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by woooooo 3y ago
I don't think they'd have put Duane Reade in the headline if one of their employees killed themselves. Probably wouldn't be a story at all, actually.
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by woooooo 3y ago
200M is enough to last any person intergenerationally along with their children and grandchildren. Not disagreeing with you, just a point of emphasis.
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by woooooo 4y ago
The presidential campaigns had a billion dollars apiece, plus more from SuperPACs. Blaming the Russians for the outcome is just evading responsibility.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Very different assertion. OP was saying Russian elites installed Trump and us Americans were helpless victims.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Getting a chance to productively and quietly work for 4 hours is pretty unusual for a lot of us.
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by woooooo 4y ago
What do you mean by 'cost of influence'? If I don't want influence, is it optional?
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by woooooo 4y ago
Every country's history in WW2. Even Italy had tanks made by Fiat.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I could criticize or compliment all 3 depending on the topic or my mood. If we're so much better in the west, maybe we can hold ourselves accountable and question our own biases.
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by woooooo 4y ago
You will never, ever see a mainstream western news org demonize the US the way they do to Russia and China routinely. Are they the exact same? No, but they're not so different when you zoom out. You don't need explicit censorshi
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by woooooo 4y ago
Fish don't know they're in water. If you've been ingesting a narrative since middle school, and the BBC reinforces it, well that's just good neutral unbiased reporting.
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by woooooo 4y ago
1. "True but we think it's irrelevant" does not equate to "false". 2. "But america are the good guys" is the exact kind of thing you see uniformly from all American media including NPR.
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by woooooo 4y ago
It's still federally funded. Twitter probably shouldn't have gotten into labeling who is and isn't state funded, but if they are, US/UK/NATO orgs should be fair game alongside the Russians and Chinese. NPR labeling
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by woooooo 4y ago
Political and economic forces tend to be more important than sectarianism when the rubber meets the road. France joined the 30 years war on the protestant side despite being the most catholic country in Europe at the time.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I think there's a programmed gut reaction to "unions" above and beyond any rational or cynical self-interest. It's endemic in American culture and especially American business culture.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Most of what we do in business is figuring out requirements and breaking down a big project into manageable tasks. The code winds up feeling like an easy afterthought once that's done.
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by woooooo 4y ago
It's more like he asked if you stopped beating your wife, and you reacted by immediately beating her.
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by woooooo 4y ago
You're doing the thing though, for 3 posts in a row. You're not handling the truth. You're not ruminating on the societal factors that give rise to these statistics, you're freaking out at the fact that this guy mention
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by woooooo 4y ago
Why is "facts" in quotes? I'll note, again, the passage you linked wasn't about crime rates or african americans. It was about your reaction you're having here.
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by woooooo 4y ago
You're kinda proving the point here. Scott said that if someone mentions this 100% true and uncontroversial statistic without also including a bunch of defensive verbiage, most people will shoot the messenger. He didn't say anyth
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by woooooo 4y ago
Late comment but thanks for the thoughtful response
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by woooooo 4y ago
It was more of a general rebuttal to the idea of "the numbers move so it must be genetic". The study you linked was interesting but adopted kids are an abnormal case to begin with and the effect indicated was tiny compared to soci
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by woooooo 4y ago
The Flynn Effect is what we call the phenomenon of IQ rates going up across the board over the last 75 years, it's established as true yet nobody will claim that we all got genetically smarter.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Is this based on political experience there? My view from the outside was that it's really similar to climbing the ladder in a corporation, mouth all the platitudes but only suckers believe them.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I'm honored by the nickname, thanks :)
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by woooooo 4y ago
Now there's a claim I'd love to see some evidence for.
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by woooooo 4y ago
That's what I'm talking about, you can accuse anyone of "stealth pushing eugenics" with enough text to comb through and a willingness to quote out of context. Heck, plenty of "woke" authors would qualify. Why
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by woooooo 4y ago
I'd love some reasoning for why this guy in particular comes in for such an amount of character assassination. Is it the fact that he's academically adjacent yet doesn't toe the line? There are thousands of people with middle
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by woooooo 4y ago
There was the famous example of chatgpt refusing to disable a nuke in the middle of NYC by using a racial slur. I don't think anyone in real life would choose that tradeoff but it's what happens when all of your "safety"
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by woooooo 4y ago
I'm just saying that "Hersh said something Russian propaganda may find useful" is not the same thing as "Hersh is doing russian propaganda". It's red scare all over again with this stuff. Matt Taibbi recently d
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by woooooo 4y ago
Unless you think Hersh is working with Russians to manufacture the story, it's not Russian propaganda. He may be wrong on every particular, doesn't make him Russian. For my money, I'd bet a large sum that NATO, probably US o

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