Hyperion
1yr ago
Marxism
Are you serious? Marx wrote On the Jewish Question, which is definitely an anthropological analysis that puts Jews under the microscope. And plenty of modern far left organizations seem more concerned with bashing Israel then they do anything else. The BDS movement is far leftist not far rightist.
One third of Indians in the USA marry outside their race. 95% marry in their caste in India, and that's a historic low. They aren't importing any caste system. Most 2nd or 1.5 generation Indians couldn't tell you their caste if you asked.
He's trying to play to the Republican base which is still very Christian. He wants to paint himself as a monotheist like them, not some polytheistic animal worshiper like how most Christians view Hindus. Maybe he would be better off ignoring it, but he thinks it's important to be ahead on this issue.
Hyperion
1yr ago
But, this whole discussion was over how much the population of California cities had increased by a head count basis, not a bread winner basis. If Californians had more children over the last few decades the housing problem would be worse. But, a California with 40 million people who are on average older and distributed into more households, has a worse housing problem, than one with 40 million people who are on average younger and distributed into fewer households.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Only if you assume blue wins if you choose blue. If blue loses despite you choosing blue you've thrown your life away for nothing. Blues really like to assume that blue will win if and only if they choose blue.
Hyperion
1yr ago
In the purely altruistic 1v1 version of the game it's literally just about finding the Schelling point. Though, even then, if both players are rational, red is still the obvious Schelling point since the downside is less if the other person chooses differently. Red is strongly dominant if someone is agnostic about the other person's choice.
The highest expected death toll in your scenario is when the reds and blues are even. Assuming I'm completely altruistic and just want to minimize the expected number of deaths then you would want to choose whichever side you expect to be in the majority. Expected deaths are maximized in a split vote at 25% expected dead.
If you think both are as likely then it doesn't matter what you pick.
I'd pick red, because I would expect people to be at least a little selfish and red is the stable equilibrium in the scenario where at least one person is even the tiniest bit selfish and I know I am that person. So, the blues deserve to die even in the case where I expect to be the only red, because they are so stupid as to pick the wrong equilibrium.
Hyperion
1yr ago
but after the collapse of that civilization at around 1400 BCE
1400 BCE is about when actual Greek starts being used as the administrative language, instead of the Minoan language. The actual collapse is 300 years later. Though, the new hybrid culture is a rougher, more militaristic one, exemplified in the Iliad.
artistic innovations
The Hagia Sophia puts every pagan temple before it to shame. The Latin west wouldn't make cathedrals or art nearly as beautiful until around the time of Constantinople's fall.
Hyperion
1yr ago
The thing about Idiocracy is that almost everyone is white or Hispanic, because they are almost all descendants of that one dude and his bitches.
Even the Nordics are race mixed to the extreme. Not sure why having Western Hunter Gatherer DNA is better than having Ancient Ancestral South Indian DNA. Something for his followers to think about I guess?
And, they are literally Aryans, In the literal sense of literal. They call themselves Aryans in the Vedas and the Avesta.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Or, maybe people have genuine beliefs and aren't just coordinating to keep people from the truth of your ideology.
I can't help but laugh at far right people accusing anyone not as red pilled as them as being a 'sactioned dissident' or whatever the new term is. Can you not believe that people actually believe something different than you for a real reason?
Hyperion
1yr ago
Dale Gribble is definitely a positive portrayal of that kind of character. Especially, considering every character is flawed. Just look at the subreddit. They love Dale.
The Turks and Mongols took over the entire Central Asian steppe that was previously dominated by Aryan tribes. They also conquered India and Iran. You know what Aryan actually means right? The Afanasievo were pasturing in Mongolia long before the Mongols ever took up the horse and bow.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Both are falsifiable - you (god-king or alien or whatever) could just take a bunch of 'pure' nordics and a bunch of mixed people and put them in various 'ancient bands of men swordfighting' situations, and see which group acts 'nobler' according to your criteria.
We already had that experiment historically. The Aryans got bodied by the North-East Asians.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Oh, he's literally just paraphrasing an article by a neoconservative Jew. That puts it in a much different perspective.
Hyperion
1yr ago
I think Razib Khan said it best when he said they cast these shows like they are demographically the same as a major midwestern city. Even if it's in fields like medicine that are overwhelmingly south/east Asian. It feels like people think casting in major films is just a jobs program for whatever demographics are common in Hollywood and New York at the time, without regard for how they actually contribute to the final product.
Hyperion
1yr ago
But why wouldn't an all knowing and all powerful god show himself to all people, but in reality restricts himself to just a geographical area, one that happens to correspond closely to the geographical area that the Roman Empire ruled. And; of course, the Eastern half of that has it's own even more absurd prophet who has taken the hearts and minds of that portion of the human race.
The Post-Modernists are right in that we can't force anyone to believe anything. That doesn't make a completely irrational belief the same as a rational one. That you can differentiate them yourself is all the evidence I need.
During Celeste’s development, I did not know that Madeline or myself were trans.
Yeah, I believe that this story is really about being trans just as much as I believe that The Matrix is really about being trans. That is, not at all. The ability of people to mold their memories to reflect a new identity narrative is amazing.
Hyperion
1yr ago
There weren't many low status men going to India except sailors and soldiers. Low status men can still join the army or navy today if they want an easy path.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Read the whole Wikipedia article, lol.
The recipients of subsidised bread paid the baker a small fee for milling and baking; the grain itself was still free. The change from a grain supply to a flour supply would have carried with it a host of problems, some of which can only be guessed at. Flour is much more perishable than grain, and it would therefore have required more frequent distribution. The Emperor Aurelian (270–275 AD) is usually credited with changing or completing the change from doles of grain or flour to bread, and for adding olive oil, salt, and pork to the products regularly distributed; these products had been distributed sporadically before that. Aurelian is also credited with increasing the weight of loaves but not their price, a measure that was undoubtedly popular with the Romans who were not receiving free bread and other products through the dole.[58] In the 4th century AD, Rome had 290 granaries and warehouses and 254 bakeries, regulated and monitored by the state and given privileges to ensure their cooperation.[59][60]
It's explained in your own link.
Hyperion
1yr ago
They should still learn something. The issue is that there is no correlation. It's not like they aren't learning things adjacent to what the SAT tests. Vocabulary and general knowledge for one thing, which are the most g loaded of sub-tests.
Hyperion
1yr ago
Well I can't really argue against the idea that the skills and habits learned are invisible and impossible to test. They're invisible after all!
Hyperion
1yr ago
They spent three summers working with a Nobel prize winning scientist and that didn't translate into them acing their SAT?
I don't get your point here. Japan was very well functioning when they were massacring each other during the Sengoku Jidai. As was Europe during the Thirty Years War and the World Wars. They fought those wars with aplomb and skill.
That they used their great talents for such terrible ends is a tragedy, but it says nothing about how well functioning they were. They could not raise and command such powerful armies if they weren't well functioning.
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