calumetregion

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by calumetregion 5y ago
Fascinating opportunity for introspection.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Existing
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by calumetregion 5y ago
I went to school in the Midwest and a good example of this is if you had a hybrid/remote job in Louisville or Cincy, it would likely be much better for your health to live in Madison, Indiana. It's not far away but feels like a di
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by calumetregion 5y ago
It's a fascinating subject and one I love to "argue" about when I'm traveling for work and at a bar in the city, people get really fired up! We all dig in to support our life choices. People in the city tend to be younge
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Driving in a city, absolutely. (Although I rarely had a stress-free morning on the DC Metro) Driving in rural areas or across the western US - piece of cake and even relaxing.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
http://schizophrenia.com/prevention/country.html
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by calumetregion 5y ago
I definitely chose my phrasing by design: "less healthy" I have no doubt there are vigorous academic arguments happening whether there are ways to mitigate the stress of population density and be healthier than would be expected.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Highly online life leads to instability. It's like living your life in a packed subway car. Stress response. This is why cities are less healthy for you as well.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
It is not an issue of depth. Wikipedia is a hive of mimetic scapegoating, and it doesn't hold the patent on that problem. And this usually, ultimately, leads to real world violence.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
I made no mention of notability, it's such an obvious point that it doesn't need to be made. The Shen Yun Performing Arts people are pre-Communism traditionalist Chinese. Which is on the outs culturally, I get it. They're jus
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by calumetregion 5y ago
You're making my point for me.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Because of a different thread I thought of another subtle, yet similar example. Look at the Wikipedia entry for The Verge. It's a media product, a tech news site, all good. But it's a "left wing" site on the merits. Not
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Goes hand in hand.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Just because it is propaganda doesn't mean it won't have actionable information within it. It just means that you cannot shut off your brain and consume any of it - ever. Every last creator has an angle, even your good guys. I&#x2
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Why would anyone have "no idea" about this? We're literally surrounded by women - moms, sisters, friends, wives - our entire lives. This is not some secret knowledge that men cannot grasp. Men know the score here, and have ev
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Media is and has always been propaganda. All of it. You have to start from there to make sense of the world. We ran into trouble at some point with critical thinking. I believe prosperity and comfort for three generations in the West may ha
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Does this non-profit media also believe in a technological society? Perhaps with an allergy to challenging the concept of this type of science in the first place?
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Agree, but this assumes humans would ever had used it for anything else.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Please read all of Neil Postman's work immediately. It's much bigger than the oven. Thank you.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Or you could see it as "poisoning the well" - an approach so common and accepted that neither of you see it, apparently. Although clearly a lefty news organization, I don't see the NY Times as a "wing" on that eas
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Many people asking for examples. For an easy one (among millions) just compare The New York Times Wikipedia article to the article for The Epoch Times. "Oh, but The Epoch Times is right wing, so..." How can I compare the Ochs-Sulz
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Have you heard of negative interest rates? This is so real that it is real. Also real: the wild "insanity" that is the picture painted by the writer of this Harper's piece is also exactly the same "insanity" that is
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Large cities would not exist without agriculture. Agriculture is a technology. I understand why it's not popular to talk about this stuff. We're pretty much stuck with all of it, I get it.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
It is much different. People who live in more dense environments experience more stress, and stressed people behave differently, they interact (or don't interact) with people differently. You are 2X more likely to have schizophrenia in
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by calumetregion 5y ago
The anti-woke train has a lot of steam because humans are great at recognizing patterns over time, and are evolved to do this, which is why this stuff eventually reaches WaPo, NYT, et al.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
Win!
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by calumetregion 5y ago
This is well laid out, but it absolutely freaks me out that we even have to explain to very smart people why free expression of ideas is important. I know it's human nature to persecute, but I hate being reminded of it so often.
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by calumetregion 5y ago
"It’s really painful to see people draw moral and ethical lines over episodes of a guy bullshitting into a microphone being removed. It’d be nice if your ire and indignation were directed at an issue that would objectively improve the
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by calumetregion 5y ago
"inefficient and unfair; they favor expensive modes over cheaper modes, and impose large external costs" Why? Freedom of movement. Curious animals. There are no solutions, only trade-offs.