artichokes

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by artichokes 5y ago
> consumption is a perfectly valid hobby No it is not.
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by artichokes 5y ago
It's so sad what white supremacy makes people do.
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by artichokes 5y ago
Were they infamous for it before 1948?
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by artichokes 5y ago
You're comparing a country with a 30%+ black/Mestizo component to a list of countries that are 90%+ white or East-Asian. The same kids who score highly in Finland or Korea, also score highly in the US. But because they comprise a
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by artichokes 5y ago
The 99% of white Americans for whom all ancestors were from Europe, are European.
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by artichokes 5y ago
The US Census categories are incorrect.
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by artichokes 5y ago
Descendants of Europeans. It's not ambiguous.
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by artichokes 5y ago
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=j... Looks like Kwanzaa was bigger until 2018 when Juneteenth first started getting promoted.
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by artichokes 5y ago
> people asked if a woman could be trusted with the nuclear codes Who? > no one questioned whether a man could be trusted with them. https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/politics/trump-nuclear-author...
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by artichokes 5y ago
It's universally acknowledged that men are more violent than women.
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by artichokes 5y ago
One of those sides has power and the other does not.
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by artichokes 5y ago
Is it possible that there are things people might rather do than spend 8 hours a day coding enterprise web-apps, for 30 years? I wish I had the option to self-select out. I would much rather spend time with our toddler. If my wife were to
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by artichokes 6y ago
> Men are way more involved in their families then they used to be. What makes you think that?
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by artichokes 6y ago
> we are stronger working together than as factions or tribes. "We are stronger working together" is what a tribe is.
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by artichokes 6y ago
Any set of people who choose to cooperate and work as a group will consistently dominate when in competition with people who act as individuals. It's less human nature and more the nature of any system with actors and competition, and
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by artichokes 6y ago
Free speech is the principle that the first amendment attempts to establish, but its not the same thing as free speech itself- any party using their power to restrict the exchange of information does so in opposition to free speech. Amazon
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by artichokes 6y ago
Its worth is measured in the degree to which it transfers money, resources, and power from people like you to people like the author, and words arranged like those that appear in this document have proven to be an effective tool for this.
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by artichokes 6y ago
93% of surveyed geneticists and behavioral psychologists claim that the black-white IQ gap has a non-zero genetic component. Do you know better than them? https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00
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by artichokes 6y ago
How would they benefit?
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by artichokes 6y ago
>The prior probability of voter fraud is so low that it demands really incredible evidence. The prior probability of voter fraud is the number of elections in which actors have engaged in fraud / the total number of elections that t
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by artichokes 6y ago
Those aren't anything like the sort of questions involved in IQ tests. IQ tests rarely involve words at all, usually a series of geometric shapes where you're supposed to pick the next one.
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by artichokes 6y ago
Suppose Kim Kardashian disappeared tomorrow. How would my life better? If this man wasn't able to ask his question about bread, would there be more cars/houses/doctors/food in the world?
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by artichokes 6y ago
Seeing that someone is trying to conceal their setting is 100x sketchier than being outside.
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by artichokes 6y ago
I don't know if I'm reading your comment wrong but I would happily take that bet- I think most people would. Want to make it? The election result of California isn't a matter of probability; it's an empirical matter tha
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by artichokes 6y ago
Suicide rates and mental health conditions are skyrocketing. The effect of all this push about "mental health" has been to convince more and more people to believe they have mental health problems. And adopting this label does n
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by artichokes 6y ago
It seems to be expected that people who have been earning an income for less time have fewer saved assets than people who have been working longer.
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by artichokes 6y ago
> What if a female gymnast wants to do the horizontal bar or other "male" events? The same thing that happens if I want to be a movie star or heiress.
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by artichokes 6y ago
The tanks’ guns are disabled. They aren’t functional tanks in regards to the one feature that makes a tank a tank.
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by artichokes 8y ago
I’ve seen a few people on the internet who believe there are differences, but I’ve never met one in real life. And not for small sample size- the fact that there aren’t differences has always been a common topic of conversation in every
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by artichokes 8y ago
That's not the difficult part for me, it would easily just be another Bayesian prior like occupation, style of dress, language, etc. It's just that the odds of me being right and everyone else in the world being wrong about such

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