I like the title.
I'd rather have 'vacant and hollow pluralism' than 'vacant and hollow inclusivity.'
'Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive.' True, but we'll never agree on which is which or even what a culture is.
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Wondering what the average MAGA IQ is? Note, this is not a comment about nature as much as nurture.
A story MAGA will claim is false. Abdulrahman Abohatem (a gas station clerk), at personal risk to himself, saved the 16-year-old girl (name undisclosed) from Donald Fields, a 48-year-old registered sex offender, said the police chief Hussein Farhat.
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AIPAC is starting to rival Pedo in US unfavorability. For the record, I certainly despise them both.
The Ellisons don't want to promote an 'Enlightenment' based universe. We need MORE prescriptive protopian science-fiction screen content, and less cautionary-tale dystopian sci-fi.
Democrats, with a few Republicans, might soon remove Pedo's war powers, forcing him to agree to open the strait while cementing the IRGC's hold on power. Then Republicans will blame the Democrats for stopping a war, leading to even worse consequences. I hope we don't empower either brutal regime.
We are in the Star Trek evil mirror universe. That is what happens when people who want to establish a brutal, power-dominance-based hierarchy are in charge.
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
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Magyar "We'll create the conditions for independent, objective, impartial media. We know there's no perfect media, but what's been going on here since 2010? Something that even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have admired. Where not a single real word was uttered. That cannot continue."
With apologies to Socrates, I have to say that the unexamined government is not worth living under.
This is the story of every hobby or job skill I've ever tried to learn.
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Good article, suggesting a recession is coming. Also: "Basically, the U.S. can get the Strait reopened by loudly proclaiming victory while quietly accepting de facto defeat. All this will take is for Trump to accept reality, admittedly a hard climb."
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I wonder how MAHA will denigrate this research?
"But we aren't making all this sacrifice of human effort and lives to return to the kind of world we had. We're fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills." Maj. Frank McCloud (played by Bogart)
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As opposed to Mar-a-Lago, a different crime drama.
When you issue a generic insult by saying the problem is 'men,' that means me too, which is the verbal equivalent of collective punishment. From there, it is a slippery slope to becoming part of the illiberal left. Without denying my faults, I want to be judged by the content of my character.
$90, but if it were $10 for every ticket, I have no idea, but multiple hundreds.
Good to know as I prepare for permineralization, where minerals replace my organic material after death.
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"Either the planet gets very close to the binary, suffering tidal disruption or being engulfed by one of the stars, or its orbit is significantly perturbed by the binary, leading to eventual ejection from the system. In both cases, you get rid of the planet."
I hope the bunker isn't built while he is there.
One low-probability scenario for how the Epstein administration ends is that Pedo barricades himself with loyalists in his new bunker, while ICE and remnants of the military loyal to him defend him after impeachment. www.bbc.com/news/article...
I would argue that if monopolists didn't make money by enshittifying our screen time experience while exacerbating social trends that impose negative-sum value on society, screens wouldn't be a problem.
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I'm guessing they're using the word 'chaotic' in the mathematical sense related to fractals, and that this could be significant.
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I gave 3 different concepts showing context variability in identifying others. 1) false positives in eyewitness testimony, 2) the ability to identify hundreds of celebrities, and 3) Dunbar's number, a speculated correlation between primate brain size and historical average social group size.
Agreed. No worries. Looked it up, closer to 150, but mainly I was referring to the number of meaningful connections humans can maintain, whatever that number is.
youtu.be/irTozIjeqFM
Counterpoint: Witness IDs are notoriously unreliable. Support: Clearly, if we can only recognize 50 people, what was this talk about the 'Jennifer Aniston' neuron?
Possibly unrelated: Dunbar's number is about 100, which seems to reflect the maximum size of a community with social coherence.
No good acronym, but we ought to call him 'pump-and-dump Trump.' He's executed rug pulls to the global oil market multiple times.
