sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
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sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1mo ago
The most hilarious part is that Elizabeth Warren wrote favorably about school vouchers in The Two Income Trap. She also expressed a decidedly mixed view on women entering the workforce. The past really is a foreign country.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
7mo ago
Who says AA is not good just because scotus said it was illegal? Certainly not Harvard, anyway, who redoubled their commitment to achieving their desired demographics by hook or by crook.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
2mo ago
While looking for the source of these quotes I found a reddit thread where everyone dunked on Alito for being so stupid as to try to comprehend YouTube as a newspaper, even though he clearly is making a joke, even implying that YouTube is nothing like a newspaper.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6mo ago
We know that the No campaign was funded and resourced by conservative and international interests who have no stake or genuine interest in the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We know this funding supported multiple No campaigns that intentionally argued in varying directions to create doubt and fear in both non-Indigenous and Indigenous communities.
AFAICT 'yes' outspent 'no' by orders of magnitude. Another nail in the coffin for those who think that you can just buy any election.
There has always been racism against First Nations people in Australia. It increased with multiple daily instances during the campaign and was a powerful driver for the No campaign. But this campaign went beyond just racism. ‘If you don't know - Vote No’ gave expression to ignorance and licensed the abandonment of civic responsibility on the part of many voters who voted No. This shameful victory belongs to the Institute of Public Affairs, the Centre for Independent Studies and mainstream media.
It's funny because lots of people across the spectrum follow "if you don't know vote no" when it comes to referendums where I live. It caught me totally off guard to see that this was such a vehement point of contention in the Australian referendum.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
9mo ago
Steelman: books are in fact cool, and zoomers would benefit from touching something that doesn't have a screen in it.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1yr ago
There's some cream skimming by private schools but there really is a billion dollars on the sidewalk here that nobody will pick up because it would ruin teachers' self image.
Direct instruction is meaningfully better than other methods: https://psych.athabascau.ca/open/engelmann/direct-evid.php
Being able to fire teachers also makes a difference: https://www.econtalk.org/terry-moe-on-educational-reform-katrina-and-hidden-power/
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
5mo ago
Stereotype threat probably does not exist. It's publication biased to shit and what is published likely does not replicate.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
16d ago
It really only hurts renters whose parents aren't homeonwers and therefore won't inherit that wealth. Most young Canadians, even if they rent, have parents who are benefiting from this and therefore shouldn't really complain (although they do).
This doesn't really make sense.
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people don't want to wait for their parents to kick the bucket to afford a house
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if you have siblings, you are likely not getting the house anyway
What people want is to spend a reasonable amount of money on housing, not comfort themselves with the thought of an upcoming windfall in a few decades after a (for most people) traumatic event.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6mo ago
You cannot keep two million people living in the conditions people in Gaza are living in and expect peace.
What exactly is so bad about Gaza?
As far as I can tell, until the recent turmoil:
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they had electricity
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life expectancy was 75 years so they presumably have some reasonable healthcare
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obesity rate is 20% so presumably they have enough to eat
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they can't leave, but the blockade only begun in earnest after the battle of gaza in 2007. Also Egypt is also not letting them in
I wouldn't want to personally live there, but it didn't exactly seem like hell on earth and much of what's wrong with it is the result of the gazans' own actions.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
9mo ago
People here hate to admit it but the future will be filled with tall, good-looking chads who are good at socializing.
A few moments more of thought leads to the conclusion that the present is already filled with such people.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
19d ago
Tragic, but that really illustrates why being thrown clear is not a good thing.
There's a lot of safetyist excesses but people don't remember that until the 70s you'd be impaled by the steering column in case of a crash. There's been a tremendous amount of actually useful improvements by the safetyists that nobody notices or thinks about anymore because they've become the air we breathe.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
3mo ago
All of human history no one thought to free the slaves, until one day from out of nowhere.....the richest and most technologically advanced society on earth invented a way to turn fossil fuels into energy and all the sudden slavery and the racism that supported it isn't strictly necessary. Hence "moral progress".
This didn't pass the sniff test, and sure enough, France outlawed slavery in the 14th century.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
4mo ago
Age of credit lines is only like 15% of the fico score. You can have a pretty good score two years after opening your first card (I didn't have a credit card until college).
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
5mo ago
Large parts of the Western world have embraced the idea of home ownership as an investment vehicle
The situation is totally fucked and is not going to improve until this stops, because this is the description of a ponzi scheme. You can't have house prices going up all the time and have the remain affordable to entrants in the long run. The math simply is not mathing.
Unfortunately the hole is dug really really deep and there's very little appetite to stop digging. The situation in Canada seems even worse than in the US - at least here the market deflated after 2008 so people who had the good sense to be born in the 80s or earlier could pick up some nice deals. In Canada the market has just kept going up.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
8mo ago
I assumed he was Hindu so was trying to figure out what he meant. So I had to go look at his Wikipedia and find out what that meant. He’s a monotheistic Hindu. I don’t know if that’s a true belief or something adopted to be more palatable to the right.
There's some equivocation among some Hindus about the number of gods, with some taking the view that the big pantheon is really just emanations of some core underlying divinity. But you will also see Hindus of all kinds say things like "god bless".
In my experience there's not really a core set of beliefs that all Hindus subscribe to (beyond perhaps the very basics). There's certainly nothing like a Catholic catechism.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
4mo ago
acts to keep white people at the top of the socio-economic heap
The awkward part is that Asians have higher income and homeownership rates (among other outcomes) than white people.
Prop 13 is also strangling the city and makes it impossible to enter the real estate market if you're not earning huge amounts of money. If you're a middle class Angeleno, resign yourself to living with your parents until they keel over and inherit the house (I hope you don't have siblings!), move out to bumfuck nowhere on the edge of town, or rent forever.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
4mo ago
Most guys I see at the gym are wearing baggy basketball shorts or joggers. Most women at the gym I see are wearing yoga pants.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
10mo ago
For my part, it's simply that the equal protection clause exists. If that's no good anymore, then okay, let's amend the constitution according to the process it lays out. But laws for thee and not for me is not an acceptable equilibrium.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1yr ago
teenage carjackers murdered a man not even that long ago in DC!
There really ought to be a distinction between trying to break into a car with nobody in it (the OP) and jacking a car with a weapon while someone is driving it.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1mo ago
The thing I have been noticing recently is, when a project inevitably blows past all budgets and timetables, people are like "we should just finish it, the cost won't matter decades from now".
Of course, resources are finite and there is, in fact, a cost to doing stuff that is not worth the effort.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
2mo ago
I was only pretending to
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My ideal system: applicants strip naked, anoint themselves with oil, then are dropped together innawoods with nothing but a knife. The goal is to reach a pickup point a hundred miles away where 100 of them will be randomly selected to go on to stage 2. This will require them to work together while having a plan to betray their comrades, which is important for elite. Them being naked encourages looksism in their alliances, which is a good thing because the elite should be beautiful, solid, supple, tight, and golden skinned.
For stage 2 they are immediately driven over to the Mr Olympia stage and pose in front of 5000 people next to actual contestanfs. This will test their bullshitting and out-angling skills, which are the most important elite skills (have to look like the bigger guy in the hand shake photo ops).
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