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the first time i smoked it was with my older sister who was a seasoned drug user so I matched her intake thinking she would stop me if I went overboard and it was one of the worst nights of my life
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my point is that klein and thompson shouldn’t get credit for the ideas in the book because they largely aren’t their ideas. they should get credit if they successfully repackage the ideas of experts/specialists in a way that convinces a lay audience and so far they are failing to do that.
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the purpose of the book isn’t its ideas, it’s repackaging other people’s ideas to bring them to a wider audience. that’s fine, but if the audience doesn’t trust the messengers then they’ve failed at their purpose. and it’s unreasonable to just expect trust when they’ve done nothing to build it.
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the path from here is clear: nationalize costco and put them in charge of tsa
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a dynamic here that is present in other areas of dem politics where elites who are used to getting good will simply because of their position in society don’t get it from their own coalition and they’re resentful they might have to work for it. i just feel like sorry but you’re not owed trust.
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i’m just giving you shit. it’s just funny the inclusion of male in the description as if a similarly aged healthy woman isn’t worth resuscitation. my father had a failed cpr attempt, which i witnessed, and that definitely changed my view on what i’d want for myself.
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i already knew it intellectually but it’s still wild to get confirmation that most people just…don’t really believe in anything?
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what are your thoughts on doing it on a 40 yo otherwise healthy woman, the same or don’t bother?
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if we think of a punnett square where one side is intelligence and the other curiosity the most dangerous box is high curiosity and low intelligence. these tools seem to heighten curiosity without an attendant increase in intelligence.
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They absolutely think Americans are little piggies at the healthcare trough. A lot of liberal technocrats agree with them.
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Compounding this is that when bigger fixes are suggested a common retort is that Americans won’t tolerate fewer services or long waits. Little recognition that this is already the norm for many. And this is from the side that sees itself as pro-healthcare. Not great even just as a rhetorical stance.
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It doesn’t help that dems have been hyperfocused on insured % as the primary metric of success. They’re supposedly the pro healthcare party but this hyperfocus comes off as if they’re fine with the status quo (and clearly many are) and allows for bad actors like this to usurp their message.
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At my old workplace there was once a chicken-wing eating contest and one contestant was going so slowly that a coworker shouted out scornfully, “He’s just eating lunch.”
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It’s weird to treat backlash to the ACA (which isn’t true, it’s very popular, but we’ll set that aside) as a condition completely outside of Dems control
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What do you mean broadly underappreciated, it’s all people talk about on this topic
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all three of them? the US is highly provincial but it’s depressing that that’s also true in the country’s one genuinely big city
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they traveled down the mississippi like grimes
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What I find odd is that the Democratic Party seems mostly fine with this dynamic
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They talk endlessly about their policies, in excruciating detail, but rarely about how the totality of those policies creates an overall vision of how they want the world to be.
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Few die hards will change their voting behavior so it probably doesn’t make sense to target them heavily but there are a lot of fickle dummies who are getable and some diehards will be swept up with efforts to target this latter group
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10 years ago their whole thing was that girls’ sports don’t matter because no one cares about or wants wants to watch ‘worse’ athletes play
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yeah, watching what happens to every skeptic/rationalist community it seems that as soon as people take inquiry as part of their identity they’re ability to actually inquire plummets. a generous and continuous amount of humility about the desire we all have to fit in is needed to counteract that.
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Everyone falls into all three of these groups, to varying degrees, and that changes over time. People who delude themselves into thinking they get online solely to learn are at high risk of propagandization because they can’t admit to themselves they also have some desire to vent and fit in.
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and still happens today. i know an evangelical couple who recently cut off their gay son (who they adopted from another country when he was 12 so he has absolutely no other family here).
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the 15 minute city concept broke containment into rightwing media and immediately became a conspiracy about how the govt is trying to keep people in urban cages where they will only be able to travel a few blocks
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did biden lose the election because of the amorphous blob of disengaged voters with utterly incoherent politics? no, it’s the fault of this much smaller group i already didn’t like
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They are not the reason Trump won. Even if that swung MI it wasn't a big enough factor in WI or PA.
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people don’t trust these messengers and the only response the pro-abundance people have is that they should and well that’s just not how trust works
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it’s clear from the discourse that the people are crying out for use of speed governors to eliminate the issue entirely
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a lot of people have gamed out very elaborate scenarios reminiscent of the movie speed where like if they’re not allowed to go grossly over the speed limit a small child will die
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Well a fair number of people clearly want no enforcement at all, whether from cameras or cops
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Separating detection from beat work seems like such an obvious positive reform that skirts the defunding issue. Like I haven’t heard any proposals to try it.
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nope
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surprise, the people who don’t like camera enforcement also don’t like street redesign that slows them down
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For many of them they like the identity of being a city dweller. Like they want to be able to say ‘I could never leave the city’ while having their neighborhood be built out like a suburb.
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let me introduce you to the armed cyclist
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about when did elevator regs in the US begin to require enough space for a stretcher? my middle school (built in the 60s) had an elevator about this size
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people just disagree with you dude. as someone who walks a lot my opinion is that drivers are so accustomed to breaking traffic laws that they now feel they have the right to do so and that constitutes a near constant breaking of the social contract.
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the lockheed martin smol bean could have been all of those things without reproach if they didn’t also want to be bombastically self righteous online, but i guess the pull to engage in moralistic posting was too great
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a lot of this is explained by the increasing celebration of juvenile behavior in our culture. like that’s just a dumb shirt that no self respecting adult should want to wear. i feel like we would get a lot of benefit out of highlighting the good and fun parts of being an adult.
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the obsession with evidence based policy among liberals has been so bad for the democratic party. sometimes it’s good to do ineffective things if those things are popular or not actively harmful.
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forgot about that period of time when conservatives were pretending to believe that healthcare is expensive because too many doctors get sued
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One of my spring hobbies is looking at the instas of where local high school kids are going to college and it brings me great satisfaction to see that the kids going to the local $50k private high schools have very few kids who end up at ivy league schools.
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A lot of their kids do end up at small liberal arts schools or public ivies but they have the good sense to feel mildly embarrassed about it