AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
People who were not useful were at risk of being left behind and/or not reproducing, so psychological mechanisms that punished people for perceived uselessness helped them to pass on their genes.
Is this the case anywhere today? That the useful are more reproductively successful than the useless? Many have traded fecundidity for economic productivity.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Might this be the cause rather than the effect.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Your view may be too straightforward.
The informed view from 2008 https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html was more balanced and nuanced.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
While I am certainly anti-woke. As a earlier reply suggests the older have quantitatively more 'lived experience'. I'm not sure this is arbitrary, nor is gaining more experience through aging denied anyone except the dead. They say the living have all the privilege. If only the dead had better advocacy groups.
Another not infrequent privilege target is height, at least among men. I've not seen suggestions that the short to median heighted should be given subsidized lifts, though this only makes them appear tall. The height version of stolen valor. It won't grant them the lived experience of being tall. Though dating apps could easily show women more short men. There'd need to be some sort of enforced quota system, women would be required to match and date 4n short men for every n tall man. My suspicion is that because this a privilege deficit that affects men, no one cares. My wife had to show me my height percentile before I accepted I was tall, I'm not NBA tall, or fit, or sporty. The tall in the far right tail of the distribution appear to have more tall privilege than me, do I get an accommodation too? Unless you go too far right and the height is pathological or diagnostic, I don't want that.
'Privilege' to me has always been a bit like dark matter or dark energy, it fills the gaps for people that need an easy explanation of unequal outcomes, where the results of investigating too throughly or deeply would conflict with a preferred orthodoxy.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Crimes that may occur with unfortunate or surprising regularity can still be extreme. Are there any specific crimes on the list you provided that you find unwarranted?
I suspect without much effort I could identify more crimes I'd add to the list. Any number of sexual violent crimes against children or the elderly that don't necessarily result in death I'd happily add to the list.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Criminal is also relative. Any view if he's more or less criminal than the average real estate developer, television personality, politician, president, etc.?
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Rake
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Arguably companies could administer aptitude tests to make a similar determinations. This would likely be more expedient and lower cost. To the extent that some jurisdictions prohibit or discourage this promotes the credentialism we see.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Race blind is now racist for not being anti-racist.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
That may conflate cause and effect. It could be the ancestors were sold into slavery because they were damaged. Arguably at the time they were economically less valuable than the trade goods for which many were exchanged.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
I joke with my wife that if Martin Luther could see the churches with his name today he'd have more theses.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
You might also be measuring membership in a group whose ancestors were less shaped by executions.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/147470491501300114
It can also be that membership in the underclass is the effect not the cause.
Poisoning someone to death is more horrific than picking their pocket. Given the routes of administration often involve adulteration of food or medicine the distrust and suspicion it breeds can have a larger impact.
Being shot and killed from a passing car makes walking the streets unsafe in much the same way a bomb attack strikes terror. It has a more indiscriminate appearance.
Shooting me because you need to blood-in to your gang is more horrific to many than shooting the rake with your wife.
How in your view is the 'sound public policy' category different from the horrific category? I see the former flowing from the latter.
The horrific can be multidimensional, not all horrific murder is horrific in the same way. It could be horrific due to a particular gruesome nature of the offense, it could be horrific due to the impact it has on the larger community, it could be horrific as it strikes at the foundations of our society. There are good public policy reasons for capital punishment for many horrific offenses.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Wouldn't the question be if Aryan prison gangs are more or less intelligent than Black, Hispanic or Asian prison gangs?
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Wikipedia does not seem to think so, perhaps this is just another instance of Asian Invisibility.
It depends what is meant by financial speculators. There were a number of Jews on Twitter that seemed to think she was talking about them.
My take was corporations with access to capital markets that use cheap debt to 'disrupt' existing commerce chasing growth while searching for a path to profitability. The marketing and PR for these companies is typically on-board with the current thing.
I see them as both the corporations and their financiers.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
The Libya, / Syria instability and NATO expansion were the pet projects of Administrations that were 'popular' among current year European PMC.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Are the enough PMC black husbands to go around?
Any view if Omar's prior husband was her brother?
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Out of mad pussy anyway, probably overstocked with crazy pussy.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
I found the NIST report on the collapse convincing. Did you read the actual report or only 'internet' analysis?
I'm with you on The State Farm Arena and the crazy at universities. Some of the university crazy is the academic equivalent of fake email jobs. I'm kinda wishing for a long deep recession that culls those with a disconnection from the nature of reality.
https://link.aps.org/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.010119
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Any evidence for blasts? I would be more skeptical if it sounded like a controlled demolition.
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
Guillotines?
AvocadoPanic
1yr ago
It's only a war of unprovoked aggression if you subscribe the current year narrative.
If you subscribe to the narrative that is current in ~2008 it looks more inevitable, given western politics, than unprovoked.
Drag performers specifically, I don't anticipate much data. That pederastry is not uncommon among homosexuals is fairly widely discussed.
A recent example; https://www.varsity.co.uk/features/20980
That while homosexuals are not more likely to offend, offenders are more likely to be homosexual has been discussed in the literature. The majority of the studies I've seen focus on pedophilia, rather than hebephilia or ephebophilia.
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