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2yr ago
Is it best to have antioxidant foods with inflammatory foods that you already eat (grains/meat), versus on their own? Eg, black tea and ginger with red meat, versus black tea and ginger in the morning and red meat at night?
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2yr ago
It’s important not to call white American “passivity in the face of evil” Christlike. Jesus stood up against the oppressive elites of his day (they happened to be Jewish community leaders). He called them Satanists, said they were a den of vipers, made fun of their religious garments, and disseminated persuasive stories (of questionable veracity) about how they were sinners. Being Christlike is giving your entire Being to what is Good and ignoring all distractions, whereas white Americans adore distractions and largely ignore moral demands.
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2yr ago
What is the most important idea (regarding one’s mental or “spiritual” wellbeing) which is the most difficult to express and communicate? What lies at the intersection of “important” and “ineffable”?
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2yr ago
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I like some of the new songs from Bladee, where he keeps his old hip hop influenced rhythm and production but uses these interesting textured vocals instead of rapping. AFAIK I know this artist is popular among the chronically online zoomers.
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Martin Shkreli, a free man, has an awesome video on SBF: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nXQtlg1RpMI
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2yr ago
Pro-Ukrainians don’t usually grapple with the hard issues that make Ukraine a unique and complex case.
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America meddling in Ukrainian elections. America promoted an insurrection in the Ukrainian capitol, changing the results of their presidential election, by funding fake news media that pushed debunked stories. (The irony should not be lost on us.)
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NATO expansion onto the doorstep of Russia, the enshrining of NATO membership into the Ukrainian constitution, and joint naval drills and training for when membership became safe.
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The cultural continuity between eastern Ukraine and Russia
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The soft “cultural genocide” of indigenous ethnic Russians in the east of Ukraine via oppression on Russian-language small businesses and journalists, forcing them to speak Ukrainian in shops, publishing in Ukrainian on the front page whether offline or online.
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The will of the people of Crimea to join with Russia in 2014, not just evidenced by their election but by our own government’s polling done by the the broadcast board of governors. This was unacceptable to Ukraine.
An obvious hypothetical is, what would we do if Cuba decided to host Russian nukes? How about if Canada joined a “defensive” alliance with China? We would obviously do the same thing that Russia is doing with Ukraine. When a rival superpower uses corruption and media propaganda to influence elections of your neighbor, which results in a push toward joining their military bloc, you take action. It’s that simple.
If you support America’s exclusive hegemony, this is probably a good idea (fuck Russia!). If you support Western civilization, this is probably a bad idea.
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2yr ago
There are a number of confounders that may actually prove the opposite. The free spent more time among white people, enslaved spent more time among black people. Free would have been more likely to be intelligent: freed by owner in will because their work was skilled; bought their freedom. The most stupid slaves would be more likely to not be freed by the owner, as whites felt that they could not care for themselves (common belief back then). Freed would usually have been from smaller “operations”, not a large plantation, but perhaps an assistant to a blacksmith who would learn the craft. Freed are more likely to have white admixture from sexual relations.
Scott is losing his magic if he thinks there’s enough logic to consider the conclusions of the paper.
I’ve long been interested to see whether the black slaves who spent more time among white people (enslaved) fare better than the the recent arrivals, but there are so many confounders that it’s impossible to measure.
This reminds me of the guy who convinced me to take coronavirus seriously back in early 2020. I found an account talking about the future risks in an eloquent tone, and when I clicked his profile I saw that he posted nudes in a gay sub. It just so happened that I was able to cross reference the pic to a list of graduate students in an important immunology-centered PhD program, but even before that I trusted this guy significantly more, having seen his naked body exhibited to the internet at large. Sorry to use another dick example.
Because I’ve spent so long online I can tell with decent accuracy when a poster is legit and also when they have important information to convey. For instance, Chris Corner from the band Sneaker Pimps wrote a post on 4chan saying he had left to volunteer in Ukraine. Click that link only at your own peril. Although a normal person, whose intuition-AI engine was not trained on reading shitposts online, would read this and say it’s bullshit, I’m 90% sure it’s real. I have zero evidence that it is real except for the way it was written, and have no real desire to phone up a Sneaker Pimps member to confirm.
I have developed some, well, essentially bigoted heuristics over time. If I am 50% split on some debate, and one side has most of the autistic white/Indian twitter accounts (who usually don’t post in colloquial persuasive language but dense logical assertions), and the other side has more verified women scientists, I will always believe the former. For instance, right now I think the recent study showing increased IgG4 antibodies in fully-vaccinated individuals is a serious problem. As a layman, it’s impossible for me to fully understand the various competing claims (all-cause mortality rate versus disease severity rate vs IgG4 proliferation in measles showing it’s not a problem, etc). But the autistic Indian/white posters are telling me it’s a problem, and the verified women and Ukraine-flagged accounts are telling me it’s not a problem. My own bias is to always believe the former in matters of uncertainty as they have been correct about so many significant things IMO.
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2yr ago
It’s unlikely that illiberality is genetic, because its modern instantiation is new (1960s onward), the ancestors of the liberals were all at one point monarchists, and it’s correlated to where you are born.
If you believe that aggression and selfishness are partially influenced by genetics, as I do, there are more humane ways to guide the breeding of humans. In Europe’s past, they executed criminals for murder and theft over a certain amount, and the “social reinforcement propaganda” led to kind/sharing people having many children. Any breeding program would have to solve the border crisis though, or develop insular endogamy practices.
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2yr ago
Has anyone read the new ig4 vaccine study + theorizing, described in these articles?
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/booster-caused-immune-tolerance-explains
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2yr ago
This definition of selfish can include pretty much every traditional moral act of selflessness. “Jesus sacrificed his Life because he selfishly wanted a world where his Father was pleased and Man freed from sin.” It’s clearer to understand selfishness in the traditional understanding as a zero-sum decision which helps oneself at the expense of helping another. Attempting to save one’s brother is thus selfless, as the word is most clearly used, as it comes from a selfless desire to save the life of another at peril to oneself.
Complexity does develop when we ask: “is it most moral and for the greater good to selflessly attempt to save another every time, even if there’s a 55% chance both die, meaning that over 100 iterations it’s certainly causing greater loss of life?”
And the answer to this I still say yes, the selfless act is still greater, because (1) such acts inspire the whole of society, (2) such acts make each member of the society feel safer, knowing he can trust the other, (3) the emotional impetus of the act is heroic and good, and in crises we usually behave according to our emotional intuition.
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2yr ago
I agree that financial crimes should be dealt with more harshly, but violent crime affects more than the victim and are costly to society as a whole. Chicago is taking funds out of pensions because the city is in debt, but it would not be in debt if it has the violent crime rate of Tokyo. The costs of crime are
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increased need for police funding, training, officers
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increased need for ambulances, EMTs
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A significant drain on medical services from all the emergency room stabbing and shooting victims who never pay the debt
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Flight of intelligent and wealthy people
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Reduced investment in the city
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Reduced civic engagement and a concomitant social decay (ugliness)
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Need for more judges, public defenders
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Need to pay to bring the criminals to trial, and then to house them
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The lower class has to pay for more/better locks, can’t use a bicycle so might have to buy a car, Dashcam, Ring, security system, personal defense weapon, different insurances policies
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Reduced use of public transit
There are also behaviors that go alongside criminality
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A general feeling of doom and unease when walking certain areas of city
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A horrifying fear that your daughter is subject to gang culture propaganda as a child and ruins her life, or your son gets into a gang, or either of them get into drugs and alcohol
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A fear that your childrens’ peers are terrible for their development and hold them back or instill in them a raw consumerism/avarice/narcissism
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Worry that your partner or female friends may be assaulted or raped
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Increased risk of riots with property taxes
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2yr ago
Any useful tips, tricks, studies or anecdotes about pure self-motivated learning (learning something with only individual study)?
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2yr ago
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=6681
Everything cited here. Additionally:
Many white people, according to Prescod-Weinstein, celebrated the gay marriage decision more enthusiastically than they should have, something she chalks up to “white tears.”
It’s especially funny that a black woman is lecturing white people on homosexuality. The acceptance of homosexuality is a purely “white people countries” phenomenon, at less comparing major powers. Without white people, it’s unlikely any black nation would have gained tolerance of homosexuality. Without non-Jewish white people it’s also unlikely, because the secularization of Jews required the effects of the renaissance and an accepting European host to protect them from being slain by their rabbinical leader.
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2yr ago
Is the enjoyment of music sourced from the aural experiences of real life, which become associated with all kinds of emotional states? And music is a re-arrangement of different “conditioned sounds” gained from real life experience?
This would explain why some people cannot appreciate music (their minds have a poor memory of sound as it relates to experiences), why certain musical complexity is appreciated by older adults, why children have a primitive appreciation of music where they only like music that codes for basic happiness. And also why some people who have poor emotional intelligence appear to have a terrible taste in music (the other way is not necessarily the case).
Then I would also wonder:
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is the music unsophistication of east asia the result of tonal language (where sound memory is encoded in logic rather than emotion), or the result of an actual mental de-prioritization of emotional states? For this last one, consider how European art and religion and poetry is so dramatic and sympathetic to strong emotional states of all sorts, and East Asian less so (emphasizing transience, stability, equanimity)
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is sufficient music-listening necessary to fully appreciate complex music and why? Is there also an element of “learning the language of compositions”? This must be the case but how does it work?
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what’s happening when we hear a song (for a lot of people: Satie’s gymnopedie) and it brings us a new emotional state?
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is too much music bad because it desensitizes us to the significance of real life sound cues?
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2yr ago
I think Weinstein put it best. “We can’t just exonerate a dead white guy who […]”. But it doesn’t matter what he did. These people hate straight white men, especially any from the past. They wouldn’t mind naming it after the Hidden Figures black women, despite their probability of being as or more homophobic (the majority back then, especially in the black community). And it wouldn’t matter to them that the Hidden Figures women were lower level employees doing college-level math to double check the actual mathematicians. They would be totally fine with it, Chandra-Weinstein would love it, because it means someone from their tribe is named. I don’t think there’s any reason to elaborate motives
From a 2014 article
On June 25th, Prescod-Weinstein tweeted that she wants “to burn the tent of whiteness down.”
A few days later, Prescod-Weinstein sent out a tweet declaring that all America has ever stood for is white power.
In a July 6th tweet, Prescod-Weinstein denounced Thomas Jefferson as a “ rapist.”
“To address white power,” Prescod-Weinstein said, “is to look evil in the eye and to challenge everything this country has stood for in the last 250 years.”
(I vaguely recall going through her ancestry and finding, like, three generations of Marxists on her father’s side. It’s like a family business. Wasn’t there also controversy over her wife not being real or something?)
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2yr ago
My angle is that (1) the relevant mortality figure is over time, not “deaths from Covid”, because of potential complications of vaccine to longterm health and the fact that the vaccine is ineffective for mutations and post-8mo; (2) the “selection bias” effect means that people who opt in for health interventions are genuinely healthier, and this is exacerbated by the chronically ill Americans who are more likely to opt out of all health interventions (alcoholics, addicts, agoraphobics, hoarders, schizophrenics, morbidly obese and others); (3) the cultural divide among vaccination is significant because of differences in urban versus rural health / obesity / diabetes, stress and occupational hazard in blue collar labor, differences in drug and alcohol consumption
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2yr ago
Have there been any additional double-blind controlled studies for the vaccines, especially over a 12-24mo period? Besides the original Pfizer one which showed no benefit? Why haven’t scientists bred immune-weakened birds or monkeys to test the longterm cost/benefit of vaccine?
I can’t get over the idea that the huge selection bias involving the vaccine (in personality traits and culture->occupations/habits) is why we see higher mortality rates in the unvaccinated
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2yr ago
How many years have passed between your two experiences? Only because I bet “geek”dom has been trending toward a more chronically online culture
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2yr ago
Nowadays? 90%. 8 years ago, maybe 15%.
This is stupid. A huge amount of twitter traffic is for porn, which requires linking out. When the porn people leave you’re looking at a drop in ~6% of traffic and engagement. Seriously, type in “onlyfans” or “onlyfans . com/“ into Twitter search and be shocked at how much of twitter’s traffic is in the NSFW ecosystem. While Twitter ought to ban all porn, Musk should wait until he’s firmly hegemonic, not when he’s still on the brink of losing VIPs and advertisers. Btw, all the men who use Twitter to occasionally look at porn on their alts will follow wherever those accounts go, and that’s a lot of people.
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2yr ago
There is, Musk actually posted it
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2yr ago
He did not seem crazy at all. He’s a left wing protestor/terrorist/insurrectionist or whatever word we’re using now.
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2yr ago
Why did you not post the reason for that, which is that these accounts were posting or linking to the real time location of Elon Musk (and in some cases, inadvertently his children)?
As Musk put it,
If anyone posted real-time locations & addresses of NYT reporters, FBI would be investigating, there’d be hearings on Capitol Hill & Biden would give speeches about end of democracy!
This is absolutely true. If I had an account tracking the location of the editors of NYT, and one of my followers even blocked their car and jumped on their windshield wearing a mask, I would be: fired from any corporate job, investigated by the FBI, sued for harassment, have my own death threats against me, doxx’d by the NYT (including location of my home), and so on.
I think Elon Musk has greater chances of being killed by a left-wing vigilante than anyone else in America, because he’s now controlling what they previously controlled. There’s no substantive argument for why a person’s real time location should be shared publicly.
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2yr ago
Anything that attempts to revise the age-old definition of man and woman is going to be unacceptable to many. The words man and woman are important because mating is what so much of socializing is about, directly or indirectly, and we need words to refer to the only two divisions of mammalian life that can create a new living being. Because so much is downstream of mating, the distinction between man and woman is integrally important and obvious. There are also significant differences between the normative male and female personalities.
If an FTM claims to be a man, it comes with none of man’s significance: FTM can’t create a child with a woman, if I get into a heated altercation with them I don’t have to worry about violence, and if I make a joke about their appearance I might have to worry about someone crying or being upset for a month.
“It’s a free country” is the nouveau-online version of Godwin’s Law. People only say this when defending the actions of their own tribe. No liberal utters these words to defend Nick Fuentes or the Christian bakers.
Jokes about gringos are acceptable because they are, firstly, jokes. They are not mean-spirited essays published on a news site. Whether this is as bad as anti-white hip hop, I don’t think so, but that’s not a defense of it.
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