sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
22hr ago
That's not the remarkable part. That's totally normal, as you say. The remarkable part is:
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
What does belief in God have to do with belief that black is not white and that you should look before crossing the street? It can't be that those things depend on your belief in them.
sarker
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1d ago
I always thought that was a remarkable passage from a self-described "radical atheist".
You do a lot of equivocation between social attitudes and government policy and discrimination against Hindus and discrimination against Brahmins, and it's not really clear to me which one you think is going on and which one each bullet is supposed to support.
India is a secular nation,
True perhaps in a technical sense, but when the PM is inaugurating Hindu temples (and I'm not aware of him inaugurating mosques), I'm not sure it's really relevant.
the only nation to house Hindus.
Not only is India not the only nation with Hindus, it's not even the only Hindu majority nation.
There are religious subsidies, Muslims get a Haj subsidy whilst Hindu places of worship are mostly run by government,
The state-run religion is not usually considered to be oppressed. Also, can you explain how a "secular nation" can operate Hindu temples?
in some places, they have started elected priests of different castes out of spite. Temple rituals being fucked with is a major red flag.
This doesn't indicate discrimination against Hindus at all.
Muslim areas are no go zones by default as any act of violence by Hindus, upper castes rather is enough to get the state to fuck you up forever... Every scripture is holy and beyond criticism except the for Hindu ones. Quran burnings result in mass scale violence 10/10 times whilst there are no consequences for doing the same against Hindu one. People burn the manu smriti, call Ram and Krishna names and even write books that win prizes like one literally named cuckold. This was written by a Marathi and won a national prize.
The existence of a heckler's veto does not imply that the majority is being discriminated against. You can't have a Mohammed drawing competition in the US without people coming to kill you either, but it's ridiculous to claim that the US discriminates in favor of Muslims.
Bengal and Assam are heading for Muslim majority by 2040 due to the porous border that the country does nothing about.
This is not evidence of discrimination against Hindus.
Literally every single religious group gets explicit minority rights besides one, guess what that group is.
Which rights do Hindus lack?
This also means that Hindus cannot have exclusively Hindu places the same way others can.
Which places in India are exclusively, for example, Christian?
Hindu festivals are not safe either. The supreme court bans the explicit use of firecrackers during Diwali, even though the crackers are an integral part of the religion, not the same as having them in during American independence day. There are religious connotations.
As far as I can tell the ban is only in places with terrible air quality? I don't see that as discrimination against Hindus. Do other religions get to perform celebrations that pollute the air to a similar extent?
The waqf act is a good thing to read for the uninitiated to get an idea about preferential treatment.
What in particular do you find objectionable about it? I don't find it particularly likely that a bill sponsored and signed into law by the BJP is anti-Hindu.
You can't even have a scheme like CAA that helps minorities from our low born neighbors. The protests agaisnt that were huge.
How is a bill that was basically supposed to help everyone but Muslims evidence of discrimination against Hindus? That such a bill was even proposed is primary facie evidence that India discriminates against Muslims.
Some things from the top of my head, there are plenty of much worse things besides these.
I would really prefer that you list the things that you think are the worst so that we can get to the bottom of this rather than a bunch of things that aren't really convincing and then go "but this isn't even my final form."
sarker
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1d ago
It's mostly anti Hindu
In what sense are Hindus oppressed or campaigned against in India?
sarker
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2d ago
To be fair, the risks of Ritalin or gabapentin are obviously much smaller when the baby is about to be born. This in particular:
Gabapentin is not generally recommended in pregnancy as there is not enough information about whether it's safe for your baby.
Is the typical medical CYA nonsense. There's not enough information about whether bagels are safe for the baby either.
sarker
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2d ago
I recently came across this article that really cemented your view for me.
This woman lives with her husband and two side pieces and she's on her own for a startling amount of time while she's giving birth. Her husband is in no rush to make it to the delivery room:
My water broke at 5am. Plot-relevantly, I had gone to sleep only two hours prior...
I woke up my husband as the very last step – I went into his room and said “my beautiful love,” at 5:30am, which we both know full well is a crime. By nature, we keep similar hours.
He emitted a quarter-awake “you are inflicting horrible crimes on me and you are not forgiven” moan.
When I said, “I think my water broke,” he sort of flipped. Like a pancake but on its own.
“Oh!” he said.
“Nothing exciting is going to happen for a while. So I think you should get more sleep. Partners A and C are driving me to the hospital and getting me checked in.”
Later that day:
In the window where I should have eaten, the boyfriends who had brought me to the hospital had gone home to sleep, and my husband was on his way.
I had the bagel because my husband was near a bagel place and mentioned he could pick some up. It sounded like a treat, so I said yes. At the time he and I were coordinating on what he should pick up, my contractions were very slow, or hadn’t started yet. I had no idea how close the epidural was. Once he started picking things up, I watched his map location, was surprised by how slow he was, and decided not to ask for more things.
He agreed, and I went to the hospital... My husband arrived with some snacks at 1pm.
Husband goes home at some point. Next day:
Around 7am I was really panicked. I needed to course correct sharply to something else. I told my boyfriend to wake up my husband and explain to him what was going on.
To sum up:
But I cry uncontrollably when I think of how the actual moment my daughter came out of me feels like a bad drug trip. I have a blurry picture of that moment, only a few details crisp (like seeing the glowing rod coming out of a metal refinery). I remember being confused, misled, tricked into hurting myself, experiencing the birth of my daughter as a great alien rush of self betrayal, with no awareness of her, and full awareness of the people who had surrounded and outnumbered me, who did not seem to deal with me as an intelligent subject, who demanded my attention by shouting at me throughout the whole thing, barraged me with questions afterwards, questions I had already answered. I remembered the array of uniformed medical personnel around me a bluish blur of enemy forces who had worn me down and conquered me.
Indeed, managing the medical staff is the proper role of the husband in this situation. But I guess he was too tired to fully attend the brith of his child!
sarker
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3d ago
Why is this not about greed?
To be clear, I did not get the sense from Anna Karenina that Tolstoy was against large holdings per se. It's just that he didn't think that there's any point in trying to save labor or increase profits - you can do that on a large plot or on a small one. Levin certainly seems to have vast tracts of land - forests, fields, etc etc.
sarker
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3d ago
Maybe, I haven't tried that.
sarker
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4d ago
Has freescale semiconductor done anything of note in the past 20 years?
sarker
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4d ago
I've never seen an ad on my kindle at all.
sarker
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4d ago
I bought it because it's the only reader I'm aware of that allows you to sideload books on it without jailbreaking it.
Books can be side loaded onto Kindles too, but the process is a little awkward (you have to send an email with the book attached to a special email address).
sarker
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4d ago
I just finished Anna Karenina myself. There's a lot to chew on there, but some of the more interesting points for me were:
- Despite the main dramatis personae all being high class, there's a big difference wealth differential between Vronsky, who has a really lavish lifestyle, and Dolly, who is basically just scraping by (and not, apparently, due to profligacy).
- Tolstoy really seems to think that "subsistence" farming where the landowner is barely breaking even (or worse) is a totally reasonable state of affairs and the Russian way of farmwork is just not amenable even in principle to mechanization.
sarker
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4d ago
The latest Kindles have very dim amber backlight settings, which are very useful when I wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall asleep but don't want to wake up my wife.
sarker
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4d ago
For using or for mentioning?
sarker
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6d ago
Jerome applies for a building permit, but the application is denied because lot 16 has merged into lot 9. He applies for a variance allowing him to build on a 50-foot-wide lot, but the application is denied because lot 16 no longer exists, so there's no 50-foot-wide lot to which the variance would apply. He sues the municipal government, but the trial judge rejects his arguments, and the appeals panel affirms.
So... What did he buy if the lot no longer exists? Is this a "no refunds" type of situation?
sarker
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7d ago
This, ah, is not terraforming.
sarker
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8d ago
I take it back, you are absolutely the highest caliber troll this forum has ever seen. It's a simple strategy: don't call a deer a horse, simply say that the deer is not a deer and that you've figured out what the deer really is. The kind of person who posts on this forum is simply unable to resist trying to convince you that the deer is, in fact, a deer. And the master stroke: since you are not staking out a position, it isn't necessary to marshal any arguments. Sophistry alone is enough to keep the thread going indefinitely.
I kneel.
sarker
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8d ago
How would you terraform the moon even in principle? There's not enough gravity there to hold on to an atmosphere.
sarker
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8d ago
Plenty of restaurants in SF have an "SF living wage" or "employee benefits" line item or similar.
sarker
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9d ago
sarker
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9d ago
I really need the money, too. Maybe even more than you do. So, where does that leave us?
You're mistaken. I really want that money, certainly more than you. When can I expect you to open your heart and your wallet?
In fact, there wasn't a single argument in my post.
The fact that you have refused to stake out a position is not as exculpatory as you think it is.
sarker
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9d ago
It applies only to human affairs
Hardly. Evolutionary stable strategies (like mating strategies) are aptly modeled by game theory.
in which actors are predominately self-interested and operate from self-interest.
Not really. The selfish move in the prisoner's dilemma is to defect, yet the people studying games are not idiots and have noticed strategies that lead to cooperation and therefore greater payoffs.
sarker
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9d ago
The wording on that is kind of ambiguous. One could perfectly well read it as, “God brought about civilised man (through his control of natural processes) about 10,000 years ago when the first civilisations started appearing”
Not really. That would be option 1.
sarker
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12d ago
I'd be willing to cut Creamy some slack because he did link the post at the end, but the cope and seethe flameout makes me much less charitable.
Btw, has anyone heard the rumors that he is actually our very own TPO from the old country?
Are you saying this whole thing was orchestrated by the (((trustees))) to make a few thousand a year?
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