hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
16m ago
AADOS are assimilated fully. Not to the stratum you would like them to be, sûre, but they have nothing in common, culturally, with west Africans, and a lot in common, culturally, with poor southerners writ large. You don’t have to like that to note that it’s assimilation.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Ah yes, thats thé exhibit on where man walked with dinosaurs- there’s the proof(human and dinosaur footprints nearby). It also has a variety of dinosaur stuff which is fun for little boys regardless of their(parents’) opinions on the age of thé earth.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
The actual history of minority groups in America is to tend to become voters for the most moderate democrats available eventually.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
Most educated Christians for most of history regarded the first 11 chapters of Genesis as myths that present theological truths about our identity as humans in relationship with God.
That is not true.
It is true that denominations holding to traditions which predate, roughly, 1650 almost unanimously hold that the first eleven chapters of genesis do not have to be interpreted literally(although they also do not condemn such a belief). But the average educated Christian a thousand years ago believed the stories were completely literal(granted, they weren’t that far off from the contemporary scientific understanding of events either). The dissenters were mostly people like Augustine who held non-literal views but would be categorized as creationists today.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
There are lots of YEC people. Mathematically, there are more of them than there are regular churchgoers. DFW is full of people believing it; there’s a creation museum in, I think, Carrollton. ‘People believe this’ is a thing you’d have to be willfully ignorant of, not simply something you never run into. Filter bubble effects might be real, but you work at a defense contractor in DFW.
It seems worth mentioning that that was one part of a stadium holding 100k people- not in itself evidence of an Indian majority crowd- and that challengers to the racial harmony and integration ideal in Texas focus on the (noticeable but small)population of dot Indians rather than the very large Hispanic population. There aren’t objectively very many Indians, but they’re far and away thé most controversial minority group in the state.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Again, thé match or thé person?
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
There are more Americans believing in literal young earth creationism than who go to church every week.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Best guess estimates is that there’s about 25% of practicing Catholics who don’t intend to believe much in the way of catholic doctrine, and this definitely applies to many democrat politicians, which we know because they’ve said so.
It’s not implausible to me that VP Vance could be in the same category with opposite political valence. It’s not the explanation I’d go with.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
I mean thé point is they can just buy these models(and the labs that built them) in a fire sale when they run out of VC money.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Aren't almost all surrogacy contracts written with that clause, at least commercial contracts?
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I think these frontier AI labs are going to be forced to sell by the VC's whose money they're burning for research when microsoft and google are making bucca bucks and these frontier research labs still haven't figured out a way to turn a profit, and the corporate accounting team at these big tech companies will prevent frontier expansion because they don't want to pay for research. AI really is going to be a big part of the future economy, it's not a bubble- but the people who make money off of it are largely going to be the people who already make money off of software, because that's who's figuring out how to monetize it right now(and OpenAI/Claude aren't doing a good job of that), and so they're going to take control of the entire industry among themselves and drastically slow the pace of research because there's no business case in AI X-risk.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
That's probably a true model, however. Most Catholics regardless of education are nonpracticing and only partial believers.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
It's unclear whether JD Vance really believes in Catholicism, I'll give you that- but he did embrace the most high demand and relatively low prestige version he could find, so...
I believe 100% in the literal truth of the dogmas of the faith. I believe our God was born of a virgin, the highest created being, died and rose from the dead, and is literally and truly present in the eucharist. I believe in miracles, guardian angels, demons, purgatory, and the four last things. I am not a convert, but nor did I grow up religious.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Is it not inevitable that these 'frontier AI labs' calling for regulation are going to get eaten alive by the half dozen big tech companies that have accountants overseeing the nerds? The business case will prevent AI risk, the market won't stay solvent long enough to present X risk.
I may not be educated, but I can sanity check. This stuff is really expensive and when the bill comes due someone who has the revenue to pay it gets the assets.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Do you mean smartest possible matches as in the match is smart, that is, it's a good match, or the match is with a smart person?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You are correct that Iran-driven petrol prices are likely the biggest fixable issue for republicans, but grocery prices are even bigger- mostly due to beef. There's not a whole lot Trump can do about that one, or would have been able to, however.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This is actually one of those things with a long history. CF moonies.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
She did accept a contract clause about abortion.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The US has the highest incarceration rate among first world countries and democracies, as separate subsets? But the USA isn't an outlier in low crime rates. There's obviously another variable.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Obviously, a black woman claiming asylum in Texas from a gay muslim couple demanding an unwanted abortion is a culture war issue.
Now, if this woman were truly consistently pro-life from the outset, she wouldn't have been a surrogate. But fair enough, some people see the reality and have a moral awakening. Generally speaking if they won't take the child it's unclear why they care; it's unlikely she's going to get child support from them anyways. But they have the kid, don't they?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Don't prenups get thrown out the second they're called into question anyways?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
How did she land is the bigger variable, I think.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes, usually individuals with extensive contact with the criminal justice system don't get picked for juries.
Indians and Chinese do seem to broadly believe in abortion and progressive tax rates, and have little to none of the cultural grievances that thé contemporary right uses to avoid talking about economics. India is a deeply socially conservative place, yes, but in a very different way from what a westerner would recognize.
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