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- Comment on Wild macaques don’t abandon babies. So why did Punch’s mother? 1 week ago:
TLDR: They don’t know
They also touch on possible reasons for a pretty small percentage of the article
- Comment on Is there a program for tracking IEEE reference numbers and adjusting their order? 1 week ago:
This is the best answer so far
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 1 week ago:
That’s happened a few times before hasn’t it?
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s adjectives not verbs but then the language in my post may have only been nouns
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I see.
I’d argue we all believe in a thing or two that we don’t have great evidence for when confronted. And I’d argue the size of the collection of things we could believe is mind bogglingly large. So then you end up with combinations like this.
But yeah, agreed from the framing in your comment that believing both is pretty logically inconsistent.
Thinking through this idea a bit more, I think there are a lot of people that would describe themselves as atheists that believe in that certain things will improve their health in a way that others would describe as lacking evidence and should be included on that list. If you push on that idea then I think you’d start getting tension and pushback from a lot of atheists. I’m sure there are other categories you could do this with but I’m not thinking of others quickly now.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you just need to believe in a soul? And haven’t philosophers been pondering that in various ways for a long time?
I think this post on another thread nails the core of the issue for me and it’s pretty independent of religion (since I think potential mechanisms could be independent of religion):
If a bunch of people were going around saying I got this weird burn on my skin after holding this rock for a while, scientists would have discovered radioactivity a lot sooner.
There are a bunch of people going around claiming to have interacted with ghosts, and we’ve got bupkis.
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 2 weeks ago:
Seems legit:
- Comment on How would you spell the sound Transformers make when they transform? 1 month ago:
I think this is the wrong language to look for an answer. Japanese has a lot more mimetic words. I’m guessing anime has this pretty well established but I don’t read it
- Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 1 month ago:
I think some of why is related to how most people in a traffic jam go “damn this traffic” not “damn, I’m making this worse”
- Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 1 month ago:
That’s evidence for some people having more than a knee jerk response, it’s far from statistically saying it’s the most common rationale. Smart people are also amazing at having a knee jerk reaction and then making it sound well reasoned with clever arguments.
I agree its not just a knee jerk reaction, and I know I don’t have a good basis for how many are knee jerk vs rationalised but I do know I’ve been around plenty of people that seem to have a knee jerk reaction and plenty that demonise the culture, hell half the world is being bullied not to have windmills and some of that is blanket anything green is dumb
- Comment on Is anyone else having a hard time sympathizing with Americans? 1 month ago:
It’s probably more than “reliant on good-faith actors”. The Perils of Presidentialism by Juan J. Linz in 1990 is a decent paper comparing the instability of parliamentary democracies vs presidential democracies. Parliamentary democracies aren’t perfect, we have Hungary, but in hindsight it shouldn’t be surprising that presidential two party democracies are unstable. If you get two ideologies that are different enough then the government swings between the ideologies with the executive pushing for its side and opposite side getting angrier until, after a few oscillations of increasing amplitude, something snaps.
- Comment on Scientists reveal what drives homosexual behavior in primates 1 month ago:
except sheep?
- Comment on Do I have extreme anxiety? 2 months ago:
The poster has a hell of a modlog
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 2 months ago:
What’s the issue with their code of conduct, or having them in general?
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 2 months ago:
Damn, they have Matrix setup.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 2 months ago:
For anyone else wondering:
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- Comment on Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have? 2 months ago:
Much of mathematics, science and computing
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 2 months ago:
Oh, the other Democrat candidates withdrew and no other parties are popular:
ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_…
I would expect lobbies to play a decent part in this but I’m not sure I’ve seen the mechanics fleshed out.
As a voter in New York, what are the options coming up to the next election that help remove him and impede the far right groups?
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 2 months ago:
What do you mean?
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
Yeah, great point and a big oversight of mine when I replied. Since I periodically have a single soccer game I want to watch and only really expensive options I should know better. And I’m think one of the things stopping prices dropping there is agreement that basically remove competitors.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
What irritates me is that the sports associations have decided to charge absurd amounts to squeeze people fore mine to make even more. That should definitely be illegal.
I split out my reply to this part because it’s obvious it will be downvoted heavily in Lemmy
I get the sentiment but how does that effectively work?
Running the economics framing: Prices act to lower consumers willing to pay so if there is a limited resource, like a ticket, then its a way to filter out until you have how much it’s worth.
That’s mostly influenced by how keen fans are, how many fans there are, and how rich they are.
You can use a lottery alone or in conjunction but that usually leads to a black market with expensive tickets too. It seems pretty reasonable to me to have a lottery for some of the tickets to be in a lottery, but it also seems to not work that well practically.
It seems like for a lot of things time is used as a commodity for at least some tickets, like waiting in line overnight or first to load the page. Both don’t really stop rich people, and have their other issues like realistically rewarding luck for if you hit refresh at the right moment without the server dying.
And it seems like some tickets go out to fan groups or individuals that have proven the care about the event like some trivia questions.
Looking at that, I’m just not intelligent enough to know how you really avoid at least a decent number of the tickets being expensive for some of the popular events.
I think this has gotten worse over time and I wonder how much of that is because we can move so much more freely than before. Or if there is another mechanism. Or if I’m just flat wrong here
Either way, I’m not sure how you make that substantially better
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
Yeah, some of the mechanisms the push the wage higher are pretty reasonable in isolation. I personally would love to see higher taxes on people earning these huge amounts (so CEOs etc) but I think it’s really unlikely to happen or be effective until we have stronger global treaties and I also don’t understand how you really do it with incomes that can be exponential (giving the benefit of the doubt: users / fans) since that somewhat neutralises that starts hitting brackets with a lot of nines.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
Yeah, so that’s probably about 5-10 million pounds annually today? So they’re earning 10 or so times that amount now but its still very much fuckoff money
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
🤦♂️ I missed it was per week. I’ll go hide somewhere now
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
A lot of people from the US seem to be ignoring the rest of the world exists and screaming Reagan (the US president from 1981-1989). I honestly don’t know how accurate that is but its obviously not nuanced and biased by anti-Trump sentiment
I’m not sure how accurate this article is either but it mentions the salary cap for soccer in England being removed in 1960 and that leading to a rapid increase in wages there.
salaryleaks.com/…/average-salary-premier-league-h…
A quick scan of the internet led me to this chart that compares top soccer players to median income in (for some reason) the US
From: www.expensivity.com/soccer-salary-inflation/
Here’s another chart from the same article for how many times a US families income a top international player makes (and like the England article the 60s look to be exponential growth, then noise in the 70s then pretty clear from the 80s):
Timeline of top internal player money proportional to the median US income for a family
A lot of that analysis has space for biases but I’m pretty sure that modern large sports wages predate Reagan
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
A friend shared this a month or so ago and I haven’t been able to check how accurate it is but apparently its soccer player wages in 1999:
Highest soccer earners in 1999
That was a lot of money at the time, but even adjusting for inflation it really doesn’t seem to be the fuckoff money they get now
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
I think some of this is related to radio, tv and internet too. Before radio few people could follow a game live so the audience, or at least live emotional audience, is a lot smaller and that’s pretty aligned to profit. Or put another way, if every Messi or Taylor Swift fan gave 50c every year they’d be filthy rich but that was harder to ached before radio with things being more localised.
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 2 months ago:
I’m inclined to agree:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rate-unodc
They’ve made a clear definition here that agrees with what you’re saying. But in their data, most of Africa is missing
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 2 months ago:
Relative?
There is a long list of correlations.
A lot of the “relative” is within the same country and just a given time frame so your interpretation is flawed.
You seem to need simplistic answers and the quote above pretty clearly points out recessions, gang activity (presumably related to drugs), inequality and governance as having some correlation so you could look up rates and compare if you wanted to have an idea of where some things might be different. That would be hugely speculative though
Violence is of course present but not at the same level as in South America.
Are you conflating violence (a broad term) with homicide?
- Comment on Does life have less value to people in Latin America? 2 months ago:
Your linked article says this:
macroeconomic instability often fuels spikes in violence: a recession in LAC is associated with a 6 percent increase in homicides the following year, while inflation spikes above 10 percent are linked to a 10 percent rise in homicides the year after. Growing inequality further exacerbates the link between economic stagnation and crime.
sound economic policy plays a preventive role. Stability, low inflation, robust social safety nets, and opportunities that reduce inequality and expand access to education and employment are critical to breaking the cycle of violence and stagnation. Financial authorities are also uniquely positioned to weaken criminal networks by addressing illicit markets, curtailing financial flows, and tackling money laundering—cutting off resources that sustain organized crime.
because the impact of crime extends far beyond direct economic costs, economic policymakers must adopt a broader role by targeting high-risk groups, improving crime monitoring, and enhancing interagency coordination.
In Rosario province, Argentina implemented a comprehensive strategy to combat crime, including territorial control of high-risk neighborhoods by the Federal Police, stricter prison systems for high-profile offenders, and collective prosecution of criminal groups under new legislation like the anti-mafia law. These efforts, alongside progress on a juvenile penal code to deter drug traffickers from recruiting minors, have led to 65% reduction homicides in 11 months. In Honduras, strategic security reforms contributed to a 14% decline in the homicide rate and an 8% increase in public confidence in law enforcement.
