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Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
21hr ago
What’s the last statement you remember hearing from a VP? Not a prospective on the campaign trail—a seated VP.
I can’t even remember what Pence was saying when he broke with Trump.
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Texas is freedom land
21hr ago
Place your bets on which host country will have a worker exploitation scandal first!
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2d ago
Have you gotten to the part with a bunch of West Coast intellectuals sitting around in an earthquake-proofed house?
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3d ago
It assumes that they are, in fact, in position to arrest the decline.
My experience with teachers is that they may be powerless, but are rarely cowardly.
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3d ago
See, I don’t think most people have confused the metric and the reward. A college degree gives you some combination of skills and prestige. Gaming a disability policy decouples your degree from your skills, but it doesn’t stop you from claiming some of the prestige. Maybe even a lot of it, depending on your field. Connections, investment, political backing, all sorts of benefits.
If what you most value is skill, you suck it up and go to a non-elite school. You’ll get most of the skill and none of the prestige. If you crave the latter, though, gaming the system is a rational choice.
The emperor’s sycophants complimented his new clothes because they were afraid of his anger. In your model, why are the universities going along with it? Are they stupid?
I think the narcissism label is a way to sneer at people one thinks are delusional. If they’re actually making a rational decision, it’s not a useful framing.
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Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Oh, it’s much higher than that. The guy who ran the analysis thinks it’s closer to 98%.
What does that mean? It probably means he pulled the numbers out of his ass.
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3d ago
How often is someone convicted off “gait evidence”?
I read “The program struggles with certain visual cues, so I’d peg it as closer to 98%” with about as much skepticism as “the software says you’re 85% racist.” People can say whatever they want. Besides, why did Mr. Seraphin wait four years to blow the whistle?
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3d ago
I’ll take that bet.
Maybe not the lapses. There are plenty of reasons a guy like this would fail to hold down a job. But I bet he makes it to sentencing and jail (prison?)
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3d ago
I’ll admit that I took the 18M estimate for partition as gospel, and didn’t realize there were lower ones.
Biden numbers are still crazy, either way.
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3d ago
Outside of the 21M claim, I was seeing things like this House committee, claiming 8M encounters and 1.7M “gotaways.” Newsweek gives the 2023 illegal population at 14M, including any who were already present; it also cites a Cato Institute denial of the 20+M figures. And the CIS blasts Biden for somewhere between 7M and 12M.
I’m also surprised the BBC didn’t go all “no evidence.” Still, I see a general consensus against Miller’s numbers.
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3d ago
AP testing technically dates back to the 50s, but I don’t believe it really took off until the 90s. They certainly have their own problems.
I’m actually having a hard time naming any pedagogy newer than the 1950s. There’s the common core math, which sucks. Different learning types (kinesthetic, visual…) were introduced in ‘83; they’re still popular, maybe even useful.
Best I could find was immersion learning for languages, which spread through schools some time after 1971.
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Texas is freedom land
3d ago
How much of this is…well…real?
- 20+% of students at elite U.S. universities are getting some sort of accommodation.
- Such accommodations are less common in less selective schools.
- TLP says a bunch of stuff about narcissism.
I think everything else in your comment is either anecdotal or outright speculation. I was going to ask for sources on a couple of the claims, but there were just too many. Who’s muttering about how they’ll get the wake-up call? How is failure to “fight the decline” cowardly? Why do you think TLP’s model is reasonable?
Actually, let’s go into that one. “Insecure narcissists demand omnipotence from others and detest omniscience” is vacuous. It’s a fully general argument. Any time you want me to do something, you’re demanding omnipotence, and any time I dare to disagree with you, I’m just mad about your omniscience. “They hated Him because He told the truth,” huh?
Goodhart’s law is not narcissism. It is a race to the bottom brought on by normal, familiar self-interest. People game metrics when they value the rewards more than the integrity of the system. No psychoanalysis necessary.
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3d ago
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3d ago
What are you talking about?
No, seriously, what number do you have in mind?
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4d ago
Which of those things applies to bombing lifeboats, though?
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4d ago
Social change has nothing to do with it.
When we signed the CWC, we were binding our hands with respect to chemical weapons. We’d decided that was a fair price for binding all the other signatories. Cooperate-cooperate.
We don’t bomb lifeboats so that other states don’t bomb ours. Even though narcos will never be in that position, bombing their lifeboats would set a bad precedent for our relations with other states. They might reasonably assume that we will, in fact, ignore the rules we’ve supposedly endorsed.
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4d ago
My only QCs have been for chewing the scenery over historical trivia. I cringe a bit when I look back.
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5d ago
A method isn’t a purpose.
Violence is the most important skill for armies, but it’s not the only one, and there’s no reason they can’t agree to hold back in some way.
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5d ago
I’ve had similar anecdotal experiences. I don’t know that they really tip the scale.
Forget the material benefits, forget the disability at all. Either it’s murder or it’s not. The pleasantness is incidental.
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5d ago
Man. I’ve been defending Hegseth’s position upthread, but he’s a real ghoul, isn’t he?
How exactly did he end up in this position?
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5d ago
The purpose of a military isn’t actually to kill people. It’s a tool for asserting the national interest. Sometimes that means accepting limitations—when you actually get something in return. That’s civilization for you.
I don't have reason to believe that these strikes were actually illegal. But if they somehow were, Hegseth would be undermining an equilibrium that really does benefit the U.S.. And for what? A little extra assurance that those narcos wouldn’t get rescued? There’s no reward.
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5d ago
The falling percentage of first-time buyers suggests that they’re outcompeted by people who’ve already owned a house, not just older first-timers.
More details in the report highlights, although I don’t see a chart of median age over time. But there’s nothing here suggesting the demand surge is concentrated in millenials.
The craziest stat on that page is that, since COVID, all-cash purchases have gotten much more common. It’s got to be an inflation thing, right?
That…doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Spiky benches are chosen for deterrence, and deterrence is at odds with reeducation. Conversely, if you imprisoned every homeless person, it would do approximately nothing to the demand for ugly art.
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