Magusoflight
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Magusoflight
10mo ago
Everyone is pro eugenics. Just ask them if a brother and sister should be allowed to copulate and bear children
Magusoflight
10mo 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
10mo ago
Ah I see, I don’t really see why the rest of the office needed to get involved though
Magusoflight
10mo ago
This incident might then divide the whole office along racial lines
??? Racial?
I don’t see how local pride events have influence in other locales - this sounds like an argument for a “pride bus” simile to a “freedom bus” in civil rights era
Magusoflight
10mo 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
10mo 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
10mo ago
Danes and western immigrants to Denmark are, on average, positive contributors to Denmark during their working years. The same is true, though less so, of "Other non western". However it turns out that the controversial group of immigrants - MENAPT (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey) - are net negative contributors at every age.
A breakdown by country (for countries with at least 5000 immigrants to Denmark) is provided and the result is exactly what the far right would predict: white people, Indians and Chinese make good immigrants and contribute positively to Denmark. The average American benefits Denmark to the tune of about $12k/year, the average Indian a little bit less. The average Somalian costs Denmark about $18k. Thais, Vietnamese and Filipinos are net neutral.
This is why I always found it strange that there is a corporate argument for lllegal immigration - that somehow this improves the economy and business of European companies. Maybe, but the taxpayers are big losers ultimately, having to foot a massive bill that will inevitably result in either an increase in taxes (in already the most highly taxed countries in the world) or (more likely) a decrease in quality of services. It’s a lose lose situation.
Magusoflight
10mo 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
10mo ago
Since the military has made gays openly serving a policy, how has their organization been doing? Have gays been rushing the fill the recruitment numbers? Or are they in a crisis to find anyone who even cares to join their organization?
Maybe there is a reason for this fence that has existed for thousands of years. Or you think you know better than all your ancestors?
Magusoflight
10mo ago
Can someone steelman why “pride” is still necessary? Seems that you can be gay, bi or trans and it’s more than accepted - there’s a huge increase in kids claiming lgbt status so if there’s stigma it’s not apparent anymore. At what point does it make sense to call a moratorium for social movements that have lost their purpose? What are the “victory conditions” for what homophobia is considered no longer a major issue?
Magusoflight
11mo ago
All that information will be banned, just as facial recognition software has been banned for police
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
Magusoflight
11mo ago
If you can’t see what’s blindingly obvious I see this “umm source please?” as nothing more than rhetorical
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Well, yeah. The vast majority of social scientists are actually just activists who use their profession to push their political agenda forward. This wasn’t always the case, but the trend has always been there and it’s accelerated to the point that these departments are completely taken over, and quite frankly need to be burned to the ground before any real science can once again take place
Magusoflight
11mo ago
in the short term something like height classes in basketball
That sounds hilariously demeaning to those who would participate. If you think womens basketball is unpopular, this should be a hit right?
Magusoflight
11mo ago
But not before giving AI it’s anti racism training data
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Yeah didn’t China already use technology to create a bio weapon that just recently devastated the globe? What’s to stop them from using AI to design another super virus and then WHOOPSIE super Covid is unleashed my bad
Magusoflight
11mo ago
No problem. One good way to test if it’s chronic hyperventilation is to get a blood o2 monitor and see if you’re above 98 percent saturation. Or you can simply hold your breath after taking a normal breath and see how long you last without feeling an urge to breath. Anything less than 20 seconds is indicative of CH iirc
Magusoflight
11mo ago
"helping restrain someone so that they can be more effectively executed makes you an accomplice."
That’s the argument from the pro punishment side which is who I was originally arguing with but it looks like it was a different user. I don’t believe it was an execution
Magusoflight
11mo ago
I stand corrected. I’m impressed with their consistency.
"This is absolutely devastating. Should have never happened. We have been pleading with MTA and state to put in social workers, deploy them into the subway system," Jack Nierenberg of Passengers United said.
And right away I’m amazed at their absurdity. Beyond parody
Magusoflight
11mo ago
So you think Penny’s intent was to kill a homeless person on the subway that day? Interesting. What evidence do you have for your belief?
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Didn’t see that, got a source?
Magusoflight
11mo ago
Actually from a legal perspective you’re wrong - helping restrain someone so that they can be more effectively executed makes you an accomplice. Once again, I ask why no one is calling for these people to also be prosecuted, when Chauvins fellow officers who didn’t even touch Floyd all got heavy sentences?
From your EEOC link:
This effectively makes it illegal to use IQ tests since by their very nature they will discriminate based on race.
“Oh but you just have to justify the test under the law!” Great! Give me just one example of a company successfully doing so, after being sued. Remember. The process is the punishment, therefore sometimes the is can be technically allowed in practicality they are illegal - which is how leftist lawfare works
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