The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
9hr ago
Doesn't resurrection entail a new body being created? The old one seems pretty irrelevant.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
11hr ago
Giving up on telling the dumb kids they can be doctors is probably a moral good but I'm not sure it opens up efficiency gains?
If we're spending a fortune, futilely, to bring up the low end and we stop doing that with no change in results, that's an efficiency gain.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
13hr ago
Should Washington state consider revoking other privileged positions? Why should spouse, lawyer and doctor be exempt?
The question for the state is always "why should anyone be exempt"; the state, representing society and thus being morally paramount, surely has a compelling interest in preventing crimes that overrides any mere personal bonds. The limits of this are whether priests, doctors, spouses, and lawyers will spill rather than be held in contempt, and whether the state has the capacity to hold them until they spill. With ever-increasing state capacity, doctor-patient privilege has pretty much been nuked in criminal matters; doctors have gone from privileged to mandatory-report, and of course their own ethics boards cheered along with this. Spousal privilege can in practice be broken when children are involved; the state can move to take the children away and promise to stop if the silent spouse testifies. Lawyer privilege has held better, because lawyers are in a better position to defend it, making up a large part of the system as they do.
Priest privilege has mostly held because Catholic priests are really stubborn about it, as in not-yielding-under-torture stubborn. But with the decline of religion, they may well lose enough public support that routinely tossing old Father McGee in jail forever because he won't testify against Chester the Molestor will be fine, and eventually they'll yield too.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
20hr ago
Israel would not need to nuke Gaza to engage in successful total warfare. Nor would they want to; it's too damned close and anyway an Israel willing to make such total war would want Gaza's land for itself (or at least to lease to Trump for his resort)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
(And that story itself is basically just a modernization of Cain's justification for killing Abel.)
To give the traditionalists their due, Cain WAS the bad guy in that story.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
It's an end to affirmative action, not establishing a racial caste system.
Right. The more cynical HBDer will note that the racial caste system establishes itself as a result of HBD... even given heroic efforts to suppress it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
You're objecting to a billionaire Wharton grad, a graduate of the London School of Economics who happens to be a scion of a family that has been described in terms similar to royalty, and an entertainer with a long and illustrious career.
I don't think you'd know Elite Human Capital if it leg-dropped you.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
or even done the George Floyd thing of portraying fentanyl-users as victims of someone other than themselves
There's definitely right-wingers who have jumped on the "it's Pharma/The Sacklers/Purdue's fault" bandwagon, and some who blame China.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
My core point stands uncontested.
"Uncontested". I do not think that word means what you think it means.
HBD the theory hides behind HBD the science in order to try to gain legitimacy as a "grand-theory of why the world is the way it is" despite every "grand-theory of why the world is the way it is" being half-baked and not capable of standing up to any critical analysis.
Error on top of error. It is not enough to merely declare that every "grand-theory of why the world is the way it is" is half-baked. Nor does it matter that something does not stand up to "critical analysis", if you mean that in the postmodern sense. And certainly it is not a mark against HBD that it tries to explain aspects of the world.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Yes I often dismiss whole belief systems, because there are many quite shit belief systems
And yet you hang on to socialism.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
There's the difference between HBD as-in "Human genetics drift over time as populations are isolated, let's explore those differences" and HBD as-in "The genetic differences between populations can explain why the world looks like it does today[1]."
This is not the difference between 'nuance' and 'not-nuance', this is the difference between 'crimestop' and science. It is in a way similar to the Catholic Church's acceptance of heliocentrism as a mere 'calculating device'. 'Nuance' does not require that what you are studying have no effect on the real world.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
My understanding is that it's not a hypothesis founded or invoked with nuance, which is what you're trying to insert here.
Oh, no, there are a lot of nuanced HBD people who will talk to you all day about mitochondrial haplotype this and Y-chromosome that. Or there were, anyway, I haven't seen them around in a while; they just got called racists like all the others.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
As @ToaKraka notes, 13/52 refers to the extremely disproportionate percentage of homicides committed by black people (13% of the population, 52% of the homicides). The US (and the pre-US colonies) already engaged in mass importation of high time preference demographics (I'll reserve judgement on the second part); they've been around as long as most of the white people have, and so deporting them is not possible.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
It's a euphemism.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
The richest black countries (the Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts and Nevis) are wealthier than the poorest white countries (Ukraine, Kosovo, Iran, Moldova). The poorest country is Arab (South Sudan).
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
That the US has a "Zionist Occupied Government (ZOG)" is a pretty common conspiracy theory. I think SS and the other local dissident right members could tell you all about it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
I don't think we are going to get on the same page about this, but as a fact matter - if your friend was psychotic under the influence of a substance at that time he had poor judgement and insight, if they were committed involuntary (the correct response to oh holy shit the walls are talking to me is to you know, get help).
Someone experiencing a psychotic episode is often not aware that they are no longer aligned with reality. They are experiencing not just hallucinations but delusions. Yes, obviously they have "poor judgement and insight" while actually experiencing the psychotic episode; that's not reason to deprive them of fundamental rights forever.
One of the challenges of managing society in general is what to do with people who are "fine" most of the time but dangerous while in a certain state (like decompensated mental illness, tripping balls, or just pissed off).
That's pretty much everyone.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
It takes a lot of attention and fine-toothed combing to separate social citizens from asocial ones who have learned to pretend to be social where necessary. They will obfuscate their asocial activities, limit them to settings in which they aren't observed closely, and always keep a plausible excuse handy. After a few months and years of beatings, only the stupidest will be asocial where they can be caught.
This might be a problem after a while. It's not a problem right now. There's low-hanging fruit.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
The "underlying issues" are that your same 100 people want to keep taking drugs to the exclusion of everything else.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Damn right. They'll be delivered.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Safe Injection Sites. And the provenness of their effectiveness is certainly disputed. As is that of enforcement, as the 80s drug war showed. And rehab is a joke.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
NYC can still partly do this by embarrassing Mamdani in the general.
I think the only way that happens is if Cuomo yields to Adams and Bloomberg (or someone of equally high stature) backs him. Which ain't going to happen.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
It's very funny - if these weren't the guys also steering the direction of the global economy and society which affects all the rest of us, and they've got the tastes and inclinations of when they were seventeen and that hot girl in high school didn't even look twice at them. Now Jeff is living the dream of having that hot girl finally on his arm and in his bed.
No. Besides marrying the quite attractive MacKenzie Scott Tuttle at 29, he dated a girl named Ursula Werner at 17. You can sneer at Bezos for embodying revenge-of-the-nerds fantasies, but you'll have no factual backing for it. (Same goes for Musk, BTW)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
I really wish he will win. And I really wish he succeeds in implementing his program, just so that USA will see first hand the results of those policies.
Doesn't work. First because he'll declare it worked even if it didn't, and the media will back him up. Second, because "the Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire"
I think it's largely manueverings associated with the corporate game-of-thrones.
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