SerialStateLineXer
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SerialStateLineXer
3d ago
It's very, very unlikely that this is motivated by a desire to influence the outcome of the election, because it's so obviously and wildly implausible that it would actually do so. Nobody who reads the Washington Post or LA Times editorial page is going to change his vote based on an explicit endorsement or lack thereof from one of these papers. They've been implicitly endorsing Harris since Biden dropped out, and implicitly endorsing anyone-but-Trump for eight years. Anyone who's receptive to the message already got it.
An official endorsement from either of these papers would be purely symbolic.
SerialStateLineXer
6d ago
I strongly suspect that the owner is not using the LA Times to advance a political agenda, but rather trying to get them to maintain the thinnest fig leaf of objectivity in order to enhance the paper's credibility. He has to know there's no way the LA Times' endorsement is going to tip the vote in a swing state.
Unless I'm wrong about that, this is totally consistent with what Yarvin said.
SerialStateLineXer
7d ago
When politicians talk about creating jobs, they're mostly full of crap, but aside from that, there are two different kinds of job creation:
- Makework, where we intentionally use more labor than is necessary to get the job done. This is bad.
- Finding a way to get more done by employing previously unemployed workers, or finding a more productive use for currently employed workers. This is good.
SerialStateLineXer
7d ago
If you have a funny skull shape, you can have a doctor shave your skull.
SerialStateLineXer
7d ago
What percentage of doctors publish research?
SerialStateLineXer
10d ago
Among the PMC (the truly rich are more heterogenous as a class) assortive mating is now so strong that it largely filters looks-based matching to an intra-class level.
According to Gregory Clark, it's always been thus. He claims that in the anglosphere, mating has been assortative on socioeconomic status at a correlation of approximately 0.8 for centuries.
SerialStateLineXer
11d ago
Conflating fractional-inch and metric nomenclatures, I guess?
SerialStateLineXer
12d ago
It would take quite a few additional Dahmers to make up for the loss of the predominantly low-IQ people committing 15,000 homicides per year.
This oral immunotherapy drug seems to work, based on a 100% success rate in an early clinical trial. It's probably some years away from general availability, but it might be something to look forward to.
There's also a desensitization protocol using only beef and beef extract described here. Seems like DIY might be viable.
SerialStateLineXer
15d ago
Not judging, just curious: Why was this a two-man project?
SerialStateLineXer
15d ago
They have a challenge called "Squid Game," right?
SerialStateLineXer
15d ago
I assumed the "pen" was short for "penis."
We should similarly expect a higher number of cases of multiple bullet wounds, as in the case of their being shot due to crossfire fighting.
Why? Being hit by one stray bullet is pretty rotten luck. Two or more seems much less likely.
Note that any Palestinian child shot or grazed by a bullet is going to be sent to the hospital
With Gaza's limited resources, during a war? Maybe, but I don't think this is a safe assumption.
You also have to account for the possiblity that a) at least some of the doctors are lying, and b) the worst cases may have been sent to American doctors either for propaganda purposes or because of their better skills.
Note that one of the X-rays shows a bullet that seems to have entered at a path nearly perpendicular to the top of the skull, implying either that the child was shot while lying down, likely by a stray bullet while lying in bed, or perhaps even by a bullet fired up into the air and coming back down, a phenomenon associated with the Arabic tradition of celebratory gunfire. Another shows a bullet that seems to have entered through a downward path about 45 degrees below parallel, which is hard to explain with a sniper shooting at a distance, and again more consistent with a bullet shot into the air and coming back down.
SerialStateLineXer
15d ago
Real estate has appreciated over the recent past, but YIMBYs would argue it's just because local governments restrict good land use
I don't think so. Upzoning increases land value, because you can build more valuable structures on land zoned for higher density. The main reason housing has appreciated is a combination of high-skilled workers centralizing in a relative handful of cities, and falling interest rates driving up asset prices. When your asset purchases are highly leveraged (e.g. ten to one on a mortgage with 10% down), this can be extremely lucrative.
SerialStateLineXer
16d ago
The idea is that since drug dealers are disproportionately black, they must have some special expertise that will give them an edge in legal cannabis sales.
Of course, most drug dealers' comparative advantage is in willingness to risk prison and engage in violence to defend their turf, neither of which are particularly useful in sales of legal products.
Surprising no one who gave it five minutes of thought in advance, neither black nor Latino people have, in fact dominated legal cannabis retailing.
Either she didn't get the memo, or she's alluding to some sort of program that privileges black-owned (i.e. mostly white-owned with black figureheads) cannabis businesses.
SerialStateLineXer
18d ago
For reference male/female height is 1 SD
It's around 2 SD.
SerialStateLineXer
18d ago
I'm not sure. I was thinking of the more ideological think tanks, like Heritage and the EPI.
Apparently Rand does get government funding, though I'm not sure whether it's contracting for specific research or open-ended grants.
SerialStateLineXer
18d ago
I was recently thinking that many university departments are essentially left-wing think tanks. They have explicitly activist aims, produce low-quality research with conclusions that are at least directionally predetermined, and only hire people with certain ideologies. The main difference is that they're funded, or at least subsidized, by taxpayers.
SerialStateLineXer
24d ago
Unions are hugely privileged under US labor law. There's no need to organize in secret, because employers aren't allowed to fire workers for trying to unionize. I believe that what you're describing would be an unprotected strike, and that employers could legally fire workers for it.
SerialStateLineXer
24d ago
For me, every month is Sober October. My parents were both problem drinkers, so having negative role models helped, I guess, but really I've just never liked alcohol. It's always tasted like paint thinner to me. I'm told it's an acquired taste, but why intentionally cultivate a bad habit?
I've never tried any other drugs, and I quit soda, with or without sugar, over 20 years ago and haven't really missed it.
I don't know what else is left. Reddit, I guess?
SerialStateLineXer
27d ago
more growth -> higher salaries ->
higher consumptionsmore investment -> more growth
Increased consumption is a consequence, not a cause, of growth. It's investment that drives growth.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
You can't quit eating food, but you can quit eating some foods and replace them with others. And some foods are much easier to overeat than others.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
I wonder if there's a vicious cycle here, where low intelligence or conscientiousness makes people more prone to overeating initially, and obesity leads to further cognitive decline.
SerialStateLineXer
1mo ago
or that some behavior was so beyond the pale that the best response is to let the guilty walk free to disincentivise similar misconduct in the future.
The exclusionary rule is a mistake, IMO, and not actually mandated by the Constitution. If you want to deter misconduct by police, then punish them personally for it. Letting a person who was clearly guilty go free because the evidence was obtained illegally hurts the Innocent people the 4th Amendment was intended to protect.
The USA endorsed Biden in 2020, but other than that has generally had a policy of no endorsements.
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