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functor
39m ago
Why would conservatives ally with people who have a culture fundamentally opposed to European/western values whose lobbying groups have been solidly against the interests of western conservatism? The natural relation between western conservatives and jews is one of antagonism and it has been the case for 2000 years. Israel is a massive waste of tax money and AIPAC is a major foreign influence on politics.
The ADL got conservatives banned off twitter and now they are supposed to suck up to them?
distic
39m ago
I don't know how the beef lobby computes it (and whether they import cereal from foreign countries) but if you take account for all animal feed (not just beef) it is more than 7%:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-cereals-animal-feed?tab=chart
release more methane than would be released by the natural decomposition of the forage material?
Honestly I don't know but the point is not to let the cereal decompose, that would be dumb. It's to use those lands to produce something else, something that wouldn't produce any CH4 and ideally that would absorb a bit of it. Anyway it would be better to burn the cereals and to produce energy with it (we get no CH4 - worse than CO2 - and more energy).
SerialStateLineXer
1hr ago
I was mostly referring to the idea that removing degree requirements would lead to hiring more black people; as discussed in the comment I linked, degree requirements actually benefit black people.
But yeah, it's slim pickings at HBCUs, not only because of the IQ gap, but also because top universities take all the best black students. Howard's interquartile SAT range is 1050-1290.
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
1hr ago
The far right has little knowledge of how ultra orthodox communities operate, which is a shame because it’s the perfect discursive weapon: either you must defend the orthodox practices (and then approve of similar white aspirations), or you must criticize them (and then ask, “how did they steal one billion dollars in public funds and not be prosecuted”)? It is a win-win discursive tool.
I can’t help but feel that Elon purposefully drew attention to Fuentes, by posting multiple replies about him. Yeah, he can say “well akshually I’m philosemitic”, and maybe he is, but by his actions he is making hundreds of thousands check him out. I also find the Andrew/Tristan Tate interactions notable; it’s hard to overstate how influential Andrew Tate is for, like, 9-16yo boys of diverse backgrounds. Tate essentially stamping approval on Nick Fuentes is a strange phenomenon which is leading impressionable young boys to his influence. It’s also pretty funny how the ADL has negligible public support: The ADL’s tweet about Nick Fuentes and Nick Fuentes’ first tweet had the same views for a time, but Fuentes had 80x the likes (adjusted for his persona non grata status among normies, maybe 120x the likes?). The ADL is the arm of wealthy donors — it has no backers among the common folk.
zeke5123a
1hr ago
This is one reason why teaching is a popular career for women who want to take time off to raise kids. It is easier to get back into teaching compared to other careers as there isn’t as much technical changes.
5434a
1hr ago
If you can you could turn over a couple of spade's worth of garden soil each day, I imagine she'll find it fairly quickly if there's anything worthwhile in there and it's not much more work than filling up a feeder.
AvocadoPanic
1hr ago
The beef lobby claim
7% of total corn produced in the U.S. is fed to feedlot cattle
Corn acreage used to feed feedlot cattle is 0.2% of total U.S. land area, 1.4% of total U.S. cropland acres, and 7% of total U.S. harvested corn acres.
The problem is the 7% of corn acres?
Does the bacteria in the cow that releases methane, release more methane than would be released by the natural decomposition of the forage material?
No_one
1hr ago
'years of education' .. is also one of the things most strongly associated with infertility, no ?
zeke5123a
2hr ago
It isn’t merely which degrees but which schools, how to get into schools, etc etc.
zeke5123a
2hr ago
If Fuentes was smart, he would say he opposes the secular Jew but loves the Orthodox Jew. It renders the claim of anti semitism hollow while allowing him to say he appreciates the ethnic enclaves created by the ultra orthodox and wants something like that for white people.
With that said, for the first time in a long time Jewish support is up for grabs. The republicans would be silly to not dismiss Fuentes quickly. The one thing they should say though is “welcome to be hated — just like whites have been for awhile.”
zeke5123a
2hr ago
One thing that is interesting (at least to me) is whether even if the diagnostic tests were useful once upon a time do you run into an observer effect rendering the diagnostic useless?
Terracotta
2hr ago
Really? Sure, there's lots of male respect for the cute twenty/thirtysomething new mom with a baby or two on her hip. Let's even be charitable and assume this does show genuine value for the Life-Nurturing Feminine, not just that hot moms are hot. But whatever that value is, it localizes pretty strictly around the 5-10 years of baby-toddler momhood. In mass culture, middle-aged moms of tweens and teens are bad cops and out-of-touch laughingstocks, older moms of grown-up kids are the ones who get vented about in therapy, accused of narcissism/busybodyness and subjected to aggressive "boundary-setting" if they're even tolerated in the kids' lives at all. Is it a wise choice for a woman to opt into an identity with a mandatory retirement policy that's at most decade out? What's she supposed to envision doing for the rest of the time?
Ditto6687
2hr ago
They are certainly powerful enough to get America to send billions in aid to a country that seems far more brutal in their war than Russia, as part of the same package that is meant to punish Russia for being brutal.
Edit: just remembered that American evangelicals have weird beliefs about Israel + geopolitical concerns. That might be a better explanation for the blatant hypocrisy of supporting Israel's actions in Gaza than Jewish power.
zPvQINBQvfFR
2hr ago
There are startups working on synthetic milk. Seems like it would be easier to make than synthetic meat. At least nobody should complain about texture.
Crowstep
2hr ago
If that were true, we would expect traditional societies to be more willing to allow women to suffer and die in place of men, because they have less value.
Except we don't. Every human society treats men as disposable relative to women.
However human psychology shakes out in any particular society, I think 'high status vs low status' is simply an inappropriate measure to use when comparing the stations of men and women. Men and women are not competing ethnic or religious groups, where power and status differentials can be clear, deliberate and explicit. The relationship is more complicated than that.
doantkq
2hr ago
Nick Fuentes is back on Twitter/X after a personal intervention from Elon Musk, and Musk says he'll remain there "if he does not violate the law". The Hateful Conduct policy is the closest thing I've found to a list of prohibited types of speech, but several of the examples provided would not prohibited under the First Amendment, so it remains unclear exactly what can get a person banned. For instance, this seems like it falls within the scope of the Hateful Conduct policy, but Fuentes is not going to be criminally prosecuted for it.
In any event, I anticipate that Fuentes is going to be a lot smarter when it comes to what he says. He and the rest of the far right have noticed a perceptible vibe shift among the right and this is not an opportunity to be wasted. While I have serious doubts that most of their talking points will enter the mainstream, it's undeniable that some of their ideas, mostly the antisemitism, have gained traction in the Musk era. What's more, Fuentes and other dissident right personalities have shown a willingness to team up with unexpected allies (maybe not completely unexpected if one knows the history of black nationalism) if it it means "redpilling" the masses on the Jews. The internet was treated to some really weird crossovers in the aftermath. The recent spat between Andrew Tate and Ben Shapiro is another example, and it's no coincidence that Tate was one of the first people that Fuentes interacted with after his unban.
For their part, the media is eager to continue profiling Fuentes. At the time I'm writing this, there are stories in Forbes, Axios, Business Insider and a bunch of other outlets about his return to Twitter. Owing to a combination of luck and his own unique brand of showmanship, Fuentes has transformed himself into probably the most prominent genuinely far right figure in America. What will be most interesting (and frightening) to see is just how much people like Fuentes can continue breaking into the mainstream.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2hr ago
Arrival is worth watching. Don't look anything up about it before watching, assuming that's one you haven't seen.
Crowstep
2hr ago
That 12% gap seems pretty large to me (presumably it's mostly driven by motherhood). But OP was talking about working in a particular field, not employment more generally. We should expect college graduates (who are smarter than average) to mostly be gainfully employed. That's different from studying Psychology and actually getting a job as a therapist or whatever.
NunoSempere
2hr ago
Thanks a lot for this. Do you have a pointer to your code, or could you put it up on Github/Codeberg?
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
3hr ago
How does that work if they can't make rent? Are they getting kicked out? Are they fat?
It’s a big failure mode for radical organizations. Say what you will about BLM activists, the leader embezzling millions in donations wasnt a positive for their cause.
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