sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
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sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
5mo ago
these very same people expect migrants to deal with a far bigger and more rapid cultural shock and blame them if they migrants take steps to mitigate this impact
Huh? Migration is surely voluntary. Having Aella as your countrywoman less so.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1yr ago
It seems hard to believe that properly fitted N95s don't work considering that they are approved PPE for ebola which is somewhat higher stakes than Covid. Perhaps people do not wear them right, whatever that means?
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
19d ago
It's a little weird that the author repeatedly denies any experimental verification of the greenhouse effect but doesn't address the 19th century experiments that first identified it. Maybe there's something wrong with his results, but you wouldn't know it from reading this post.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
8mo ago
Because that housing is not in the urban core, instead they are abandoned, formerly working class, neighborhoods
Such neighborhoods basically do not exist in California.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
8mo ago
Why get some exercise and fresh air when I could be whacking it instead?
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1yr ago
if we need translations of Shakespeare and Milton and Pope, we will lose that unbroken heritage, our children will be unable to regain it.
Words just don't mean what they used to in Shakespeare's time. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just how language changes. Example:
“Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment,” which seems to mean that you should let other people criticize you but refrain from judging them—strange advice. But by “take censure” Shakespeare meant “evaluate,” so that Polonius is really saying “assess” other men but don’t jump to conclusions about them.
Why stop at Shakespeare? He wasn't the first to write in English, after all. Perhaps we should ground our language in the classic work of the Gawain poet.
Perle, plesaunte to prynces paye
To clanly clos in golde so clere,
Oute of Oryent, I hardyly saye,
Ne proved I never her precios pere.
Sure, you need to learn a few words, but it's already just about comprehensible.
Israel has offered the Palestinians a state numerous times. Israelis interfered in Gaza very little for the past 15 years and even abandoned settlements on the territory. It seems the Palestinians too prefer to remain "refugees" (if that term can be applied to people living somewhere for three generations with at least some degree of autonomy).
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
10mo ago
The Donald Trump-appointed judge’s move could undo years of efforts to enhance coordination between the government and social media companies. For more than a decade, the federal government has attempted to work with social media companies to address criminal activity, including child sexual abuse images and terrorism.
I thought we were talking about protected speech?
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1yr ago
Except it's not the same language, because when he says "take each man's censure" it means something totally different. I'd have a better chance at understanding "Oute of Oryent, I hardyly saye/Ne proved I never her precios pere.".
The heritage you want to pass on, of reading original Shakespeare and understanding everything he wrote, has been gone for hundreds of years.
the greatest author not just in English but in any language.
I don't think this is a widely held view, except perhaps among those who only speak English.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1mo ago
Murder rates are now below 90s levels since 2023: https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rates-drop
Which sociopolitical norms and policies contributed to this massive achievement?
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
8mo ago
Exercise with your partner and children.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
18d ago
I don't get it.
The key is that Tyndall showed CO2 absorbs IR, but this in and of itself isn’t the greenhouse effect. The effect is the (extra) warming a surface undergoes as a result of said absorption.
If you agree that CO2 absorbs IR, and therefore an atmosphere with more CO2 gets warmer than an atmosphere with less CO2 given a constant heat input (as far as I can tell this is experimentally verified), I don't see what there is to discuss.
The digression about how greenhouses don't work this way appears to be totally irrelevant to the question of whether the greenhouse effect exists. A rose by any other name etc etc.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
4mo ago
Who cares about what Israeli Jews think?
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6mo ago
Hamas is publishing photos of kidnapped women with blood between their legs.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
10mo ago
The physics argument is also wrong. It would be akin to saying that a chain link fence can stop a mosquito. Once we understood that aerosol transmission was how covid spread and not droplets the logic for masking was over.
This is not how N95 masks work. Their filtering efficiency is better for very small and very large particles than for medium ones. This is why people wear N95s (or better) when dealing with much more serious diseases than covid.
Cloth and surgical masks were always dubious though.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
21d ago
You see it's not enough that we eventually figure out robotic/AI alternatives to manual labor, and it's not even enough that they are strictly superior to human labor in every way, they have to be superior to devoting the same AI resources to something else while having humans dig the fucking hole.
And yet that's not how mining works in any country but the shittiest on earth, so it's not clear to me why the practice would suddenly spread.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
4mo ago
Eliminating property taxes. Texas property taxes are legitimately too high and have to be brought under some sort of control(and the GOP primary electorate are very heavily homeowners); this proposition is probably going to pass at like 99/1. What the legislature actually does with it is unclear, but I'd expect a stricter regulation on raising property appraisals(although nothing like california's prop 13; there are enough technocrats in the legislature to avoid something so stupid) coupled with a buydown of rates.
What's the alternative? Taxing income is way worse, that's actual productive activity being taxed. Sales tax (Fairtax style) is cool but voters hate it.
Any attempts to lighten the property tax load are inevitably going to be similar to prop 13. The legislature is unable to enact a law without a million carveouts. What you get is going to be way different from "we gotta keep grandma in her house".
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
8mo ago
You won't be experiencing company of any kind for too long if you avoid exercise and fresh air.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
4mo ago
‘Wait, I have no economic power, you've devalued my currency, so it's like $11 for a dozen eggs,
Eggs are currently $3.69 for 18 at my local target.
and my vote doesn't matter anymore. Well, then what do I have? Like what power do I have?’ And you're gonna get violence if you keep the shit up. And that's just the truth.
Are we doing "riots are the language of the unheard" with the opposite valence now?
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
8d ago
Everyone wins except those who don't want to live near shanties.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
5mo ago
Because that's the best they are going to get.
Gaza is under blockade because they elected a regime that ran on the platform of eradicating Jews and Israel.
It's premature to talk about differences in quality before it's even on the market.
For that matter, if it's so much worse, there's no need to ban it.
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