nixarian's comments

Keys last...how long? Electronics last...how long? Keys require how much power? Electronics..? These people are out of touch with reality.

Yeah, too bad there isn't a website that understand this issue, and has never had like counts, and whose participants largely deride the idea of like counts-and have for a long, long time.

Paternity testing should be mandatory at the birth of the child. Adultery is socially destabilizing, and should be discouraged.

Or maybe we could inject them into the brain, and then could 'override basic autonomic function. Maybe we could use this on a recently dead body and it could do simple things, like amble around, maybe grab things, or bite.

"We have rhapsodized demolition as liberation" Sounds like a conservative criticism of the Enlightenment.

"There was this sense that we were being broken down and built up again as new people, as these high-powered minds — only without the groupthink that gets enforced in a barracks." Is he sure about that? It seems certain ideas are enforced with cult-like rigidity.

My experience heading toward the academic track, and then ducking out, wasn't a great one. I felt like I learned more on my own, out of my own interest in the subject, than in any classroom. It gave me a few starting points, but that's all. Academia seems to have ceased to be a place where people engage in and built upon the Western cultural project, and instead is a place of 'liberation' from that project, from the west, from the canon, from everything that put a foundation under our civilization, letting in everything that doesn't matter. In a sense, it deserves to die. And it deserve to die even more for not seeming to recognize why it's dying, and for placing all the blame on others. And yet, cultural studies, humanities, and history, are all absolutely necessary for democracy, and if it truly ends, what then?

If I'm allowed to be rude, another problem is a serious lack of thoughtful people, even this guy doesn't seem to be saying anything interesting or provoking, yet he thinks he's worthy of a position. I really noticed a lack of any kind of academic debate going on in my time at university. I felt alone in my desire to test and challenge ideas. One female student in an English class once attacked me for 'wanting to argue with ideas all the time'. What should I make of that?

I'll end with a provoking thought, the kind of thing that should be allowed in academe: so men together, in the good old boys club, built things, and women and men together produced what? too many heirs? :^)

Exactly. More people entering the labor force was only good for the owners and employers, it destroy the bargaining power of the actual workers. Add to that the fact that having two parents at work seriously harms the family, making it more difficult for their children to develop in healthy ways. This is the future we asked for. Given the statistics that say women only want to marry men who make more money than them, it seems to have done even more harm than we might imagine, because there are few women wanting men to stay home and fill the role certain ideologues claimed would be open to them.

The problem is that women still look for men who can provide for them, even if they can provide for themselves.

A lot of women trade the lives of their children for that career they feel is their "due" in life. Do you look at your children and wish you'd sacrificed them for wealth, like those other women have?

You state that one of the purposes of this platform is to allow you the freedom to be wrong, but if people can save something before 6 months, how would you prevent someone from saving an embarrassing comment for future use against you? Or are you the only one capable of saving your own comments?

Anti-semites don't see things that way. They see Jewish people as attacking THEM, denying THEM the right to their way of existence. They might use the same language you use.

But that's exactly what you're doing. You're oppressing them by denying them the ability to speak because you believe (perhaps rightly) that their opinion and way of living is wrong. Would you actually not deny housing to a nazi? Openly fascist people ARE denied jobs, how can you imagine otherwise? "Closet" facists are allowed to have jobs, in the same way closet homosexuals were allowed to have jobs back when homosexuality was considered toxic.

"awful people" As in, people who are inherently awful, cannot be helped, and should therefore be cut out of society. Why stop there? Why not put them in prisons? Fine with that? Why stop there? Why waste resources on trash? Why not incinerate them in some kind of large cooking appliance? :^)

I can't wait to bring china-like jobs to the united states. it will be good, honest!

If only we could do the same for humans. It's sad to see some of these poor humans effectively neutered or put down by social or legal forces.

Democracy is good only if the population is sufficiently educated and informed. Americans are, by and large, poorly educated and ill informed.

But remember, China's social credit system is terrible! How could anyone think of rating people like that?

All you're saying is that any Muslim picked up is more likely to not be a criminal, which seems expected. The problem with "strong sampling", is, perhaps obviously, that they focus too strongly on the 'brown skinned people' and therefore might miss other criminals. The article you link seems to suggest some profiling is good, but that strong profiling AND random sampling are equally inefficient.

"A mathematically optimal strategy would be 'square-root biased sampling,' the geometric mean between strong profiling and uniform sampling, with secondary screenings distributed broadly, although not uniformly, over the population."