Celestial-body-NOS
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Celestial-body-NOS
We are all human beans. Together, we will rice.
1d ago
when the harmful consequences don't fall on yourself.
That does not apply to that to which I was referring.
If Alice calls for 'redistribute Bob's wealth; do not redistribute Alice's wealth', your argument might be valid; however, I am referring to when Alice calls for 'redistribute a fraction of both Alice's wealth and Bob's wealth' and Bob counter-proposes 'redistribute Alice's wealth; do not redistribute Bob's wealth'.
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1d ago
...much in the same way as, when someone advocates redistribution of wealth, they are met with calls to redistribute their wealth specifically while not redistributing the wealth of their richer, less compassionate neighbours.
I thought it was brilliant.
Maybe if Uncle Mark didn't want his niece to talk to him like a toddler, he oughtn't have thrown his toys out of the pram when he was told to be polite to people with whom he disagrees.
(Yes, even if he thinks they're delusional. Family dinners are not the time or place to practise amateur psychiatry; if we invited Richard Dawkins, we would expect him to refrain from referring to Cousin Sarah's church as 'fairy-tale club'. Not dead-naming or mis-pronouning Cousin Alice, or bringing up the genitals with which she was born, is the same principle.)
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1d ago
I was reading a history book talking about Episcopalian death squads running around killing Presbyterians in Britain, in the 17th century.
And now you have:
- the 'C and E C of E' who shows up on Christmas and Easter
- the man from Good Omens who 'doesn't go to church but insists that the church he doesn't go to is the Church of England'
- the man who regards the Church of England as akin to a cucumber sandwich, in that it isn't very intense but makes a good accompaniment to a nice cup of tea.
Cultures are not set in stone; they can change over time.
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2d ago
Less, given that they are hors de combat, while the terrorist in the Afghan village is still capable of perpetrating armed acts against you.
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2d ago
What did their families do?
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2d ago
...other than the fact that they are no longer a threat to you.
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2d ago
As neither the United States nor its allies ever sought to annex Kosovo, combined with the atrocities committed against the population by the Serbian government, the intervention in Kosovo was less analogous to the German invasion of Czechoslovakia/Poland/&c. and more analogous to the independence of the various colonies of European nations.
The matter of Israel is more complicated; Israel had, to the best of my knowledge, been minding their own business for the past decade when their Arab neighbours decided to attack them; however, some of their conduct in the territory which they captured in the ensuing conflict has been less than honourable.
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2d ago
It's a bit disturbing to think that people might set up independent societies which are a great deal worse than North Korea, but the possibility of central control is in many ways more disturbing.
Scott Alexander wrote something about this tension.... (TL;DR version: limited central government enforcing very robust exit rights.)
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2d ago
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;
Theology tells us we existed before birth.
Before conception, or in early-to-mid-XX-Century terms, 'before you were a twinkle in your father's eye'.
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2d ago
First Gulf War was the US supporting
the post-1945 taboo against wars of territorial expansion.
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7d ago
Or perhaps I don't have an eye for Afghans, and they all look the same to me.
To a weasel, another weasel is weaselly weckognised.
But a stoat? That's stoatally different!
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7d ago
Me and my buds would go fuck off in the woods for an hour, whittle little spears and wooden daggers, set interesting looking plants on fire, hurl rocks and playful taunts at other patrols we encountered. Headed back to camp, cooked and ate dinner, cleaned up, made a fire, play some cards while cracking the raunchiest jokes and using the worst profanity we knew while the dads snickered and pretended not to hear. Then it was lights out, to our tents and sleeping bags where we talked about girls (90% bullshit, we knew nothing) and busted each other's balls for this or that. The dads cracked a bottle of whiskey and shot the breeze;
Doesn't seem Courteous, Kind, Clean, or Reverent....
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8d ago
There is no [Haitian] fracking community in South Dakota.
...much to the chagrin of the supervisors, who, much like factory managers in Ohio, would appreciate a workforce who show up on time and sober.
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8d ago
immigrants do make housing less affordable simply by the numbers
I don't think it's the recent immigrants who are preventing houses from being built....
As a moderate opponent¹ of Mr Trump, I did get a 'nabbing al-Capone for tax evasion' impression from the matter....
¹Capable of understanding that not every possible criticism of him is necessarily true², and of recognising his stopped-clock moments³.
²Compare the cancellation of Bill Maher post-9/11 for pointing out that the hijackers, while irrational⁴ anti-freedom murderers, were not, in the usual sense⁵ of the term, cowards.
³Such as the Executive Order on architectural styles.
⁴For those not familiar with Mr Maher's oeuvre, he has a very dim view of organised religion.
⁵As opposed to the vague 'bad person' sense, which far too many terms for specific character flaws erode into....
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13d ago
...system leaders voted to phase standardized-test scores out of admissions decisions.
Institutions ... that have self respect have pivoted back to some form of standardized testing....
Standardised tests are the worst method of determining college admissions, except for all the others that have been tried.
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14d ago
Possibly relevant: today is the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials.
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14d ago
get the military to act in some very under-specified way
Seems more like they're trying to urge the military not to act in a particular way.
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15d ago
There's almost nothing that women can do better than men that society values. If society valued these things, I don't think the issues between the genders would be anywhere near as clownish as it is today.
That was G. K. Chesterton's issue with feminism.
But in this corner called England, at this end of the century, there has happened a strange and startling thing. Openly and to all appearance, this ancestral conflict has silently and abruptly ended; one of the two sexes has suddenly surrendered to the other. By the beginning of the twentieth century, within the last few years, the woman has in public surrendered to the man. She has seriously and officially owned that the man has been right all along; that the public house (or Parliament) is really more important than the private house; that politics are not (as woman had always maintained) an excuse for pots of beer, but are a sacred solemnity to which new female worshipers may kneel; that the talkative patriots in the tavern are not only admirable but enviable; that talk is not a waste of time, and therefore (as a consequence, surely) that taverns are not a waste of money. All we men had grown used to our wives and mothers, and grandmothers, and great aunts all pouring a chorus of contempt upon our hobbies of sport, drink and party politics. And now comes Miss Pankhurst with tears in her eyes, owning that all the women were wrong and all the men were right; humbly imploring to be admitted into so much as an outer court, from which she may catch a glimpse of those masculine merits which her erring sisters had so thoughtlessly scorned.
-- What's Wrong with the World (1910)
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15d ago
...and use goats as a medium of exchange.
On the other hand, goats have actual uses beyond 'Alice will give me useful stuff in exchange for this because Bob will give her useful stuff in exchange for it because Carol will give him useful stuff in exchange for it because Dave will give her useful stuff in exchange for it because....'; they'll clear out overgrown vegetation, fuel themselves in doing so, and are delicious!
(I still don't get how people can be like 'USD is only valuable because people think it is, but gold has real value.'; they both derive their value from that same endless loop.)
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15d ago
Are the refugees welcome in their neighbourhood or in their kids schools?
Yes.
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18d ago
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19d ago
The part of their brain with which they can grasp that electrical safety comes from the laws of physics and not regulation seems to be atrophied.
Compare Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, on being told that his demands for a backdoor in encrypted communications were mathematically impossible: “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”
(Where's King Canute when you need him?)
What are the figures for Greek women?
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