body mass constraints vs ground dwellers is different tradeoffs being worthwhile. Lik
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
Clearly the energetic cost of having large brains was worth it for humans from an evolutionary perspective, or else we wouldn't have them. But 20% of your energy budget is still a very large cost, so if there's a way to accomplish
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
At 20% of the body's total energy budget, I think the null hypothesis should probably be that there has been significant evolutionary pressure on human brain energetic efficiency.
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
Interestingly, the macOS Dictionary app (which I believe uses some version of the OED) has this note about the word: "Ironically, the earliest recorded sense of disinterested is for the disputed sense."
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
Yeah, just chiming in to say the same. Essentially all of my thinking is geometric in nature. The only time I have any internal monologue is as a mnemonic device to remember a sequence.
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
Yeah, I’ve seen the boards he was holding up, but the fact that those numbers are not on the whitehouse.gov page and that they’ll be implemented a few days later makes me think they’re not final yet. Plus we don’t know if they’re in additio
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
> one group actually reflects everything I believe If you swap “group” for “religion,” this is how I feel about Catholicism. Make of that what you will.
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
I believe this from the White House contains the only semi official numbers: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr... . That has 10% across the board starting April 5th, then unspecified
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
Current tariffs for China are 45% because the original 25% tariffs from Trump I never went away and the 20% from Trump II are in addition. Source: have two containers en route from China at the moment, will be paying 45% on them.
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
I think what we’ll come to widely realize is that syncing state between two minds (in your example, the travel agent’s mind and your mind; more widely, AI agents and their user’s minds) is extremely expensive and slow and it’s gonna be very
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
That’s exactly a topic that I think HN is collectively unhinged about, so I don’t even bother commenting. But I spend a lot of money with Apple and I like everything about their ecosystem, especially the locked down, Disneyland-esque steril
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
I agree with this explanation. There is a sizable contingent of commenters on here who are just extremely negative on everything Apple. I read most of the big Apple threads and they're just overwhelmingly negative toward the company an
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by toasterlovin 2y ago
Yeah, exactly, we’ve talked about this a lot with friends from church and, IMO, this would be the best way to do it. It avoids the coercive danger of shared property and gives anybody the ability to exit whenever they want.

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