Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
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An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.
But in case I will, you can subscribe via RSS – without a Twitter account. Rationale
@sonikudzu @brezina @jbrowder1 @cocksure_crypto
My claim was not that “they don’t even turn a profit.” I merely refuted your claim that they do.
@sonikudzu @brezina @jbrowder1 @cocksure_crypto
I just learned that USPS is not funded by taxes, not even partially, as I thought.
But I also learned that USPS hasn’t turned a profit since 2006. So no “surplus”.
For the record, I voted on this by accident.
“It is in America’s interest that Ukraine wins the war […].”
That includes my interest and I disagree.
All interesting points and worth reading—I learned something new—but none deal with the moral issues of taxation or conscription. twitter.com/bankableinsigh…
@sonikudzu @brezina @jbrowder1 @cocksure_crypto
I have no sympathy for a government-run entity. Maybe USPS should come up with a better way to make money.
RT @ThomasSowell:
Inflation is a quiet but effective way for the government to transfer resources from the people to itself, without raisin…
RT @BankableInsight:
The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contain…
@SamFeddd @michalkosinski @EDUreboot
I was gonna call it ‘fear porn’ but ‘fear mongering’ captures it better.
RT @SamFeddd:
@michalkosinski @EDUreboot
But you need to ask it to? It will never do this, ever. It is fundamentally not how predictive lan…
RT @MrsMThatcher:
We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what…
RT @AlexEpstein:
The root cause of our grid’s reliability problems is simple: America is shutting down too many reliable power plants—plant…
I’m guessing it’s because it’s trained on text that also includes such mistakes.
The task of protecting individuals from the legislature falls on the legislature.
What could go wrong?
But without government, who would not enforce laws? twitter.com/michelletandle…
RT @MichaelPSenger:
Today marks three years since “15 days to slow the spread.” In that time, we’ve seen millions of lockdown deaths, tens…
RT @HoppeQuotes:
"Big banking and big industry have become intricately involved in the state, and many a wealthy businessman has made his f…
Are there no laws around indecent exposure in California?
If I pay for @Spotify, I shouldn’t have to listen to ads in podcasts.
RT @MichaelPSenger:
DeSantis on COVID lockdowns: “So I call and say, ‘Deborah, just tell me: when in American history has this been done?’……
Es gibt eine Frauenministerin?? Was für ein Saftladen.
Geschlechtsneutral vs geschlechtsgedoppelt ist eine gute Unterscheidung. twitter.com/tonio_walter/s…
RT @LPMisesCaucus:
Banks need to make money just like any other business. FDIC insurance and bailouts actually encourages them to take more…
Historically, cowards generally look bad. Without the same fear and social pressures, future generations will have trouble understanding why some of the people today acted like cowards in the first place. Cowardice just doesn’t age well. twitter.com/michaelpsenger…
RT @RepThomasMassie:
Just got off of a zoom meeting with Fed, Treasury, FDIC, House, and Senate.
A Democrat Senator essentially asked whet…
RT @KuboVerlag:
Ich habe mich riesig gefreut, als ich Kenntnis von diesem Text erhalten habe, der in der @WELTAMSONNTAG erschienen ist (Aus…
RT @FT:
Cook bets on Apple’s mixed reality headset to secure his legacy on.ft.com/401InT2
Sad. Too difficult to hold passive cops and prosecutors accountable. Insufficient means of error correction. As usual when it comes to harassment, cops don’t really care, even when there’s a proven record of violence. twitter.com/thecrimeanalys…
A Critical Reading of Karl Popper on the Necessity of Critical Discussion: youtu.be/XDd8Qwu-1Uk
RT @MichaelPSenger:
I have no doubt that COVID is biologically different from past seasonal flus. But I also have no doubt that if it weren…
Reminder that some cultures and countries are inferior to others: twitter.com/elijahschaffer…
Try it sometime, you’ll be happy to find out that it is!
I used to subscribe to Sam Harris’s doomerism, then ‘switched sides’ after learning David Deutsch’s arguments.
Is you think my old cat could make good recruit? Is not white so no problems there. pic.twitter.com/PLlc6WZOru
But following rules under socialism works out great? 🤔
RT @ancapquotes:
"It is said, mostly by Libertarians, that ‘taxation is theft.’ Theft is too mild a word. Typically, a thief strikes only o…
If TCS is against arguments from authority, why do I not remember seeing you or DD speak out against covid scientism?
RT @monitoringbias:
When the worst thing has a lot to do with the best thing. pic.twitter.com/Rjcdu5bVG6
iOS automatically categorizes photos taken today under ‘Women’s Day’. I’d like to opt out, @Apple.
They do that in Germany too. IIRC “Taken” was retitled to “96 hours” for some reason. Maybe cuz not everyone knows the past participle of ‘take’.
RT @Culture_Crit:
Take a moment to admire London's old Imperial Institute, a Victorian masterpiece built in 1893 to celebrate Queen Victori…
It’s occurred to me but I don’t wanna financially support a business that promotes woke content and disadvantages non-woke content.
What’s the Issue with Hypergamy? blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/what-s-t…
The amount of ads on YouTube is just ridiculous at this point.
Does advertising increase vaccine ‘consumption’?
Es gibt Menschen, die weniger als 100g Fleisch pro Tag essen? 😱
Don’t Use Text Messages for Two-Factor Authentication: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/don-t-us…
RT @danmartell:
People who can’t delegate are blocked at $300K/year.
People who can’t work through other people are blocked at $2M/year.…
I wonder if it accounts for alimony, child support, gold diggers.
RT @monitoringbias:
Payscale is concerned about the controlled gender pay gap — that is, the gender pay gap after all compensable factors a…
I’m guessing as long as you’re not white, male, or straight, you’re automatically qualified. twitter.com/yeonmiparknk/s…
Und über wie viele Lateinamerikaner herrschst du so?
RT @HumanRights4UK:
@shoshanahjacobs @flo_mask
This is the issue we'll never understand: if you're, as you say, 'vaxxed to the max' what ar…
Not to mention that booleans don’t have a .stop() method.
RT @MichaelPSenger:
JUST IN: New leaked messages show UK Health Minister Matt Hancock planning to “deploy the new variant” in COVID messagi…
Agreed, though in this case, I’d prefer if I was wrong.
@LRNR @Sam_kuyp @tomhyde_ @robinhanson
Agreed. More generally: an important thing to consider when morally evaluating a political system is how much protection it affords individuals against the legislature.
I acknowledge that I don’t know much about your personal situation, and I agree that not every challenge in parenting is the result of insufficient commitment to non-coercion, but telling me to “fuck off” and shutting down the conversation isn’t exactly non-dogmatic either.
That it doesn’t sound like you’re taking your child very seriously.
Why should the Quran be treated with respect?
It seems to be poorly written and full of incitement of violence against ‘non-believers’: frontpagemag.com/koran-literary… twitter.com/ayocaesar/stat…
@Sam_kuyp @tomhyde_ @robinhanson
I think it’s more about making a moral evaluation than to define slavery.
And there can’t be other, deeper explanations for his “screaming meltdowns” other than lack of sleep and “emotional disregulation”?
We’ve agreed on that (though again I’m not even sure I’d consider those instances coercion) and I repeat that the interesting question will be whether you enforce bedtimes, broccoli, those kinds of things.
All I can say is: good for your kid. Means he’s got a healthy desire for freedom and independence.
I’m gonna argue that anything over 3 months is plenty of time to coerce and cause ‘stubbornness’. Maybe even less. If someone is coercive with me once I’m gonna resist and then he may well view that as ‘stubbornness’ on my part and never consider that he could be wrong.
How old was your first kid when you first deemed him or her to be stubborn?
Couldn’t that stubbornness be a result of parents being coercive to begin with?
Stubbornness can be a result, not the cause.
They should really let you attach before and after pics to git commits.
Not in lieu of commit messages, but in addition. Picture is worth a thousand words.
Klassischer statistischer Fehlschluss. Sehr niedriges Niveau.
Twitter. Both first use protected tweets without following each other, then make the tweets visible.
Should kids be saved from electrocution? Ofc
More interesting questions IMO: should kids be force fed broccoli? Forced to do homework? Forced to exercise? Forced not to smoke? Forced to go to bed?
~All parents respond ‘yes’ to at least some of these and it’s tragic.
Given a lack of knowledge and time in an emergency, some absolute minimum of coercion may sometimes be required (but not desirable compared to voluntary alternatives). It seems we agree that heavily reducing coercion in parenting would be good overall:
If a scenario you describe really is a bad idea, it shouldn’t be too hard to persuade the child of that (unless the trust has been broken from previous coercion, then it gets a lot harder).
It’s a bit unfair to expect an interlocutor to come up with solutions to all kinds of problems on the spot. I don’t need to show a solution to every problem for the claim that problems are soluble to be valid.
“black peoples are the largest growing group of vegans”
Are you citing some specific statistic?
I’m not saying not to act or not to address large errors.
Right and isn’t that usually difficult and takes time?