This. I got booted from a thread, with a nastygram from the mods about 'here's where you send any appeal to your ban'. Sent email asking what post comment had resulted in this ban... got banned from ANY communication on reddit for 30d for 'harrassment'.
It's a cesspool.
These people are doing this for the epeen and (putative) power of being mods. If they don't like the consequences of being head shit-thrower in the shit-thrower zoo, walk the fuck away.
Worst health statistics but otherwise: - only country to land on the moon. - only country with an active, multitasking space program - most thriving economy - still the largest magnet for immigrants/refugees - still basically the only superpower - the worlds largest oil reserves and ample natural resources of every type. So much food we literally can't get rid of it fast enough, and massive empty spaces of unexploited land even today. - historically record low unemployment, especially for minorities which is fantastic - most of the people in poverty are living better by many standards than even middle-class europeans. - the poorest people in the US's main health problem is OBESITY.
We're literally the wealthiest, most well-off, strategically safe country ever in human history.
Yeah, we're just terribly sad at how awful it is here. LOL
Why do you think that these cities (Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, etc) have what are widely regarded as shitty police forces?
Police officers are people, you know? If you were a young police cadet - setting aside the idealistic utopians who believe they're going to "make a difference" - and you graduated in say the top 50% of your class, you'd have a choice of many cities you could be a cop in.
This isn't The Wire. Would you want to go work in a city like Baltimore, St Louis, etc with 50+ murders per 100k? Where the police are demonized by various political administrations, underfunded, and vilified by the population and media? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or would you go work in an exurb or some other city where you might actually get treated like a human, and not as some sort of closet racist nazi thug?
So assuming all the good cops go elsewhere, shitty cities have to scrape the bottom of the barrel in hiring, and end up with a higher proportion of bad cops, thugs, ego-trip adrenaline addicts, and BAD COPS.
Which then reinforces the cycle.
Of course bad cops need to be punished, but until the people of Baltimore elect administrations that are not corrupt rent-seekers, someone with the cojones to make the hard, unpleasant, tough decisions that it will take to clean the cesspool up - it won't get better.
If we had just let the market work, the only people that would have been going to college would have been the wealthy, those that actually earned scholarships or those WHOSE STUDY HABITS & MAJOR SELECTION would have shown to a commercial lender that they were a worthwhile risk. The end result would have been college costs not rising at 3x inflation, no public money wasted on students whose prospects were poor anyway, likely many more engineers and a lot fewer Russian Medieval Literature majors serving coffee at Starbucks.
But no. The social engineers felt it was necessary that everyone go to colleges, with Pell Grants and government backed loans, the result being now a college degree is pretty much a requirement for any job (whether it requires it or not), and students with no serious prospect of decent income are saddled with ridiculous debt.
You have a community COMMITTED to finding any possible thing to blame other than themselves. Leftists feed off the energy generated by the rage, so city administrations simply continue to feed the fire instead of fixing the place. Baltimore is to Democrats what Palestine is to Radical Arabs: a source of rage, energy, conscript-victims and (in Baltimore's case) reliable votes.
....can YOU give me a concrete definition of hate speech that is more objective than "language that makes me or someone I like very sad"?
Is Alex Jones bellowing "Sandy Hook was a fraud" hate speech? Is Maxine Waters telling people to aggressively confront Trump supporters hate speech? Is a racist redneck saying ""Niggas shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house...you should watch your mouth 'cause I'll break your face" hate speech? Would it be ok if those words were 50-cent lyrics? (They are.)
Like everything else, the Europeans were just more advanced and well-traveled.
To suggest that one of their bad aspects outweighs all the good is a little particularist.
Let's recall that it was also Europe that internationalized: - food distribution - technology - medicine - education Largely, Europe and it's peoples basically spread the MODERN ERA to the rest of the world.
As you point out, slavery was universal and commercialized to the extent that any society COULD do so.
...apparently we've looped back to the beginning and you guys are starting to repeat the same fears again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Didn't he pretty much say the exact same thing in 1798? Didn't happen. Won't happen this time either..
What's next, are you guys going to start crying about "peak oil" again (in 1909 you guys were saying we only had oil for maybe 25-30 years left)? (http://paleofuture.com/blog/2009/6/14/oil-and-gas-will-eventually-be-exhausted-1909.html)
I can't be arsed to find the source but a wiser person than me opined: - Liberals believe people are intrinsically good, and that the environment around them makes them bad - whether that's society, the government, corporations, etc somehow they are pressured into doing the wrong thing when their basic nature is to do the "right" thing. - Conservatives believe that people are intrinsically bad, and that people are prevented from exercising their base instincts & compelled to make better choices by society - whether that compulsion is fear, financial, social, or religious pressures, for example.
The fretting about "what the internet should have been" or that we somehow missed the Utopia we should have gotten relies exclusively on that former view, while that reality of the result more or less confirms the latter: that we're little more than deeply-tribal hairless apes, who when out from supervision, generally want to whack off, fling shit at anyone we can call "our enemies" and watch cat videos / "Ow my balls" 24/7.
Greater internet dickwad theory: it's really a thing, but if you think about it explains a lot of behaviors wherever humans gain some anonymity - not just the internet, but their cars, or as a citizen of a massive city. https://knowyourmeme.com/photo... (thank you Penny Arcade)
...you're suggesting that perhaps China is a SHITTY international actor, whose interests lie solely with its own people and geopolitical goals?/shock.
For all of you who think Pax Americana has been odious and oppressive, brace yourselves. You haven't the faintest idea what it's going to be like with a TRULY racist, TRULY self-interested, TRULY ethnocentric hegemon.
"...even most left leaning site will not go out of the way to to hinder the president unless they feel what he is doing is that wrong...."
I'm not sure whether what you wrote is a truism or staggeringly naive. EVERY left-leaning site WILL and DOES go out of their way to hinder the president, because (according to their views) everything he does is wrong.
Maybe it's google's fault I'm too stupid to understand, but how does:
"There seems to be difficulty replicating the results in a number of psychological studies" = "Google makes us dumber" ?
Is the OP asserting that since it's easier to link to unproved sources, we're getting shitty information as true? Because I'd see it another way: first, the journals mentioned like Nature aren't exactly shoddy - they're long term credentialed journals in the field. I'd argue that these studies would have been published pre-internet, it's unlikely they eever would have been questioned/debunked without the broad access available by the internet.
This is as silly as reporting the damage done by wildfires in $. Yes, more people are building multi-million dollar homes out in the wilderness, so there's "more" damage done by fires that 50 years ago would barely have been noticed.
Just like sea level rise - the more idiotic people build in flood plains, the more "damage" sea level rise will do to people....when it's the people putting themSELVES in that danger.
Not to mention: how would you implant DRM sufficient to satisfy the MPAA/RIAA paymasters in a tinyOS? Clearly not "technically" possible....for broad enough priorities of "technically"...
I know the conventional wisdom is that we're all supposed to be hating on Facebook now (I mean, they practically GAVE Trump's election to Cambridge Analytica, amirite? It couldn't be that people seriously voted for Trump...they must have been TRICKED by FACEBOOK!), but this explanation is not only terrifically timely for the meme, it's altogether too pat.
I rather suspect that if one could measure the intensity and frequency of gossip pre-Facebook, one would find a "disturbing" correlative uptick in gossip to all sorts of things...that people like to gossip about. If one correlates an uptick in FB postings to hate crimes, one has to evaluate further if the postings are legitimate or false - I sincerely doubt anyone in the media is going to admit that "well maybe those people complaining about those illegals might have been justified"...ever.
Humans have always, generally, hated strangers in their midst. It's a tribal thing. Strangers with different habits, hair, clothes, language, food, and especially SKIN COLOR have always been easier to target for frustrations.
It doesn't help that there seem to be a sadly-not-"fake news" plethora of stories about crime and illegals* like Mollie Tibbetts and Kathryn Steinle - nearly 25% of Federal prisoners are illegal immigrants. Racism is not acceptable, but not wanting criminals in ones' community is a pretty reasonable desire.
*they're not "undocumented" - that's a flat-out lie; "undocumented" implies that they just don't happen to have their papers, or that such papers actually exist - they're illegal immigrants and farcical games with language only makes it clearer to some that there's a collusive effort to hide that.
"Peak oil" has been predicted at least a dozen times - still not true. World population has gone from the 800 million of Malthus' time to 7 BILLION today, and even now the problem isn't starvation from a lack of food, it's starvation because of political barriers to food distribution. The main medical problem of the developed-world's poor is indeed obesity.
The "well known" market failure in investment in science and technology? How do you explain that the most capitalist of countries on Earth are also the most scientifically advanced?
"...As this ramp flattens, winds struggle to build up sufficient energy and speed to push around pressure systems in the area between them. As a result, there is less relief in the form of mild and wet air from the sea when temperatures accumulate on land, and less relief from the land when storms build up in the ocean...."
Which just means that the differences between continental and maritime wind patterns will be that much stronger which meaning the gradient will be less about N/S coriolis patterns and more driven by surface topology. It doesn't mean the winds are going to be weaker, there's still as much energy in the system - more, in fact, if you believe in general systemic warming - it's just going to shove the gradients around.
Ever walked the streets of NY in summer? How about we spend some effort on the giant fucking piles of dripping, stinking, rat-infested garbage bags that line even the nicest streets?
I know it's not nearly as TRENDY to clean up garbage as it is to prevent 0.1mm of sea level rise, but still, if we're talking about where people live maybe making it liveABLE can be part of the equation?
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This.
I got booted from a thread, with a nastygram from the mods about 'here's where you send any appeal to your ban'. Sent email asking what post comment had resulted in this ban... got banned from ANY communication on reddit for 30d for 'harrassment'.
It's a cesspool.
These people are doing this for the epeen and (putative) power of being mods. If they don't like the consequences of being head shit-thrower in the shit-thrower zoo, walk the fuck away.
Worst health statistics but otherwise:
- only country to land on the moon.
- only country with an active, multitasking space program
- most thriving economy
- still the largest magnet for immigrants/refugees
- still basically the only superpower
- the worlds largest oil reserves and ample natural resources of every type. So much food we literally can't get rid of it fast enough, and massive empty spaces of unexploited land even today.
- historically record low unemployment, especially for minorities which is fantastic
- most of the people in poverty are living better by many standards than even middle-class europeans.
- the poorest people in the US's main health problem is OBESITY.
We're literally the wealthiest, most well-off, strategically safe country ever in human history.
Yeah, we're just terribly sad at how awful it is here. LOL
Why do you think that these cities (Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, etc) have what are widely regarded as shitty police forces?
Police officers are people, you know? If you were a young police cadet - setting aside the idealistic utopians who believe they're going to "make a difference" - and you graduated in say the top 50% of your class, you'd have a choice of many cities you could be a cop in.
This isn't The Wire. Would you want to go work in a city like Baltimore, St Louis, etc with 50+ murders per 100k? Where the police are demonized by various political administrations, underfunded, and vilified by the population and media?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or would you go work in an exurb or some other city where you might actually get treated like a human, and not as some sort of closet racist nazi thug?
https://news.vice.com/en_us/ar...
So assuming all the good cops go elsewhere, shitty cities have to scrape the bottom of the barrel in hiring, and end up with a higher proportion of bad cops, thugs, ego-trip adrenaline addicts, and BAD COPS.
Which then reinforces the cycle.
Of course bad cops need to be punished, but until the people of Baltimore elect administrations that are not corrupt rent-seekers, someone with the cojones to make the hard, unpleasant, tough decisions that it will take to clean the cesspool up - it won't get better.
If we had just let the market work, the only people that would have been going to college would have been the wealthy, those that actually earned scholarships or those WHOSE STUDY HABITS & MAJOR SELECTION would have shown to a commercial lender that they were a worthwhile risk.
The end result would have been college costs not rising at 3x inflation, no public money wasted on students whose prospects were poor anyway, likely many more engineers and a lot fewer Russian Medieval Literature majors serving coffee at Starbucks.
But no. The social engineers felt it was necessary that everyone go to colleges, with Pell Grants and government backed loans, the result being now a college degree is pretty much a requirement for any job (whether it requires it or not), and students with no serious prospect of decent income are saddled with ridiculous debt.
Nice job, social engineers.
Why do you think Baltimore is the way it IS?
You have a community COMMITTED to finding any possible thing to blame other than themselves. Leftists feed off the energy generated by the rage, so city administrations simply continue to feed the fire instead of fixing the place. Baltimore is to Democrats what Palestine is to Radical Arabs: a source of rage, energy, conscript-victims and (in Baltimore's case) reliable votes.
cf Detroit, coming soon: Chicago.
....can YOU give me a concrete definition of hate speech that is more objective than "language that makes me or someone I like very sad"?
Is Alex Jones bellowing "Sandy Hook was a fraud" hate speech?
Is Maxine Waters telling people to aggressively confront Trump supporters hate speech?
Is a racist redneck saying ""Niggas shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house...you should watch your mouth 'cause I'll break your face" hate speech?
Would it be ok if those words were 50-cent lyrics? (They are.)
Like everything else, the Europeans were just more advanced and well-traveled.
To suggest that one of their bad aspects outweighs all the good is a little particularist.
Let's recall that it was also Europe that internationalized:
- food distribution
- technology
- medicine
- education
Largely, Europe and it's peoples basically spread the MODERN ERA to the rest of the world.
As you point out, slavery was universal and commercialized to the extent that any society COULD do so.
Weiner - as mentioned in the OP - isn't even how it's spelled.
That would be pronounced wye-ner.
Wiener - as in the penis, as an analogue (see what I did there) is believed to derive from the city of Vienna, or in German, Wien.
...apparently we've looped back to the beginning and you guys are starting to repeat the same fears again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Didn't he pretty much say the exact same thing in 1798?
Didn't happen.
Won't happen this time either..
What's next, are you guys going to start crying about "peak oil" again (in 1909 you guys were saying we only had oil for maybe 25-30 years left)? (http://paleofuture.com/blog/2009/6/14/oil-and-gas-will-eventually-be-exhausted-1909.html)
I can't be arsed to find the source but a wiser person than me opined:
- Liberals believe people are intrinsically good, and that the environment around them makes them bad - whether that's society, the government, corporations, etc somehow they are pressured into doing the wrong thing when their basic nature is to do the "right" thing.
- Conservatives believe that people are intrinsically bad, and that people are prevented from exercising their base instincts & compelled to make better choices by society - whether that compulsion is fear, financial, social, or religious pressures, for example.
The fretting about "what the internet should have been" or that we somehow missed the Utopia we should have gotten relies exclusively on that former view, while that reality of the result more or less confirms the latter: that we're little more than deeply-tribal hairless apes, who when out from supervision, generally want to whack off, fling shit at anyone we can call "our enemies" and watch cat videos / "Ow my balls" 24/7.
Greater internet dickwad theory: it's really a thing, but if you think about it explains a lot of behaviors wherever humans gain some anonymity - not just the internet, but their cars, or as a citizen of a massive city.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photo... (thank you Penny Arcade)
Title says it all.
What's on reddit right now, again?
...people were hired by their qualifications, not just the perceived propriety of their email address to the trendy.
...you're suggesting that perhaps China is a SHITTY international actor, whose interests lie solely with its own people and geopolitical goals? /shock.
For all of you who think Pax Americana has been odious and oppressive, brace yourselves. You haven't the faintest idea what it's going to be like with a TRULY racist, TRULY self-interested, TRULY ethnocentric hegemon.
"...even most left leaning site will not go out of the way to to hinder the president unless they feel what he is doing is that wrong...."
I'm not sure whether what you wrote is a truism or staggeringly naive.
EVERY left-leaning site WILL and DOES go out of their way to hinder the president, because (according to their views) everything he does is wrong.
Maybe it's google's fault I'm too stupid to understand, but how does:
"There seems to be difficulty replicating the results in a number of psychological studies"
=
"Google makes us dumber"
?
Is the OP asserting that since it's easier to link to unproved sources, we're getting shitty information as true?
Because I'd see it another way: first, the journals mentioned like Nature aren't exactly shoddy - they're long term credentialed journals in the field. I'd argue that these studies would have been published pre-internet, it's unlikely they eever would have been questioned/debunked without the broad access available by the internet.
This is as silly as reporting the damage done by wildfires in $. Yes, more people are building multi-million dollar homes out in the wilderness, so there's "more" damage done by fires that 50 years ago would barely have been noticed.
Just like sea level rise - the more idiotic people build in flood plains, the more "damage" sea level rise will do to people....when it's the people putting themSELVES in that danger.
Not to mention: how would you implant DRM sufficient to satisfy the MPAA/RIAA paymasters in a tinyOS? Clearly not "technically" possible....for broad enough priorities of "technically"...
Actual trash receptacles that have lids that close and are waterproof, instead of MOUNDS of leaking trash bags, for one?
Dumpsters for another.
There are lots of solutions worked out by other cities.
Got any T-shirts or cds left that you don't know what to do with?
(kidding, of course)
Cause, or effect?
I know the conventional wisdom is that we're all supposed to be hating on Facebook now (I mean, they practically GAVE Trump's election to Cambridge Analytica, amirite? It couldn't be that people seriously voted for Trump...they must have been TRICKED by FACEBOOK!), but this explanation is not only terrifically timely for the meme, it's altogether too pat.
I rather suspect that if one could measure the intensity and frequency of gossip pre-Facebook, one would find a "disturbing" correlative uptick in gossip to all sorts of things...that people like to gossip about. If one correlates an uptick in FB postings to hate crimes, one has to evaluate further if the postings are legitimate or false - I sincerely doubt anyone in the media is going to admit that "well maybe those people complaining about those illegals might have been justified"...ever.
Humans have always, generally, hated strangers in their midst. It's a tribal thing. Strangers with different habits, hair, clothes, language, food, and especially SKIN COLOR have always been easier to target for frustrations.
It doesn't help that there seem to be a sadly-not-"fake news" plethora of stories about crime and illegals* like Mollie Tibbetts and Kathryn Steinle - nearly 25% of Federal prisoners are illegal immigrants. Racism is not acceptable, but not wanting criminals in ones' community is a pretty reasonable desire.
*they're not "undocumented" - that's a flat-out lie; "undocumented" implies that they just don't happen to have their papers, or that such papers actually exist - they're illegal immigrants and farcical games with language only makes it clearer to some that there's a collusive effort to hide that.
...how is this in any way news?
A certain Mr Malthus was not only wrong, but his prognostications have been the justification for some truly heinous policies.
https://www.scientificamerican...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/l...
"Peak oil" has been predicted at least a dozen times - still not true.
World population has gone from the 800 million of Malthus' time to 7 BILLION today, and even now the problem isn't starvation from a lack of food, it's starvation because of political barriers to food distribution. The main medical problem of the developed-world's poor is indeed obesity.
The "well known" market failure in investment in science and technology? How do you explain that the most capitalist of countries on Earth are also the most scientifically advanced?
Your sort of Cassandra is pathetic.
"...As this ramp flattens, winds struggle to build up sufficient energy and speed to push around pressure systems in the area between them. As a result, there is less relief in the form of mild and wet air from the sea when temperatures accumulate on land, and less relief from the land when storms build up in the ocean...."
Which just means that the differences between continental and maritime wind patterns will be that much stronger which meaning the gradient will be less about N/S coriolis patterns and more driven by surface topology. It doesn't mean the winds are going to be weaker, there's still as much energy in the system - more, in fact, if you believe in general systemic warming - it's just going to shove the gradients around.
Ever walked the streets of NY in summer? How about we spend some effort on the giant fucking piles of dripping, stinking, rat-infested garbage bags that line even the nicest streets?
I know it's not nearly as TRENDY to clean up garbage as it is to prevent 0.1mm of sea level rise, but still, if we're talking about where people live maybe making it liveABLE can be part of the equation?