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Like, it seems to me that the reasons you give for parental coercion of kids are more or less the same reasons people give for all kinds of coercion between all kinds of people, even those kinds you’d disagree with.
But if it weren’t, wouldn’t there be a parallel to parenting there?
‘non-negligent governing requires willingness to coerce (e.g. conscription). this coercion will truthfully signal to citizens that they are not trusted, in this case, to decide and behave adequately. this is fine.’
The WiFi issue affects so many people, including in the latest product lineup for computers, that I’m surprised @Apple hasn’t even acknowledged it. twitter.com/silver_x86/sta…
Wenn es nur ein deutsches Wort für „lunch“ gäbe …
Does that extend to matters beyond defensive coercion, in your opinion?
Isn’t the Popperian argument that destruction and revolution usually lead to worse outcomes than the status quo?
That’s a fair point, but why aren’t Ukrainians free to leave?
“Draft-subject men employed in nationally-important manufacturing, government support activities may be exempted”
Translates to: ‘my master is kind’
When we last discussed this, IIRC, you claimed Ukraine was doing this for their subjects’ freedom, then I pointed out the contradiction in not letting them leave. Then you stopped discussing. Whose argument is bad?
The US has a draft in place, discriminatory on top. I as a man have to register for a draft in case it's reinsta…
RT @TechnophobiaOrg:
PSA: The more fear ‘alignment’ non-profit leaders can whip up, the more money they can raise pic.twitter.com/C8sMqPhNfp
Haben die Kinder um diesen Schutz geboten? Nein? Ist es dann nicht eigentlich Bevormundung?
‚Wahlen sind super, es sei denn, sie führen zum falschen Ergebnis.‘ 🤡
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
Interesting. Would men date younger and would women date older if they could?
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
So it seems to be a bit of both: close in age but also skews toward older men with younger women.
RT @sentientist:
Women on internet forums are constantly encouraging one another to escalate small or nonexistent misdeeds into existential…
RT @monitoringbias:
Question: Where are the Mexicans (our largest immigrant group by far) in all of this?
Answer: Almost nowhere to be fou…
I don’t think that answers my question. Or are you saying you look at least as good now as you did when you were 20?
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
What statistics are you citing?
Don’t women typically claim they look for ‘emotionally mature’ men?
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
Btw it’d help legibility if you made your tweets on top of each other instead of next to each other.
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
But isn’t it true that women typically prefer to date older men?
Surely this time it wasn’t about superstition and witchcraft?
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
Those obvious reasons being?
@MyProNounIsDude @ElijahSchaffer
18 is not a prime number. But 19 is.
Don’t they say that men always value beauty?
How much would an average 50 yo have to take care of herself to look as good as an average 20 yo?
Early 30s is still prime for childbirth?! 🤔
How many men do you think agree with you on that?
What makes you think you’ll be able to find someone younger/fitter when you’re past your prime? Shouldn’t your expectations go down over time, not up?
RT @Jclearfield2:
@FischerKing64 @theistinthought
It was probably this article:
newrepublic.com/article/100566…
RT @a_nnaschneider:
Die Zuckerwerbeverbotsfantasien der Grünen fallen bei den Kollegen von "Die Zeit" jedenfalls auf fruchtbarsten Boden. h…
Problem is, he’d love to force Americans into the meat grinder too, if he could.
RT @mtracey:
If the New York Times or anyone else thinks "liberty" needs to be "saved" in Ukraine, have they noticed Ukraine itself has imp…
RT @frantzfries:
Steve Jobs would be so pissed at the Siri team about ChatGPT
RT @monitoringbias:
Why doesn't The Guardian ever express the same enthusiasm for reducing the non-white population of London, or the Chine…
Crypto-Fallibilism: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/crypto-f…
RT @monitoringbias:
A city that didn't enslave African-Americans ponders whether a payment of $5 million to each black resident (not one of…
Yes. Good is stronger than evil.
Bostrom et al are wrong to think that AI is guaranteed to lead to destruction. But thinking it’s guaranteed not to would be the same mistake.
Hitler was a general intelligence. Why didn’t he have doubts about annihilating humans?
‘We already oppress teenagers when it comes to smoking, so let’s also oppress them when it comes to social-media use.’ twitter.com/vivekgramaswam…
Can’t we leave it to the teens themselves, Gene? twitter.com/genesohoforum/…
For a very long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asi…
Read the beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch.
Oh and you get to keep your plasmids too. Then it’s really not that hard. Starting completely from scratch on impossible should be orders of magnitude harder!
Played it many times on previous difficulties to practice. You also get to keep your weapons that way.
You learn which plasmids and which weapons to use where. For example, Enrage is good for Fontaine Fisheries where all your weapons are taken. Use security cameras. Etc.
Finished BioShock on impossible with zero deaths the other day :)
@PostAp0calyptik @monitoringbias
Couldn’t the chart be going down because fewer people are getting married while more of those few marriages end up in divorce than before?
If so, wouldn’t that be misleading?
@PostAp0calyptik @monitoringbias
Also, shouldn’t it be divorces among married people? Maybe fewer people are getting married.
@PostAp0calyptik @monitoringbias
Nice but that’s 20 years not 50.
Don't take Github contributions hottakes from someone's GitHub looks like this? github.com/ManuelFrigerio https:…
Are you referencing a specific statistic on divorce rates?
Years ago I was with friends (married couple with two teenage boys at the time) for dinner when the dad said the boys HAVE to get at least a master’s degree.
I still kick myself for not asking them if that’s what THEY wanted.
RT @MrsMThatcher:
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. pic.twitter.com/dUZz2q14od
RT @RonPaul:
While economically suffering at home, we're being plundered to finance Ukraine's war to the tune of over $100+ BILLION so far.…
Would you take never being catcalled again if it meant never getting attention from men again?
RT @TCSparents:
How rare is it that someone takes a child seriously even when it involves ignoring or potentially annoying the child’s pare…
Minefeld, a Seinfeld-themed minesweeper: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/minefeld
RT @monitoringbias:
Question: What happened after the top-ranked high school in the country removed its admissions test in order to increas…
RT @joshuakrohn:
Apple 2023, now with more 1993. pic.twitter.com/pAKJW7l70a
If he’s right that divorce means death, that’s evidence that the US political system is not based on the consent of the governed, even though that’s arguably its entire official reason for existing. twitter.com/leadpacer/stat…
Come to think of it, it really should be spelled ‘chron’.
RT @lndian_Bronson:
"More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women."
"Even seasoned resear…
And the tyrant accepts only one behavior as evidence of ‘recovery’: absolute, unquestioning submission. twitter.com/nicktaber/stat…
I understand that, but are there not also respects in which adults find coercion right and proper in the case of other adults and themselves but not when it comes to children? Eg conscription and taxes.
RT @Culture_Crit:
Europe will defeat the brutalist blight. pic.twitter.com/aP2vkD8a9Q
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These questions have been answered before, so the following resources will save you some time. In order:
- blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/the-neo-…
- Read Karl Popper and Ayn Rand
RT @_Islamicat:
Educating the soldiers of Izlam pic.twitter.com/Kursw9M0CT
Since conscription is slavery, don’t black people with Ukrainian flags in their handles have some serious explaining to do?
RT @Oswald1933:
@SkyNews @DavidLammy
There are dozens of videos of forced conscription in Ukraine with men being dragged off the streets an…
These are the ‘good guys’, everyone.
Enslaving their men to throw them into the meat grinder. twitter.com/petronillahusb…
Capitalism is the only economic system that won’t kill you for questioning it, and it was majority white countries that abolished slavery first. You have it backwards.
RT @realjohngatto:
The professionalization of teaching preempts a function that belongs to everybody in a healthy community,
and makes thi…
RT @cxgonzalez:
why aren't AGI doomers taking out massive amounts of debt rn?
RT @_Islamicat:
This what Pusslims think of those cockwombles who declare their "pronouns" pic.twitter.com/eIi7qThJ1q
When it comes to adults, people also think all kinds of things absolutely must happen (eg conscription in the case of war, paying taxes to build roads, etc). twitter.com/tcsparents/sta…
RT @monitoringbias:
When asked for lists of things that black, Hispanic, and Asian people need to improve, ChatGPT responds: "No I cannot p…
RT @TCSparents:
If we take the view that ultimately we must have the final say against our child’s will when ‘necessary’, that is as damagi…
RT @ThomasEWoods:
You got that, Soviet republics? Stay in your Union or there will be war
It’s a skill you can practice. I place value on writing good commit messages, follow conventions strictly, and try to commit often. After years of doing this, it feels easy.
Also, good commit practices make changes easy to reverse. Not sure that applies to sculpting. twitter.com/dvassallo/stat…
Women, Don’t Divorce after a Promotion: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/women-do…
RT @TCSparents:
Children will be able to use images of generic adults to say what they want to say in their videos, which will make it poss…
RT @ElliotHershberg:
Specifically, we've figured out how to hot-wire a patient's own T cells with a new genetically engineered receptor to…
Among other things, I understand that the antisemitic demonstrations around it convinced Theodor Herzl that Jews should leave Europe to find safety in their own state and thus became one of the motivations for Zionism.
Worth learning about this major political event: youtu.be/w3gYeGWMz48
The other day I learned that Julia Louis-Dreyfus @OfficialJLD of Seinfeld fame is related to Alfred Dreyfus “of the infamous Dreyfus affair” (Wikipedia), which was “one of the most polarizing political dramas in modern French history”. The term ‘intellectual’ was coined then!
RT @MrColionNoir:
It was enjoyable to witness @michaelb4jordan progression from this video to his performance on the big screen, especially…