Magusoflight
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Magusoflight
10mo ago
He at least had the good sense to feel ashamed of it
Magusoflight
10mo ago
It’s a silly argument. Does anyone seriously think a diversity in work ethic makes for a better team? A diversity in intelligence? How about a diversity of medical conditions?
For there to be a true diversity to prevent biases you’d need viewpoint diversity. Somehow that one never makes the cut.
Magusoflight
10mo ago
That’s for a newly released box set for a book trilogy written in 1991. So, yeah. Better numbers for the newly minted woke novels
Magusoflight
10mo ago
100 grams of high quality animal protein is probably enough, with rapidly diminishing returns above that
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Well wouldn’t an increased tax burden eventually translate to increased corporate taxes? At some point they must see this also goes against their interests
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Yes but why should we need such archaic laws and taboos? The taboos against homosexuals also existed for thousands of years without skulls. So meh
Also eugenics has been around for thousands of years in other forms. Baby looks kinda weird? Throw it off a cliff or leave it exposed to the wilderness. Meh.
Magusoflight
11mo ago
What happened last time is the Canadian economy lost millions, with billions in trade being stalled out due to cross border blockades. This hit the government where it hurts, and showed that it doesn’t take much, just a few trucks to do major damage. That means something.
Magusoflight
11mo ago
A fun legend but of dubious factual basis
http://ancientheroes.net/blog//did-an-army-of-lovers-really-dominate-ancient-greece
Your numbers lacks serious range, stopping around 2011 for some reason. I still can easily see a visual steep decline starting when “don’t ask don’t tell” was implemented, which actually helps prove my point.
https://warontherocks.com/2023/03/addressing-the-u-s-military-recruiting-crisis/
How bad is the recruiting crisis? During the last fiscal year, the Army missed its recruiting goal by 15,000 active-duty soldiers, or 25 percent of its target. This shortfall forced the Army to cut its planned active-duty end strength from 476,000 to 466,000. And the current fiscal year is likely to be even worse. Army officials project that active end strength could shrink by as much as 20,000 soldiers by September, down to 445,000. That means that the nation’s primary land force could plummet by as much as 7 percent in only two years — at a time when its missions are increasing in Europe and even in the Pacific, where the Army provides many of the critical wartime theater enablers without which the other services cannot function.
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Ah I see, I don’t really see why the rest of the office needed to get involved though
Magusoflight
11mo ago
There are leftists, open border libertarians and moderate conservatives who talk honestly about immigrants in Scandinavia. Some users on this forum fit those descriptions, including some who are from Scandinavia themselves. @Stefferi.
“There are literally dozens of us!”
The other groups I mentioned acknowledge problems that have arisen as a result of immigration, but argue that there are benefits that are not captured by simply looking at net tax contributions,
Like what? Ethnic food?
that there are many more law-abiding immigrants than there are criminal immigrants
This reminds me of the poison smarties thought experiment.
that crime levels need to be seen in perspective (e.g., Malmö's homicide rate is magnitudes
This is a fully generalizable argument for anything though. “This isn’t an issue because in some far off place it’s even worse” it’s pure sophism and poorly reasoned rhetoric.
and that people who have acquired Swedish citizenship should be afforded the same rights and protections as ethnic Swedes.
by definition. We aren’t talking about citizens.
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Well, yeah. You have no real argument despite massive evidence being weighed against your position. It’s just neurotic appeals to emotion, constantly.
Magusoflight
11mo ago
So? Why should I care about what an unrelated organization did? This is a hobby space ffs, not some government or public entity. You’re trying to justify totalitarianism based on some kind of collective blood libel that almost no one alive in the country has anything to do with.
Magusoflight
11mo ago
You clearly don’t read Scott’s own writings I guess
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/criticism-of-criticism-of-criticism
Take a look at what the best and brightest of psychiatrists conference write about for their conferences. Endless woke activist slop. And it’s like this at every single social sciencey conference too, including economics.
I don’t feel like doing research for someone who isn’t interested in asking honest questions though so go ahead and find your own sources
Yeah the dissent… you should really read it. See attached
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