Recursive_Enlightenment
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Recursive_Enlightenment
1mo ago
Signaling games. Not wearing a tie to an interview for a job where you know they expect you to wear one signals a lot about you. Suppose 0.1% of people stopped by the police during traffic stops are so dangerous that they lack the ability to appear cooperative and pose a genuine threat to the welfare of the police. Having the police think you're in this 0.1% is very bad for you, so you will avoid giving that impression unless you have no choice or desire a confrontation with the police.
Recursive_Enlightenment
1mo ago
My biological father (who is still alive) grew up in a poor family and as a kid literally had to worry about starving to death because of lack of calories (war played a role in this).
My small US town put bike lanes on some roads, but lots of cyclists understandably ride on the sidewalk. The bike lanes I pass on my commute to work seem optimized to kill cyclists as they literally cut across the path cars take at one point, although fortunately I never see cyclists on this part of their path.
The cyclists I personally hate are the ones who pull recycling material in carts behind their bikes. These cyclists are hard to pass, and I'm certain the amount of extra gas cars use to slow down for them more than makes up for any environmental gains of them using bikes rather than trucks to transport recycling material.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
Experiment: When a plumber, electrician, or handyman has finished his job and expects payment, ask if paying in cash is OK. You will see an expression of pure joy cross his face as he answers "yes".
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
There was a miscommunication that for a short time caused the Kaiser to think that England would not fight against Germany and might even stop France from fighting, but this was quickly cleared up, and was cleared up before the start of war. If Britain was a lot stronger, the British foreign minister would have had a lot more influence and could have either told Austria-H don't invade Serbia, or Russia to stay out of it. Germany would have figured that with a strong Britain against them, they would be unlikely to get Turkey or Bulgaria to join them and they probably get Romania and Italy to side against them.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
It would have been the Louisiana conquest if the US had been part of the UK.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
I'm actually listening to a WW I podcast and Germany was worried about Britain entering WW I. If it had been Britain + America, Britain would have been able to dictate terms. The German military was not stupid.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
You could be right about the South. My only somewhat informed view is that the Civil War was a war of choice for the South, and not going to war would not have caused them to have to give up slavery. Unless they were crazy (which they might have been) the war only made sense if they thought they could win easily and that needed the UK to not let the North blockade the South.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
But the South's strategy for winning the Civil War relied on the UK Navy not allowing the South to be blockaded. The UK + North American North would have easily beaten the South and so could have forced the South to end slavery without a Civil War.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
Yes, but Singapore is better than the US especially when you adjust for the difficulty level they are playing at. The US has massive land advantages over Canada (too cold) and India (too hot and dangerous neighbors).
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
If Kamala Harris gets to appoint two Supreme Court Justices I suspect the 1st Amendment will be found to have a hate speech exception that coincides with what Big Tech censors you for saying.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
The British abolished slavery without a Civil War! If the US had been militarily part of the UK you don't get WW I and II (probably) and as a bonus no communism.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
I'm a patriotic American, but I think the Revolutionary War was a mistake and history would have been a lot better if the US had stayed British. So the printing presses used by the Founding Fathers did a lot of harm even without being "automatic assault presses".
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
Or the printing press which allows heretics to attack the honor of the holy Catholic Church. Let's pray this doesn't cause schisms and violence.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
Before Columbus the Americas had a low disease burden meaning the check on population had to be war and starvation. I'm guessing they fought before they let their kids die of starvation so there was probably constant war over food.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
The only moral action is to use Neanderthal DNA to bring back some Neanderthals and then abandon Europe to them.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
Until the industrial revolution everyone in the long run was either (1) in a Malthusian trap, (2) had a lot of war, or (3) had a lot of disease. Before sustained economic growth and birth control, something bad was always the check on population growth.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
Stuff I've read over the years including about the lifestyles of the children of the ruling clerics.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
I think what happened was: Iran for domestic reasons needed to attack Israel but didn't want a war with the US. The US didn't want a war with Iran. Israel wanted the US to go to war with Iran. Iran and the US figured out a way for Iran to attack and the US to respond without the US going to war with Iran. So Israel kind of lost.
I think Iran is one of those totally corrupt countries where not being corrupt is seen as a sign of stupidity not honor.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
Yes, but whoever Trump picks next will be attacked just as harshly as Vance. Remember what happened to Kavanaugh. All the media needs is one person claiming personal knowledge that the nominee did or said something bad.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
Agreed. To win the message is San Francisco liberal not cackling childless cat woman.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
Polymarket currently gives Trump a 63% chance of winning, and this anti-Kamala ad seems pretty good, so it's not just "copium" Republicans are high on.
Recursive_Enlightenment
2mo ago
The Black Hand got a random troubled kid to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
So your father almost failed out of the Coast Guard for not pretending to not believe in stereotypes.
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