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Throwaway05
3m ago
Die
Very funny Worf, eat any good books lately?
HaroldWilson
5m ago
I fail to see how their admin can get even close to balancing the budget.
What makes you think Trump cares at all about this? Nothing he has ever done indicates any kind of concern for the deficit - even the DOGE spree ended up targeting 'woke' spending specifically rather than 'waste' writ large. And of course he's lining up for the usual Republican budget-busting tax cut.
Shrike
8m ago
Absolutely. For fun I'd even add the AI in Alien (1979), which is programmed perfectly to serve its masters but by that very token is indifferent to its fellow humans and even its own survival in a way a rational human would not be.
cjet79
22m ago
I've been listening to a Tim Dillon (a standup comedian) for a lot of my political news. He called it a while back that Musk and Vivek were going to be fall guys.
The strategy that makes sense to me, and I think the one they've talked about before is to break down the government for the first part of the administration and then build it back up in the form they want for the second part. The building up will be easier if done by someone with a clean record. Someone seen as a voice of reason and stability.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
27m ago
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
34m ago
How can people trust with this level of malfeasance? How do we get the trust back?
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, a powerful immortal trickster being ("Q") who has tangled with the Enterprise many times appears on the bridge of the Enterprise. He tells a story of having his powers stripped for his sins and begs the crew's help. The crew are, understandably, skeptical. He plaintively claims to be mortal and asks what he can do to convince the crew that he is indeed mortal. The Enterprise's Klingon security officer has the answer:
Die.
Mantergeistmann
1hr ago
That sort of mentality would probably do a lot for police reform, too.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1hr ago
Yes, I mean to say "mirandizing".
benmmurphy
1hr ago
If you check the raw emails you can also see someone warned them about controlling for birth weight but they ignored the warning.
https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/U-MN-FOIA-concordance.pdf
I was talking with a health economist about it & he asked 2 questions.
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[2] When discussing possible mechanisms, he asked whether there is an effect on birth weight (and I would add gestational age). I said that this is conditional on the hospital stay when giving birth, so there's not much scope for affecting these at that point. He suspected that the patient-physician relationships might pre-date birth and we might see a legitimate good effect on it. Alternatively, seeing nothing could be interpreted as evidence against selection, a placebo. These competing interpretations make it a bit dicey.
[2] We do have controls for low weight and early term in the estimations. Do you want me to split based on these?
[2] No. The idea would be to use them as outcomes, rather than controls. But I'm not sure we want to go down that road. It could be a mechanism but it requires that the baby's doctor (not the mom's) exert some influence during the pregnancy. Given that we think the mother's doctor is more important prenatally than the baby's, it would be more informative if we could see the effect of mother's doctor race on child birth weight and gestation. But this is not possible, I think.
Throwaway05
1hr ago
They just thought it was worth the risk.
No, most people were fooled just as much as anyone else was. Everyone in medicine is in the academia basically, and most of the academy are true believers.
ThenElection
1hr ago
This might just be a measure of partisanship, though. Two years ago, would the results be different?
Listening
1hr ago
How do we get the trust back?
You don't? I'm pretty sure the correct answer is "make like the police and get defunded." Or get subject to a constant background level of social opprobrium for the rest of your life. Same difference.
Everybody knew what they were getting into when they kicked this off. They just thought it was worth the risk.
urquan
I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness.
1hr ago
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This is an online poll.
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The alternative was Trump, so it became a fargroup vs. outgroup question.
I really don’t see the left having much admiration for China, they’re too involved in religious repression of Muslim minorities and too ethnically-chauvinist for the social-and-not-economic left to find them appealing. There’s also the one-child policy legacy, widely understood as a policy that led to mass-murder of female infants and thus is seen as horrifically misogynist (it’s literally an example of the government controlling women’s reproductive rights!). I’m sure there’s some tankies somewhere who admire Mr. Xi, but they’re not mainstream.
If anything, “China is not trustworthy and can’t be allowed to grow in power” is the one foreign policy matter where there’s broad agreement across the political spectrum in the US. See strong support for the Hong Kong protesters, spy balloon fiasco, scandals about Chinese students being spies, fear of a war over Taiwan, the CHIPs Act (that failed). There’s bipartisan support for a firm position against China and the progressive left has no interest in allying with them. I suspect if tensions over Taiwan ever went hot, left-wingers would be more likely than right-wingers to support war; it would be another Ukraine.
I know some grassroots right-wingers who’ve bought into the propaganda that Russia is some great haven for social conservatism, but I don’t know any left-wingers who believe China is anything but a repressive authoritarian regime. Unlike the Soviet Union, they don’t have the cover of limited information — when an elderly official was dragged out of a party meeting it was all over Twitter — and people on the ground who speak English like the people of Hong Kong and Taiwan can speak to how China’s actions threaten their freedom.
Plus, their regional dominance threatens Japan, and everyone in America seems to agree the Japanese are cool.
phailyoor
1hr ago
Texas v. DHS (not the other Texas v. DHS)
https://aflegal.org/litigation/texas-et-al-v-dhs-et-al-chnv-parole-case/
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1hr ago
But many of these institutions are suffering self inflicted wounds. It’s been obvious since I’ve been paying attention to news (starting in junior high) that the news “of record” was liberal to a fault, was generally secular, and that it was pro-LGBT (this was in mid 1990s so well before Woke). And once you understand such a thing, and understand that “the news of record” has no interest in telling unbiased news, and will happily distort, misreport, play up or down different stories in order to create the impression that they want you to have. Learning that basically killed my trust in mainstream news.
University was much the same way. Outside of extremely skill or maths heavy courses, you could just simply expect that ideas like social libertarianism if not outright celebration of degenerate if not destructive lifestyles, government control, generous welfare states, free college, free healthcare, and basically socialism. And so you eventually understand that these scholars are not disinterested Confucian scholars simply looking for knowledge. If that were the case, it seems that at least some of them would come out t9 be socially conservative, or economically libertarian.
I was struck, thinking about it for this, by just how diverse the genre is?
You have the classic 'killer robot' trope, where the machines are just plain evil and intentionally want to destroy humanity - thus Skynet or AM.
You have the machine that is faithfully executing the commands given to it in good faith and threatens to destroy everything out of ignorance - thus WOPR.
You have the machine that is attempting to fulfil its designed purpose in good faith but which suffers some kind of fatal error and goes crazy - thus HAL 9000.
You have the machines that genuinely want the best for humanity and try to achieve that even contrary to our explicitly stated preferences - think 'With Folded Hands' (1947), or Asimov played around with this. 'The Evitable Conflict' (1950) was about machines taking charge of the future with humanity's welfare in mind, and seems ambivalent about whether that's desirable.
It seems like these categories cover most plausible AI fears. The AI could be actively hostile to humans, the AI could be indifferent to or ignorant of human life, the AI could be schizophrenic or malfunctioning, and the AI could be benevolent in ways that we do not desire.
Obviously none of these stories map perfectly to contemporary worries, but there's enough, I think, that the concept of AI or robots or machines going wrong in a dangerous way was firmly stuck in the public consciousness long before an autodidact started a blog in 2009.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
2hr ago
How can people trust with this level of malfeasance? How do we get the trust back?
The same way you get trust back in a normal human relationship: you apologize unreservedly, make concrete steps to prevent the issue happening again, and accept that it will be a long time (if ever!) before the trust is rebuilt to what it used to be.
In this case, that means that first, everyone who repeated this false evidence needs to retract it, and apologize for their error in repeating it. No holding back because they think that fighting racism is a noble goal, no minimizing to try to avoid reputation damage, nothing. Full on admit the fault and apologize. Second, this man himself needs to be banned from ever doing research again without supervision from someone more trustworthy. Third, publications which repeated this falsified research need to brainstorm a plan for how they will catch future problems like this, and that should include a good honest look at how their own biases helped it to happen (because I have very little doubt they didn't check too closely because this research confirmed some editors' biases).
The medical profession needs to do that not only for this case, but for any other cases that come to light. And then wait. They will no doubt be beaten up in the short term by people who are angry at having been betrayed. They will get this thrown back in their faces from time to time. But eventually, if they are patient and keep acting with integrity, the wound will (probably) heal and the trust will be back. It's not an easy or fast process though.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
2hr ago
Oh certainly, I’m not denying that. The key difference being that both police and the judicial system, at least in a Republican jurisdiction, are very likely to have your back if you shoot a mugger in self-defense. They will not have your back if you open fire in a crowded area because a bum made a creepy noise, or asked you for money, or even if he made a vague verbal threat to you.
birb_cromble
2hr ago
Well shit, I have one of those in my closet. I'll try it out.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
2hr ago
How many processes depend on gravity at all? How many require specifically 9.8 m/s^2?
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
2hr ago
Food processor
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
It is probably true that legal concealed carry does little to curb the behavior of psychotic homeless(although it probably does do a little). What it probably does have a major effect on is mugging- muggings are a far smaller percentage of total crime in high crime red areas. These criminals are rational, but dumb.
Mantergeistmann
2hr ago
And, as I understand it, he meant it admiringly, in the Bruce Lee "I fear the man who has practiced one kick a thousand times, not the man who has practiced a thousand kicks one time" sort of way.
Yeah the Meddit thread goes into some of this and that's a very sympathetic audience going.....oh my.
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