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@DeskAgent7 @CNN You'd have to know the difference to have a preference.

@BuzzLightworth @CNN I prefer prosecution

The US Justice Department is working to secure criminal charges against former Cuban president Raul Castro, according to sources familiar with the matter. cnn.it/4nA28hx

@DeskAgent7 @CNN Democratic law abiding countries do not persecute individuals - criminals or otherwise. To characterize this as a persecution of Raul is a funny way of scoring an own goal.

@CNN And Democrats are raging over their hero being persecuted, no doubt. Cuba must fall some day. Why not today?

@AlexBerenson "Gender reassignment surgery" and "gender-affirming surgery" are treated as semantically equivalent concepts because one became the dominant contemporary term for the same medical category. That's literally what search engines are *supposed* to recognize.

How is the title of a Wikipedia search result Google's responsibility? What did you want them to do... manually override Wikipedia's own terminology because you don't like semantic drift in medical language? Maybe spend some time looking into how search indexing, entity mapping, and synonym resolution actually work before hallucinating political conspiracies out of autocomplete behavior. Sheesh.

Yep, Google's still at it. Search for "gender reassignment surgery" and guess what comes up first...

An excellent and sobering piece flagging the results of a new study published in Nature Especially as - in the real world - there is no chance of limiting the global average temperature rise to 2C carbonbrief.org/limiting-globa…

RT @siaxares: Speaking an Iranian still inside Iran, writing this through Starlink while my hands are literally shaking with rage and grief…

I don't need to chase every one of your manufactured buzzwords down the rabbit hole.

Jensen is one the smartest and most far seeing folks the world. "If an AI scientist warns people that AI is going to permeate across radiology and radiologists are going to get wiped out, it might seem helpful but it's hurtful. If we convince everybody not to be radiologists and we now need radiologists, that actually is hurtful to society. "It is hurtful to convince all the young college graduates not to study software engineering because we are going to need more software engineers than ever. That's hurtful." "Scaring people with nonsensical things, which are not going to happen, that this is an existential threat, there's a 20% chance that is is existential, that's ridiculous. "That it's going to wipe out 50% of college level jobs. "That is it going to completely destroy democracy. "These kinds of comments are not helpful. They are made by...CEOS. And you become a CEO, maybe you adopt a God complex and somehow you know everything." Brutal. And right.

Help hold @AJEnglish responsible for its support of child rapists, and wrongful erasure of their victims.

Even if it takes me 20 years I'll follow back anybody who reposts this thread

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The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank. It just published a 30-year study showing immigrants paid 14.5 trillion dollars more in taxes than they received in government benefits. Every single year. For thirty years. Without exception. The country was lied to. Here is what the study found.🧵

Neanderthal brain and cognition reconsidered | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@wil_da_beast630 @Aella_Girl A thing a person who does not understand probability might say.

Well, no. Those are the PERFECT outcomes. The obvious risk for blue-pressers is that pressing red conveys no risk at all, and most people care more about themself and their mom than overly empathic strangers. In about 4/10 runs of this game, only 24% or whatever of people actually press blue and they all die.

im confused by people saying the right answer is pressing red. the good outcomes are 51% of ppl press blue OR 100% of people press red. the second is obvs way less likely

@thatchthoughts @DastDn @ode_to_fyodor If you're referring to "the End of History?", this is the take of someone who never read the book and just regurgitates the claims of others who also didn't read the book.

@DastDn @ode_to_fyodor Except for the whole, history dead thing, being one or the most colossal fuck ups of all time, Sure haha

Francis Fukuyama is a fucking genius and a prophet.

my favorite part of socialism is using poor as an insult

And then you're doing a second move: treating raw numbers as if they settle the moral question. They don't. It might not always be obvious since we engage with it intuitively but numbers are really just a crude proxy for something else we care about. The real questions are about intent, targeting, and justification. Body count is just a rough signal people use when they don't want to - or don't know how to - engage those directly. You can argue about whether the war is being conducted justly, but you can't flatten these into the same category and then point to the larger number as if that resolves it.

You're using the numbers as a stand-in for the moral judgment instead of actually making the moral argument. This ends up collapsing two different categories. The October 7 killings were the intentional targeting of civilians. Deaths in a war - assuming it's actually being prosecuted against military targets - are not the same kind of act, even if civilians tragically die in the process.

There was little, if anything, Israel could have done to resist the leftist, identitarian turn. Once you view the Jewish state as an outpost of settler-colonial white supremacist villainy, it really doesn’t matter whether it’s good at politics or diplomacy.

Some people argue that keeping an open-mind makes it easier to believe in conspiracy theories. But we found the exact oppposite in our newest paper. Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants around the world In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. cambridge.org/core/journals/… This paper was led by @philipparnamets @moral_psych and @Robert_M_Ross

BALINT: Are you trying to get revenge on states that did not vote for your boss? VOUGHT: What's interesting about your question is Joe Biden-- BALINT: Oh, for goodness' sake!