philosoraptor
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philosoraptor
1yr ago
I mean, there's tricky questions (both practical and philosophical) about what probability statements even mean when we're talking about singular events. But that doesn't change the fact that (a) they do sometimes help us make useful predictions, at least in the aggregate, and (b) there's a tolerably clear sense in which Silver was less wrong than someone who had Trump at 1%.
philosoraptor
1yr ago
What does Google have to do with it? How would having multiple viable search engines encourage adding links to sources that, for one thing, don't go through any of them?
philosoraptor
1yr ago
I think he's just raising it as a hypothetical. I agree it's not realistic in the slightest, though for a different albeit related reason - I just think it would be wildly out of character for Trump.
philosoraptor
1yr ago
Known bug, I think. Larian says patch 2 is on its way fairly soon and will focus more on bug fixes of this general sort.
philosoraptor
2yr ago
Well, what I want to know can be rephrased as "what's so special about nudity"? I mean, surely they see themselves without clothes all the time, and lots of other cultures, and not weird fargroup ones but familiar European ones, don't have these hangups according to other posters. It sounds like you're presupposing an answer to that, and indeed an answer you can't even seem to imagine anyone disagreeing with.
I don't really have an answer, beyond that "kids are property" is a nonstarter.
philosoraptor
2yr ago
Ah, pity. I asked because I liked it and wanted to see it in the original context.
philosoraptor
2yr ago
Where is the quote from? It's not in the post you're replying to, nor either of the links it contains, nor the OP.
philosoraptor
2yr ago
Yeah, way too many acronyms in that post. What's "SRS"? I think, with the help of your post, I get all the others.
philosoraptor
2yr ago
I take it that's what he was getting at with the last paragraph, the one starting "Frankly, the argument isn't that hard to refute".
philosoraptor
2yr ago
Sounds very /r/restofthefuckingowl .
Yes. You made a good-faith effort to make sure you were on the right side of the law. That's more than most people do most of the time.
EDIT: If you check the link in the other post I'm about to put up as I type this, there's four types of mens rea listed there and the person in this example doesn't even meet the lowest one, negligence, described as "fails to meet a reasonable standard of behavior for her circumstances". Going out of your way to make sure what you're about to do is not a crime certainly meets any such standard.
philosoraptor
29d ago
"Road train" is an Australian term for a semi that's pulling more than one trailer. I only know this from my attempts to decipher Midnight Oil lyrics and didn't 100% follow that part of the discussion myself, but that's the basic thing it's about.
philosoraptor
1mo ago
philosoraptor
1mo ago
Sulky artist-types are attractive to a lot of women. The "emo" thing is one relatively recent manifestation of it. It's a niche, but a big enough one that some guys do really well in it.
philosoraptor
2mo ago
Marxism intends to overthrow capitalism. America is still capitalist. Therefore, Marxism has had no impact on American society.
Feminism intended to make women happy. Women are less happy. Therefore, feminism did not achieve anything or cause any changes on society.
Marxism explicitly says it wants to overthrow capitalism. Few feminists seem to think in terms of "happiness" but they explicitly say they want to improve things for women. The people you think are pro-pedo, meanwhile, explicitly say pedos should be put through wood chippers. There's no parallel at all there. The rest is mere sophistry.
philosoraptor
3mo ago
Where? Do you have examples?
philosoraptor
4mo ago
How I wish it were true, or at least plausible.
philosoraptor
4mo ago
Lucan Way is no less distinguished. Well, maybe a litte less--the University of Toronto is not even the Harvard of Canada, much less the Harvard of, well, Harvard.
If anything is the Harvard of Canada it's the U of T, but perhaps you mean to suggest that's not saying much.
philosoraptor
5mo ago
aresa
I'm sure it's a typo for "area", but in my heart you meant to write "adjacent to their own arses".
Which, you know, chair, so it's extra-appropriate.
philosoraptor
5mo ago
It's usually folk-pop sort of stuff (on the average, I'm not saying it's always that, just that that's about where the "center of mass" is), played much more quietly than you're thinking, but not quite so quietly that there's no point in it being there. Same with most coffee shops, if they actually want people to sit down for a while.
philosoraptor
6mo ago
Maybe this is a subset of your first group, but also transhumanist weirdos like Shulamith Firestone. That's what radical feminist used to mean, but like almost any term that gets politicized, it's been mangled so often so many different ways that nowadays it basically means whatever the speaker wants it to, like Carrol's Humpty Dumpty.
philosoraptor
9mo ago
Touché.
The main bit of pre-2E orc lore I remember was an article in Dragon on their gods, most of which later showed up in books like Monster Mythology and thus became fairly canonical, if it wasn't already. Though skewing toward the violent and warlike compared to, say, elves, theirs were varied enough that even back then it didn't really support an "Always Chaotic Evil" interpretation.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Even if you sincerely hold this view, surely you understand why it looks like disingenuous special pleading to nearly everyone else?
More to the point neither one directly states support for YEC claims other than the narrow point about human evolution, so reading either one as "X% support for YEC" is running ahead of the evidence. (Even if we assume these polls directly measure people's literal beliefs, which per jeroboam, they probably don't.) Elsewhere in the thread, results from polls that did directly ask about the age of the Earth have been mentioned that got much lower numbers (30% at most, less if you change the wording of the question a little).
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