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MaximumCuddles
19m ago
Same. I wouldn’t be surprised if a large percentage of men of a certain age first encountered it there.
orthoxerox
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35m ago
So the answer to the low TFR is enough money to escape the rat race? South Park already did it.
SteveKirk
37m ago
I can't understand why shareholders don't insist on tying CEO pay to company performance, Musk-style. Does it reveal too much about the board's expectations for growth/decline?
NunoSempere
38m ago
Also, I've sometimes entered Data secrets lox, but bumped out pretty quickly; what is an example of a discussion you've found valuable there, if that's not too much trouble?
Ditto6687
40m ago
Dursleys are people who say “settee” and “pleased to meet you” and so on.
Not English, what is the connotation here?
Hermione’s background is upper-middle.
I'm rusty on my HP lore, but where is this implied? I don't remember her family situation being discussed much in the books or shown in the film.
NunoSempere
41m ago
A straightforward answer could be to write a parser for each source of information that you are interested in, and then a frontend to consume that information. I am partially doing this (and it provides some of the magic sauce for my startup), though I also use email and rss. And Twitter; the serendipity factor for the algorithm is still too high to leave it be.
magic9mushroom
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41m ago
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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.
You know that the vast majority of gun crime is done with small-calibre pistols, right? I mean, maybe not lowest, IIRC most of it's 9mm Parabellum instead of .22LR, but generally criminals aren't looking for stopping power and range - they're looking for low noise, low cost, low recoil, and especially small size, because the use-case of career criminals is "I need this unarmoured guy 10 metres away to go away on zero notice, ideally without attracting attention" and that usually means hipfire from something that can be worn on the belt and wielded one-handed (and ideally hidden).
If you want to stay on the Pareto frontier, small-calibre pistols are the first thing to ban over-the-counter.
(Also, pistols are really convenient for suicides; longarms are less so, although not much less.)
No_one
1hr ago
The link is self-explanatory.
A pretty impressive guy who has been mentioned here and who got cancelled for saying his mind is apparently tasked with recruiting people to reform key institutions.
What more should one post?
I guess you could just cram it into the CW thread, but
a) it's not even really worth debating.
b) it's fairly important information. Wouldn't everyone here want better Us institutions ?
Basically all the stereotypes about X or Y European culture being rude/unfriendly/etc. are false.
Interestingly enough, I have exactly the counter view of US culture, especially related to restaurant service. I find US waiters as rude. First they impose themselves upon me as if I care about their name or their stupid questions about where I am from or why am I in the US - as if I cannot tell that they don't give a shit. Then they constantly interrupt me and my friends with inane sales pitches - and if god forbid we go under some invisible sum of $spending per minute, then they actually slam the bill on the table and just kick me out as if I am some hobo. So much for friendliness. To me US waiters are bunch of fake stupid clowns putting on clownshow for US patrons, who for some reason like that shit.
Nevertheless despite this rant, I put up with it when I am overseas and act accordingly with fake smiles and everything - each country has its own thing and US people like their waiters to be clowns for some reason, it is what it is and I am not there to reeducate them about proper continental way of proper "invisible" manners of waiting staff. But it would be good to have some basic respect for other cultures as well. For instance Japanese people are polite, they do not like to be touched and in general like their space. People in Brasil on the other hand love to touch each other, so if somebody comes to me and taps me on my back he means no disrespect or sexual assault or whatnot.
Ioper
1hr ago
Patients are also tested by physicians before some medications are prescribed, both physically and mentally.
Folamh3
1hr 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.
Virtually all jurisdictions require a license to operate a car. Many jurisdictions either require a license to own a firearm, or forbid it entirely. Many jurisdictions place strict limitations on who may purchase knives (e.g. minors).
aardvark2
1hr ago
Psychiatry is all about normalcy. If the people saying that have power over you, it's an evidence that you are less sane than them.
aardvark2
1hr ago
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.
aardvark2
1hr ago
I guess @RandomRanger meant this
Blueberry
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr 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
2hr ago
There is very little reasoning on this earth that can stand up to the awesome power of “But I want to.”
DirtyWaterHotDog
2hr 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
2hr 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.
I'm not worried about 'evolution' doing okay. I'm worried about myself, my friends and family, and human civilisation. I know that humans as a species will survive, but I'd rather that every country in the world not turn into South Africa in the meantime. I think industrial civilisation is good and I want to maintain it.
Like sure, I guess I can admire your extremely long view from a certain perspective. But what can I say, I'm just a parochial worry-wort who doesn't want humanity living in mud huts and bashing eachother with rocks again.
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