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MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
10m ago
I think that is more about the class signification than the percentage ABV. High proof whisky is seen as a premium product and the people who drink it as whisky connoisseurs.
No, it's concern trolling laundered through a "moral, compassionate" lens.
See my analogy elsewhere in the thread to pro-choicers who insist that pro-lifers can't possibly be sincerely concerned about the lives of fetuses, and have to be using it as an excise to oppress women. No! You can disagree with the principles, or you can say (as I do) that this is an impractical way to implement those principles, but your opponents genuinely, sincerely hold those principles! Honest!
Your gloss on human trafficking vs. illegal immigration misses the mark completely due to this baffling refusal to believe that pro-immigration advocates care about immigrants' welfare as human beings, as an end unto itself. "Immigrants" aren't a means to some other end. Liberals approve of "illegal immigrants" because they think of them as individuals trying to act on their own desires whose freedom US border services are unfairly restricting; and they disapprove of "human trafficking" because they think of victims of human trafficking as slaves and abductees whose freedom is being unfairly restricted by the traffickers. This is entirely consistent, and incredibly obvious. If you do not grasp this, then your theory-of-mind of anyone to your left fails completely.
ThisIsSin
Liberty has an anti-privilege bias
19m ago
Biden didn't wake up one day and go out of his way to coax ten million people into coming to the US.
No, but the people whose organization Biden also belongs to actively did this.
These people want to come, therefore what right have we to infringe on their freedom by stopping them?
Why do we enforce laws against and obsess over human trafficking, but not illegal immigration, even though they're literally the same thing?
It's because one of them negatively affects the average left-wing voter (since when we say "human trafficking", we usually mean "for sex purposes", which means the average domestic woman's ability to demand a price for sex is adversely affected), and one is neutral to positive for that voter (since when we say "illegal immigration", we usually mean "for labor purposes", which means the average domestic man's ability to demand a fair price for labor is adversely affected).
and it is a fundamentally moral, compassionate one.
No, it's concern trolling laundered through a "moral, compassionate" lens.
Dean
Flairless
22m ago
But this wasn't the first place this happened. There really is something odd going on with reddit where a lot of subs end up degenerating into snark subs critical of the central figure.
Hm? It's a relatively common phenomenum in video game forums. Pretty typical tipping point culture.
Most fan groups have some fan distribution includes some balance of positive fans and disgruntled fans who more or less stay because being disgruntled becomes their hobby. Positive fans grow tired / bored with the content, while disgruntled fans grow larger as more people become disgrunted / have no where else to hang. Eventually, disgruntled fans hit a tipping poing towards becoming a decisive plurality as their toxicity starts to actively drive away positive fans, leaving a greater preponderance of disgruntled fans, making the forum a relatively toxic mess.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
30m ago
Is this a wall/window unit or central air? We have our wall units deep cleaned about once every two years or so. I don't know if it's planned obsolescence (or a racket) but the thinking is that Japanese wall units get a lot of crud that needs flushing out and otherwise gets breathed in and can cause irritants to those sensitive. This even when you run the self clean mode and/or clean out the removable filters.
thejdizzler
30m ago
Also divided on alcohol right now. On one hand like you say, it's extremely Lindy. On the other hand, even a drink will plummet my HRV the next day. I've settled on a compromise: drinking NA beer. Helps with not feeling super awkward not having a drink but doesn't cause the same health effects
whatihear
32m ago
Japan has far fewer economic migrants than other developed countries. That has changed a little recently (and immediately prompted a turn to the right politically). Including them on this list seems unreasonable unless you count having any number of economic migrants at all. There is clearly a difference between what Japan has allowed and what Europe or the United States has allowed.
Totalitarianit
40m ago
I can understand the avoidance of IQ topics, given the incendiary nature of them, and to that extent I probably agree with Sam (and maybe Ezra?) that they probably shouldn't be so openly talked about. Too many bad actors.
Ezra just came off so slippery in a bad way in that exchange.
Harris criticized the Vox article that was written by another journalist. Klein then claimed he was editor-in-chief at the time, but didn’t assign or edit it, but that he stood by it, but that it’s ultimately on him as editor-in-chief, but that it was a good article, but that he can only speak from his perspective.
He also said:
"And by the way I’m not here to say you’re racist, I don’t think you are. We have not called you one." Of course, after that he went on to explain all the racially damaging things he thought Sam had done. To Ezra, I guess Sam was (is) effectively a racist, not an intentional racist. That was really the progressive argument in a nutshell for about 10 years.
MachineElfPaladin
40m ago
It is not the continuation of personality and experience of the biological you, as there is continuity between the sleeping you of last night and the waking you of today and the you of tomorrow.
This is begging the question. I mean, I'll grant that once the copy is made, the digital version and the biological version are not the same person, but that doesn't mean they can't have been the same person. From the perspective of the a-week-before-the-procedure SMH, he anticipates waking up to both sets of experiences.
Counter-thought-experiment: the aliens need to actually open up the skull, remove the brain, and do some very detailed but non-destructive inspections to make aforesaid digital copy, but they don't quite have enough mastery of human biological processes to put it back in. Instead they keep the brain in a life-support tank, feeding it exactly the sense data the digital copy would have received and treating the output the same way the digital copy's output would be. They also put the digital copy in a small computer that they put in the vacant brainspace, hook up to the body's nervous system, and seal the skull back up before waking the person. They don't tell people that they do this because they expect humans to act weird about it and don't think the distinction is relevant.
Which is the real person, the brain-in-a-jar that thinks it's a digital copy, or the computer-piloting-a-meat-body that thinks it's been scanned but otherwise unaffected?
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
47m ago
Protecting one's borders is no more violence than locking the door to your house is violence to your neighbors. The left's position on this topic is, frankly, nonsense. Understanding it does not justify it.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
48m ago
Yes, they totally didn't do a whole bunch of other things that are more likely to be responsible for their outcome.
TK-421
54m ago
For me, cryonics is yet another attempt to fill the God-shaped hole in society.
Well, yeah. For me at least it's explicitly about filling the God-shaped hole in reality. If I thought religion could credibly - even at very low probability, like cryonics - offer a path to immortality, I'd take it. I very much want what religion is selling, there's just nothing it has in stock that can fulfill my order.
hydroacetylene
54m ago
I mean... the communist block arguably qualifies.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
56m ago
Just once I'd like to see an example of a country that didn't follow suit and suffered some horrible negative consequences.
Also: sure, I think the leaders of most of these countries are on board for the world depopulation train.
TK-421
59m ago
Sorry, I don't think I explained the dilemma well. Taking a treatment that has an 80% - or 10%, or .5% - chance of saving your life is obviously the right choice. Dying due to the accident or dying due to complications from the emergency treatment is basically the same result.
The 20% in question is the risk that the treatment successfully saves my life but causes significant brain damage. Scenarios where I live but I'm in a minimally conscious state or have other significant deficits.
When I examine my decision making around how I should choose in this (very low probability) scenario, I find that my concern isn't really quality of life related. If I could somehow know that these injuries wouldn't destroy information in my brain in a way that even future sci-fi medicine couldn't restore then I would prefer to take the treatment. I'd live the remainder of my life with that damage, die, and (in this ideal, also very low probability scenario) be restored. The whole idea of cryonics, to me, is to preserve as much information as possible to increase the probability that some set of future technologies can restore a person from that information. My instinct is to take the option that more likely preserves the most information.
I don't know why I keep getting replies which assume that I agree with this position when I specifically began my second paragraph with "Let this not be mistaken for a pro-open-borders argument on my part". I am not trying to justify it. I am only trying to get people to understand it. But I don't think OP did understand it, with that baffling talk of "for no other reason than he wanted to".
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