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 No.11640[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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Is it true that woke propaganda is being pushed in public education? And if so, what should be done about it?  I would say that the morals taught in public school should be those that are widely supported by ordinary Americans.  Public schools shouldn't really endorse one side of a politically contentious issue.

I remember a decade or two ago, it was far-right Christian fundamentalists who were trying to prevent the teaching of science of human evolution in public schools.  Nowadays, i guess it's the woke far left.
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 No.13275

>>13274

Are you implying this is something that commonly happens?  I don't recall any major stories of this kind of violence in recent memory, much less a trend.

 No.13276

>>13274
> you should get revenge by hurting your next door neighbor who just so happens to be, by coincidence, a deaf gay dude or whatever.
Nobody is telling you to do that.

I am not responsible for the made of fantasies in your own mind.
Frankly I don't feel any need to entertain the notion. It's obviously beyond any rationality and anybody who suggests such a thing as a serious notion is quite obviously mentally incompetent.

Which I have to admit is somewhat ironic giving your supposed defense of those with disabilities. Leaving aside your extrapolation on to the entirety of republicans, taking the words of the clearly insane seriously and demonizing them as a result is hardly a fair response.
Such people deserve sympathy as it is not their fault that they have these thoughts well beyond rationality or logic. Their minds are broken. We should regard them with empathy, not hatred.

>And I know the MAGAs will look at the shooter's social media and say something like
Nobody says that except for you frankly.

It honestly makes me wonder sometimes considering these are the thoughts that seem to exist in your mind and yet you push them onto others.
It suggests they may well have a deep root in your subconscious.
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>>13274
>And I know the MAGAs will look at the shooter's social media and say something like "hey, look, he talked about transgender thoughts and was hard of hearing, so clearly we've got to have collective punishment to get back at the alphabet people and the cripples for them slaughtering our kids".

On the flip side, if the shooter is black I'm going to look at their black culture (oops I mean hiphop) and blame them for behaving like an animal on that, right?

Believe it or not, there is no grand American conspiracy to get rid of gays or trans folk when it comes to the people or official government. Most people are just trying to go to work and pay their bills.
>>13275
>>13276
I'm going to strike the two of you as well, because if you think homosexuals and trans people aren't targeted on a regular basis, then that is just as ignorant. It just isn't a systematic operation. Most people are more accepting, but that doesn't mean it is completely overwhelming either


We are currently living in a transitional phase where old norms are being replaced with new ones. Of course you two are going to have completely separate view points based on your own life experiences.

To suggest it does happen at all is stupid; just as to think that everyone around you is that invested in trans/gay people is just as dumb

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So when is it gonna end?
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 No.13283

>>13278
>don't see how it's a "big tell" or "extremely suspicious" when you already admit in your post here that this is pretty much the common standard practice for companies around the country.
The thing I am suspicious of is LPNH's beliefs -- not Sheetz's. Sheetz probably just is following whatever standard protocol is, I agree

Nah what I find suspicious is that we have a case where the EEOC is filing a lawsuit where the company's standard practice of doing background checks is leading to very likely completely unintended discrimination and is going to be looked at..... but then the LPNH is framing this like "These mostly-black criminals are weaponizing their race to attack a company, and this is why civil rights laws are bad."

>>13279
>Okay, but that is a policy issue for the legislature to address.
Shoulds don't really matter, because courts still are going to interpret whatever is the current law. Maybe the legislature should address it, but it doesn't suddenly become out of interpretation of the courts.

>Actions can discriminate, but outcomes cannot discriminate.
An outcome can unintentionally (or intentionally in some cases) affect different types of people disproportionately.

 No.13284

>>13280
Yeah it may not end up holding in court, so who knows there. It is just a sort of weird societal catch-22 though. I wonder what sort of good solution there could really be?


>>13282
It can be grounds for starting the trial at least. Like to investigate further, find out what's happening, have them defend themselves, etc.

This is a lawsuit, not them being found guilty yet.

 No.13285

>>13283
>courts still are going to interpret whatever is the current law
There isn't any current law against refusing to hire those with a criminal history.  The fact that blacks commit proportionately more crime than whites adequately explains the racial discrepancy at issue.

>>13283
>An outcome can unintentionally (or intentionally in some cases) affect different types of people disproportionately.
Yes, like shorter people tend to have poorer outcomes in basketball.  It's not a good reason for the govt to bully a company.

>>13284
>It can be grounds for starting the trial at least.
If the racial gap is suspicious, I agree it can be grounds for discovery at trial.  But this particular racial gap isn't suspicious at all.

 No.13270[Reply]

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Instead of annexing Finland into the Russian Empire, Alexander I of Russia organized Finland as an autonomous grand duchy and acted as its head of state.  This autonomy allowed Finnish culture and national identity to flourish despite being part of a larger empire.  Are there any lessons to be learned from this that are applicable to the modern world?

 No.13271

>>13270
My understanding is that the mostly successful situation of having the territories culturally and economically flourish under a broader Russian government umbrella only worked when the Russian military held some international respect as a force capable of maintaining civic order no matter what.

In 1905, Russia faced a humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War. And I believe that was a fundamental turning point. Many effects across both Asia and Europe.

I suppose the core political lesson is that while a system of government with more devolution to local peoples and more rights held by the individual the better, still there's no substitute for the sheer power of having an adequate military that has popular respect and maintains basic authority. A country without basic strength is a country about to internally fall apart. I suppose.

 No.13272

>>13270
>>13271
I like this article.

https://www.history.com/topics/asian-history/russo-japanese-war

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Do you ever think we're going to see a time where birth control will be banned?

I have to wonder how many people are currently in favor of it, together with porn lately there seems to be a vocal push to get rid of both.

(also divorce)

(twitter source for OP https://twitter.com/LizzieMarbach/status/1775882953790230666)
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 No.13106

>>13104
The point, though, is not just whether it's popular with the masses, but whether action would be taken in spite of the "will" of the masses.

 No.13110

>>13104
>>13106
I'm not sure, despite my clear pessimism and previous comments, whether or not the current move to far right social and culture beliefs is sustainable or not.

This all could burst dramatically in a balloon type fashion. Like the end of the housing bubble. Or the end of the Cold War shaping the U.S. with the Soviets suddenly disappearing.

The more people are bluntly subject to simple questions about whether or not the government should literally throw women into prison if they're suspected of having abortions... I think the more people understand the consequences of Big Brother government the less they like it.

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Banning birth control is just another means for desperate women to attempt to trap a man. What they don't realize is that all this is going to do is leave a lot more single mothers across the population.

Thank God I don't ever give away my real information when I get laid by females.

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What is your opinion on suicide?

Personally i think the only time it is condoneable is if you are suffering from a terminal illness that will cause you extreme pain before death over a long period or cause you to enter a vegetable state.

Outside of that there really is no excuse to be honest.  There is always solutions to any problem, be it financial, emotional or first world millenial, and honestly if your solution is just to throw away the one life you were gifted with, then you did'nt deserve to be born in the first place.

Which i suppose would have the same outcome for you but suicide generally causes harm or trouble for other people too, making it also selfish and also hypocritical if your reason was no one cared about you, because you obviously didnt care about the feelings of whoever has to clear up your mess after either.
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 No.11415

At least in the case of America, I feel like every suicide case is essentially a murder.

If we didn't have widespread pain, hatred, and misery in this country due to the average person abandoning basic human niceness and most people treating each other in public like insufferable douche-bags, then depressed individuals wouldn't live like statues being eaten away into lumps by acid rain, the gradual pain of living itself due to the abuse and harassment of others being so tough.

I've little clue how to actually make things better, though, other than countless individual small efforts to raise the sanity waterline.

I would argue that a lot of it does come from the top, though, and a country that moves from having icons such as Donald Trump to icons such as Fred Rogers is getting better.

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Honestly, let it happen. Talk to someone if you care, but don't pull that guilt-trip BS. That's just selfish. Forcing someone to live in a world that they can't stand is one of the most cruel things you can do to someone.

I've had a friend who killed theirs self. I'm not mad at them. I'm sad, but I'm also glad they aren't suffering anymore.

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It's really terrible.

But everyone should be able to do what they want with their own body, even killing themselves.

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Is this the fundamental turning point? "One man, one vote, once"?
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 No.13126

>>13125
I feel like that applies to this whole discussion, honestly.
I'm left scratching my head. Especially why I should care about a poll of twitter randos, at that.

 No.13127

I have to wonder what would happen if a bunch of states coming November just announce to not open any voting booths and just declare their pick (Trump or Biden) as the absolute winner?

Will the people take to the street to protest this?
Or will the average person just be very thankful they get to stay in bed and not care about the elections?

 No.13128

>>13127
Even if the state legislature uses some method other than popular vote to select its presidential electors, a popular vote would still be required to select representatives for the House of Representatives.  "The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature."

The Constitution does not require a popular vote for presidential electors: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors...".  In the early days of the republic, some state legislatures did in fact directly select the state's presidential electors.

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This can be evaluated scientifically.

https://www.cspicenter.com/p/are-we-getting-dumber

The short answer is "no". That's because of the vague nature of the "we" being asked about. The situation very, very drastically varies based on country.

Thoughts?
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I kinda don't feel like reading a paper on intelligence from the guy writing "papers" on the IQ of Rick Sanchez or the scientific justification for incels. Certainly not on a eugenicist's personal slush fund posing as a "think tank".

Someone wanna give me the bullet points?

 No.13119

>>13115
>Most phenotypic traits can't be traced to just one gene
Yes, but how does that relate to my post?

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>>13117
I don't get what you're saying. Literally all you have to do is scroll down to the "in conclusion" tab and read four sentences. And that's it. That's really it.

I'm not being sarcastic. That's all.

As far as the political organization supporting the author does, I would care if the article had some obvious agenda in its findings like "clearly socialists and the general left have destroyed IQ progress". However, the study has the exact, black-and-white opposite result. As in, "nah, we're fine".

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Currently, about 2% of babies in the US are conceived via IVF.  IVF offers some advantages over traditional fertilization, including polygenic embryo selection (PES).  In the near future, gene editing tech might be used to correct multiple undesirable mutations, such as mutations that increase risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.

Do you expect the percent of babies conceived via IVF to rise significantly this century to take advantage of this beneficial technology?  I predict that it will be used for a majority of babies within 100 years, assuming we don't get paperclipped by AI or suffer civilizational collapse.
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 No.13096

But, seriously.

Is this one of the "smarter" reasons why people are getting on board the ban IVF train so much lately?

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>>13094
>That is to say that a "deliterious" gene can be adaptive in the right ecosystem or even be both adaptive and deleterious.
In some cases that's true, but other mutations are simply bad.  E.g., having two copies (homozygous) of the allele responsible for Tay-Sachs is definitely bad; it almost certainly results in a painful death during childhood.  But having exactly one copy of the allele (heterozygous) isn't harmful and some speculate that it is actually helpful and might be partially responsible for the higher average IQ of the Ashkenazim.  So polygenic embryo selection against homozygous Tay-Sachs alleles is definitely desirable.

As another example, BRCA mutations are very bad in expectation and are autosomal dominant.  Having one mutated allele greatly increase risk of certain cancers, and having two mutated alleles leads to death of the embryo in a majority of cases.   Polygenic embryo selection to avoid BRCA mutations are most likely a good thing.

>>13095
That paper is from before Roe v. Wade was overturned.  I suspect the dysgenic effects of banning abortion might invalidate the paper's conclusions.

 No.13111

A fundamental issue here too is that biological traits related to genetics vary dramatically from clearly positive things to clearly negative things to things with ludicrously ambiguous and complex things.

For example, being bisexual is regarded in modern Western countries for the most part as a bad thing even though in objective scientific terms there's absolutely no negative aspect of it whatsoever. A bi man or woman can have children and live life without any problems should culture and society allow them. There are also other aspects of personal identity such as hair color, skin color, breast size, eye color, and so on that for the most part appear to mean nothing in the sense of scientific value, even if men and women spend literal millions to enlarge chests as much as possible year by year and very obviously would shell out the same to kill off 'the A-Cup genes' if they ever get found.

It's such a metaphorical can of worms.

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The tech companies Reddit and YouTube must face a lawsuit filed by the survivors of a mass shooting in Buffalo inside of New York State given that the online organizations hosted media that the murder engaged with in order to pick out both the best firearms for the attack and also the best body armor to wear during it.

In general terms, I'm basically a free speech absolutist. However, explicitly giving somebody who says that he or she is going to commit real acts of violence your own best advice to help them do just that, particularly when it comes to something like buying the right pieces of body armor, appears to me personally to be so immoral that it ought to be clearly illegal. Similarly, I would think that somebody giving out tips about filming child pornography and how best to host it online has crossed an ethical line and should also get in trouble.

There's more at: https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239478067/buffalo-shooting-reddit-youtube-lawsuit

Am I making a mistake? Could increased legal scrutiny of those two platforms have negative side-effects? It's almost goes without saying that increased online censorship causes unintended consequences.
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 No.13085

>>13082
>The online platforms deliberately chose to organize themselves so that their framework hosts content that actively incites violence,
Did they, though?
Or did they just make a platform built to allow people, generally, to organize themselves, host content for whomever wishes to use it?

You're prescribing a motive that I do not believe exists. Especially considering this is Google of all things.
Nothing I've seen suggests that this system is inherently only good for one purpose, violence, as you seem to suggest with the pen analogy.

Google is not handing out grenades, here.
Platforms for content and means to organize are not grenades.
In fact, it falls under an umbrella the government can't regulate, as I understand it, thanks to freedom of association.

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>>13082
>content that actively incites violence
Do you have an example of that?  The incitement exception of the First Amendment is pretty narrow.  In particular, it only applies to incitement of imminent lawless action.  See Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969).
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio :
"""
Clarence Brandenburg, a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) leader in rural Ohio, contacted a reporter at a Cincinnati television station and invited him to cover a KKK rally that would take place in Hamilton County in the summer of 1964.[9] Portions of the rally were filmed, showing several men in robes and hoods, some carrying firearms, first burning a cross and then making speeches. One of the speeches made reference to the possibility of "revengeance" against "Niggers", "Jews", and those who supported them and also claimed that "our President, our Congress, our Supreme Court, continues to suppress the white, Caucasian race", and announced plans for a march on Congress to take place on the Fourth of July.[10] Another speech advocated for the forced expulsion of African Americans to Africa and Jewish Americans to Israel.[11]
...
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed Brandenburg's conviction, holding that government cannot constitutionally punish abstract advocacy of force or law violation.
"""

>recommending what body armor to wear when undertaking a mass shooting
That sounds more like crime-facilitating speech than incitement.

>>13082
Huh?  Lots of inherently dangerous products are legal to sell (and should be, IMHO).  Firearms, ammo, circular saws, angle grinders, etc.
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 No.13092

>>13061

Interesting. It looks like the lawsuit is saying that the algorithms and such have become so advanced that they ought to be treated as a defective product. Unfortunately, while I am quite free speech, such companies may need to be held liable somehow, due to the amount of psychological manipulation involved in marketing nowadays. When you co-opt the English language, which is common heritage, for marketing purposes, isn't it sort-of a crime against humanity at that point? We already know YouTube is an echo-chamber and finding new, original, interesting content is near-impossible anymore.

I think the world would be better off if the lawsuit led to the result of something like such algorithms being banned and opt-in only with full disclosure of the risks and limitations of the product.

 No.13069[Reply]

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Why did Muslim terrorists attack *Russia* of all places?
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 No.13086

>>13081
Then die.

This defeatist notion that humanity is irredeemable is part of the problem.

 No.13087

>>13084
>the temptation to dehumanize
That's absolutely a fair point. Feelings are an extremely powerful motivation. And while they can blind, at the same time they can bring about the sensations of being able to "revel in" something happy. As you put it.

I suppose I'm still idealistic and optimistic about humanity even though I don't really know how the human condition as such can be changed as much as it needs to be.

I suppose it can be compared how to, say, smoking cigarettes and drinking dangerous mixed alcohols are hard to argue against from a broad social viewpoint. As an individual, you want to just feel happy. It's difficult to condemn positive feelings.

 No.13091

>>13071
>>13078
>>13079
Arigato, it seems I was rather ignorant of tensions between Muslims and Russia.

 No.12922[Reply]

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Has AI gone too far?
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 No.13013

>>12940
>>12972
Yes. The exact word "craving" is important here. Generally speaking, having a "craving" is understandable but can work out pretty badly in the long-run, such as somebody constantly eating fatty fast food meals due to their personal habits. What instead should happen is a more complex and nuanced form of healing.

 No.13074

No. Because I've been turning to AI as well

 No.13075

>>12924
Not like its actually hurting you. There isn't a cooperate agent waiting outside of your door.

 No.13006[Reply]

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Isn't the US Navy supposed to be the best navy in the world?  Shouldn't it be very easy to deny entry to boats attempting to illegally enter US waters?  Is Biden just refusing to use force to protect the US?  Despite disliking Trump, I think he'd be doing much better here.  And I think there is a pattern of the political left abandoning the responsibility of the government to use force to protect ordinary middle-class folks from the depredations of the underclass.  Anyone else have thoughts on this?
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 No.13058

>>13041
>Look at the disaster that migration from Middle East countries has been for Europe.
Yeah, no
Far right fearmongering.
But even on the so called worse places where you supposedly get murdered for being native, you just see some dude sitting outside in his shorts and that's it.

 No.13059

>>13055
Do you want a discussion on this screenshot? Or are you just posting it randomly without context?

 No.13060

>>13058
>far right fearmongering
So to be clear, you believe that the mass migration into Europe has not had any problems for those nations?

 No.12987[Reply]

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Do you have any thoughts on crypto politics?  A crypto super PAC campaigned against Katie Porter and claims that her defeat was due in part to her opposition to crypto.

Personally, I'd like to get rid of AML/KYC regulations (both for crypto and for traditional fiat banks) and slap down the SEC from claiming that basically every new crypto token is a security.  Also there should be a better way of doing capital gains tax.  People who get rich from buying low and selling high should still pay their fair share of capital gains tax, but requiring ordinary folks to itemize each transaction where they buy a product/service with crypto is unwieldy.
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 No.12999

>>12997
The reason is: Base rates, combined with lack of any evidence that she knows anything about crypto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate

Suppose 0.8% of women who get mammograms have breast cancer. In 90% of women with breast cancer, the mammogram will correctly detect it. However, among women without breast cancer, 7% will get a false positive reading on the mammogram. If you randomly pick a woman who gets a mammogram, and she gets a positive mammogram result, what is the probability that she has breast cancer?

 No.13000

>>12998
>it is my assumption that someone who understood it wouldn't want to restrict it in the same way as other traditional forms of finance
But why? What if experts agree?
I'm not anywhere near knowledgable about it either, but why trust the blockchain association over her?

>>12999
Okay, then you probably know just as little about crypto as she does. Probabilistically speaking.

 No.13001

>>13000
I'm a software engineer, not a politician.  Very different base rates.

 No.12823[Reply]

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What should be done to secure America's borders against illegal immigration?
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 No.12982

>>12980
The problem is that I didn't know the right keywords to Google.  ChatGPT is a lot more forgiving in that aspect.  If there is concern about the accuracy of the LLM's output, then it would be relatively easy to Google it for more information to confirm or refute it.

 No.12985

>>12982
This is honestly the most damning thing I've ever read about AI.

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>>12985
Doushite?

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