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@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
I don't think he necessarily believes "black females must be more qualified than other races or genders".
I've given another possibility: he's signaling woke thought to score points.
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
The "idiot" part was in reference to his failing to realize he made two decisions, not just one, as he claimed.
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
There's no logical conflict in being a child abuser out of good intentions.
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
I bet during slavery some ppl made the same argument in defense of slaveholders.
RT @michaelmalice:
The biggest piece of Covid misinformation is that those in power are good people who value human life in the slightest.
RT @maxroland20:
„Lasst euch impfen, damit ihr vor unseren staatlichen Maßnahmen geschützt seid!“
Die Impfkampagne der Bundesregierung gib…
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
Maybe starvation? reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/eBmIG99fRV
RT @TheBabylonBee:
Trudeau Tests Positive For Fascism babylonbee.com/news/trudeau-t…
16 story tall rocket, traveling several times faster than a bullet, backflips & fires engines to return to launch site
RT @libsoftiktok:
While 5 year olds are forced to mask all day in California, Gavin Newsom and the mayors of LA and San Francisco are enjoy…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
If we brainwash them early it'll be a lot harder for them to start getting all logical about it later on. https://t.co…
RT @chillywillers:
Weird how they understand biological sex for crash test dummies but not sports pic.twitter.com/otGkvc7PsF
RT @NiklasKorber:
Die Büchse der Pandora wurde geöffnet. pic.twitter.com/s8HgobHqmi
Goes to show that democracy is still about rulers vs. the ruled. twitter.com/MichaelPSenger…
RT @Der_Postillon:
Mann unterbricht Stuhlgang, weil er Smartphone im Wohnzimmer vergessen hat
der-postillon.com/2018/01/smartg…
The team that made this and everyone above it who greenlit this is spineless and pathetic. twitter.com/libsoftiktok/s…
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
[A]ttacking [Biden] as unethically supporting a race is [...] wrong [...]
I have explained why Biden is "unethically supporting one race over others". Can you name that explanation?
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
I'm not trying to persuade Biden supporters.
He believes that he is trying to right a wrong.
I don't know how you'd know that. He might just as well be signaling something popular, as politicians often do, not because he think it's right but to score points.
Yea, I think it's similar to how Deutsch has said (IIRC) that Popper may well have known about good explanations. Maybe some of Popper's writings are implicitly about them. Still good that Deutsch wrote about them.
Regarding precision I'm not sure what you refer to since I didn't write about precision.
I think you mean 'moot point'.
In light of ch. 10 we shouldn't assume that what you're saying is "evident". Readers may miss it, especially if what's written explicitly doesn't match it.
A quote from BoI would easily change my mind though.
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
Because you're (partly) defending Biden against what I've said, and your clarification that he's not a white supremacist seemed to be part of that defense.
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
You're criticizing points I didn't make. This tells me you haven't tried viewing this issue from my point of view.
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
If you think I was calling Biden a white supremacist: I wasn't.
I've preserved the commonsense definition here: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/preservi…
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
Why is the definition I use "technical" and "reductive"?
New blog post: ‘What’s an Explanation?’
RT @knutacious:
Breaking: Nickelback have threatened to put their music onto Spotify if they do not censor Joe Rogan.
RT @TheBabylonBee:
Biden Seen Looking At Paint Color Swatches To Choose Next Supreme Court Justice babylonbee.com/news/biden-see…
RT @berlinerzeitung:
Wenn Corona-positive Patienten wegen eines Beinbruchs oder des Blinddarms ins Krankenhaus kommen, zählt das Robert Koc…
RT @marcfriedrich7:
In Kanada darf man nur noch “ordentlich geimpft” zu Walmart pic.twitter.com/LLXPAICgYs
Rosenthaler Platz. Mein alter Kiez – erkenne ich sofort.
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
It's a shame that 'liberals' have changed the meaning of 'racist' so much. For clarity, I'm using the commonsense meaning I immortalized here: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/preservi…
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
Biden is saying being black is required for the job. That means he's ruling out white people for being white, Asians for being Asians, etc, regardless of their qualifications. Men, too, btw. If that isn't racist and sexist I don't know what is.
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
No matter how meritorious, wouldn't the opposing party simply be able to sling the racist accusation?
Well, of course they can always say whatever they want, but if the nomination were truly based on merit alone, they'd simply be wrong. Whereas currently they'd be right.
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
Do you know his nominees don't have merit?
No. And I didn't say they don't. I said their nomination should be "based on merit, not race" – that also means ruling out nominations that are based on merit and race.
@IamtheWay13 @MagnetThatcher @astupple
Btw, though I'm not a lawyer I wouldn't be at all surprised if hiring a Justice (or anyone for that matter) contingent upon their race were illegal.
When they're nominated based on merit, not race.
I agree with @astupple's tweet in situations where someone accuses others of being racist just to shut them up or intimidate them or to signal being woke.
Well then you’ve made TWO decisions, haven’t you? Racist idiot. twitter.com/POTUS/status/1…
First time I saw Jupiter and his moons through my own telescope, with my own eyes, at roughly the same scale, I gasped. twitter.com/Sciencenature1…
Of course, if the government had any real interest in people's security, it would be working eagerly on reducing its own size.
When you can't give people the real reason (control), tell them it's for their security. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
502 be like reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/in6bNbnO5i
Everyone knows the virus spreads only after 11pm. And if it ever spreads before that, then only to those who drink alcohol while not eating.
What does 'social' even have to do with it? Wouldn't 'physically critical' be the better yardstick?
Covid never was "socially critical", no government should ever have reacted to Covid in any way, there should never have been any restrictions, and they shouldn't wait until Feb 1st to lift them.
But it's a start. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
RT @stem_feed:
Roller skating in the 1920s pic.twitter.com/iNdQc2HEF8
Ich wuerde "Mein Nachbar hält sich nicht an die AHA-Formel" keinesfalls sagen. Nicht nur deshalb, weil "AHA-Formel" bescheuert klingt, sondern auch, weil ich Nachbarn nicht denunziere.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Straight white men are immortal and invincible
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
I believe Fauci is the voice of science on Earth. Anyone who is against Fauci sins against the science.
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
They're watching us. reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/yDXZuKOt5L
RT @SJobs_Stories:
"My best contribution is not settling for anything but really good stuff, in all the details. That's my job - to make su…
Reminiscent of the 'truth commission' @ChipkinLogan has written so well about:
blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/a-truth-… twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Buffalos are known for their firm grasp of demographics. pic.twitter.com/TSCUwINVcU
RT @dvassallo:
It’s possible for your income to drop 50% while your lifestyle improves 500%.
Don’t forget what you’re really chasing when…
The hard problem hasn't vanished yet @elonmusk... twitter.com/dchackethal/st…
Posting photos like this will just make it worse.
Lol. The ‘this hurts me more than it hurts you’ look on her face.
“It’s a pandemic of bureaucracy. It’s not real anymore.” 👏 twitter.com/MichaelPSenger…
RT @reitschuster:
Wer noch Illusionen hat bezüglich Grundgesetz, Grundrechten, Meinungs- und Versammlungsfreiheit in Deutschland 2022, soll…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
We can see from this graph that it was sort of blueish and cold a century ago, whereas now it is actually red hot, whi…
One of the top reasons I left Apple 👇 twitter.com/paulg/status/1…
There's an episode called 'Wexler v. Goodman'. A foreshadowing of what's to come? I think we're gonna see a darker side to Kim this coming season many didn't expect. I'm afraid she's not actually on team McGill.
Kim says herself a major reason she wants to move against Howard is so that the Sandpiper settlement comes in sooner due to Howard's involvement in the case.
The reason it's not a mystery to us is that Kim and Jimmy were dating from the start (less so in the beginning but still). It's introduced as a status quo.
Wachtell tells Kim she could do a whole lot better than Jimmy. And she could, but again, one of the main reasons she dates Jimmy is money. Wachtell doesn't know about that so it's a mystery to him why Kim would want to be with Jimmy.
Shortly after Jimmy gets Sandpiper, Kim fantasizes about what 'we' (her and Jimmy) would be able to afford once the settlement comes in.
The two main reasons Kim hangs out with Jimmy and helps him when he's in trouble are 1) she occasionally enjoys rolling around in the dirt with him, 2) wants his money.
Reason she wanted to get married is not spousal confidentiality (that was a lie) but Sandpiper settlement. Jimmy even asks her one time 'c'mon, really? this guy?' referring to himself.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
The whole of New Zealand is now a legalised prostitution zone.
RT @ThomasSowell:
It is amazing how many people still fall for the argument that, if life is unfair, the answer is to turn more money and p…
How do you account for the fact that we don't see Hamlin in Breaking Bad?
So I have a conjecture for what's going to happen with Kim (spoilers ahead, sorta). Remember how in Breaking Bad Saul tells Walt that the world is a cruel place? Kim is going to bag half (all?) of that Sandpiper settlement money and will then run off. I'm calling it right now.
I believe it was Michael Malice who said something along the lines of conservatives being progressives driving the speed limit.
That makes conservatives less wrong. But both are wrong about equality being desirable, let alone achievable. twitter.com/i_Do11face/sta…
Alternatively, 'if we try the same thing again without knowing why it didn't work last time I have less confidence we'll make it work this time'. Less fixing but still some.
I could maybe say 'if we're gonna try something that's previously failed we better know why it failed and how to correct that error next time'. But that's more fixing it than translating it...
What does "it" refer to in your sentence? To what she said or to what one could say in response that won't cause to her roll her eyes in her thoughts?
Yeah or I've been thinking one could come up with a dental example that shows she's wrong. That way you keep it in the realm of dental stuff on the surface but it's still really about epistemology.
You don’t need to be a dentist to know that’s not how that works. But you can’t start discussing epistemology with your dentist either because odds are (pun intended) the dentist will consider that off topic. I know of no solution to that problem.