godelzilla

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by godelzilla 6y ago
We've been indoctrinated our whole lives to believe that "property" is somehow fair, rational, real, etc. Plenty of room for cognitive dissonance here.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
... and unnecessary middlemen playing casino with human lives (aka health insurers) don't extract a huge payday.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
> Rather than relying on a few giant platforms to police speech online, there could be widespread competition, in which anyone could design their own interfaces, filters, and additional services To me this sounds something like "les
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by godelzilla 6y ago
You can't even teach an undergrad class without five administrators making five times your salary.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
His memo was about "gender discrimination"? Sure, keep telling yourself that.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Like how the current system is called casino funded healthcare?
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by godelzilla 6y ago
And how was the "law of supply and demand" verified? smh
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by godelzilla 6y ago
This is a narrow view of science. If they're taking one or two courses on physical science, what are their other classes? Do they examine the hypotheses and evidence in economics, history, etc.? Or is their course load just 10% physica
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by godelzilla 6y ago
>you will not be able to verify centuries of scientific progress all on your own, from first principles. And this becomes even harder when you approach the softer parts of human knowledge such as economics TBH most of economics is non-em
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by godelzilla 6y ago
That's ten+ years of wasted resources due to "intellectual property". Imagine the total global losses due to this coercive construct.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Old newspapers? Like segregation era? Super objective times.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
There's nothing objective about feeling vindicated by Bari Weiss.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
This website is extremely ideological. It's just primarily tech bro ideology. This post is from The American Conservative, a proudly ideological right-wing publication. By eliminating dissent you're only making the echo chamber lo
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by godelzilla 6y ago
>Yet we continue to treat it (economics, the global financial system) as some kind of inevitable force of nature, rather than as something that we invented and (to some degree) chose. I wish I knew why that is. The powers that develop an
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Mises' fans "argue" without any empirical evidence that no plan is the best plan. Pseudo-science in action.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
A probability problem has Euler's constant in its answer? And numeric approximations are close to that number? Who cares? That's how probability works. Nothing weird.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Progress < profits and control
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Why would right-wingers reference their own racist culpability when they can blame the government instead?
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Why not look at decolonization as a step forward instead? Why not collect restitution from the colonial/imperial powers that have been extracting wealth from South Asia for centuries? Why not use natural resources for the local populat
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by godelzilla 6y ago
It's the WSJ though.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Not sure why they're doing all these calculations when capitalism already assigns everyone a numerical worth.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Because the stock market is a pyramid scheme propped up with printing money to enforce rampant inequality? Just a guess. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/the-feds-balance-sheet-just-...
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by godelzilla 6y ago
The dishonesty of this group is manifest in the quote: "Finally, a retrospective analysis of data from patients hospitalized with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in all United States Veterans Health Administration medical centers found
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Patients should wear party hats too. It won't hurt.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Pretty sure there's only one economic system. Try another one and get bombed, couped, sanctioned, etc.
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Not to mention systemic racism...
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by godelzilla 6y ago
Now let's see how the gamblers and con artists who run health care can handle an uninsured nation in plague... smh.
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by godelzilla 7y ago
Wow a fake university that promotes pseudo-science doesn't understand the first amendment? Shocker.
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by godelzilla 7y ago
While mathematics is often motivated by physical phenomenon, it's epistemologically misleading to present physics as math or vice versa. All too common pet peeve.
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by godelzilla 7y ago
Millions of people might not have died unnecessarily. The horror!

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