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Conservatives think liberals are wrong. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

Jonathan Haidt is illuminating:

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[...]liberals answered the Care and Fairness questions while pretending to be conservatives. When faced with questions such as “One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal” or ”Justice is the most important requirement for a society,” liberals assumed that conservatives would disagree.

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From: https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/conserva...

A stronger case would be "it must be more profitable than the alternatives with the same risk" but you skipped a step and went right to "appreciate faster" which is not the only way it could be profitable. In fact "flipping houses" to make a living at this scale is an artifact of your current time and place which is the US in a massive inflationary bubble [1]

We libertarians have been beating the inflation drum for decades now and been largely ignored and / or laughed at. Maybe it's time to revisit how adding trillions and trillions to the economy every year could maybe possibly lead to higher prices in "inflation hedge" type goods.[2]

[1] https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs...

[2] https://mises.org/library/housing-too-good-be-true

Arguing with economic laws makes as much sense as arguing with gravity. The only reason you get as far as you do is that the level of econ education approaches zero in the general population. What you said is not even wrong, it's not well defined, it's not supported by any evidence and it betrays that you have absolutely no clue about how markets work at all. It's a lot like if you had said "falling down hurts as long as we don't abolish gravity".

okay, you first.

I am super anti sugar. I don't eat it except in fruit and I don't give it to my child.

I still don't want the government messing with nutrition. It's track record with that is just awful and there is no reason to think it's going to get better.

Politicians please do it as Hippocrates said: "First do no harm"

Before you ban, label or tax sugar you have to get your house in order: Stop distorting the food market with subsidies and stop giving people wrong information (Food pyramid etc).

it's a fun game: define poverty in terms of wealth inequality and presto if inequality goes up, poverty does too. But here is the thing that we forgot in the west because we essentialy abolished it: poverty is about material depreviation and that happens to be the one thing about it that would actually stunt IQ. We don't have material deprivation, not in Norway nor anywhere else in Western Europe, certainly not at an increasing rate. We have access to all the calories we want and at prices and qualities unequaled in human history. We also have endless free books btw.

bananas

It should be obvious that Europeans don't need bananas for proper development. In addition that has nothing to do with poverty.

Also, fascinating that if you haphazardly connect the hand wringing topic du-jour with anything at all you get people that scour the internet for even the tiniest scrap of evidence for you.

Yours isn't any more valid than theirs, so what did you add to the discussion?

At least I know some economics and history so of course my perspective is more valid. There has never been a time or place where everyone was better off materially and if you are not aware you and OP should start reading some of those books.

wealth inequality doesn't mean more poor people. I know it's a lot to ask nowadays but please be informed enough about economics to at least know the very basics if you are going to bring it up.

The idea that the food availabe to people is getting worse or less, in Western Europe of all places, is absolutely ridicolous. If anything the opposite is the case. As regards jobs we also have the opposite problem: too few simple jobs.

Literally the opposite is true. What is it about IQ that makes people straight up hallucinate the opposite of reality.

it's fine when they are gay or trans to please their parents but god forbid they go to bible study.

sounds great, sounds smart, is more true than not but the problem is, you don't have any solutions while the dumb-ass christians do.

marriage wasn’t a tool of the patriarchy after all.

It so obviously isn't it's painful to imagine this is a widespread belief. Marriage exists to reign in men, monogamous marriage doubly so.

Progressives have no idea what they are toying with, they are literally children playing house with grenates.

start to counter it

Please do try. I don't think what you are saying is true at all and it certainly isn't any thing like a universally accepted scientific truth.

sure, after all you have the world writing for you. The best minds out of hundreds of million put their stuff online faster than you could consume it all. However, if that wasn't the case and we were neighbors I might be one of the few people that you could even have conversations of this kind with. Instead of flaming me and then going on to the next link you might "settle" for a less then pristine conversation and there is at least a chance we become friends. Meanwhile in the real world: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-mentality/201...

I think the author makes an important point.

----- By contrast, membership in groups of necessity cultivate a rather different set of habits and expectations, certain virtues are inculcated because the group of necessity requires them to function. -----

Thats really the problem with all these virtual activities "on the computer". They beat the real thing by a mile while not providing the psychological sustenance human beings need. Online porn is a million women at your finger tips that will never reject you so why go talk to woman in real life? Why be funny or interesting or well groomed, that's so hard.

Instagram is full of beautiful vistas you can see without breaking a sweat so why go exploring in your back yard?

Games are full of achivments, ones you are certain to get so why work hard at anything real where it might be for nothing?

The problem is that we need all of that real life friction to lead a full human life and we really need to strive to find meaning. We need to sweat, we need to fail and we need to get rejected every once in a while, too. That's the real reason why if you live a mostly virtual life it feels so empty and bad that you want to kill yourself.

IQ predicts future income even if the subjects environement is controlled for. It's a very good meassure, probably the best we have in the social sciences. What it tells us is not nice, sure, but denying reality is not going to help anyone.

Where I live in the south of Germany nearly every residential area has these artificially narrowed roads and it works a lot better than putting up a incongruent signs ie 30 on a 50 looking road.

It also can look pretty nice when they use flower beds and trees for the narrowing:

http://www.ibfunk.de/ibfunk-wAssets/img/leistungen/verkehrsa...

Games usually let you control if and which buffering to use so for an OS to be stuborn about it and waste Carmacks time over a simple toggle is pretty maddening

well we certaintly aren't moving towards that in Germany so I wonder where they actually are and what that looks like in reality. If everyone else is also just going to burn more coal than ever before all of this is nothing but a very expensive step backwards.

and how are these PV users going to cover their baseload?

billions and billions down the drain for symbolism. Mostly private individuals like me payed that via crass energy taxes. It's nice that you get enjoyment out of seeing solar and wind farms but in the end they'll do nothing but serve as testament of the hubris and stupididty of politians.

And who defines what "the right thing" is?

Your human nature. Eat well, be outside, have friends, move you body, have children and strive towards something that is important to you.

entrepreneur who made his dream come true by chasing happiness

I co-own a small business and running and growing it has absolutely nothing to do with chasing happiness.

Happiness is a feeling. It's purpose is to reward you for doing the right thing. What that is can be pretty flexible but it's ultimately informed by our biological and genetic imperatives. It follows that you can not expect to be happy all the time just as a healthy human is not constantly angry or sad. Happiness is a means to an end which is to get you to and keep you living a good life and not an end in itself. The surest way to invite misery is to go chasing happiness. Ask a heroin addict, he knows in a real sense what Novaks pleassure machine is like.

This is what I wanted all my life! I wonder what kind of dark magic makes this go and how this will come back to bite me if I use it?

the main feature of this allows you to transparently use structured data as types in your code like type providers in .net. I love kotlin but it can't do anything remotely like that.

It's only an embarrassment if you have a deep seated anti-commercial bias. Sure, your adjectives are quite invocative but let's contrast your prose with reality:

smuggling

Taking something personal in the space assigned for personal use is not smuggling.

schlocky trinkets

Envelopes from space are pretty neat and evidently highly valued by the people that ended up buying them. Those people now have something that is nearly unique and very special to them. Have you personally ever created or done something as meaningful for other people?

national significance

No doubt. But how come a government bureaucracy like NASA can't make cool memorabilia like that to give to the fans that payed for all of it but can only watch?

international spotlight

Few people cared about Apollo 15. It's actually already legendary how hard the public interest dropped off after the first few landings.

triumph of capitalism

It is a triumph, absolutely. Hundreds of people got something really meaningful for them that they would not have gotten otherwise. The astronauts got a well earned pay off. Humanity got artifacts that will be preserved down the ages. Nobody was hurt or exploited. Win Win Win all around

Question for the pro-censorship crowd:

If the results of this study hold up, does this justify censoring media like "13 Reasons why"? Why / Why not?

I actually think that for her not letting go of English is the biggest obstacle. You won't be properly immersed if any significant part of your live still happens in your native tongue.

In my student exchange year this was very noticeable: all of us Europeans decided to not speak our native languages among ourselves while the large group of Brazilians kept speaking Portuguese with each other. At the end of the year the their English showed little improvement and they also did not seem be well integrated with American friends and so on.

On the other hand, we came home barely able to speak our native languages. That is a really weird feeling when you try to speak to your parents in German and your brain just gives you English words and idioms.

So yeah, before you give up because of age try to not leave your brain an out to be lazy. Brain, there is only one language now and you'd better learn it quickly.

Normally I have no issues getting things to work but I bounced off trying to get modern Jenkins to build a github gradle project three times now. I even used to have one, way back, that built maven projects from SVN and deployed into artifactory but I can't seem to manage the same now. I thought it was me but maybe jenkins just became really awful in the meantime.

Boeing was capitalist from the start. Why fail now in such a stupid way?

okay let's back up and remember that you can't compete with a plane that crashes all the time. So the reason is clearly not profit, in fact they will lose a big chunk of money from this and that wasn't hard to predict at all.