kapitza

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by kapitza 10y ago
Yes, perhaps the reason rape seems so much more common is that people in the 1940s didn't understand what rape is. I want to order a time machine and send you back to have a conversation with your great-grandparents, for whom you see
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by kapitza 10y ago
Can you think for yourself without authorities, man? I know it's hard. This passage from the Economist article I think nicely, and unintentionally, demonstrates the level of insanity here: The result was that some 20,000 convicts who
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by kapitza 10y ago
That wasn't an appeal to authority, just an appeal to reason. You'll have to forgive me if I prefer to trust Dr. Pryor and common sense over the Brookings Institution's "studies and accidental experiments." If peopl
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by kapitza 10y ago
I think the leading expert on this subject is NYT reporter Fox Butterfield: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/us/despite-drop-in-crime-a... In case it isn't obvious: https://en.wikipedia.
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by kapitza 10y ago
Society's tolerance for crime is bizarrely irrational. There will be about 800 murders in Chicago this year -- yawn. Now imagine if 800 Chicagoans were killed by radiation leaks from a nuclear plant. "Well, you can't have e
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by kapitza 10y ago
I think you're making the very common mistake of thinking about transmitted traditions phenotypically, rather than genetically/cladistically. This methodology leads you to wander around comparing birds to bats. The question that
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by kapitza 10y ago
Because the goal (or rather the means) of terrorists is to scare people. And it's much scarier to imagine your plane being blown up in the air. Reason has nothing to do with it. The number of deaths due to car accidents, even falling
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by kapitza 10y ago
Love to hear any book recommendations on the Algerian wars, especially older books in English, not by Alistair Horne, and not taking the standard Western "missionary position." Really like Wolves in the City by Paul Henissart,
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by kapitza 10y ago
Leftists won the last three big wars, so even most of today's "conservatives" are more than a little hybridized. You won't find any independent clade of wolves who bark for their own separate wolf reasons. Barking is a
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by kapitza 10y ago
Depends on whether you're willing to call a wolf-dog a wolf. East Coast coyotes are apparently full of dog DNA, as well as wolf DNA. So maybe they bark, or even howl a bit. But I maintain that barking remains a dog thing.
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by kapitza 10y ago
"Jugurtha" is a pretty easy tipoff. Not that Americans would learn who Jugurtha was in school, except maybe grad school, but a few of us still read books...
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by kapitza 10y ago
A: "Dogs have no proprietary claim on barking." B: "Wolves don't bark. No other canid barks." A: "My neighbor's wolf barks all the time. Drives me crazy." B: "That might lead you to suspect tha
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by kapitza 10y ago
Wut? searches mental database for any trace of right-wing egalitarians... You must be thinking of... Nietzsche? Definitely not Nietzsche. Maistre? Mmm... no. Can't be Maistre. Bonald? Filmer? Okay, you win, I give up. In cas
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Apocalypse whatever: 4chan's religion of nihilism(reallifemag.com)
30 points by kapitza 10y ago|15 comments
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Intimate portrait of a Chicago gang(nytimes.com)
2 points by kapitza 10y ago|0 comments
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by kapitza 10y ago
> To find a parallel for the grossness and debauchery that now reign in New York one must go back to the Constantinople of Basil I. H.L., honey, you have no idea ...
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by kapitza 10y ago
Perhaps you've seen The Big Lebowski . "Leads? Leads? " The odds of the SFPD "investigating" a mere wallet theft are even lower than the Malibu PD trying to figure out who stole Jeff Bridges' car. For one t
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by kapitza 10y ago
Spoilers: thief is a 40-something Egyptian, appears to live in a French migrant shelter in Mulhouse and work as some kind of a pimp in Amsterdam, very religious but also watches porn and smokes a lot of hash. Director develops sympathy for
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Letters from a Canadian officer at the Somme [pdf](climateaudit.info)
3 points by kapitza 10y ago|0 comments
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by kapitza 10y ago
Not even slightly isolated examples: https://archive.org/details/Sutton--Western-Technology-1917-... Neither Americans nor Russians wanted to say much about this, especially after 1945. So, memory hole.
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by kapitza 10y ago
Ha, not in all cases: http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/772/1/the...
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Fake Book With Connections To “Dark Enlightenment” Movement Found On Stack 12(bwog.com)
20 points by kapitza 10y ago|15 comments
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by kapitza 10y ago
Chris Sacca seems very courageous, as does Kara Swisher. Unfortunately, it's probably only a matter of time before HUAC gets them fired for their brave, outspoken, original and iconoclastic political positions... Wait, what's that
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Map of gang territories in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley(google.com)
32 points by kapitza 10y ago|27 comments
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by kapitza 10y ago
"Smacked around?" The point is that the left is threatening you, and you're responding calmly, reasonably and at length. Shows the power dynamic. What would we even threaten you with? One side wants to exist. The other si
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by kapitza 10y ago
You've observed elsewhere that both sides argue with your moderation style. This is true. However, you can observe here that one side petitions you; the other bullies you. This would be unusual in a genuinely symmetric situation...
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by kapitza 10y ago
Speaking of the alt-right, did you know Teen Vogue did a piece on them? http://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-the-alt-right-is Don't know about you, but I always trust content from Teen Vogue...
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by kapitza 10y ago
Given perspectives like this, I think it's pretty hard to argue that it's possible to appease the activist community by feeding them. The equation in their minds is essentially power == good. They want power over you, and over us
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by kapitza 10y ago
You can enforce "no tribalism" by (a) requiring all users to either declare a tribe, or neutrality; and (b) requiring all posts containing tribal content to be self-marked as such. For instance, suppose users can select in their p
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by kapitza 10y ago
These strike me as clearly separate concerns. The magnitude of downvoting and flagging is also quite different. And of course, we'd never know if the people who aren't banned would stoop to the foul crime of ban evasion. As they

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