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- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 days ago:
Let me clarify: I am not advocating to join the right. I am furnishing an explanation why SOME men join the right. Like I said in my earlier post, it’s very sickening to be painted with such a broad brush. Some of us are moralistic and considerate and it’s annoying to just be treated as a monolithic entity. “You are a man, therefore you are evil” reeks of original sin. I prefer to be judged by my own deeds instead of the deeds of those I share a gender with.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 5 days ago:
You can’t have a post like this and then wonder “Why do so many men go to the right?”
Maybe men are sick of being painted with a broad brush. We all have our own thoughts, beliefs and feelings.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 2 weeks ago:
“Well if they are so dumb why do they have so much money???”
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 2 weeks ago:
CEOs are rich enough to live in their own delusional bubble. They are very out of touch with the average person, or their own workforce. This is nothing new.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“It” is the state of the outdoors
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 2 weeks ago:
JP is an atheist
He won’t readily admit to that either. He somehow sits in the void between atheists and theists.
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s a really accurate characterization. He has mastered the art of speaking without communicating.
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- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
This post shows the difference between school and education. The school system is there to get a child to be able to regurgitate whatever the lesson says they should. Education is to develop knowledge as a whole.
It is sad that the teacher was not even able to consider the flawed nature of the question, because they are trained to just see if the student’s answer matches the answer key for the test.
In many cases, the public education system no longer exists to deliver educated graduates. It exists to feed itself – to obtain funding for itself the next year and to support a gradually expanding set of “administrators” that add little to the process.
Look at the effects of “No Child Left Behind”. NCLB pushed test scores above all else. What did we get? A bunch of students that were very good at passing standardized tests. That does not necessarily translate to a better educational outcome. The value in the skill of passing standardized tests plummets rapidly once one joins the workforce.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Closed source browsers are rare today, and even those are built on the open source browser cores.
Any browser that’s not Chrome is rare today. I’m not sure pointing at Chrome as a well-managed open source project is a good idea. Although one can view the source, Google controls the codebase and development process with an iron hand. Any feature that is a good idea technically, but will hurt Google is a no-go to have merged.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Open standards always win, given time. No one keeps paying for a closed standard, once the open (free!) one is just as good.
Like Gimp? Oh, wait that didn’t take over. Well, at least Libreoffice is the standard office suite today, oh wait, that didn’t take over. Well, Linux is the most used operating system at least. Whoops, except Android counts as that and it’s increasingly locked down.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Is there anything, ever, that’s trended towards more open?
- Comment on 7 for me 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never had vaseline on a windshield on a foggy day, just on an overcast one. You’d have to try it yourself.
- Comment on 7 for me 5 weeks ago:
Was this meme part of a contest to see how destroyed you can make a meme by JPEG compression artifacts? I’ve seen clearer images looking through a windshield smeared in vaseline on a cloudy day.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 1 month ago:
Another “sovcit victory”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Well duh, just open up a factory in your garage.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 1 month ago:
I’m not saying keep them out of courts. I’m saying that the followers of “sovereign citizenry” seem to lose 100% of the court cases where they try this defense. Yet, there’s a continuous stream of people willing to try it.
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- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 month ago:
At least they knew it was going to sound stupid.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 month ago:
I had a pair of grandparents old enough to be involved in factory work and they had hated it. They both educated themselves to a degree where they could get a better job and get out of the factories. It seems odd enough that we’d aspire to go back to these times.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 month ago:
Not sure if this will convince you or not
I don’t think I worded my original post properly because I feel convinced already. I was just looking for a way to measure up the effects of this idea. If we are a country dependent on importing goods and we make them more expensive, it stands to reason that we either stop getting those goods (doesn’t seem easy…) OR we just deal with the price, and that doesn’t seem easy either.
I just thought this is odd… like if I wanted to propose a tax on bicycles, we could talk how many bicycles there are in the USA, if this would make sense, etc. but that’s an actual discussion. Most of the people in this thread are just asserting it’s a bad idea and either don’t know the “why” themselves, or just don’t want to say.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 month ago:
For the factory workers in the industrial heartland it will be good.
So we should expect to see more manufacturing jobs? How long will they take to show up? What kind of products will they build?
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 month ago:
Thanks for putting some numbers on it. A lot of people are just downvoting and saying “well it’s bad!”. I want to know why and I think some of those numbers above really help to quantify it. Collecting 0.8% doesn’t seem very effective, so if someone tried to defend this as a replacement for Income tax, I would say that gets an F.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 month ago:
We already know. We already know they’re bad.
I don’t find that a convincing argument. If this is such an economy ending thing, certainly you could say “Well, just look at X!” and it would be really bad. There should be some chart showing good before and bad after. Where’s that chart?
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 month ago:
Trump is supposed to be in office for only 4 years, at best, after which his tariffs will go away. it would be easier to simply just not ship to the US. which is how trade partners responded to the Hawley-Smoot Act in 1930, and which made the Great Depression that much harder to get out of.
Yes, I think this is very wise. So, unless we are just saying “well, I guess this 3.7 years is a loss now…” that’s the end.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 month ago:
If they worked, we would see manufacturers almost instantly beginning construction on US factories, opening new ones and reopening shuttered plants.
I think the almost instantly is the problem there for me. If I was someone that could afford to build a factory, I know that it would take a couple of years to come up to speed. I also know that if the tariffs disappear, that my money is gone. It won’t work under “normal” conditions. So, I’ll want some assurance these will be in place for a while. Since no one will make that assurance, or at least someone who would would be lying, I wouldn’t feel confident enough to build anything.
I assume anyone with enough money to build a factory would think about some variation of that above. I think for that reason, no serious numbers of factories will get built. And, if none get built… what are we doing?
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 month ago:
Well, this is what I want to know. If someone wanted to open the door in the winter, I could take the temperature and say “It was 20F in our house last night. That wasn’t a good idea.” What do you measure here? What’s the long answer?
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 month ago:
Will we listen? No, because experts don’t count for shit in the US anymore.
You know, in a world where most people don’t listen to experts and follow data, there’s a lot of money to be made in just doing your research. It seems like over time the people and places that learn to use data to guide their hand will outperform the ones of those that do not.
I guess we will see which one is a winning strategy.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s a good idea. I just want to know if the badness of the idea can be quantified. Otherwise there’s the chance that in the future, someone decides to do it again.
- Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 53 comments