cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
7mo ago
You didn't answer the question.
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BTW one of the most consistently annoying aspects of conversations with you
cjet79
9mo ago
What if I am trying to assess groups?
Groups are composed of individuals. And it is very unclear what signals you are supposed to take from a racially non-homogenous group. Clothing, disposition, gender, current activity, and age all seem like better stereotyping options.
Am I supposed to treat a group of Asian males hanging out up ahead the same as I would treat a group of black males?
I'd say you shouldn't really bother assessing the race, because a bunch of other characteristics about the group will give you a much better sense. What activity do they seem to be doing? Are they laughing and joking around? Do they seem drunk? Is this an area known to have gangs? Are other people avoiding them? Honestly I tend to avoid any group of drunk young males.
Or, suppose I have successfully taught for years in an all-black school, and have relied heavily on class participation as a pedagogical tool. If I transfer to an all-Asian school, should I not think about changing my pedagogy?
You should always be thinking about your pedagogy. Socio-economic class and general school culture should be learned before you start teaching. Ask other teachers what they do. At no point should you be like "oh they are all of x race, therefore teaching method y will work." If you do that you are probably a terrible teacher.
Or if I am in HR at a school district, and am placing a teacher who tells me his greatest weakness is classroom management, should I not use him for a vacancy at an all-Asian school rather than sending him to an all-black school?
Typically race correlates with things that matter. But it is rarely if ever the actual thing that matters. What if the teacher would be teaching the flunkies, dropouts, and mis-behaving kids at the asian school, and the honors students at the all black school? And what assumptions are you supposed to make if the school has and classroom has a mixed racial makeup like all American schools are mandated to have.
I don't think I'll be litigating any more specific examples. All of your new examples still point to Race being a weak correlate with things that matter. And typically in real world scenarios you have much more access to easier acquire pieces of information, and higher quality sources of information.
cjet79
11mo ago
This is not the kind of comment you can throw out without evidence. And if you do point it out with evidence, it should be done as lightly as possible in a non-antagonistic way.
You should know better.
cjet79
16d ago
Antagonistic. You have been warned 3 times before:
- https://www.themotte.org/post/565/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/116811?context=8#context
- https://www.themotte.org/post/601/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/122701?context=8#context
- https://www.themotte.org/post/715/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/150250?context=8#context
5 day ban.
cjet79
3mo ago
If I don't have a red highlight on my name I'm not giving a warning or speaking about breaking the rules. Any mod warnings to not do something should be as clear as possible. I will often say something obvious like "don't do this" or "this is just a warning".
I was giving you information you might find useful.
We just recently added new moderators, so comments are far less likely to sit in the filter for a long time.
Will we ever remove the new user filter? Absolutely not. It's one of our only ways to enforce bans. And it's one of the best ways to prevent low effort trolling. Otherwise banned users can just create new accounts.
cjet79
4mo ago
Well yeah, that is a shit state to be in for guns.
Maybe try and live in one of the non gray areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_sanctuary
cjet79
7mo ago
Maybe the reason this post when to shit was you jumping in all "bad cop" to try and save the quokka effortposters from their despondency. You think of that maybe?
It was shit before I arrived and said anything. There were four 4 relatively low effort post responses, three of which had reports, and one of them was crappy enough that I handed out a warning for it.
Too much boo-outgroup. Too close to waging the culture war rather than discussing it.
You've had 9 Mod actions against you, and have been a consistently bad poster. I'm not sure there is any point in trying to "reform" your posting habits at this point. I'm gonna start with a perma ban, but if some quality posters or mods want to speak up on your behalf then I'm open to just making this a temp ban.
Edit: bolido_sentimental Spoke up in favor, changing to a twenty day ban.
cjet79
8mo ago
I think for (2) people can quibble a lot about the definition of the field. Like is "nurse" the category or "medical field".
cjet79
9mo ago
It's just common sense that if one race commits murder at 5x-10x the rate of other races that you should be more cautious around those people.
There is plenty of white trash in America, and living in some American cities. My argument would lead to more caution, not less caution. Don't let your guard down in a bad section of town just because the gang-banger look-alike walking towards you is white instead of black. The giveawayis the gang-banger look, not their race. If instead its a black man in a business suit walking towards you, then yes you are paranoid for thinking he is about to mug you.
I don't think you made the case for why it's beneficial. Black people get extra college spots, better chances at government contracts, preferential hiring at practically every job and extremely favorable representations in pop culture. That's all because they banded they banded together and pushed for their racial interests as a group.
This does remind me that I missed a section I meant to add for the college part. Both opportunity and execution matter. Being given opportunities that you can't execute on is not a benefit. I think people that get a racial boost outside of their achievable range are done a disservice. If your race is winning a spoils system, people tend to know, and they discount everything you have done with that in mind. Long-term I don't really think it is a benefit. I somewhat prefer my current position as a race and gender that is not clearly winning a spoils system. People know that what I have done and what I have earned I have done so through mostly my own effort.
I'll take this guy without a moment's hesitation. I reject the premise that they wouldn't have any skills and would turn to crime, people don't steal to eat in America they do it for drugs or luxury goods. Plus his kids will be exactly like mine but immigrant's kids are more likely to revert to the genetic mean.
Intermarriage and procreating with your own descendants is not advisable. It is far more likely to lead to genetic deficiencies than procreation with a person of a different race.
Even if they don't they will almost certainly adopt memes about how oppressed by white people they are and vote accordingly.
They will adopt those memes to their own detriment. A degree of belief in your own self-determinism is more helpful to your success than a belief that you have been oppressed.
cjet79
1yr ago
I guess the important part is that you feel superior :marseyeyeroll:
This was unnecessarily antagonistic, don't do this.
cjet79
2hr ago
I have shit taste buds and a shit sense of smell. But yeah this makes my main point stronger.
cjet79
5d ago
I sometimes work out with friends, but I want to do more training during work hours when they are not available.
The motivation isn't there right now (or ever?) to do workouts on my own.
cjet79
5d ago
And if you don't have enough drive to just start lifting without a trainer, you are not going to stick to it anyways.
Source: Seen this shit happen time and time again.
Yah I don't have motivation, how long can a personal trainer extend motivation. I certainly don't think it can work indefinitely, but a few months?
cjet79
19d ago
If anyone likes either the show Hot Ones or Conan O'Brien this is maybe the best of both:
cjet79
30d ago
Lol, that's cute.
Don't do this. Its a very annoying thing to do in a conversation.
You meant to say TAXONOMY not taxidermy.
Pretty sure I meant meant taxidermy. But the difference is trivial. They were a bunch of weird nerds that shared around stuffed animals. The taxidermy is what allowed Taxonomy to advance at the time. Its a lot easier to do taxonomy if you can look at a bunch of taxidermied specimens right next to each other. So the guy that advanced taxonomy did it via taxidermy. Seems accurate to say he did either thing.
And just so you know, Aristotle was a huge nerd and spent his free time studying and collecting mussels in the Mediterranean.
Imagine how much more he might have learned if he was surrounded by a leisure class aristocracy interested in "natural studies". Alas, not our timeline.
And yes, I'm only criticizing Darwin for his theory of Natural Selection.
I'll reiterate that I think this is strange because its one part of a larger text he wrote on the Origin of Species.
Creatures survive because they can reproduce and survive in the environments where they live.
And why is that? Well, because of Natural Selection of course! Now change Natural Selection for "God", and how does that change anything?
There is a difference in saying "because of [symbol without a defined meaning]" and saying "because of [symbol with concrete definition]". I think you are kind of equivocating between the two.
Sort of like the difference between a cop answering why they pulled someone over with "because they were driving 15mph over the speed limit" and "because they looked suspicious".
Natural selection adds more evidence to the "god didn't do it" pile.
Pretty sure this has gone in circles. I'll read any response you post to this specific comment, but I think I'm done with the conversation and won't respond here anymore.
cjet79
1mo ago
If no one is your in-group that makes things very simple, just don't boo anyone.
cjet79
1mo ago
I've started a new game of factorio, this time with the mod overhaul Industrial Revolution 3, which is more focused on distinct tech levels, and the difficulty of the game comes more from building the factory itself than building tons of science packs that needs to be burned up.
I'm reading Heretical Fishing. Its a cozy/silly isekai story.
This is a bit too boo-outgroup.
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