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aardvark2
21m ago
I guess @RandomRanger meant this
Blueberry
25m ago
You need a drivers test as proof that you know how to drive a car. The test for understanding medications is being a physician.
aardvark2
29m ago
There is no evidence that Niger's fertility isn't dysgenic. For countries for which there's data, ones with greater share of population in agriculture like Moldavia have more dysgenic pattern than more developed ones. Higher IQ Nigeriens probably are more likely to use condoms, get higher education and emigrate to 1st world countries. Even if the country had zero dysgenics, it's still loss for the world at large.
some
44m ago
If some reader misses something that the author intended and the expected audience understood, I would think less of that reader. Like if all I took away from Animal Farm was that it is a sad story about animals, you would be correct to look down on me.
aardvark2
47m ago
Allegedly women paid prostitutes to make them participating in sex strike too, or maybe the problem was serious enough so prostitues considered supporting it too themselves
Corvos
51m ago
There is very little reasoning on this earth that can stand up to the awesome power of “But I want to.”
DirtyWaterHotDog
56m ago
People hurt themselves with cars, knives, and guns all the time but we allow people to buy those in part because cars, knives, and guns are useful
Exactly, this is a bad idea.
Knives are safe enough, but guns and cars can lead to unintentional harm for both the user and onlookers. They should be regulated.
There can be 3 tiers: over-the-counter (free for all), needs based and testing based.
Pepper ball guns, tazers, and lowest caliber pistols can be over-the-counter. Wilderness communities can get needs-based allocation for larger guns. And hobbyists would have to take demanding tests to qualify for the wider selection.
Cars would come with speed limiters (80mph), limited acceleration (0-60mph 5 secs) and sales be limited to low-ground clearance vehicles of limited size. Tall vehicles like pickup trucks would be approved for those who need them. And those that want to go faster, must qualify for harder driving tests.
It seems excessive, but if you look at road & gun deaths in the US and it makes sense.
sun_the_second
1hr ago
(weird that they didn't have means to detect somebody had been imperiused, but let's not dwell of that, HPs magic system is so full of plot holes).
They could always dose anyone they wanted to question with Veritaserum, the problem in HP society is that the Good Guys can't just impose such measures on the important people.
Maybe it's a 4' band, although I'm not sure which one's worse.
Dean
1hr ago
Obviously so, yes, but by posing a question anyways I was able to get some adults to nerd out about a children's book series. ;-)
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1hr ago
I remember it being fantastic. Characters who really believed in a way that I can imagine a renaissance Italian aristocrat would believe. Also very good plot and acting
orthoxerox
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1hr ago
If 4B was a cup size, how big would it be?
Grotesquely oversized.
There’s a difference between trying and getting it wrong, versus thinking you’re doing people a favour by failing to respect how people are supposed to behave. Trampling people’s boundaries is deeply disrespectful to them and shows poor character IMO.
I remember a tourist I met once at a Meetup; she immediately gave me a rather demeaning nickname, clearly intending it as a playful icebreaker. Frankly I was appalled. I tried to be nice and not hold it against her but I still remember it as a quintessential example of someone trying to leapfrog social customs and botching it.
Lizzardspawn
1hr ago
The penguin was amazing show. Too long since we had a proper protagonist that was flat out irredeemable.
weird that they didn't have means to detect somebody had been imperiused, but let's not dwell of that, HPs magic system is so full of plot holes
Also, sometimes you just can’t do stuff. Modern fantasy is very influenced by sci-fi and D&D, and readers expects thing to be rule-based, comprehensible, and amenable to experimentation. See for example all the silliness about playing rules-lawyer with genies.
I don’t think the deep HP magic runs on such modernist lines. It’s more like art: there are principles and the basics are straightforward but the complex stuff just isn’t, and you have to go by feel.
Corvos
1hr ago
No, I agree with @SteveKirk here. The Weasleys have a noble background (they’re on the Black tapestry) and they’re well known as an old-established Pureblood family. Lucius Malfoy basically dislikes them for being traitors and letting the side down.
It’s noted several times that Mr. Weasley could have a lot more money and be a lot more influential if he were willing to toe the line. He has personal relationships with bigwigs and Department Heads like Bagman and Crouch.
Many of their children also get distinguished positions: Percy goes straight to the top of government and Bill has an important job in the biggest bank in Britain.
(I’m ignoring accents and going by the books, I never had much interest in the films).
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1hr ago
People generally don’t understand drugs or how dangerous or addictive they can be. Allowing the public to take addictive forms of morphine or opioids for every ache and pain without supervision just makes a population of addicts who cannot hold down jobs and are thus dependent on the state. Other drugs are easy to overdose on and do pretty serious damage to the body.
Corvos
1hr ago
Certainly I find that living in a foreign country is more relaxing in many ways because my social radar isn’t going off all the time.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
1hr ago
The problem being trying to find out if you’re a real victim of exploitation or if you’re just unsatisfied with where you ended up. Most people will absolutely believe that they deserve more.
orthoxerox
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1hr ago
or worse as, “I’m not interested in playing your silly provincial status games”
That's one of the only privileges you have as a foreign worker if assimilation is not your goal. Just smile and trample every boundary.
veqq
1hr ago
I love that Americans can look at the same scene through an entirely different colour spectrum, and all the flashing red bits just look gray to them.
The question is what value is encoded in the British lens and what Americans are missing by not seeing this worldview. Does it make Americans worse analysts when interacting with the Chinese etc or does it free them to do more, with less mental burdens or are they stupider because they're not constantly doing such social calculus etc etc Like preeminent American Timothy Dexter I'll put my punctuation at the end...,,,???????
orthoxerox
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1hr ago
There are also a bunch of intra-African stereotypes Westerners would find very surprising to hear, but they tend to reflect reasonably accurately how Africans experience other cultures
Well, please go on, I want to be surprised.
Folamh3
1hr ago
Race: The stereotype that African Americans are less educated is not true.
It bothers me that I have no problem imagining a woke asserting that this stereotype is false, and then in the next breath asserting that lower rates of educational attainment among African-Americans is one of many metrics demonstrating the extent to which the US is still a systemically racist country. It should not be possible for a mentally sane person to simultaneously believe "owing to systemic racism, African-Americans have lower rates of educational attainment than white Americans" and "the notion that African-Americans are less educated than white Americans is a false and harmful stereotype".
Like, if you believe that African-Americans are less likely to get an education because of racist policies or teachers or how assessment procedures, that directly implies that African-Americans are less educated than white Americans! The latter "stereotype" cannot be false without completely invalidating the former assertion.
Related: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/if-you-believe-in-structural-racism-16c
No, it's not. By the same logic, large fraction of people using word "hate" themselves hate white men too, they value societies with developed infrastructure and protection from Russia and PRC, but the fact that white men are involved in the process in annoyance to them.
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