Blueberry
1d ago
Asian tiger parent culture is different due to bugman conformalism
I can’t parse this sentence. Asian culture is more conforming, so their children go to public instead of private schools? Weird tech-nerds are more non-conforming? I don’t know what bugmen are.
Blueberry
2d ago
Call me a dirt poor europrole, but I would rather get $480K (plus interest/stock increases) when turning 18 years old, instead of my parents paying half a million for Duolingo.
It tickles the mind though how education could be disrupted/advanced by modern tech.
Or maybe it is not so important after all? One comment on the blog claimed that Finland and Japan have similar PISA scores, despite Japan/Asia being famous for forcing children to grind obscene hours for school.
Blueberry
4d ago
He goes through a TON of research literature
And is really really really well written! I read last week the easthunter substack about this topic (which is also linked by Scott in his post) and I got totally lost halfway through. But Scotts strength is to communicate complicated topics clearly. And he makes his opinion visible but still gives room for the other side without snark.
Exceptional blog post! Must have been a ton of work and I was not suprised that at the end he thanked a few other (presumably very smart) people who helped.
Blueberry
6d ago
Nearly 3,000 soldiers were killed between 5:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. – all because the Allied commanders refused to end the fighting immediately. Instead of letting the war end as soon as the papers were signed, they decided that the war had to officially end at 11:00 a.m., supposedly to give the news time to spread. In reality, it was a decision based on pride – a final show of force against a beaten enemy.
Your logic is confused.
The majority of US states are (still) allowing underage marriage (age 16 or 17) if a parent or other legal guardian consents, but that doesn’t mean that parents can legally force a marriage against the will of their child.
Or if in a restraining order a judge forbids you to get near someone, that doesn’t give the judge the power of an “anti-restraining order” where you must stalk someone.
There are many (state) law exemptions making underage drinking legal when provided or in the presence of a family member. But that doesn’t mean your parents can legally force you to get black out drunk.
If my rent contract specifies that I am not allowed to paint walls black, that doesn’t mean my landlord can force me to paint the walls white. That would need to be another term in the contract.
Blueberry
14d ago
Originally a scholar from modern day China, Fang Yuan died and reincarnated in the world of Reverend Insanity. .., "There is only immortality, only eternal life should be the goal one should pursue! If one cannot live forever, is there any difference between a rank nine Gu Immortal and a pile of shit in the gutter?! I am a huge fool, but I do not wish to be a fool that is made of shit...
But reincarnation (not to speak of magic) should be a big proof that there is more to the world than material shit. Fang Yuan should have rather perfected his soul.
Do you have more background info? I am surprised how negative here the reaction is too. I will come out as saying that while I didnt follow her I often found her insightful to read (whithout necessarily agreeing).
Dutch cities in the 70s.
And currently car centric Oslo is transitioning to be a cycling city:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zmp09Fd07oc
And of course Paris:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=woFlJx7Rv78
Yt comment:
I remember when I was cycling to work in Paris 8 years ago, I was all alone on my bus lane. now everyone is cycling! Simply amazing
It is a bit counterintuitive, but every bike ride is one less car ride, and this means a great cycling city has less congested traffic for cars. And fewer cars also cause less dedicated bicycle infrastructure. Typically no bike lanes are needed in low car streets.
Blueberry
20d ago
the design and implementation of stupid and dangerous bike lanes
Why are NY bike lanes dangerous?
Blueberry
20d ago
cremieuxrecueil (allegedly trannyporn0)
Oh! What is the proof for that? Or is it just wishful thinking?
Blueberry
21d ago
so the troops don't see the locals as their own countrymen
I think sympathy is not exactly high. Here is a video of LAPD trampling a protester with their horses:
Not only a Slave, but the first legally enslaved person under criminal law: an African indentured servant ran away with friends and was caught, his European mates got 4 years extra, but he was sentenced to service his master for life.
records suggested that Mr. Punch fathered children with a white woman, who passed her free status on to those children, giving rise to a family of a slightly different name, the Bunches, that ultimately spawned Mr. Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.
Quite an interesting colonial story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Punch_(slave)
Through continued intermarriage with white families in Virginia, the line of Obama's maternal Bunch ancestors probably were identified as white as early as 1720.[15] Members of this line eventually migrated into Tennessee and ultimately to Kansas, where descendants included Obama's maternal grandmother and his mother …. Y-DNA testing of direct male descendants of the Bunch family lines has revealed a common ancestry going back to a single male ancestor of African ethnicity.[15][9][38] Genealogists believe this male ancestor to be John Punch the African. He was probably born in present-day Cameroon in Central Africa, where his particular type of DNA is most common.
That was in the early 1600s and before cattle slavery as an institution though. But cool that Obamas roots are going way back into colonial times.
Edit:
The first black slave “just because” was an indentured servant named John Casor whose (ironically) black master refused to release him: “Although two white planters confirmed that Casor had completed his indentured contract with Johnson, the court still ruled in Johnson's favor.“
Blueberry
22d ago
The way the Masai tribesmen in What is a Woman? do.
Never saw the documentary, but found the scene on yt:
Blueberry
22d ago
Trailer: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4yzcg2rtMnI
Netflix made a documentary about the dorky crypto couple who stole 4 billions in Bitcoin. They couldn’t figure out in 6 years (hack in 2016, in custody in 2022) how to wash the wealth.
Blueberry
24d ago
What do you mean? Example? I think Musk is politically naive, or guileless, he will tell directly what his plans are. There is no subtext, no reading between the lines, no scheming behind the scenes.
Blueberry
24d ago
My prediction: this doesn't fizzle out, Elon remains on bad terms with the admin, Trump makes an example of him albeit not in the most extreme sense
In this case can Elon retaliate? Him financing in the mid terms anti-trumpers (maybe even dems) would be a threat.
Blueberry
25d ago
NYTimes is reporting that aides to Trump are urging him to "cancel all of Musk’s contracts and launch several investigations into [him]" Bannon is quoted as saying “They should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status because I am of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien, and he should be deported from the country immediately.” The Investigations would look at Musk's alleged drug use and immigration status, and his security clearance would be revoked.
Quote from NYT megathread: „House Democrats are jumping on Elon Musk’s allegation that President Trump’s name is in the supposedly secret documents the federal government has on powerful men who were in the orbit of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. They immediately called for the release of the Epstein files.
„Elon Musk’s friends and associates on Thursday are in a state of disbelief. Several said they, like the rest of Washington, are glued to their computers as they watched their friend joust with President Trump, unsure what exactly his plan is.“
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State of disbelief? Me too, me too… What the fuck is happening?
On the personal level everyone knows that two galaxy sized egos will sooner or later clash, on the cultural level the MAGA jocks and the grey tribe nerds are not natural allies: As soon as Musk was out of the door Jared Isaacman‘s nomination for NASA director was revoked.
I am still shocked about the sudden implosion. The coming Moon landing and Artemis missions with SpaceX lander … not happening. Mars mission? Not happening with a hostile administration. Musk supported MAGA because Biden ignored him? Boy, will that be a rude awakening. On the other side: Trump has now an enemy with 200 million followers and who owns the dominant conservative online corner.
Blueberry
25d ago
What is your new wifes opinion on her? Any female understanding/repudiation?
Blueberry
25d ago
Some of us are extremly online though. Try to imagine explaining every sentence to a normie.
Blueberry
25d ago
Catturd following Trumper who worships Elon Musk.
Ask him what his opinion of the new rift is between Musk (no more debt) vs Trump (trillions of new debt)!
Blueberry
1mo ago
To return to the original point, my opinion is that AI kvetching is largely driven by people wanting a safe way to express the sentiment that life in the West is just generally going downhill. … Anecdotally my extended family in the old country seem to be much more optimistic about the future and everyone seems pretty optimistic about AI despite being mostly pretty poor by first world standards. Each generation saw pretty drastic jumps in quality of life and things are looking upwards for the next generation too.
This is insightful and food for thoughts! The explanation makes sense, but even better that this trend is showing up in the data of a study.
pretty much nobody in the first world thinks life will look better in a century without some sort of eschatological transformation.
I wonder why that is. Capitalism/Market economy of ideas converged on doomerism as being more attention hogging? Or some underlying malaise which lead to insecurity?
To be fair, I wouldn't expect to learn that much Spanish from Dutch Duolingo.
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