bezmenov

Black fragility.

IYI.

The video: https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/130151642427657830...

How have either Afghanistan or Iraq defeated the US in any conventional sense of the word?

How does that explain the vast over representation of African Americans in professional basketball? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_NB...

It doesn’t, does it?

As opposed to only sufficiently wealthy American technology companies...

If you're hearing Steely Dan is now-somewhat-forgotten you're overdue for fresh contemporaries.

Nothing is more permanent than “temporary” arrangements; and nothing is more temporary than “permanent” ones.

That still applies to ~170k rental units, which constitute ~70% of the entire SF rental market.

https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/S...

Better coffee and no human excrement on the sidewalks too.

Skin in the game.

Sounds great in theory. In practice, the aggregate outcome would be wealthy city-dwelling democrats subsiding poor rural republicans.

Actually, the handful of half-competent governments who have handled the pandemic the best disagree: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-13/forced-is...

How do rural folk benefit from either? Distances are too great for biking and the lack of density precludes mass-transit.

Except for the untold millions who are barely scraping by after the pandemic who have no leeway in their budget for an auto tax increase.

Yes, we’d be much better off with the currently sidelined government that has suggested the evidence should be ignored as long as you’re protesting civil rights.

The Japanese Nuclear Commission had the following goals set in 2003:

> The mean value of acute fatality risk by radiation exposure resultant from an accident of a nuclear installation to individuals of the public, who live in the vicinity of the site boundary of the nuclear installation, should not exceed the probability of about 1×10^6 per year (that is, at least 1 per million years)

Their one in a million-year accident occurred about 8 years later.

You can't trust theoretically derived probabilities, such as those used when discussing the safety of the nuclear field for which the effective track record is only 70 years.

Self-proclaimed moderates block, unfriend and hide the least, so that would suggested left-leaning users are more likely to be offended.

It does mention that left-leaning users are twice as likely to block, unfriend or hide those posting political content they do not like:

> Liberals are the most likely to have taken each of these steps to block, unfriend, or hide. In all, 28% of liberals have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on SNS because of one of these reasons, compared with 16% of conservatives and 14% of moderates.

You’re living through a Cold War, you just haven’t realised it yet.

This is the real problem. Media is amplifying the voice of what constitutes a handful of radicals to the national stage.

Those not privy are being brainwashed into kowtowing to the whims of the intolerant Twitter mob.

Yes, let’s hope partisan media-backed extortion campaigns get a foothold...

TikTok has been banned by the military since last year.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/30/army-follows-...

This aged well.

What’s to stop the US from blacklisting the PWA too?

There is a near-infinite amount of value to be provided by science. Art is inherently zero-sum.

I can attest to the page disappearing and appearing “empty”. The page is now back, although flagged and dead.

> The firm’s research also found that social media news consumers skewed young — 48% of those who mostly used social media for news were between 18 and 29, for example. They also tended to have lower levels of formal education, as only 26% had a college degree, versus 47% of those who read news websites or the 49% who turn to print.

So the only actual insight here is that younger people are less informed on average (big surprise).

Yes, it’s just a variation of don’t confuse the map for the territory, or the more general, don’t confuse the model for reality.

Is the EU more or less cohesive than 5 years ago? 10 years ago? What's the trend?