twodigits
9mo ago
Do you think that they have reasons other than the ones mentioned; or are they just stupid?
twodigits
10mo ago
Was planning to comment on that today myself. It makes sense as a hazing/selection process; to select for posters who are committed/neurodiverse enough to not just give up and leave, but patient enough not to chimp out over being ignored.
It does seem to create a dilemma over what to do if the filtered post was one you really want an answer to, though. In most cases it'd be egregiously obnoxious to keep posting the same question; but the filtering/wait period introduces that nagging doubt that maybe the person with the perfect answer is on here and just didn't see it.
twodigits
10mo ago
- If you want your family/clan to thrive, they need other people to have kids with. Who if not your neighbor?
- Didn't you just say that smart immigrants are worse?
- If you have a growing internal population, why do you need immigrants?
twodigits
10mo ago
I have underestimated the complexity of the question and your preparedness to consider it in detail. I idly wonder whether there are any real-world circumstances that would make those distributions likely, but I'm not willing to press the point.
twodigits
10mo ago
I have nothing to add to the discussion, but I found out about the movie myself through a promoted tweet recently, and in the name of sunk costs I'm going to quote some of the replies.
"Uhhhhhhhhh never mind, dammit can we not have stories focused on white people. My dumbass thought this was gonna be black Harry Potter"
"Hollywood doesn’t know how to make black lead films without making them about white people."
"Woulda been a fun chance to make a movie about a magical society of wise, semimystic black people strategically deploying to change people's lives. "
"Looks like they botched it. Would be much better if it was a group of heroes that did true MN stuff, like a janitor offering uncannily wise advice to a troubled guy working after hours at the office"
"Learning about magic just so you can end up being a side kick for some other guy to get the girl you like. Idk what’s worse - the person who wrote that as the pitch or the people who green lit it"
"The plot is that black people exist to make white people happy and the black guy has to get the white girl???? This is all kinds of cringe wtf"
"Aw man. The story is bout the worst type of negro possible: a light skinned SIMP"
"they couldn't make it anything funny or cool because key and peele already did a sketch about it"
"Quentin Tarantino makes better black films than black writers and directors."
"DamnI didn’t realize the klan was still making movies"
"This movie seems racist to both White and Black"
"Not to be racist or anything but this seems like it's funded and supported and written by Jews"
"You mean they're not fighting the Grand Wizard of the KKK?"
"I was thinking they had to stop like a rouge member from giving white people bad life lessons but this does seem way more boring"
Since the initial promoted tweet was negative, it's not surprising that the replies are too; but it does make me wonder whether there's anyone with a positive view on it. The only theory I saw for who the target audience is was "The aim is to show it overseas and make asia think white people are evil".
twodigits
10mo ago
Whereas if it were easier, higher achievers would tend to earn more, increasing inequality. What am I missing?
there is less inequality but the upper ceiling is so much lower that it's legitimiately harder to get paid the same amount in PPP dollars there than in the US.
Why do you say "but" when those are the same thing?
If a population could mutually agree to all have fewer babies, while pensioners agreed to stop collecting to make way for new generations, it might be good; if that's somehow easier than the rich all agreeing to build as many houses as possible, and so on. But if your rivals/enemies/the lowest-functioning are having lots of kids, you don't want them to be the only ones. All those kids are going to be taking up jobs, housing, etc., but at least your kids are in that group, and having more kids means more success chances for your family overall. Importing a bunch of foreign competitors doesn't benefit you even genetically.
Or maybe I went off half-cocked, and I'm missing the point just like you say Kulak did. Seems kind of rude of me to have butted into the exchange and demanded an answer, really.
twodigits
10mo ago
I don't know. Are we really at the point where a concept can be declared off-limits for thought experiments because a comedian made fun of it once?
twodigits
10mo ago
I'm not trying to morally compare the current Canadian government to the Nazis, but
I would never screencap this and post it to Twitter for cheap laughs from people who hate us, but
twodigits
10mo ago
I still cannot wrap my head around the idea of low/middle wage immigration to a country with billionaires and wealth inequality.
I'm not an English expert, but this seems nonstandard. I thought that "immigration" was the word for the phenomenon from the destination country's perspective, in contrast to "emigration" or just "migration". But the use of "to", along with the emphasis on the traits of the country (implying that it's what's in question), implies that you're talking about the migrant's perspective: "I can't wrap my head around the idea of choosing that kind of country to migrate to". It looks as though this led to different people taking different interpretations of your question.
twodigits
10mo ago
Is this supposed to be a gotcha? Are you implying that you can't see any functional difference between the two options? Or are you just trying to bait them into saying something that you can label as racist/eugenicist?
twodigits
10mo ago
I see an opening parenthesis without a closing one. Is your comment unfinished?
twodigits
10mo ago
Don't want to dogpile, but using life expectancies as a metric of societal health makes me curious how exactly one calculates how long people are going to live. Not curious enough to research it, unfortunately.
twodigits
10mo ago
Since you say "people", doesn't that mean that it's equally true that peaceniks like to believe the enemy is reasonable because it relieves them from having to continue war?
twodigits
10mo ago
I don't see any dumbness out of context; just one person trying to intimidate another with a nonsense question, and their staying cool and holding frame by giving a friendly answer.
twodigits
10mo ago
Was it the show where a character said that the one thing he'd never seen in all his years on the force was a criminal mastermind?
Jack Reacher? Joe Pickett?
There are also various books where the protagonist tracks a murderer who turns out to be the "good guy", and ends up letting them go or covering for them.
What's the salient difference between the shape of any buttplug and any pyramid? Don't they both have a wide base tapering to a point (appropriately rounded in the plug's case)?
I wash hats and scarves. Not sure why you wouldn't. Aren't they starched the same as anything else? I don't categorize them as pajamas, though.
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