Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
my observation is that bluesky is resisting its best of becoming an "ideological monoculture", failing at that though.
I guess my question is, why are they resisting this? The hardest part of making a successful social media site is building the userbase. The current Bluesky userbase consists almost entirely of people who left Twitter because it wasn’t an ideological monoculture. Owning a site with an annoying userbase is better than owning a site with no userbase.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
The specific prohibition is against “hot drinks”. Coffee and tea are brewed hot. Monster (as far as I know) isn’t.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
I didn't know we had Mauritanian slavers on this forum. Truly nothing is beyond our reach.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Maybe you’re just in a bad spot. I was pleasantly surprised by the Hinge algorithm. It seemed to figure out what I like pretty quick.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
there’s not much the rank and file can do to stop them.
All they have to do is check the box labeled “Ocasio-Cortez”. That’s it. Nothing can stop them if they decide to check the box.
This is the problem, right?
Maybe? Democrat messaging is really, really, really, abysamally, unfathomably bad. It is so bad that getting back at the people responsible for terrible Democrat messaging is a substantive policy position of the Republicans.
I mean, just look at this shit. Marginal improvements won't fix this, but a complete paragidm shift might.
The Democrats lost young men to the party of, “hold still for your mugshot before you watch Riley Reid take her clothes off.”
It’s easy to get bogged-down in policy minutia here. Normies don’t care about that stuff, even if they say they do. Democrats lose because they are lame. Voting for Trump is fun. It’s thrilling. It feels like raiding a WOW dungeon with 77 million of your best buds. Voting Democrat feels like going to church, except you know that God isn’t real.
There is no reason to think that this is a permanent or even semipermanent phenomenon. All it takes is for a populist upstart to sweep the 2028 Dem primary by steamrolling the wokescolds and pro-Israel donors.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
We don’t have the context. We don’t know why Jay Jones thinks Todd and Jennifer Gilbert are “evil” and “breeding little fascists”. Going on priors, it’s probably not a very good reason, but we don’t actually know that.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
This could conceivably work, but the more-likely result is the same thing that always happens with affirmative-action, where there is a clique of “real” researchers doing “real” science, and then a bunch of affirmative-action hires producing slop that no one actually cares about.
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
I am aware that they are well-regarded. I stated (correctly) that they are bad.
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
Mormon cosmology is completely different from the Abrahamic religions. In Mormonism, God did not create the universe, he simply organized preexisting matter. God himself is part of and subservient to the material universe.
This leads to a bunch of strange (though arguably coherent) beliefs, many of which are explained in this less-than-sympathetic cartoon, although from what I can tell everything in it is technically correct.
Also, endless celestial sex. You can decide for yourself whether this is a positive or a negative.
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
European food is bad across the board, but my life would be materially worse if I didn't live in a city with lots of ethnic food options.
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
If only we had some sort of LGBT (ex-)Mormon furry who could make sense of this all...
and when the world needed him most, he vanished.
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
Here is the Yglesias tweet. Note that this is very specifically a response to a screenshotted Matt Walsh tweet.
The Walsh argument (if you can call it that) is thus:
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There exists at least one place in the United States (Dearborn) which has a majority Muslim population and Islamic cultural norms.
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It would be bad if the entire country was majority Muslim and had Islamic cultural norms.
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Therefore Dearborn Michigan having a majority Muslim population and Islamic cultural norms is bad. (This isn’t explicitly stated, but I think it is strongly implied.)
Matt Yglesias responds to this by pointing out a counterexample; Little Italy 100 years ago had a majority Italian population and Italian cultural norms, and yet this didn’t result in the Italianification of American society.
This is not intended to be a fully general argument in favor of immigration. It is a response to a specific bad argument. If you are already anti-immigration, you probably read Walsh’s argument and fill in the gaps with your own pre-existing cognitive scaffold, but none of that is actually there in the text that Yglesias is responding to.
Quantumfreakonomics
12d ago
How did this work? What was the gears-level social fabric (heh) that prevented people from changing jobs?
Quantumfreakonomics
12d ago
Who is Brilyn Hollyhand, and why is he suddenly a subject of discussion as if everyone knows who he is?
Quantumfreakonomics
13d ago
There job is to make sure the district is eligible for funding and doesn’t get sued. These are much more important functions to the district than educating the children.
Quantumfreakonomics
16d ago
The theory I heard is that the call came down to “write Anti-ICE messages” on the bullets and the grunts took that extremely literally.
Quantumfreakonomics
18d ago
If they have secret actually-good evidence, then I invite them to show it. From what I’ve seen, the evidence presented has all the classic red flags:
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No proposed causal mechanism
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a plausible non-causal mechanism (pain and inflammation would be correlated both with Tylenol use and poor fetal health).
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tiny effect sizes.
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effects collapse when confounders are controlled (via sibling studies in this case).
Quantumfreakonomics
18d ago
If we had organ markets we would be able to track the damage in real time.
Quantumfreakonomics
18d ago
It means they didn't find shit.
Of course, they can't say that. You saw how the base treated Kash Patel and Pam Bondi when they came up empty-handed after the Epstein investigation. Much easier to put-out some face-saving press release. "Uh, it was the uh, the pills. You know, the red ones. That's where autism comes from. Tylenol. Yeah..." No one ever got fired for telling pregnant women not to take drugs.
Does this mean she will ask for clemency at the sentencing hearing? I don't want to say it's easy to say you forgive your husband's murderer at his own funeral, but there aren't actually any negative consequenses for saying that. I suspect that this is virtue signaling.
It's also bad game theory. "The Left" didn't kill Charlie Kirk, but Tyler Robinson DID kill Charlie Kirk. It's okay to retaliate against him specifically.
Let me just tell you from learning the hard way: These women are doing you a favor by making it clear this is a dealbreaker up front.
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