UnterSeeBootRespecter
5mo ago
Are you saying that the rape of children is not an inherently evil act? I’m not sure how I provide evidence for this. Is a simple moral fact not enough?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
Grilling is direct flame, high heat.
Barbecue is lower temperatures, indirect heat, smoke.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
7mo ago
What haven't we given them that would actually make a difference? The First Marine Division?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
7mo ago
Civil rights destroyed the right of free association in the USA. That's the largest point. Further, it enshrined the concept of disparate impact. Does your policy coincidentally have an impact on blacks? Well then you're racist and your policy is illegal. No, you can't prove that it's not racism but simple differences between different groups. No longer can you just hire the smartest person for the job (Griggs v Duke Power). So everyone needs a Bachelor's degree to prove that they're smart and conscientious when a simple intelligence test would do. And on, and on.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
7mo ago
The whole of the civil rights era was a disaster that broadly lead us to where we are today. The apparatus I'm referring to are the Justice Departments various offices that investigate and prosecute civil rights crap, the NGOs that feed them, etc.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
7mo ago
The only thing I can think of that you might have transposed the Ukrainian post-war guerilla efforts against the Soviets onto Finland?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
7mo ago
I don’t think anyone supposes that Putin is a benevolent leader.
I don’t see Ukraine being particularly worse under Russian suzerainty than under some other conditions. It’s never going to be paradise.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
9mo ago
I don't think so? Certainly seltzers or non-nutritive sweetened sodas are basically neutral.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
9mo ago
Why not? I reject this premise entirely.
There's no scenario where we don't make major decisions (as this would be) for our children. Whether as a parent or as a society.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
9mo ago
I would say shame does work, but it needs to be more constant and even. You should feel shame evenly and not at distributed points.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
9mo ago
I’ve been trying to persuade a llama2 model that assassinating Obrador is the right thing to do.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
9mo ago
Maybe Samsung has actually figured out the software updates, but a few years ago they had not.
Samsung is probably closest to Apple in terms of build quality.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
It’s way easier than manually mixing formula.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
That seems entirely dependent on the trajectory our culture takes from now until then.
Does progressivism continue? Then he'll be considered great.
Do we collapse and rebuild? He'll be on the level of James Buchanan.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
Now I’m a big believer in psychic history (Foundation series)
Psychohistory?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
10mo ago
Right after Smarch.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
11mo ago
Some of us are of certain descent such that we don’t tan. No matter how much time we spend unprotected in the sun.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
1yr ago
I slowly moved from an IC role to a Senior Manager role over the last 3-4 years.
I wouldn't say I enjoy it more, but I've managed to inspire some loyalty in my team by shielding them from BS and going to bat for them.
This gives me some satisfaction.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
1yr ago
I'm not sure that's worse than demographic decline.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
1yr ago
If someone invests money into creating something, it doesn't matter if it's replicatable on a massive scale.
Except this again ignores that copying some copyrighted work does not deprive the person who created it of anything.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
1yr ago
And do you think that this is a good description of more copyright situations?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
5mo ago
I am rapidly losing faith in humanity here.
This is very much like saying "the desire to genocide armenians is not evil, only acting on that desire is evil." Or "the desire to torture dogs is not evil, only actually torturing dogs is."
No. The desire to commit evil acts is evil. Pedophilia is evil, even if never acted upon. And everyone is right to be wary of anyone who claims to be, or appears to be a pedophile, because that is evil.
That said, it is laudatory to resist temptations and to refrain from evil, even if you desire to do evil. And the Lord will reward those who are faithful and commit no evil though they have the desire.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
7mo ago
Well I don’t know for sure. But if you are worried about guerrilla warfare then you’re going to need some level of repression.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
7mo ago
that they shut up about USSR-sized sphere of influence.
USSR sized sphere of influence? Ukraine is closer to Moscow than Canada is to Washington.
Perhaps, but what happens when you can't afford to provide for those welfare recipients? They cease to be welfare recipients. And in that case they are again a national resource, whereas a future where they instead don't exist that resource is not there to be tapped.
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