Capitalism makes sense to the paranoid who don't understand the concept of sharing
What is your definition of sharing? Or to put it another way, let's say you find a nice thing. A pretty rock, a fruit, a Galacta 9000 Zappa war fleet. Given that you have no right of ownership over it, if I march over and take it from you even though you like it and want to hold it / eat it / use it, have you meaningfully 'shared' it with me?
It flags a very obvious conflict of interest.
"Discriminating in favor of black people is good and popular, says study by black man" naturally invokes suspicion.
Yes, it's an ad-hominem argument and not a replacement for drilling carefully down into the details of the study (assuming it's not one of those surveys where they just make up the results, which are rare but do exist). But the prior for this study's rigor and truthfulness should be set lower than would otherwise be the case.
Corvos
22hr ago
But doesn’t that also interfere with the mechanisms that cause healing and adaptation?
Corvos
22hr ago
The Garmin Vivosmart 5 is a cheapish band that’s pretty good.
Pros: price, tracking basically works, no subscription, battery life VERY good - about a week. Cons: no integrated GPS, lacks the kind of coaching features other watches have, HR sensor can be sticky and takes a while to adjust to sudden changes in rate.
FWIW I’ve had mine for years and got a lot out of it but I’m considering buying something more expensive like an Apple Watch that maybe has better sensors and does more with them. Interested to hear recommendations.
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/04/garmin-vivosmart-review.html
Corvos
23hr ago
In the UK we sort of did that (city Mayors, Scottish/Welsh/NI governments) but the result always seems to be hard left nonentities who have very little history of practical achievement (even less than our top-level MPs). I’m not sure if that’s a structural problem or simply what the regions prefer, but implementing localism in a way that doesn’t end up with virtue-signalling parasites constantly invoking ethnic grievances for more money seems like a serious problem.
The wording on that is kind of ambiguous. One could perfectly well read it as, “God brought about civilised man (through his control of natural processes) about 10,000 years ago when the first civilisations started appearing” and I would agree despite definitely not being a creationist.
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