Looking to 2020, there’s only one way Trump can surely win from here and that’s a Zuckerberg/Chelsea Clinton runoff for the Democratic nomination.
The good news is I’m 60% sure something close to this will happen because there’s only one party as bad at playing its hand as the GOP and that’s the Democrats.
I mean, give it some time and we’ll see. I’m still forecasting a 50% chance of reelection.
But yeah, the Democrats are almost that dumb.
The core information here is nested in layers of clickbait. This interview has been cut and distributed at different lengths based on intended audience attention spans vs. revulsion.
Powerful countermemeing.
I’m sorry, did you just post a video implying that genes have an impact on things? Don’t you know that makes you literally Hitler?
But no seriously this information is going to spread, and if the Left/Libs want their tolerant multicultural society they’re going to have to synthesize it, or else their division from the truth will allow rival movements to grow.
I’m surprised Scott @slatestarscratchpad‘s latest piece (Neutral vs. Conservative: The Eternal Struggle) wasn’t tagged as “Regret“
…yet. Growth Mindset!
Things I wish existed: apartment buildings with a “mandatory savings clause.” Add in whatever is needed to make it palatable, but fundamentally make people contribute to a savings account each month an amount equal to their rent (increase or decrease by factors required), and that savings account can’t be withdrawn from such that it would fall below min(“months paid in * amount per month”, 24) before the person retires or leaves the apartment building.
Why on earth would this be a good idea? Wealthy people may be assholes in many ways, but they aren’t going to be obviously dealing drugs in the corridors, they will be more considerate about loud music and parties, and they generally prefer being around other wealthy people for this and other reasons. Traditionally, we’ve kept poor people out of places by actually charging them money, but this results in low savings, insecurity, and much more being spent on wasteful housing than needs to be spent. This method allows for individuals to live cheaply without having to suffer the injury of dealing with low-income people
This is a good idea, but it won’t happen because it isn’t market-competitive. Only a Rationalist apartment building owner actively trying to help the country would do this.
post: just be a decent person
someone crawling out of the sewer: that’s ableist because
See also the cousin:
post: just be a decent person, it’s not that hard
post: following my ideology is called being a decent person
Structural neutral, ingredient purist and ingredient purist, structural neutral are both sandwiches, but hot dogs are not. A sandwich must have either one neutral and one purist, or two purists, in order to count as a sandwich.
It really seems like a lot of the resistance to sex positivity comes from a desire to be able to appeal to a set of socially agreed-upon standards rather than do the work of asserting boundaries. Or, less charitably, out of a desire to artificially increase your dating pool by making people feel like they’re morally obligated to adhere to your standards for a desirable partner.
Higher partner count correlates with lower marriage success rate. Men have also had to deal with paternal uncertainty for millenia. Both are going to have a warping effect. And women are still so protected that men cannot unilaterally order a paternity test in France, so that isn’t going away.
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…we’ve gone too deep
So is he looking at anime girls or real girls
this comment fucked me up
is it too much to ask for someone with ideas opposing mine who isn’t horrifically self-righteous or functionally retarded
like I want to expand my horizons but the pool of “cool people with ideas that challenge my worldview” at this point amounts to Michael Tracey and god bless the guy but he’s certainly no intellectual
I’m guessing I don’t count as sufficiently opposed.
We should outlaw firefighting. We’re exploiting people who need money, coercing them to put themselves at risk so that others may live. What kind of society allows people to sell their own bodies like that?
On an unrelated note, it’s still illegal to purchase kidney transplants everywhere but Iran. 12 people in the United States alone die every day waiting for one. There are few if any long-term negative health impacts of kidney donation, though it does require taking some time off which anyone but the rich would need to be compensated for.
There are probably ways to mitigate the incentive risks in paid organ donation, or opt-out organ donation, but given how conditions are it won’t happen. Even something as simple as “yes Dr. Richmann you may purchase a higher place in the organ recipient list, but you must pay for the procedure for four other people”.
