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2018-12-08 at 4:48 AM UTC in My daughter just diedThat's too bad. Now RisiR and I won't get to run a train on her when she turns 14.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-12-24 at 8:29 PM UTC in Aldra, surfing the Kali Yuga
Originally posted by Loing I recommend Steven Pinker's book, The Better Angels of Our Nature.
'in the past 30 years the average third world wage has doubled from $1/day to $2/day, just look at that progress. we have by strict technical definition lifted so many people out of poverty by supplanting their lives of sustenance farming with sweatshop labor, and created so much wealth for a handful of oligarchs that it's hard to argue things aren't getting better. doesn't matter that the world is tearing itself apart geopolitically and on the verge of ecological disaster, because smart people will somehow figure out how to solve these issues, probably'
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2018-12-24 at 10:10 PM UTC in Aldra, surfing the Kali Yuga
Originally posted by Loing He literally didn't argue that though. He says that the progress should be an optimistic indication, even though improved media and communication technologies make it seem worse than ever, because you're not isolated any more, so it's easy to lose sight of the fact that things are getting better and efforts are effective.
it's basically a summary of his arguments in enlightenment now. he uses the standard neoliberal our world in data approach with lots of graphs and charts to paint a picture of a world getting better at a surface level while being flippant about major issues we've created like climate change
as for better angels his treatment of historical data is a pretty egregious example of cherry picking and largely undermines his central thesis
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273371719_Pinker's_List_Exaggerating_Prehistoric_War_MortalitySo let us look back over Pinker’s list. Of the original 21, Gobero, Niger is out because it has no war deaths. Three cases, the burial ground across the Nile from Site 117, Sarai Nahar Rai, lndia, and Calumnata, Algeria are all eliminated because they only have one instance of violent death. One site each was dropped because of duplication in Brittany, southern Scandinavia, and California. That leaves two-thirds of the original List. 14 examples, which purportedly represent average war mortality among 'prehistoric people.' Jebel Sahaba, the two cases from the Dnieper gorge, and Indian Knoll are all highly unusual in their very early dates and number of casualties, when compared to other contemporary locations, including 117's neighbor’s cemetery (see Ferguson, chapter 11). Three European sites are from the Mesolithic, which has gained a reputation for violence compared with earlier and later cultures, and two of those are from the Ertebolle tradition, which has an established reputation of being especially violent even within the Mesolithic. Four cases (compiled from many more individual sites) are from the Pacific coast. British Columbia, and Southern-Central California, all of which have higher levels of violence than any other long-term North American sequence, and which still show great variations by time and place. The final three are from Illinois and South Dakota or thereabouts, which, even during the most violent centuries in the entire sequence of prehistoric North America, stand out at the extreme points of warfare killings.
Is this sample representative of war deaths among prehistoric populations? Hardly. It is a selective compilation of highly unusual cases, grossly distorting war's antiquity and lethality. The elaborate castle of evolutionary and other theorizing that rises on this sample is built upon sand.
pinker may be a genius in psycholinguistics but his popsci ventures far outside his actual area of expertiseact like nothing is working.
because nothing is working fast enough, the negative trends overwhelm the positiveFor example on the issue of race relations: no, things haven't gotten worse
they haven't gotten worse but we're running up against HBD limits, once people realize that the hereditarians are right, there are major biological differences between races and IQ gaps can't be narrowed significantly, i foresee a major cultural shift toward anti multiethnicismEverything is getting better
no it's not, even human intelligence is in declineand we can make it better
we could but we're not on track to do soKill yourself
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2018-12-11 at 3:01 AM UTC in My daughter just diednobody but a genuine rat bitch projects as hard as scron is doing in this threadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-12-11 at 3:03 AM UTC in Information on my proper pronoundsfagThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-12-11 at 3:03 AM UTC in What keeps YOU from getting on that bus?teenage girlsThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-12-10 at 9:28 AM UTC in When you hear of bank robberies, do you wish for robber to not be caught?no because (((bankers))) deserve to be robbed and also gassedThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-12-10 at 8:58 AM UTC in climate change is a chinese hoaxto solve climate change we just need to kill the richThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-12-08 at 9:25 PM UTC in need helpwalk into a crowded public space and start firing a gun in random directions while screaming about trianglismThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-12-08 at 12:14 PM UTC in My daughter just died
Originally posted by Ghost No it's real I just talked to him in TC he was all teared up and didn't seem well.
You don't know what it's like to create a child Lanny I have done it too and sometimes the best thing you can do is let go to ensure they will have a better life.
Unless any of you knock up a chicken and live with her for 9 months then you can all shut the fuck up because you don't know what it's like to lay there next to a woman with a child you made inside her, you guys just don't understand because you're young virgin single punks that have never had a serious relationship.
go in TC and kill yourself on camThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-12-08 at 11:30 AM UTC in Fields Trial commences (Charlottesville car)technologist seems like a typical liberal boomer who watches rachel maddow and finds it enthrallingThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-12-08 at 5:20 AM UTC in Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, has admitted to setting up an illegal meeting with Putin
Originally posted by aldra no.
Cohen admitted that he tried to get in contact with the Russian government to get help setting up business connections in the country prior to building that proposed hotel, as he'd failed miserably to cultivate any beforehand*.
The simple fact that he emailed the general press mailbox rather than any specific person within the government indicates that he didn't have any specific contacts - he received a generic administrative response telling him to consult with business organisations.
*The other fact that he thought it was appropriate to ask the Russian government to help him cultivate business connections shows how arrogant he is/was, and how obviously little he thought of the state of Russia. If he did have a mysterious 'back channel to the kremlin', there would be no need for him to be using public press mailboxes, and one would assume he'd have more respect for them than to bother them with something so trivial anyway.
lol not surprised §m£ÂgØL is full of shit and deliberately misrepresenting the truth againThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!