Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
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Not really a documentary but there’s a movie about the making and the background of the movie ‘The Room’. It’s good (the former, not the latter).
Take an example where the health risks are uncontroversial, such as smoking. It’s unhealthy, no doubt. But would it be okay for the government to ban cigarettes?
Nice thread but I think you’re missing the larger issue. Take it as a given that gas stoves are unhealthy. Does that mean the government should have the authority to ban them? No, because paternalism is wrong. There are moral considerations to be made, not just scientific ones.
Don’t give them any ideas or they’ll try to ban olive oil, too.
RT @libsoftiktok:
Gas stoves for me but not for thee pic.twitter.com/UrXzzlfziQ
RT @FreeStateNH:
The tax rate should be zero percent. If the government wants to pay for something, they can launch a GoFundMe.
If a progr…
@Patticus @aaronsw @paulg @ycombinator @FreeLawProject
Not sure MIT or JSTOR ever asked for the charges to be dropped.
Thanks for recommending, I watched it with great interest. Your son was an extraordinary man.
RT @beadmomsw:
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay area, The Internet Archive is the place to be tomorrow night, to remember & celebrate #Aa…
Lol. And some people are actually afraid of this thing. twitter.com/realspikecohen…
Today in ‘but without the government, who would…?’ twitter.com/depthsofwiki/s…
RT @unusual_whales:
BREAKING: Republicans in the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Servi…
RT @ScottAdamsSays:
I'm not convinced Long Covid is both real and widespread.
It gets mentioned a lot in pharma-funded news.
And I expect…
RT @DayTechHistory:
On this day in 2007, Apple unveiled the original iPhone. pic.twitter.com/UO2mBi8cLU
“ChatGPT's essay possibly would score zero points.” Take note, @donotpay. twitter.com/newsycombinato…
A nice approach. At first I was concerned about the max length of URLs (despite compression), but it seems browsers happily accommodate huge fragments (100,000 chars): stackoverflow.com/a/25759637 twitter.com/newsycombinato…
RT @libertyrecap:
"War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationali…
RT @libertyrecap:
"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session." - Gideon J. Tucker
Haven’t gotten that kind of reaction at an Apple keynote in a good while. twitter.com/basicappleguy/…
In your original tweet, you wrote he sold first, then called his family. Here you say he called first, then sold.
RT @mmmbchang:
- @dchackethal's Artificial Creativity: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/art…
- @ChipkinLogan's podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fal…
Are there any tha…
I think ppl are upset that the official claim was that, once vaccinated, you can’t catch the virus at all (let alone get hospitalized).
RT @ZubyMusic:
I think it's weird that people think it's weird I don't drink alcohol.
Poisoning yourself intentionally is a weird flex IMH…
Vor 200 Jahren hätte man wohl gelesen: ‚Sklave hat seinen Meister angeschossen.‘ Und man hätte sich gefragt: Was läuft da in Amerika nur schief? Natürlich die Sklaverei. Heute die Schulpflicht. Nicht der Sklave und auch nicht der Junge.
‚Zu Unrecht in die Schule inhaftierter kleiner Junge wehrt sich gegen seine Unterdrückerin.‘ So ließt sich das für mich. Dann vielleicht auch gar nicht so verwunderlich, warum er das gemacht hat.
Sounds messed up. How exactly would sugar, dairy etc cause certain emotions to begin with?
Conversely, I could easily see the withdrawing of any foods against the child’s will as causing certain ‘unwanted’ emotions…
RT @Scrooge671:
Mosques in Europe.
Congrats to Slovakia and Latvia 👏 pic.twitter.com/fAiO7L2cHW
“[G]overnment should be to [sic] help you, not go after you.”
Neither, but it’s a good start. twitter.com/rncresearch/st…
Autobahnen sollten privatisiert werden, am besten an viele verschiedene Eigentümer, die dann alle selbst entscheiden können, ob sie Tempolimits einrichten oder nicht. Und Autofahrer können dann selbst entscheiden, welche Autobahnen sie lieber nutzen.
RT @TheVastReaches:
I shot an image of some galaxies that are hundreds of millions of light years away with my backyard telescope.
Expl…
RT @jwmares:
1990: zero states with obesity rates above 20%
2018: zero states with obesity rates below 20%
Not to mention an explosion…
Is “vegetable oil […] the primary culprit of today’s chronic disease and obesity epidemic”? twitter.com/jwmares/status…
RT @libsoftiktok:
In honor of Jan 6th here are some insane images of the absolute destruction and chaos.
Jk this is from when BLM burned d…
The first step of the scientific ‘method’ is to notice a problem (Karl Popper). I highly recommend his books to understand science better.
RT @MichaelPSenger:
Someone created an entire ring of fake, far-left “doctors” on Twitter who long amplified hysterical COVID stories and p…
RT @vxunderground:
If you sent an API request to Twitter with an e-mail address, and an incorrect password, the API returned a JSON respons…
Maybe. I found this notable: twitter.com/dchackethal/st…
Ehrlich confuses science (seeking explanations of the physical world) with academia and prestige (peer reviews and scientific honors).
That is in itself a basic mistake. twitter.com/paulrehrlich/s…
Will you consider that your basic mistake is your pessimism?
RT @Not_the_Bee:
US Virgin Islands sues JP Morgan Chase for knowingly enabling Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking scheme https://t.co/3AeYWT…
RT @MostlyPeacefull:
@libsoftiktok
I’ve lost 8.5 lbs in two weeks (which I assume means I’ve gained 8.5 fat phobias)
RT @knowledgeprob:
I fail to understand why Paul Ehrlich is credible, given how incorrect his work has been for the past half century. http…
RT @RealSpikeCohen:
This was the scene in Hawaii last night.
Fireworks are illegal in Hawaii, which meant nothing, because the people didn…
Note for the gym: when I use my maximum weight for an exercise and notice questionable form, I reduce the weight by ~1/3 and focus on proper form at the same number of reps.
As my old trainer says: don’t make a heavy weight look easy. Make a light weight look hard.
Perhaps it’s the neo-Darwinian framework in particular, with replicators at its core, that is needed? Maybe ideas replicate within a mind.
Why not $10,000? Why not $100,000? Is there any amount of free money you'd consider excessive to hand out?
RT @NickTaber:
Partly because we assume that the authorities doing this have scientific basis for doing so. We’re led to believe it’s a sci…
RT @apelsinapparat:
@prof_freedom
”ThE nEw ChInA vArIaNt” 🤡🇨🇳
RT @AlexEpstein:
Why is @60Minutes featuring Paul Ehrlich, the anti-human ecologist who has been 180° wrong for 55 years??!!
“humanity is…
Could this be why?? (Kidding) twitter.com/womenpostingls…
Since you mentioned mind reading: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/mind-rea…
"[...] 71 percent of the women surveyed said they would not enter a new relationship with anyone who didn’t like her having a dog."
Do you think equally many men would have the same requirement for women?
When Santa Clara County told residents to stay inside, the first thing I did was go for a walk, without a mask, as I had done for years prior. I didn’t let them change my routine. Nobody ever enforced their stupid rule anyway. twitter.com/michaelpsenger…
Does anyone know why so many women have or want to have dogs?
I’m looking for explanations beyond ‘natural caretaking instincts’ and ‘dogs are cute’.
Especially interested in the why behind the dragging of male partners into caring for the dog.
RT @newsycombinator:
Conversation Skills Essentials tynan.com/letstalk/
RT @AlexEpstein:
The fact about fossil fuels that most shaped my thinking was: FFs give us an incredible ability to master climate. Most…
RT @AlexEpstein:
It should be common sense that when we’re evaluating what to do about a product or technology, we consider not only its ne…
RT @Th3LoganRiley:
@CollinRugg @JJDJ1187
I only want to be taxed once. Taxing the same money over and over has got to stop. https://t.co/Ma…
Stay safe out there, folks. Educate yourselves about cybersecurity. Here’s a good start: twitter.com/hacker_/status…
RT @libertyrecap:
"Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws…
Re 3), note that I only advocate the use of false possessives as a temporary workout.
Btw isn’t it ‘means of’ not ‘means for’?
In other words, in ‘x of y’, ‘x’ is the head noun and ‘y’ is the subject?
Re “the […] set […] aren’t”: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/wrong-nu…
RT @libertyrecap:
"The man who is not permitted to own is owned." - George Santayana
RT @Russ_Erickson:
@MinistryofTru16
This is commonly done to children, "Do you want peas or carrots with your dinner?"
Don’t the same ppl also say claim that those evil corporations are only motivated by profits?
Couldn’t there be reasons other than inherently sexist hiring managers?
Seen on social media: if companies can hire women for less, why don’t they hire only women?
RT @wolfstrength:
Not new for the corporate press to use “experts say” to justify wildly wrong predictions, which always require giving mor…
Yes. But is there any US politician who hasn’t harmed the US? twitter.com/unusual_whales…
RT @MinistryofTru16:
Schaffe lieber mein Kapital ausser Landes.
RT @dvassallo:
My 2023 goal continues to be avoiding this: pic.twitter.com/O7XPYyRKLW
RT @JonErlichman:
Apple HQ Apple HQ
in 1977: in 2022: pic.twitter.com/C5Pk3zxSzb
RT @CommunistTerror:
Some of the most powerful condemnations of the Soviet Union are in the pages of "Everything Flows" by Vasiliy Grossman…
RT @LPMisesCaucus:
We too are curious, do the American people get to add Zelenskyy as a dependent on their tax returns this year?
RT @depthsofwiki:
.@xkcd recently told me about this urgent scientific mystery and I need everyone to know about it pic.twitter.com/lZcJ6IWaE4
RT @AlexEpstein:
Wow, ChatGPT is unwilling to write an argument for de-socializing medicine in the UK.
RT @DavidSacks:
The question now is whether a free people will demand that their government stop participating in censorship, not just dire…
Recognize any of these traits in your parent/s?
RT @libertyrecap:
"The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey." - H. L. Mencken
RT @MarkusTurm:
Javier Milei, der Hauptführer der Bewegung, ist ein charismatischer Wirtschaftsprofessor, der sich nicht scheut zu sagen, d…
RT @WallStreetSilv:
🐖 Both political parties are horrible … over $2 trillion deficit in 2023.
$34 trillion national debt by end of 2023. 😢…
RT @TerribleMaps:
Moon on flag vs. flag on Moon pic.twitter.com/M4m9onoIYt
RT @AlexEpstein:
"Air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the next century."
- @BostonGlobe, 19…
You’ve never asked me what my interests are.
RT @MostlyPeacefull:
@AdamKinzinger
Do you represent Illinois or Kyiv?
RT @mazemoore:
@WallStreetSilv
This is all because they think that the earth is too hot.