DaUR

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by DaUR 10y ago
There's a difference between "government sources" for hard facts (CDC), facts about the world (e.g. DoJ travel warnings, CIA factbook, DoE energy savings tips), for facts about the government (e.g. for Trump's EO, the su
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by DaUR 10y ago
Google wants to avoid editorializing, and be able to throw their hands up and say "not our fault!" due to the plausible deniability of "algorithms". They can't pull that off anymore. There needs to be a shift toward
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by DaUR 10y ago
> Work to change the cultural baggage around one's value being tied to one's day job. Make it sexy to be a poet, writer, singer, househusband, whatever, derive personal/interpersonal value from something other than a caree
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by DaUR 10y ago
Great comment. Agree with you on the solutions (sourcing). I don't have a clearly defined political identity, so, mostly by accident at first, I tried changing my own ideology. I discovered every ideology has a pretty much coherent wor
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by DaUR 10y ago
> It literally cannot prescribe complex social roles It absolutely can. Evolutionary psychology is science, and it's based on the scientific method (ironically, unlike the sociology that's obsessed with "gender roles"
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by DaUR 10y ago
Except dystopia isn't "everyone lives in a bad, mean world". It's societal dislocation. For some, the dystopia is real, right now. For others, it never will be.
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by DaUR 10y ago
These are often not kids of the lower-classes, who are more likely to end up on the streets caught up in crime than in their bedroom playing video games. It's the middle or even upper middle class children often doing this, not just fo
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by DaUR 10y ago
Take away their video games and drugs, and see what you end up with. Their video game addiction is obviously a sign of deep, fundamental and overwhelming distress. I think you're going for the "they're victims too, not violen
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by DaUR 10y ago
> But increasing number of single mothers reduce the stigma of being a single mother, and allowing single mothers to "soldier on". Is that a good thing? Is it something we should pursue? http://www.fathers.com/s
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by DaUR 10y ago
The main downside is for the children. Believe me, you would not want to be the child of such a man or such a woman.[0] This is worse than lack of iodine, lead in the pipes, or congenital deformities from pregnant drug abuse. It's a so
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by DaUR 10y ago
Partly because the German currency is severely undervalued for its economy (because it's held down by the other eurozone countries), favoring exports. In a sense, the other eurozone countries are subsidizing German exports. If the eu
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by DaUR 10y ago
That doesn't take into account the fact that (through no fault of their own, and meriting no shame), single parents are pretty systematically worse statistically than bioparents in a nuclear household. Take into account the impact of p
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by DaUR 10y ago
Had to make another comment, since I reached the length limit. > to jocks in high school Also keep in mind that seeing everything under the lens of "power" is deeply misguided. You might say that the jock is "privileged&qu
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by DaUR 10y ago
> No. That's a bizarre concept concocted by angry people on the Internet who have overdosed on Tumblr, attempted to derive a first-principles explanation for why people appear to believe strongly in the importance of otherkin rights
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by DaUR 10y ago
The US has (Politifact, Snopes, etc). Many countries just don't have well-known companies doing this.
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by DaUR 10y ago
> to every other in a thread You're misrepresenting. You: If he cuts back on foreign intervention, this extraordinary emphasis on "rebuilding" our military (whatever that means given the relative size of our military) make
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by DaUR 10y ago
> The only justification they have to be frustrated is if they expected 'enjoy middle class life' to be the normal outcome of having a job, which is the essence of privilege That's very uncharitable and reductionist of you
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by DaUR 10y ago
"Privilege" is an original-sin like concept concocted entirely by sheltered sociologists who don't understand how to do science. It was predictable that they would come up with such a Puritanical and moralizing concept. On a
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by DaUR 10y ago
Would it not be the same argument as GMOs, that we don't understand the consequences enough and therefore shouldn't be used? N. Taleb has quite a detailed critique of GMOs, I'm wondering if this is the same to that and if the
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by DaUR 10y ago
Every media is biased, especially TV since it's so segregated by ideology. The problem is people being emotionally invested and biased. Many Trump supporters will look at the Politifact rating posted higher in the thread, and call Poli
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by DaUR 10y ago
Then what is your post replying to? A poster above said that Trump's military spending shows he's a warmonger, and I said it's well known to anyone who even remotely followed the election that he believes in "peace throu
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by DaUR 10y ago
That may be your adblock/noscript, but: > This feature isn't available to everyone yet. Really refers to the fact that Facebook is partnering with mainstream media in each individual country, and so they need time to roll this
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by DaUR 10y ago
You're totally right. Sources were. Journalists were surveilled (not just through bulk collection, but specifically) to have their sources revealed. The jailing of journalists, though, is now within the President's power[0], which
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by DaUR 10y ago
That's simplistic and short-sighted. People usually talk butterflies, and then turn around and commit horrors, while your crowd will be gazing at the butterflies. The smooth-spoken actor Obama has successfully branded himself a liberal
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by DaUR 10y ago
> Speech can, and does, incite action Action is the sole responsibility of the one committing the action. I don't buy the premises of the fascist "speech is violence" crowd, and thank God that world leaders are not as imma
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by DaUR 10y ago
I'm arguing that this isn't "bad diplomacy", and only is if you judge it by its appearances. Geopolitics is driven by constraints. Nobody will declare war against Trump because his tie is too long.
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by DaUR 10y ago
That makes you much easier to manipulate, ironically (ironic since you wouldn't think that being more judgmental would lead to being more naive, but here it would).
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by DaUR 10y ago
> Your example of Khrushchev might have worked out differently with blowhards on both sides. Which there were (on the US side, some in the admin wanted to bomb Cuba to shreds), but were overridden. Because leaders have skin in the game i
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by DaUR 10y ago
> Is it that weird that there's an expectation What's weird is that you attribute any importance to appearances, and prefer one type of appearances over another. You know what they say: judge people by what they do, solely by w
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by DaUR 10y ago
It's weird to see so many people utterly obsessed with appearances (which all of the above count as) as if the President's job was to be an actor. Prediction: Trump's style will not make it more or less likely for him to decl

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