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@AntiFaHR3 @DeseretStone Real academics has never been tried, actually

@DeseretStone Please do not tar real academics with the brush you are using. Reserve it for economists and STEM people. The first are lazy liars and the second are just running trade schools.

As an attorney, I always chuckled at academics boasting about “muh peer review” Cite a case / source that doesn’t say what you purport it to say in a pleading and you get nailed to the wall immediately, with real consequences for you and a client But for academics, it’s an “oopsie”

@RuxandraTeslo @ArtemisConsort You are why the covid era was a nightmare.

Stop being sensationalistic for clicks. Or you can be that, but then drop the "I'm so rational" schtick. She's being realistic. Most academic papers are very complex and virtually everyone I have ever known has taken some of them for granted without thoroughly checking them, because you'd have to spend your entire life checking other's papers otherwise. You read news articles and assume they're true and you believe things ppl you trust tell you without always verifying all sources. That's how a society works. Otherwise we'd never be able to exchange information or create new things, since we'd all be spending time checking things. Obvsly, it matters how central to your own claims another piece of work is. Trade offs. Developing a nose for these things etc.

Academics are now openly defending the practice of citing papers they haven’t read.

@o____five @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ The question was whether their ire at the CIA was motivation enough to quit. It wasn't. Now you're sperging out about it.

@sudo_seance @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ No. There’s no equivalence between producing purposefully propaganda art, and making independently innovative art that is secretly stolen by intelligence agents and used without permission as propaganda.

Reminder: modern art was a CIA psy-op. Former CIA officials came clean on this during the '90s, confirming that the agency used abstract art by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and others to promote American culture during the Cold War. The intent was to portray America as a bastion of intellectual and creative freedom. This was to rebut Soviet claims that the U.S. was "culturally barren" and contrast the cultural confinement of the Soviet empire, where artists had been restricted to painting in Soviet realism since the 1930s. Abstract Expressionism was seen as the most free and extreme form of artistic expression; the antithesis of Soviet rigidity. Modern art therefore became a weapon in the cultural war against communism. Beginning in the 1950s, the CIA secretly funded a group called the Congress for Cultural Freedom, through which it funnelled money to international art shows, literary magazines and operated dozens of offices around the globe — all with the explicit goal of promoting American Abstract Expressionism. These efforts, coined operation "long leash", were meant to demonstrate to disaffected Soviets and European intellectuals that American painters were free to invent, and offend; unlike under tyranny, where "artists are made the slaves and tools of the state," as Eisenhower once said. Paradoxically, at the time the works of Pollock and de Kooning were not even broadly popular with the American public, and earlier, more open attempts to promote new American art by the State Department had been widely mocked. Even President Truman famously said, 'If that's art, I'm a Hottentot'', when visiting an exhibit purchased by the DOS. Because of this, and because it would have been impossible to attain support for such a project through Congress, the CIA's covert operation was necessary to push Abstract Expressionism in secret.

@o____five @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ Potato potato

@sudo_seance @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ They never made CIA-sponsored propaganda art. So there’s nothing to quit. That’s a false premise. The artists, musicians, writers made the art they wanted to make. The CIA secretly used their art without permission to promote US values.

@o____five @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ Producing CIA-sponsored propaganda art.

@sudo_seance @PhilipHend57757 @the_culturist_ Quit what?

@PhilipHend57757 @o____five @the_culturist_ So they quit?

@o____five @the_culturist_ The Abstract Expressionists were initially unaware that the CIA was using them as a way of showing up the USSR culturally. Once some of them found out, they were disgusted, to say the least

@Koookiiing Damn, how come they dont pay me 100% of the money I spend in the store. Without the customer, that bag of dog food generates $0 in revenue. I generated $45 in revenue for the store by shopping there and they pay me $0 - this is a crime.

Is the argument here than when the cashier scans a $45 bag of dogfood, he has personally made the company $45?

@LukeKerrDineen The answer is actually dead simple. Because balls perform differently in the real world versus in a controlled testing environment. Cam is probably not experiencing any performance loss by playing the new ball. All this does is prove the futility of the new test standards.

Why would Cam Young would play a rollback confirming ball when he doesn’t have to? Maybe the ball is simply innovative in some way where it would pass the test while being essentially the same (would be very not surprising) Here’s one other potential explanation…

@NoLayingUp Just make it a stroke penalty to drive it over 300, or add internal OB to play around. Put a stake out there and if you pass it you get a stroke. The ball rules are stupid and we're never gonna have the effect that the USGA wants: make shorter courses competitive again.

It's been challenging to be: 1. Pro rollback 2. Concerned with how it's being implemented This Cam story is one of several we've heard about how easy it is for players and manufacturers to essentially circumvent the effects of the rollback based on how the rule is written.

@JessJess1328791 @BravoKiloActual @nithyavraman It's not "caving", it's participating in fraud/graft. All these climate policies are just money-funneling initiatives that rob the tax-payer to enrich benefactors and friends.

@BravoKiloActual @nithyavraman My city does a lot of things well, but they sure do cave into the climate change BS.

“if you’re a climate voter deciding what to do in the June 2 primary, I’m confident in saying that Raman is a better choice than the incumbent — especially now that I’ve talked wither her about her climate plan, which was released today” climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/nithya-raman…

@FloodingLong @GreeneMan6 How would you ensure that all people are equal within a sovereign society that currently has slavery without using physical coersion and without abandoning your other moral principals.

@GreeneMan6 Of course I want all people to be extended the same rights and privileges that I have, and of course I believe that all people are subject to the same framework of moral obligations and duties that I am. I don’t see where the use of force comes into it. I’m a Christian.

Indeed, I would agree that imagining hypotheticals is a core part of thinking. However this “Rawlsian Veil of Ignorance” is a specifically gamed hypothetical designed to lead to a certain dishonest conclusion. The idea of this exercise is to pretend your birth was a random event across the space of all current humans while superimposing the context of deciding a “fair” distribution of rights & privileges. The exercise makes a reader think: “Well, due to my culture, I expect a certain level of rights and privileges. So based on the veil of ignorance, I should want those rights and privileges for people in all countries!” This, naturally brings us to the leftist conclusion that we have an implicit morally duty to extend rights to all people. But this is not an honest examination, it’s a hat trick that the progressive uses to smuggle in his own morality. It’s easy to see how the trick works if you invert the question. Any serious examination of “right and privileges” understands these things as the equal and opposite counterparts to “moral obligations and duties”. But could we do the same”veil of ignorance” exercise for imposing societal obligations on people? For instance, as a Westerner, imagine that you were forced to live in a randomly selected society and follow its own moral strictures, rules, and cultural regulations. What kind of society would you be comfortable existing in, chosen from behind the veil of ignorance? Wouldn’t it only be Western style societies? So wow, we just developed a moral imperative to invade all nations and impose Western Societal norms on them based on Progressives favorite first principle! But No! We can’t do that! That would be imperialism! Well fine then. If there is no universal obligation to impose moral duties then there can be no universal moral obligation to distribute entitlements.

@justalexoki Ironic, coming from the self-proclaimed stupid person

you rightoids are actually so retarded im gonna lib out

@Philip_DT @ouranometrian2 Your worldview rests on a throwaway tweet about gratefulness posted by a self-described midwit. Congrats

Which is what Slazac observed was happening in the tweet I quoted. Hundreds of people either being NPCs incapable of comprehending a hypotheticals and population statistics or pretending to be NPCs because, as a representative tweet from a moot whose identity i'll protect put it, they have some insane underpants gnome theory by which acknowledging that most people have it worse than you do means some sudanese guy gets your stuff.

This is just an IQ test that right wingers consistently fail

@feelsdesperate I'm very skeptical of sudden crime stat changes, especially after the DC miracle that turned out to just be lying.

The primary concern with Mamdani was always that he’d be a terrible financial steward, blow the budget out, chase the tax base out, and kick the can down the road and… so far that’s exactly what he’s trying to do. You’re going to hear a lot of shrieking from crypto leftist centrists about crime rates being ok, but violent crime is multifactorial and overdetermined and who’s been mayor for 6 months is not determinative. People like this don’t actually care about the city, it doesn’t bother them if it’s a worse place to live in 2 or 5 or 10 years because they don’t have families, can only think about themselves, and in important ways aren’t capable of acting like adults. What actually matters to them is running cover for an ideological project that they feel sympathy for (because they are part of the class that’s being pandered to), even if it’s too humiliating for them to admit that openly.

@cimmerian_v MLMs prey on people's ambition...

One would think blacks would fall for MLMs at a higher rate than white women

@bonchieredstate Hes such an insufferable nincompoop

Narrator: It will stand because there's no further legal recourse. You guys played a game of chicken and lost. Man up, Temu.

@TheSalonDon @RonDeSantis Too much side-sauce

@RonDeSantis Doesn’t overcook mean hit it too far?

Probably overcook a 9 iron and end up in the drink on the left side of the green.

@RonDeSantis Governor Ball-Knower

@BlueBoxDave Am I crazy or were the NYPD not just responding to the mob that was blocking the emergency entrance of the hospial?

If the NYPD had not intervened then those “protesters,” would have assaulted federal agents and somebody could have been killed. As we saw twice in Minnesota. This isn’t a movie.

@PatrickHilsman In what way is that better? Not in a philosophical/ideological sense, but practically what purpose does that serve?

@sudo_seance Better everything be immediately public

The guy on the right will be easily identifiable based on the Tattoos on his left arm - I would encourage anyone with time to review footage of ICE encounters in the New York area and reveal him to the public.