AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Loathing like 1789 France?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
two possibilities
The 3rd possibility is that it's a hoax carried out by a member of the Jewish community.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
What sort of evidence would you accept?
Forcing local cheesemongers only selling their cheese locally to use metric weights and sending trading standards after the non-compliant or is that only cheese vassalage?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Shouldn't the call to action be to target more lady journalists, for equality?
I would have thought women would be as capable of dying as a man.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Framed and guilty?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Was the civil rights movement successful? In many areas we only seem to have moved from de jure to de facto segregation.
Black family formation seems to have suffered particularly from other culture war revolutions. Arguably the result of too little rather than too much oppression.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
I don't know that Holocaust 2.0 branding will catch on.
I see 'Holocaust Part Deux Again for the First Time' as catchier.
It's a larger tent for those keen on a Holocaust or Holocaust 1.0 denial.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
cultural interventions are effectively monstrous in the eyes of the blue tribe
Do you mean cultural interventions promoting stability and 'tradition'? That tribe seems all-in on interventions promoting alphabet people or degeneracy.
As for defining success, improved performance of family formation where the children are born to married parents where everyone lives in the home and at least one parent works in gainful employment. No extra-marital births to either adult could be a 'stretch' goal.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
They can, but in current year they don't.
Have there been any successful interventions promoting 2-parent households?
I've seen SAT scores broken out by race and income that suggests income is less predictive.
Perhaps academic achievement is less culturally valued in the gaps.
Have there been any successful interventions promoting 2-parent households?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Yes damage, but not necessarily to their reputation.
Their bakery business didn't experience a precipitous drop in trade as the result of a false accusation that was magnified by the administration of the nearby university.
They didn't experience a decline in work and sponsorships based on a false accusation that he was a wife / girlfriend beater.
Only individuals with an already tenuous grasp on reality seem to have been motivated by this 'conspiracy'. Any conspiracy would have likely done, a non-falsifiable one would preclude defamation.
We could imagine an alternate universe where the conspiracy theory was the parents were at fault for sending their kids to globohomo public school with gay frog sex books in the library, where one of the failed experiments comes back and shoots up the place.
The wackos still harass the parents for sending the kids to globohomo school.
The unreasonable wackos will be themselves regardless of the specifics of the claim.
Did the court proceedings make it to the 'merits'?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Unreasonable wackos will take unreasonable wacky actions.
If only the unreasonable believe the unreasonable claim have you suffered reputational damage?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Only if you view Alex Jones as capable of defamation. He does not strike me as reliable or reasonable enough to cause reputational damage.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
From the maps I've seen i don't know that Republicans would be more likely to win in cities. I think they would be more likely to win in rural districts areas that sometimes include pie slices or slivers of the nearest city.
My preference would be to have the computer nudge the line based on publicly available inputs, weightings and published algorithm. Now the line is nudged due to a wink and a handshake or a horsetrade to keep / make a safe seat.
I'd rather argue over the inputs and design of the algorithm to be used over the entire state than the boundary or shape of any specific district. I'd expect wins and losses in any redistricting. If you believe compact non-gerrymandered districts would benefit Republicans that suggests to me they're disadvantaged presenty.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
I agree it's hard to fill any political position with non-partisans, not too different than what we have presently.
I also agree it's difficult to 'optimize' for many inputs / variables simultaneously.
Given that; I think having a set number of candidate maps perhaps with different measures of compactness and / or different weightings of the well justified rules. The apolitical / political could then vote / choose among the candidate maps. This I believe would still be a more apolitical and transparent process than what we have now.
That members of one party may choose to live in cities, disproportionately, doesn't strike me as an argument in favor of not adopting a more transparent process. Nor do I find the argument that if we don't gerrymander, Republicans win, convincing.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
It's also better than the alternatives,
Do you include computer / algorithmic generated districts that use compactness and county / geologic boundaries to compute and score districts?
I've seen proposals I would prefer to those drawn by committee.
Did the person who'd heard the voice of God insist you call them prophet?
If you meet a trans woman who's introduced to you as a woman, do you make a practice of saying "Bullshit, you're a dude"?
Is there evidence you can argue someone out of mental illness? I'm not arguing with the phophet, dementia patients or the girl at the party who's convinced the universe is sending her message either.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Let me abos go loose, Bruce.
Is a line in "Tie my Kangaroo down, Sport" by Rolf Harris. He'd never do any wrong.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Yes truth remains regardless of belief. I've not found a reliable way to prevent or stop people from believing stupid things. Often it seems we send PMC youth to university to be indoctrinated in belief of stupid things.
It's because truth remains regardless, truth can be racist and sexist and etc. Those aren't rebuttals against the nature of truth only a conflict with the objectors concept of the nature of reality.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Many people claim that unequal outcomes in math education is the result of systemic racism, because all individuals having an inherent equal ability is truth.
Suggesting mathematic ability is distributed unequally amongst cohorts that align with ancestral origin is to many racist despite it providing a demonstrably better description of reality.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
The reaction looks disproportionate, he only shifted to DEFCON 3, taking out his communication infrastructure, should result in a DEFCON 1 response from Ye.
Can't it be both anti-semetic and true? Truth is often anti-semetic, and racist and misogynist and misanthrorpic, etc.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Why the focus on FTL? Post-energy scarcity via technological advancement seems possible / more likely than FTL. There are a lot resources available in the solar system, no FTL required.
If the focus by technological advanced societies was on food, healthcare, water and strong borders for themselves rather than feeding the world wouldn't this sort itself through natural consequences? Aren't we already acting via various international aid and development programs? Would stopping these also be acting?
Is there evidence for people getting better over time? Better in what sense?
I want my in-group to decide and act as soon as possible in their own interests.
If you don't have a credit card, you wouldn't be very valuable as a subscriber. Do Twitter advertisers seek the non-credit carded cohort?
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