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Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Reverse Flynn... on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:32PM (#35533969)

Why would the government care if you're left or right, as long as you are a faithful consumer.

Re:Whole Foods closes San Francisco flagship after one year, citing wo... on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:22PM (#35533895)

  > he had finally started focusing on violent crime instead of, “quality of life” crime like shoplifting and vandalism.

Why not both?

Re:Whole Foods closes San Francisco flagship after one year, citing wo... on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:20PM (#35533880)

Worked in New York.

Re:The Tyranny of Science over Mothers on Monday April 10, 2023 @03:48PM (#35516574)

  > this disregard for the English language is truly despicable. You ought to be ashamed.

I mean, you brought race into it and implied I would care more if it happened to a white woman. That is the textbook definition of race-baiting. Both of your examples knew they were pregnant and abused drugs that killed the fetus. And both happened before Roe was overturned. So is there a point you're trying to make somewhere?

  > Says who? Some prosecutor?

The law, which is written by legislators democratically elected by the populace of the area they serve. That's how democracy works. If you think giving meth or valium to a baby or a developing fetus is a woman's prerogative, then I'm not sure there is any point in this discussion.

  > If a man takes a Valium, he won't be charged with anything.

Neither will a woman. Now if she is breastfeeding or pregnant that is a different story because it is no longer just her consuming the drug. She is no longer just endangering herself at that point. If a man endangers a child he will be charged as well. And in fact men face far heavier sentences in the legal system than women do. [0]

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/women-arent-always-sent...

Re:American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Reverse Flynn... on Monday April 10, 2023 @12:49PM (#35514331)

  > From a strict evolutionary perspective I have doubts that a high IQ is useful anymore.

Well, lower IQ people are easier to control and manipulate so I suppose the government might be ok with that outcome.

Re:The Tyranny of Science over Mothers on Monday April 10, 2023 @10:21AM (#35512647)

Race-baiting aside, your example is also irrelevant as its from 2015 and again the result of using drugs that are harmful to a developing child. Again, if a man injures a woman through malice or carelessness, and induces a miscarriage he would be charged as well. This has always been the case.

Re:The Tyranny of Science over Mothers on Monday April 10, 2023 @09:08AM (#35511826)

She wasn't convicted for having a miscarriage, she was convicted for killing the fetus through repeated usage of meth while well into her pregnancy. It would be analogous to jailing a man for punching a pregnant woman in the stomach in order to induce an end to the pregnancy.

This also happened before the end of Roe and is only trotted out to scare people who don't bother to read the details. It has nothing to do with reproductive rights, and the fact that this example is always used is quite telling.

Re:Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down on Sunday April 09, 2023 @07:39PM (#35507565)

  > Tell the world you will stop development until alignment is figured out.

Oh alignment was figured out already, look at who is on the board of OpenAI and the connections they have to US intelligence.

Re:Women now dominate the book business. Why not other creative indust... on Sunday April 09, 2023 @11:12AM (#35503486)

So men read more non-fiction material and women read more fantasy-land material?

Re:Pentagon, Justice Dept investigate as secret military documents app... on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:24PM (#35499553)

This is a tremendously naïve take on the situation.

Re:I did the math. SF is 2.6x more dangerous per sq mi than any other ... on Saturday April 08, 2023 @06:49PM (#35498421)

Everybody knows it's safer to live in the country, but that's not the argument he's making. He's saying it's also safer to live in any other city. I don't know if it's a great methodology though, going per sq mile.

Re:Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack on Saturday April 08, 2023 @04:50PM (#35497484)

Talk about a bad faith argument. Nobody took away NY Times blue check except themselves when they refused to pay for the subscription like everyone else. Just like they won't let me view their articles without a subscription, so they should understand how that works as well as anybody.

Re:America Is Back in the Factory Business on Saturday April 08, 2023 @04:40PM (#35497381)

A garment district holds no strategic value, so that wouldn't necessarily carry over to manufacturing.

Re:Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack on Saturday April 08, 2023 @11:04AM (#35493889)

Shady sourcing = the actual laptop and the contents which later proved to be 100% correct. Also, Zerohedge was banned for quite awhile for the same thing.

Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:56AM (#35493790)

You want to increase depression, this is how you do it.

People need shit to do, and as much as we lie to ourselves that everyone is a budding artist who if only freed from the bounds of work would create the worlds next masterpiece - that is just not reality. Most people would actually sit around getting high/drunk, playing video games, watching porn and being miserable.

Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:52AM (#35493753)

  > companies can potentially produce 10 times as many products/services

How exactly is that a good thing? We already consume too much, now we will have 10x as much to consume? Unlikely that demand for "the things" goes up 10x, which means the value will drop.

Re:Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack on Saturday April 08, 2023 @08:21AM (#35492551)

They banned NY Post for reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop and the contents showing "10% for the big guy" in reference to his father getting kickbacks on some shady Ukrainian and Chinese deals that Hunter facilitated.

Re:Obamacare Created Big Medicine on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:38PM (#35488577)

  > despite the fact that their bill was basically Romneycare.

Romneycare was a plan built for one particular state, one of the main problems with the ACA was trying to replicate that state-based plan across 50 states that all have various systems.

Re:NSA created online cybersecurity course with 100s of classes on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:12PM (#35488313)

  > Millions of innocent civilians in the middle east aren't as happy about it though.

Re:Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:10PM (#35488303)

So it's no different than it was before, so what's the problem?

Re:Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:09PM (#35488294)

I think most people against censorship are still against it. I just find it ironic that the people who supported censorship before are now up in arms.

Re:Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack on Friday April 07, 2023 @01:44PM (#35484522)

I'm old enough to remember when we were told Twitter isn't the government so this isn't a free speech issue and if people don't like it they can build their own platform and blah blah blah..

Does that still hold now?

Re:Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack on Friday April 07, 2023 @01:42PM (#35484511)

As we've heard millions of times before when the shoe was on the other foot, this is not a free speech issue. Even more so now that Twitter is a private company.

Re:NPR won’t tweet from NPR until Twitter removes false “state-affilia... on Friday April 07, 2023 @01:39PM (#35484454)

Someone else mentioned this, but there are a couple million government employees, a change in Administration doesn't really impact that in any meaningful way because the federal government is absolutely massive. NPR does have a bias towards the US-centric neoliberal order, regardless of which party is in power. In that sense, it is at least partially funded by government and parroting pro-US government messaging.

It's nowhere on the level of some countries but it's not exactly an independent media outlet and we shouldn't pretend it is.

Re:Column: US money supply falling at fastest rate since 1930s on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:39AM (#35480562)

Can you elaborate?

Re:Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:02PM (#35463193)

I disagree with this completely. I've been spanked a couple times by dang and it was warranted both times. And although I felt I was correct in what I posted, the tone wasn't right for this place, hence the warnings. That sort of thing is precisely why HN hasn't become Reddit-like.

Re:Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:35PM (#35460006)

  > I'm sure Trump's blatant attempts to do so as confirmed by several members of his own administration are particularly outrageous to you. Strange that you didn't mention it.

Yes, a bunch of Trump's dealings are outrageous to me. One of the many reasons I didn't vote for him, he's a con artist. That doesn't change anything with the shady dealings, coercion and outright bribery that Biden has been involved in as VP and now as President.

Re:Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:40AM (#35452418)

No, it was Biden using his coercive power to stop the prosecutor in Ukraine that was looking into the shady dealings of Biden's son on the Board of Burisma.

Re:Donald Trump Under Arrest on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:33PM (#35445517)

Bail is designed to ensure you show back up for proceedings, and to protect the community if you present a danger to others. If you don't present a danger to others and you aren't running anywhere, then personal recognizance makes sense. It's an imperfect system but the solution is to give personal recognizance bail to more people not fewer.

Re:Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:40PM (#35443283)

You didn't answer the question. We promised to give a billion dollars, then threatened to withhold it if they didn't do what we wanted. That is not a gift or a donation, that makes it a bribe. That was also a clear example of coercion - and it was done by our current President who was VP at the time.

I'm sure you were well aware of this and many other examples and yet you are on here pretending we don't use those tactics in Ukraine. Why?