@nycfreethinker
@ryxcommar
Ignore the he/hims. Listen to me. You should move or learn to love what NYC is. It is the only truly dense, walkable, transit-rich city in the US. That is its destiny, for better and for worse, and you should go literally anywhere else in the US if you don't like it.
@KyleMcn12667834
@skepticaliblog
@edwest
It would be far better to solve the problem of low birth rates without perpetually bringing in a low trust, low education cultural underclass to do the dirty work. As for the lowest paid jobs, continue finding ways to increase automation, and pay better those that remain.
@NathanJRobinson
Candidate for worst non-culture war take of the day. The alternative to eating out is eating at home or bringing lunch to work. The alternative to renting is homelessness.
@eyeslasho
@whstancil
@Steve_Sailer
What's odd is that Sailer in these examples is explicitly saying that nurture matters a lot for IQ and we don't know how much. That is clearly true, and Stancil knows it. He believes it himself. He just doesn't want to deal with the details.
@nycfreethinker
@ryxcommar
I embrace the city and its dynamic growth. You enjoy the benefits of past pro-growth policies, but would strangle the golden goose now that you got yours and you don't want to hear it squawk. People like you make the city less affordable every year. You, not developers.
@APKramar
@sgodofsk
It was not a grey area more than any of the last 10 elections. Gore and Hillary had more reason to protest than Trump. They listened to the courts. Trump tried to defy due process.
@KCallen2024
That looks amazing. I would have guessed 2-3 units, so the fact they fit so many without overwhelming the streetscape is truly impressive. It will be a great help for 16 renters in the super expensive SD housing market.
@nathancofnas
I think you’re right that when a nation enters a long period of peace and abundance, the youth and those with open personalities get bored of the homogeneity and welcome difference.
But that says nothing about the value of this change. It can be the first stage of a tragic loss.
@KareemRifai
I have swung a bit from center left to center right, but it has not affected my total contempt for every one of these people: souls wrecked by petty resentments and brittle egos, hurling themselves at the hegemon with complete evidential and moral hypocrisy.
@StatisticUrban
More evidence that the path forward to "sell" green energy is to emphasize non-green benefits: cost savings, energy independence, national security.
@PhillyInquirer
99% of the population would welcome a smidge of apartment glut after years of rising rents. Whose interests are you concerned with here?
@DrChrisCombs
What I must admit is that I despise character assassination based on hearsay for which you have not yet heard the other side of the story.
@KeneAkers
People forget Izola Curry's failed assassination of MLK in 1958. And the failed assassination attempt on Jesse Jackson in 1988. And many more failed assassinations over the years.
@Tyler_A_Harper
The dumbing down of AI began before the LLM explosion in 2021. Basically, all machine learning started getting called AI as a marketing gimmick for startups going back to at least 2016.
@tracewoodgrains
@raspy_aspie
If one of my children cut all contact with me for whatever reason, and I'm feeling emotional about it, you better believe I'm going to say I "lost" that child. They would be lost to me, and I would consider it a tragedy. How could you not feel that way?
@JosephPolitano
If a person finds it harder to trust, and is more sensitive to breakdowns in trust, there is nothing strange or “funny” in that person wanting more social order and norm-following to maintain their own trust and social trust generally.
As usual, you are more likely to get
@ContraPoints
No, he said his son is dead, not the proclaimed daughter that took over his body. But his daughter said she didn't want to speak to him or be associated with him, so he never got to know her. He didn't gain a daughter. By her own insistence, he has no daughter, just a dead son.
@JonHaidt
@APA
Thank you for having the courage to speak out, given your social and professional environment. There is another deep problem that psychology and social science needs to confront: the inability to reach objective consensus on a huge range of causal theory. The "facts" are slippery
@lastpositivist
I don’t see it as a schtick so much as genuine disenchantment with the left. Her career is takes, so she’s promoting her new takes and hoping it finds an audience (a fellow disenchanted progressive, like me). Why not call it intellectual honesty?
@docsstock
@wanyeburkett
It’s not the same. Ukraine did not raid Russia and kill thousands of civilians after firing rockets into Russia for decades.
Without respect for international borders we return to endless war. The point of stopping Russia is to make opportunistic war more costly and rare.
@StocksPilgrim
@DanielleFong
@InsatiableWyfe
You accuse someone of performative behavior and then ostentatiously chide them on the shorthand of using “blacks” instead of “black people.” Your own performative slavishness is invisible to you because you confuse the performance with reality.
@CaitPsych
17 and 20 year olds prior to around 1990 were trying trying to look like responsible adults. They had maturity expectations that today’s young adults don’t. Young adults today do not want to look like mature “workers” or responsible parents. It’s an extended childhood.
@wanyeburkett
But they are not principle driven. They are resentment-driven. They promote this net-death standard until the moment it no longer favors the anti-western side. If 30,000 Israelis die, or whatever, they will have "deserved it" and should have known better.
White, western,
@pervertputt
@eyeslasho
It is important to ‘both sides’ it even if one side does it more, or more effectively. One reason is to encourage honesty across the board rather than just do another partisan attack. A second reason is that the bias of one side FEEDS the other side. It’s an amplifying loop.
@SwipeWright
It’s actually the clinic committing fraud. Any insurer should be more concerned about a clinic too eager to conduct unnecessary surgeries. Preventing that is a core competency of insurers!
@EPoe187
There is a partial analogy with height. It’s mostly genetic and we can’t help noticing it. We tend to be biased against short men even when we shouldn’t be. That bias is partly cultural and partly natural.
Yet, there is no real short “identity” nor should there be. We have no
@mccormick_ted
It's still not a live question. The word "misogynist" is usually misapplied, but in Peter Thiel's case it seems appropriate.
Thiel is in the William Burroughs school of woman-hating. Republicans take Thiel as seriously on this as literary hipsters took Burroughs 40 years ago.
@artofstumbling
Scampi, you cannot say "without problem" when there are many documented problems. Some of those problems have been recounted in heartbreaking detail by people who regretted it later.
@aelita1917
If Joe Motorist was trying to run them over, he would have. He went out of his way not to run them over while still getting to where he was going. If your protest movement is trying to unite the world in opposition, mission accomplished.
@Tyler_A_Harper
Yes, when it gets to the point you feel personally disrespected that they would clear the primary field for a guy who can’t complete half his sentences, makes it impossible to vote “lesser of two evils” one more time. Enough.
@tracewoodgrains
@raspy_aspie
Yes, but I interpret him as keeping the door open, in the sense that the child doesn't need to stop being trans, just needs to stop saying "I hate you dad and everything you stand for." Also, the child is an adult now.
@mvaneerde
@lucystone1871
@RachelWilde13
@Gimpuslegend
@FastCompany
The gravitational constant is known with great precision (6.67430...) and allows us to send probes millions of miles away with pinpoint precision. What kind of predictive reliability and precision does gender identity have? Is there even one significant figure of accuracy?
@lastpositivist
I think their highly selective concern for atrocity makes that legacy impossible. No outpouring for Syria, Sudan, Mayanmar, and very little for Ukraine. Too much pro-Palestinian sentiment became anti-Jewish, anti-Western, and pro-Muslim supremacy too quickly.
@SerenaJB3
I don't think this is the winning argument. It is Western culture (anglo-flavored) that built North America into the powerful, wealthy, desirable place it is. That is what must be preserved and enforced. Full assimilation is the demand.
What cannot be digested must be expelled.
@jonathanchait
The media should report on the public mood accurately, and on legitimate concerns about his state of mind. But the media should report much more on the existential threat to American democracy from a man who openly praises and prefers dictators to democratic leaders.
@IAPonomarenko
I think they're stringing you along. Johnson is afraid of Trump, and Trump is in Putin's pocket. They're always going to delay or be a vote shy of giving Ukraine aid until Trump is gone. Would love to be wrong.
@martyrmade
@Zebbart
This is the critical point. I’ve always taken the “meeting of minds” approach and tried to solve problems. I felt alone not doing so.
I’ve been wrestling with a different approach for the better part of a year now. Horse-whispering does not come easily for some.
@Indian_Bronson
Three things were "natural" in pre-history:
1. monogamy
2. polygamy (high status male has multiple partners)
3. raiding neighboring tribes, killing the men and taking the women into captivity to breed.
One raid can wipe out a tribe's male line after 10 generations of monogamy.
@markdfabela
@IDoTheThinking
They mostly did not pour everything into their homes. That’s your invention. They received a windfall benefit from the NIMBY refusal to build enough new housing. And they pass the costs to equally hardworking younger generations.
@lhfang
Was just speaking with someone who grew up in Serbia about this. She said they keep the same small cohort together all through grades 1-9, which cuts down on bullying. In the US, kids get atomized and split up (your 3rd period classmates different from 4th period).
@Jason
All the work was done in the back by the cooks. You don't know if any of that money gets to them, and the people at the counter don't work harder handing you a bag of bbq than they do making a latte.
@EspirituLibre76
@ThomasEWoods
Don’t forget hating everything capitalist and patriarchal and heteronormative.
All the hate comes from the same impulse: resentment of success in acquiring unequal power and status. It’s why the left also turned against Jews recently, even though Jews funded the left.
@zachinqueens
@nycfreethinker
@ryxcommar
I do not respect those who want to pull up the ladder after they've climbed it. Prices are going to keep inevitably climbing if housing is not built to meet the demand. You are arguing for unaffordable housing and the slow death of NYC, whether you realize it or not.
@jake_gotta
Is there more than this one study establishing that the majority of microplastics are from tires? Too often eye-popping one-off studies don't replicate. This is a huge result if true, so it is important to replicate.
@JosephPolitano
It is also a mistake to conflate fear of the unknown with the reaction after the policy is in place. Six months from now congestion pricing would be normalized and the benefits appreciated. Londoners love it, I’m told.
@EkaterinaPashe3
@KyleMcn12667834
@skepticaliblog
@edwest
Your insecurities are endless. If it’s not this, it’s fear of being “blamed” for something else. There is no pleasing you other than constant fluffing.
The answer is find what works to encourage women to want to have 2 or more kids and find it more satisfying than alternatives.
@primalpoly
@DouglasKMurray
@Snowden
Whether Snowden began as an agent of foreign powers or merely became one later, the last thing he deserves now is a pardon.
@paulg
Paul, how did you stay silent about Darfur, Syria and other places where more children have died than Gaza?
I find it easy to answer how one could be silent about all three, but hard to explain obsessing about just one of these, without assuming an extreme antipathy.
@DialecticBio
@eyeslasho
Why are you assuming race has to cluster in non-continuous groups for generalizations about race to have a biological basis? Two subspecies can be clinal while still having differences with a biological
basis. I agree racial categories are crude, but his point stands.
@pervertputt
@VDWKIgCdgf45049
You can strengthen your point by noting that when you measure affordability as median cost per square foot divided by median income, housing did not get more expensive until the covid surge in home prices in late 2020. This is not a long-term trend.
A perfect storm of three
@driftingideals
@21centurySPDgal
@swipewright
asked if
@Slatzism
had the IBA official statement requiring XX chromosomes. You replied "of course she doesn't. lol." Then the IBA document is provided, confirming exactly what she wrote.
It doesn't get more cut-and-dried than that.
@pushtheneedle
But gratuitously ugly buildings are gratuitously ugly, and that's a shame. No gain in creating more hate than necessary.
To start with the lowest hanging fruit: no one likes random, asymmetrical color splotches that have no human meaning.
@mvaneerde
@lucystone1871
@RachelWilde13
@Gimpuslegend
@FastCompany
That's an evasion. Our knowledge of G to four or five significant figures is four or five orders of magnitude more precision than we have for any predictive model of gender identity. In truth, there is no numerical constant at all in gender theory.
@jonatanpallesen
The problem with causal interpretations of statistical data is ubiquitous. It pervades social science. People usually attribute it to complexity, but that's only half the picture. The other half is variability. The coefficients are never constants, and that breaks causal models.
@DKThomp
Astute observation, but it applies to the left as well as the right. "Defund the police" was a slogan of chaos that almost never resulted in constructive policy on the ground. BLM created greater racial division and a 50% increase in black lives murdered.
@Mwboman
@ThePhillipHolz
@CollinRugg
Knife guy was ready to die, and he did die. Death was not a deterrent to him. The homicide rate in the Wild West (when guns were common) was 10x higher than it is today. This argument ignores the fact that the people who shoot usually 'snap' and don't give a shit anymore.
@ibmmiller
@tracewoodgrains
@brian_t_muldoon
The loss of extended family closeness is real when you have kids of your own. An underappreciated source of our national anomie now that social media gets all the attention.
@driftingideals
@21centurySPDgal
It proves everything:
“Women/Female/Girl” means an individual with chromosome XX. For this purpose, the Boxers can be submitted to a random and/or targeted gender test to confirm the above, which will serve for the gender eligibility criteria for the IBA Competitions
@captgouda24
@himbonomics
Every employee with stock options couples investment with employment. I don't think the mere linkage is a problem, but how it works in practice. Low quality workers outvoting high quality workers on wages could be an example of that.
@ArmandDoma
I agree with you a solid majority of the time. This is the worst take I've ever seen from you. Musk is in favor of more legal immigration, and has been consistently for years. Vocally disagreed with Trump during his presidency about it.
@secretsqrl123
@PaddyIrish14
Every action this administration has taken is consistent with wanting to get back to the 2015-2019 borders, or very close to them, and then move on.
@JohnRMetzner
@Trollstoy88
The Russian collaboration with the Nazis to split Poland, after they invaded neutral Finland, is vastly more foul. Finland wanted help to try to take back the land the Russians stole a couple years before. Pretty straightforward.
@NateHB13
@wanyeburkett
No, it depends on other demographics. In a neighborhood populated by the professional class (high income, high education) this would almost never happen. In a blue collar rural area, I’m sure it does happen.
@J_K_Chesterton
Repeating this without understanding it seems irresponsible. How is it possible that when nearly 0% of women support a policy it is 75% likely to pass, but when nearly 100% of women support a policy it is around 10% likely to pass?
It defies logic, or at least common sense.
@FrankDeScushin
@eyeslasho
There is too much focus on IQ as a driver. Impulse control is just as central to all this. Like IQ, impulse control is an intersection of nature and nurture. Focus on it because it allows productive, pro-social behavior even without high IQ.
@aaronnarraph
@placenyc_org
@MaudMaron
It isn't transphobia to respect girls and allow them a space to physically compete with each other free of dicks and those with the benefit of higher levels of testosterone.
Banning doping in sports is not drug-phobia.
@botoxedbuddhist
@SukritGanesh
This is exactly why there is a housing crisis. You could get 40% affordable if the city just let people build to meet demand. Instead you fight for 40% of a smaller total at best, with the other 60% being luxury priced. At worst, nothing gets built at all.
@Zebbart
@anohnmahna
@martyrmade
Agreed. Of course, I'm at an age now where I mostly just want to be alone reading or arguing online, rather than hanging out with same-sex friends, but the point stands.
@AlecStapp
@Noahpinion
It's not an accident that EV charging and rural broadband are two industries where Musk-ed companies are by far the best.
The Biden admin doesn't want to give them money so badly they will sabotage their own agenda to avoid letting Tesla and SpaceX expand.
@NathanJRobinson
A life is a life, is it not? When you show that you don’t care about Syrian lives when a Syrian of another tribe or religion takes them, your moral principle is not guided by protection of life, but vilifying the West.
@jasonwblakely
If Just War Theory stopped the extermination of 90% of Gazans (which Israel could accomplish), does that not matter? 90% is the same as 2% to you?
@ChadJacobs3rd
@ThePhillipHolz
@CollinRugg
I see. So the attacker with a gun would have killed 10 people in 30 seconds instead of 6 people in 2 minutes, but been taken out sooner by a good citizen, so that makes it better because all the deaths happened faster? I'm not seeing the argument for the 2A here.
@pat_hedger
And most of that $75 billion stayed in the US and went to US companies. It is for buying new equipment to replace the old equipment we were going to retire but gave to Ukraine instead. The focus on this drop in the bucket serves one nation only: Russia.
@IainFletcher8
@ArmandDoma
The $1.5k apartments are more attractive. For example the old apartments don’t have a gym and the new ones do, etc.
The issue I have with the example is that it ignored where these renters came from. Rents went down outside this neighborhood where the people came from.
@eyeslasho
@justinhopper82
Have had one for 7 years. Strongly prefer the experience. Instant acceleration never gets old. No fumes, less noise, instant heat in winter. But only buy one if you can charge at home. If you're stuck using public chargers all the time, its a net loss on convenience.
@HousingSpock
I know these people don't literally believe that homes give birth to human beings, but they argue as if more housing creates more people. It never registers that 100 more apartments on that island mean 1,000 fewer single family homes somewhere else (housing shortage aside).
@APazyryk
@UsingLyft
First off, stop saying “capita” and say “person.” If that’s not enough reformulate the stat in terms of for every hundred people or every thousand people: For every hundred black people, X graduate from high school. For every hundred Asian people, Y graduate from high school.
@decadimitry
The problem is underproduction. We have 5-10 million too few homes, so bidding wars (market rate) and long waitlists (below-market rate) are rampant.
The car analogy only works if regs cut the production capacity in half and car prices skyrocket. Not the case, so false analogy.
@lymanstoneky
Technically there is a pile of cash. It's just $2.8T and there are about $1.2T in payments each year, so with no new revenue it would only last 2.5 years.
@whstancil
Why is this presented as a choice? They are both scary. TikTok has perfected the most addictive, trance-inducing algorithm. It also sends information to the CCP and might have its algorithm modified to sow unrest in the US.
@TXVB
@highway61duluth
Slower traffic during busy times is worth millions more per year in tax revenue to Duluth, and the improved quality of life for those who live in that neighborhood vs those who are just passing through.
@RachelPAV
@BriannaWu
Elon Musk is the poster child for this. I won't soon forget Musk's "message received" after being told by a California legislator to go fuck himself after wanting to open his factory during covid. Very soon after he swung to the alt-right, or whatever one calls it.
@StatisticUrban
I preferred 4 seasons when I was young. Now as I grow older winters in the north are tough. An aging population is definitely a factor here, and will continue to be for some time.
@JohnDSailer
Resentment like this has the moral status of a progressive who insists the govt build more low income housing but opposes any effort to build it near his house. Loves DEI as long as it doesn’t inconvenience him.
@aselrod
@NGrossman81
Yes, everyone has. The problem is that catering to people who won’t compromise will lose votes from the more numerous center, and then they still won’t vote for Biden. So, double loss.
@conorsen
An odd statement. Given how it builds, if Austin truly had the fastest rent growth, it would also have the fastest population growth. How is this a knock on YIMBYs? The price increase would be even higher if Austin didn't build, or do supply and demand not apply in real estate?
@Rick85186330709
@eyeslasho
I’m old enough to remember that too, and that I was a high scoring white male who didn’t know the answer. It wasn’t bias by race so much as by class.