SauntSolaire

Is this sarcasm?

It's not like it's in the url, they could easily change the page title

> simply for being one of the last communist countries

Well, that plus their 50 nuclear warheads and continued ICBM development, amongst other things.

E-books supposedly, since the parent explicitly specified paper books.

Perhaps Grimoire?

"A grimoire is a textbook of magic and sorcery. Traditionally, it contains instructions for casting spells, performing divination, creating magical objects like talismans, and summoning supernatural entities such as angels or spirits."

Seems to fit.

For a lot of people, privacy can simply mean not having to share a space with someone else.

> You should investigate the repeated prisoners dilemma.

Well aware. Obviously, the entirety of human civilization is a bit more complicated than a prisoners dilemma, iterated or not. Yet prisoners dilemma's and races to the bottom still exist, and it makes no sense to argue against them in the abstract.

That's somewhat understandable, what I find more interesting is that people around me won't show up unless it's between 70-80 degrees out.

Also "Sequoyah’s syllabary was not simply a creative triumph, but a new means of self-government and cultural memory"

I mean, your proposed logic seems to be quite consistent from a basic game theory perspective. Defecting in a prisoners dilemma and races to the bottom are both well observed phenomena.

I would be wary of extrapolating too much from the talking buttons. Review the clever hans effect and (the critiques of) Koko the gorilla for examples of people misattributing classical conditioning for intentionality.

The fact is that humans are exceedingly quick to find patterns in random data (e.g. horescopes, any form of divination), and that tendency gets amplified when the opportunity to anthropomorphize a cute animal is presented.

Or "we'll ship our code as binary blobs so you can't reverse engineer it".. oh, wait

I don't think you understand the hypothetical being discussed

Are you talking about the pixel buds app? They ask you on setup if you want it installed, and you can uninstall it anytime. Seems pretty far from "mandatory".

What's being discussed is not at all limited to people experiencing instability

The advent of communism was sufficiently long ago that it I'm not sure your critique applies.

> There's no such thing as an obvious "Perfect" taste.

The person you're responding to never claimed there's such a thing as "Perfect taste"; they've only said there's such a thing as "bad taste" (which I would agree with)

I see "Torment Nexus" has completed is evolution into a catch-all term for "things I don't like".

I believe they meant humanity.

Is imagine the high pedigree horses are already so genetically similar to each other at this point that they're already vulnerable to that.

They've already moved on to genetic engineering according to the article; no need to fuss with evolving a better horse when you can directly specify one.

At some point breeding programs will mostly be useful for identifying new mutations to splice into the main branch.

The next actual step according to the article is genetically engineering the horse clones. They've already crispr'd five as proof of concept.

Seems to be working pretty well in the case of these horses.

Well it would certainly help to know before they're born which children are going to be Einstein. Maybe with ten thousand of them around we could ask some to help sort the education system out.

It's mentioned in the parent article.

> That’s because those two groups study relationships more than non-poly people do, so they have a broader perspective.

To nitpick, polyamorous people tend to study relationships through the lens of (shocker) polyamory. Not all such studies apply broadly, and I've not had great experience with polyamorists being able to distinguish.

Then it just has one definition, rather than plenty. You could have said that it's defined in many places. If you want to say that's what you meant, I won't argue semantics.

Food deserts are a methodologically fraught concept. The inclusion criteria are basically arbitrary; vary the distance or income thresholds by modest amounts, and the maps change drastically. It also buckets everyone living in a census tract to the geometric center of that tract, so that people living five minutes walk from a grocery store still count as living in a food desert. On top of that, they don't account for public (or private) transportation, using straight line distance as a proxy for time traveled.

The store-classification criteria also tends to only count supermarkets and large grocery chains, artificially classifying neighborhoods with local, well-stocked stores as food deserts.

Supposing those methodological problems were resolved, proximity to a grocery store still only accounts for 10% of the variance in nutritious food consumption between groups. The other 90% is driven by buyer demand, as is shown in the cases where different demographics shop at the same store[1].

For the small group for which access is truly limited (further reduced to the 10% of those for which their purchasing decisions would actually change), other solutions — such as reducing grocery store "shrinkage" through better policing, therefore increasing grocery store availability in areas where elevated crime otherwise renders them economically unviable — are noticeably under-discussed in favor of the heavy handed solutions of the type you raised here.

All of which exemplifies the typical failure mode inherent to many "socialist" policies: 1. Misidentify a problem, or solution. 2. Increase government control/regulation. 3. Repeat — indefinitely, as the problem hasn't been fixed — forever tightening the ratchet of government control.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w24094

> You'd find plenty of definitions if you looked for them

Having a greater number of competing definitions does not generally make a term more meaningful. (Take "art" for example.)

I took that to mean "addictive drugs are uniquely bad compared to the general category of 'consumer goods'"