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A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
2d ago
rural physicians
https://youtube.com/watch?v=haPcdobyINc?si=ncLFUNKgJeahFTyU&t=10
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2d ago
If we didn't then you would just abandon huge rural areas because the investment there simply gets a worse return on lives saved than adding another hospital in a dense city where the ED is packed every day.
We ALREADY choose to cause more deaths in certain places for certain reasons
You don't think we invest in urban hospitals until the point where diminishing returns make it so that it saves more lives to open a hospital in a more rural area, rather than another one in a city?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2d ago
AFAIK, Tesla’s battery and motor tech is very competitive
I thought they were buying their batteries from third parties?
SSCReader
2d ago
But the term isn't just about "allocating scarce resources and who should get them", it's "allocating them in such a way, that you are predictably causing more deaths than an alternative, traditional allocation".
Again this is NOT new. In Public Health policy we already take into account things other than just number of lives saved. If we didn't then you would just abandon huge rural areas because the investment there simply gets a worse return on lives saved than adding another hospital in a dense city where the ED is packed every day.
We ALREADY choose to cause more deaths in certain places for certain reasons. We trade off speed limits on safety vs efficiency and on and on. That doesn't mean any particular reason is a good one of course, it has to be examined in light of what you are trying to accomplish, but choosing to predictably cause more deaths is a valid trade-off. If you think poor or rural people should get healthcare resources that could save more urban people that is a valid option. If you think the economic benefits of faster commutes is worth 10 deaths a year, that's also a valid option. At the population level deaths are a trade off for other things.
In fact many people argued here that we should have allowed more deaths from Covid in order to not tank the economy as much and disrupt schooling and the like. It's already established that deaths are tradeable for other values. We're just quibbling over which ones and why. So the fact it predictably causes more deaths is not in and of itself a useful critique. Whose deaths? Why? You have to look at the object level not the meta level.
When leftists used violence on rightists during the fire-alarm pulling era, it was not an act of desperation, but a demonstration of pure power. The extensive infrastructure used to justify and protect them has been dismantled. Now they experience equality for the first time, and call it oppression.
Similarly, this is not desperation, but an admiral being killed as encouragement to the others.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2d ago
Early space suits were very hard to work in because constant-volume flexible pressure vessels are hard. This has gotten better, but isn't a fully solved problem. In much the same way that early aircraft required large forces on the controls (flying a B-17 I'm told is an arm workout on a good day, doubly so when the trim settings are damaged). It doesn't take a serious bodybuilder to fly an Airbus today, though.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
2d ago
the way you articulate it significantly affects how it goes on to be perceived and thought about.
Yeah, that's a good way to put what I was trying to get at elsewhere with a Ghostbusters reference. Choosing the form of the destroyer is a meaningful step!
MayorofOysterville
2d ago
And of course, the very idea that individuals may have innate differences that cannot be attributed to their environment is utter anathema to Marxist orthodoxy—
This is a common point I see repeated about Communism, but in practice it's more promoted by liberals and Western Marxists then actual Communist regimes. Both the Soviet and Chinese education system are hugely based around finding talented students and elevating them through intense educations. The actual implementation of blank slate equity type programs and elimination of gifted tracks is an oddity of Western capitalist countries neither the Soviets or Chinese ever attempted to put anything like that into practice. And the leaders of both were willing to make statements about people groups that would make most Western leaders faint.
Your absolutely right that the Chinese and especially Xi Jinping are true believers in Marxism but it's a syncretized and Sinicized, Marxism full of Han chauvinism. Very few Chinese ascribe to blank slate ideology and I don't think the government particularly cares about promoting it or even subscribes to it themselves. I feel like trying to predict the CCP based on "Orthodox Marxism" Is like trying to predict the behavior of Evangelicals based on the Catechism Catholic Church, you might get some hits but it's not a useful way to go about it. For example the CCP is comfortable not suppressing theories about Chinese being a separate race of humans descended from a different ancestor, while these theories are not mainstream they aren't taboo either. The PRC is a national project for Chinese and nationalism and pride in China are off the charts, it's not a self hating liberal western country but neither is it a post national experiment like the Soviet Union. The CCP is out to benefit Chinese and justifies it's rule as a meritocratic rule of experts.
I agree the CCP reaction will be interesting and they may very well be hard against all this, but if they are it's not going to be against based on a slaveish adherence to blank state theories that they don't subscribe to and their entire society is organized in opposition to.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
AFAIK, Tesla’s battery and motor tech is very competitive, and sees use in aftermarket retrofits. That can’t be a huge market, and I suppose it could be a political or branding statement, but I take it as evidence that their fundamental parts are decent.
It’s the interiors and user experience that has always bothered me about Teslas. Fragile paneling, that big ugly screen… I could tell a story where Tesla was able to surpass legacy automakers in their core design, but failed (or chose not) to compete on making it feel luxury. That’s the kind of decision I could see Musk making, especially when pressed for time and money. But perhaps it’s too tidy .
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
What he really needs to do is negotiate tariffs with Powell instead of the Europeans. Powell has more of what he wants, and is a better negotiator.
PokerPirate
2d ago
My wife basically arranges all my/our socialization. From my perspective, people just randomly show up and leave. I login to the motte when I'm waiting for the code to compile.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
2d ago
the term would be gibberish to him
Indeed, and it continues to be! I think we're talking past each other a bit and/or you're underestimating the degree to which academia shapes a thing by naming the unnamed. It is not The Way, but in describing it they hem it in from it may otherwise have been. The thing that existed before is not the same that exists after, and in some sense can never be again.
At any rate, I appreciate the input and your general tendency to remain calm and forthright.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
2d ago
I don't expect us to come to agree on much of anything but I always appreciate your input.
This particular example enrages me because it was much more direct than what I think you're suggesting- it was about withholding vaccines from older, high-risk populations and distributing them to young, low-risk populations by virtue of race. I think the people that suggested this should've been first in line to Seven Pounds for health equity, if they believed it so strongly.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
I’m not convinced that it makes sense to count potential people as, well, people.
The eggs which are never fertilized don’t get to be living people, either.
TIRM
2d ago
Also the main character has a fatal heart condition and says he has a 99% chance of heart failure with a few years. He collapses clutching his chest partway through the film. He is entirely medically unqualified to go on a multiyear space program.
The central point of the film is the opposite of what was intended. They would be right to reject him.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
2d ago
trying to negotiate an accounting identity ... which is precisely the thing Trump says he wants them to stop doing
And is now firing people for similar! If he wants Powell to lower rates, bad job numbers would help...
TIRM
2d ago
I'm quite skeptical about an exodus of American academics. I'll believe it when I see it. My prediction is a tiny portion actually leaves.
sodiummuffin
2d ago
That isn't really how people think about counterfactual people in other contexts. Relevant post from Scott:
sammysoccer411
2d ago
Maybe.
It seems to me that this requires the belief that a person is defined by their DNA, either 1. axiomatically, or because 2. the soul exists, and is inextricably linked to one's DNA.
Counterpoint--in the aftermath of Chernobyl and the atomic blasts in Japan, we have empirically witnessed people with tremendous DNA damage survive for several hours or days. Many of them could still talk, express their memories, behave as they always had. Due to the alterations in their DNA, would it be accurate to say that these people were, in fact, entirely different people to what 'they' were before?
But cisheteronormativity doesn't refer to that, not precisely. By the act of naming, by the deliberate use of 'cis' and 'hetero' which are nouns with explicit opposites 'trans' and 'homo', it posits cisheteronormativity as one of many options, it refers to 'the pervasive societal assumption that everyone is cisgender and heterosexual, and that these are the only acceptable or natural ways to be, despite the wrongness of this fact as indicated by the existence of this word'.
I know that one can go down the rabbit-hole on this kind of reasoning, but there's still something to it. Real cisheteronormative societies don't have a word for cisheteronormativity in the same way that fish don't have a word for water. That's why they're cisheteronormative! And nobody would understand it if you tried to explain it to them, they would say, 'Well yeah, men sleep with women and make kids, that's how it works. Even people who bugger sheep know that. What's wrong with you?' The cisheteronormative word for 'cisheteronormative' is 'normal'.
A society where people use 'cisheteronormativity' in conversation is simply not the same as one where people don't. The creation of the word cisheteronormative innately destroys cisheteronormativity.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
2d ago
I just bought a Tesla, and I didn't find any of the other American market very competitive on price, and none of them offered FSD.
FtSoA
2d ago
I guess it depends on what your standard for pulls is
I think it's pretty clear that the P320 stock trigger pull is standard for its class. It does not have a trigger safety, of course, and in general striker pistols are far lighter than a DA pull. Which is why Glock Leg was such a thing when police departments started moving away from revolvers and DA/SA pistols.
Imagine if this had happened in the present social media era: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/11/18/armed-and-unready/419a50bf-23b0-4175-93ee-33211044c8df/
the P320 did poorly on the drop safety tests resulting in a redesign
The P320 passed industry drop-safe testing standards. Through extra testing outside those standards, it was late found a very particular kind of drop did cause an issue. The XM17 drop testing found essentially the same issue with the same fix--lighter parts to reduce inertia issues.
https://thrumylens.org/featured/my-thoughts-on-the-sig-p320-30-degree-drop-failure/
some rather unique elements to its design such as a fully cocked striker on recoil that no one else has done (including Sig on their other guns like the P365)
As an overly committed P365 owner, I assure you they are also fully cocked. While broadly similar, it is a different FCU design. For one thing, the rails on the P365 go the whole length of the FCU.
but I havent heard much about any of their testing, there doesnt appear to be a whole lot of it done
Seriously? This is probably the most tested gun in history between common adoption worldwide in militaries and LE agencies, plus a huge private market. And now several years of ongoing drama.
Whatever the problem is, it's nonobvious because you have all kinds of people trying to find it. My understanding is that this is the likely explanation for the ones firing in holsters (found in YouTube comments):
Here’s how it goes off uncommanded: grip modules too tight, and loose slide/frame lockups. This is the combination. The trigger bar doesn’t move freely in the grip module, and can hang up with trigger partially pulled. This defeats the striker safety. Then, a loose slide rocking on the FCU rails pulls the striker off the seer and… bang. It’s a problem with tolerances- but you need this exact combination of bad tolerances to have a problem. It’s not difficult to do at all, but you need to mix/match FCUs and grips until you get the magic combo. It’s not ONE flaw, it’s two. And you require BOTH to make it unsafe.
At the end of the day, Sig has handled this poorly and, even if I discount like 50% of the alleged uncommanded discharges as actually negligent discharges, there's some kind of manufacturing/design/wear/tolerance flaw that is insufficiently rare and so the problem isn't going away. If I were Sig, I'd probably halt all P320 production, figure out some kind of safety field test to identify units with the flaw(s), and then not resume production until a full fix was in place.
On the other hand, if it turns out the USAF incident was actually not as popularly described (I'm seeing some reports it was airmen fooling around), then a lot of people should eat some crow.
NunoSempere
2d ago
The forum was one that was trying really hard to be heterogenous in terms of opinions and also to be nice and moderating it was a nightmare ... A: Here's the troll who comes by only to post egregiously offensive "go kill yourself [list of slurs]",
B: Here's the more subtle troll, who keeps toeing the line as much as he can get away with.
C: here's the user who is not a troll. They actually do participate in discussion and are clearly trying to be a part of the community. They're also abrasive and/or obnoxious and/or inflammatory.
D: And then here's the final type of user that's problematic as a mod: They're a sensitive snowflake. Honestly they need to be sub-divided further, because some of them are just born snowflakes that can't handle any opposition to their viewpoint at all, and others are retaliatory snowflakes, because if I got a ban for three days for saying this opinion is dumb then that guy also needs to get a ban for three days for saying this other opinion is dumb.
I had a similar experience. From your perspective I would have been C or D. From my perspective, the moderators were Dolores Umbridge equivalents, trying to keep the appearance of legitimate discourse but also not really being able to take legitimate challenges to the sensitive consensus. Eventually I just left when enough Bs left as well.
It's honestly too bad that bad UX on Li-Ion powered electronics understandably soured people on electric cars.
It's a subtle thing, but when you're using your smartphone and the battery says 100% until it completely dies in the cold, or has enough energy to say "fuck you, powering down", that has consequences when companies want to put the same batteries in electric cars- people remember their devices were [either only in perception, or in actual fact] used to abuse them and think "oh, these cars have unreliable fuel gauges and their usable capacity runs into the ground after X time".
Honestly, though, I just want a Roadster. Best product Tesla ever made, mainly because the only parts they did make were the powertrain.
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