freemcflurry
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freemcflurry
11mo ago
What Trump did is worse but it's not immediately obvious to me why we should draw the line at exactly what Trump did and not an inch less. If the point is that stealing is wrong then we usually don't let thieves walk free if they offer to return what they stole months later after being caught.
freemcflurry
11mo ago
I don't understand why the third party apps are shutting down instead charging a subscription fee to cover the API costs.
freemcflurry
1yr ago
Wasn't it illegal in every state before Roe vs Wade? Seems like there's been a pretty massive shift in opinion since even though there are still people who oppose abortion.
freemcflurry
1yr ago
If you know about HBD then it wouldn't it be self defeating to examine applications in a race blind way? And why would black people be ok with that when they have the voting power to force you to hire them anyway?
freemcflurry
5mo ago
Beevor's book was pretty heavily slanted towards the Republican side imo.
freemcflurry
11mo ago
The eugenics side won didn't they? It was the law of the land in the 20s and 30s. The progressives changed their mind on it after WW2 because it was associated with the Nazis, but it wasn't stopped by opposition from outside the progressive camp.
freemcflurry
1yr ago
Is a masters at MIT really that impressive? He did his undergrad at some state school.
freemcflurry
12d ago
Who is that in the video?
freemcflurry
1mo ago
Dissident right
freemcflurry
3mo ago
Thanks, first one IP blocked me but the others worked.
freemcflurry
6mo ago
The US provides Iron Dome funding on demand so it may as well be unlimited from Israel's perspective.
freemcflurry
7mo ago
I don't think they're that influential on American foreign policy. How many evangelicals did Biden or Obama have in their administration? How many people working in the state department are evangelicals? I would expect a country dominated by evangelicals to look a lot different than the US does now.
freemcflurry
7mo ago
In that case you'd want to compare Ukrainian wounded to Russian wounded as well. It makes no sense to compare killed + wounded to just killed. I don't know what exactly the Ukrainian number is referring to since the source was a video in Ukrainian but I assume that 13k "lost" means killed.
freemcflurry
11mo ago
Why do you say that millennial white women are more politically liberal than non white millennial women?
freemcflurry
1yr ago
Yeah, I derped and mixed it up with Bloomington
freemcflurry
1yr ago
Cheap is relative. In the really bad neighborhoods of St. Louis you're looking at much less than that for a house, maybe $30k-$100k.
Other reasons I can think of:
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Some people don't mind it as much if they're from the neighborhood. I worked with a girl who grew up in the hood and still lived and there and she said that people have each others backs. You might get shot but it's going to be somebody from another street, not your street. That doesn't sound very comforting to me but I guess it's different if you grew up that way.
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A lot of these people are on Section 8, which not all landlords accept and can't be used to buy a house. Of the ones who aren't on section 8 directly a lot live with a girlfriend/mom/grandma who is so they aren't mobile.
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Black people are only 13% of the population so there can't be many of them everywhere.
As one example among many, why is Columbus, IN (pop. 50k, 45 miles south of Indianapolis) 24% nonwhite despite median home values ($185k) that are higher than many of the 90+ percent white suburbs of Indianapolis (e.g., Franklin, Mooresville, Greenfield)?
Columbus is a college town, it's not going to be comparable to other small towns or to a big city like Indianapolis. There are more Asians than blacks there which is definitely not true of St. Louis.
An openly anti-democratic militarist movement with the goal of setting up an authoritarian, confessional Catholic state? Is that not far-right?
Wasn't that pretty much what Spain was until 1931? And then wasn't there a lot of intimidation, murder and violence shortly after that? I can't remember the exact timeline since it's been a couple of years since I read about this, and the book I read was pro-Franco so maybe I didn't get the whole picture. Monarchism + Catholicism seems like pretty standard conservative stuff at least for the time and place. I think authoritarianism isn't a great way to distinguish right vs far right since you can have an authoritarian government that's left, right or center.
freemcflurry
1yr ago
Wasn't CEDA a large, establishment right wing party with widespread support in Spain in 1936? Actually I kind of think that fits because I don't see the Nationalists as being far right (though there were far right elements), they seemed pretty happy to line up behind Franco who I would classify as more of a traditional conservative than far right.
freemcflurry
1yr ago
I've had a few aborted attempts at different languages over the years but now I've managed to stick with Spanish for the last two and half years. I'm not fluent by any means but I haven't given up yet so I'm proud of that. The difference between this attempt and all of my failed ones is that I put in a lot of time at the very beginning to get to the point where I can understand things I actually want to read and listen to and then eased up. The phase where you can only read children's books is so boring that I always flamed out within 6 months of starting. This time I forced myself to put a lot of time in at the start to blitz through the boring part and made it to where I can actually be entertained in Spanish.
My motivation still has hills and valleys, so I'm not always making much progress, but I always have a Spanish audiobook on in the car and a Spanish book next to my bed so I never actually lose progress and have to start again.
freemcflurry
1yr ago
Their show about Zelda Fitzgerald was also really good. They cancelled it after one season though.
freemcflurry
1yr ago
It's obviously false based on a cursory look at real data.
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ky/louisville/crime
https://communitycrimemap.com/
Look at that and then look at google maps and it's immediately clear that the most dangerous areas are all in the dense parts in the west with the grid streets and density that yimbys love.
freemcflurry
1yr ago
If that paper is correct that high density = low birth rates then NIMBY is a good thing. It reduces the number of people that can afford to move into crowded megacities where birth rates plummet.
freemcflurry
1yr ago
Anglo Saxon Catholics would count I guess but how many of those are there? Anglos are people of English descent, otherwise I would just say white people.
freemcflurry
1yr ago
Eliminating or greatly reducing qualified immunity (for prosecutors more than cops, actually) is a big plank.
Won't that just mean every cop getting constantly sued by everyone they ever put in jail?
Whole language learning sounds more enjoyable so I would stick with that. Does it really matter whether they learn to read at 6 or 7 as long as they get there in the end? Most smart kids will learn at home before they're school aged anyway.
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