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19d ago
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Yes
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Red light yes, stop sign no. Very few people come to full stop at stop signs.
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No
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Yes, passing only, Cutting off and tail gating not fine.
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Depends but I'm more for an aggressive merge than stopping on the on-ramp. A general leave a space or two when approaching an onramp if I can't get over. So many times people don't accelerate into it.
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Same standards.
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Use the slow vehicle turn out no matter how fast you think you are.
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1mo ago
I prefer women who hold themselves to similar standards. I would recommend other men follow it for the reason Throwaway05 states, the downside is virtually none existent compared to the upside.
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2mo ago
Who are these 100% blank slatist CICO advocates? Especially around here in the land of "IQ is real and probably has a large genetic component."
Is/Ought... If you want oughts you have to start somewhere, this one starts with "self-ownership". If you're just an is guy, cool, not sure what the point of talking about it. Is there a axiomatic ought you'd rather start with?
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2mo ago
My guess is you and most other's here are high enough status that y'all tend not to associate with dumb/low conscientious/high time preference, fat people.
I know it wouldn't be The Motte if it wasn't 10,000 words of caveats. Yes, these are exceptions that apply to a minuscule number of people, yet a bunch of people use them to make excuses for why they're fat.
It would not surprise me one bit that certain drugs and conditions reduce self-control and other's increase it. Some things make desired outcomes easier and some things make them harder. If you've got lots of self-control and you get some condition or start some drugs that make it harder to keep weight off, reduce CI until you stop gaining weight.
I would bet you think I have some normie conception of self-control: "self-control is easy! Just don't eat." Nope, self-control is really hard, and you're probably mostly born with it, like IQ. Can a midwit get a PhD in math from Harvard...? Well, are they black? No? Very unlikely.
I will point out that Scott has given literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money to charity, so whatever else you want to say about the guy, it strikes me as very unfair to accuse him of only giving away other people’s money.
I will consider this if he working as hard as he can, living an ascetic life, giving it all away. One gets zero moral points taking the fruits of another person's labor.
I’ve obviously had to jettison some of the foundational tenets of Judeo-Christian morality.
Where did Jesus say one should advocate Caesar take money from others and redistribute it according to one's will?
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6mo ago
I'm usually don't disagree. Mostly just trying to expand the subject. An example of a "disagreement" would be going into Hanania's theories from The Origin's of Work. Something like "Simply passing laws banning DEI isn't going to work, you have to gut disparate impact jurisprudence." I know better than to try to go as redpill as defenestrating parts of the civil rights act, they would not know how to handle that.
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6mo ago
Neither, I haven't read any version of the Odyssey, I do follow Tyler Cowen quite closely so on his recommendation it was at the top of my list initially and now after the twitter blow up I'm leaning toward Fagles. Have you seen this side-by-side comparison?
Is this completely independent of the twitter blow up around Emily Wilson?
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6mo ago
You can go on a road trip and get them with cash:
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7mo ago
Taborrak
Aside is it just more or is Taborrak way better in podcast than text? I don't usually enjoy his posts on Marginal Revolution but think he's good on podcasts. I don't know what that says about me... but he's not the first person I've encountered that with.
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7mo ago
I've got a comment saved form /r/PoliticalDiscussion:
I'm calling shootings in at least six polling locations tomorrow, if not more.
I think I’m similar for the same reasons. If I ever leaned toward libertarianism, it was only for a very brief period. I always found the idea of "Everything the government does is the worst, and everything would be better if it ceased to exist" to be cringeworthy. For example, yes, I’m willing to tolerate school shootings so I can have easier access to guns. I was told this perspective would change when I had a kid… but nope. Legalization of drugs? The opioid epidemic has had zero effect on my stance, and people getting lazier on marijuana doesn’t change my opinion either.
I don’t argue for straight anarcho-capitalism much anymore; instead, I try to engage within the mindset of the person I’m speaking with. For instance, I’m against foreign intervention across the board, but if someone who voted for George W. Bush criticizes U.S. support for Ukraine, I’ll argue that it’s probably the best deal in foreign policy in decades.
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1mo ago
The guy could have been a troll, whatever
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2mo ago
In the United States, in the sense that it's relatively simple not to be poor? Yes. No, in that having lowing intelligence, high time preference, low conscientiousness makes it very hard to do the simple things.
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4mo ago
I have a under 2, and haven't had to fight any medical staff on vaccines. I don't remember our exact schedule but we spaced things out a lot more, and have skipped pretty much everything we didn't get as children. As you noted many seem to be geared towards degenerate parents. I got a vibe that there are several issues around babies that I highly suspect are from degenerate parents like co-sleeping and SIDS are likely because of parents killing their kid, drugs, or obesity.
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5mo ago
An amusing thing is Elon has directly responded to this kind of call out in the past.
What are you on about? You falsely said this was a border dispute. I was informing you if you were ignorant or calling out a lie.
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