IcePee @ IcePee @lemmy.beru.co

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Had a quick glance at this study. Forgive any mistakes, but I have a few "faulting" observations:

• over a third of the sampled people were people seeking immigration to the US. It could be argued that it could be argued that this points purely to the type of conservatives that seek entry outside their home country. Not the general population of conservatives.
• this study only looks at a statistical correlation. It's dangerous to infer causation from correlation as correlation does not equal causation.
• intelligence measuring as had a long and troubled past. For instance, some tests were used to "prove" black people dumb. Turns out these tests relied on prior knowledge denied to black people. It can be very difficult to account for culture.
• maybe the tests used in this study only measure for people that are good at taking tests.

That's just the point. These failings are common. That means we all fall prey to these faults from time to time. Just remember when you point a finger, at least three get pointed back to you.

While I agree with you, at what stage would you find a job just not worth the carnage?

I think calling conservatives "dumb" is needlessly inflammatory, and what's worse, is it's incorrect. They just fall for a common human failing: confirmation bias, amongst other well known fallacies.

I don't tend to rely as much on Valve's compatibility rating as I do ProtonDB's. Even though it takes extra steps.

I think the difference be between Briana's and George's killing and why one got the limelight was two fold. One could have maybe explained away as an honest mistake or a bad situation. The other was pretty blatant malice. George being the latter. Outrage takes time to build and can dissipate quickly. It maybe the public had just reached a tipping point after months and years of unlawful killing by police of black people, mostly male, mostly young.

I think the offense people took with your reply is due to the historic "he was no Angel" excuse. As a way to justify the inexcusable, cold blooded murder.

I disagree. It's an projection from positions in Project 2025, Trump's own desire for presidential immunity, the No More Political Prosecutiins Act and his admitted wish to be a dictator (for a day).

I don't find the two comments aren't equally valid as critique. Trouble is, the other guy is at least equally subject to the same critique.

Or that there will be a next guy at all. He could cancel the elections. Make himself president for life.

I looked at it and despaired how intertwined Israel is in the global economy. A full boycott will be a real sacrifice. You'd be surprised how wide ranging their influence is.

The real question is do we have enough access to cheap green tech? A further, more probing question is: what are we willing to sacrifice to get it? Potential things on the chopping block:

• sovereignty
• worker rights
• national security
• a resilient economy

As to the last one, as the recent pandemic showed, consolidating manufacturing to one country/area can make the global economy quite fragile to economic, environmental, societal and political shocks.

As Mr. Miyagi would say:

"Walk On Road, Hmmm? Walk Left Side, Safe. Walk Right Side, Safe. Walk Middle, Sooner Or Later... Get Squish Just Like Grape!"

Or, how about Yoda:

"Do or do not. There is no try”

What I'm saying either Linux rules the roost or Windows does. The "roost" in this example is your hard drive.

Probably the safest, most cost effective approach is to use WSL.

I was referring to their power base. If there was no cultural pain there, there would be nothing to exploit to remain in power so that they an perpetrate this atrocity.

From the article:

...and that the hosts weren’t from outlets with an ideological bent toward Trump.

At this stage I think it will be very difficult to find someone unbiased when it comes to Trump. The best you can hope for outside an assiduous hermit, is someone who is ethically committed to fairness.

Also known as "a cycle of violence". Or " hurt people, hurt people" But at what stage is it someone's responsibility to break this most vicious of cycles?

I wonder how they measured this. Could it just be that they get more utilisation? Even per capita is probably not adequate either. You would need a measure that's an analogue of per capita. Maybe per result? For instance I could spend half an hour attempting to get just the right set of keywords to bring up the right result, or I could spend 5 minutes in a chat session with an AI honing the correct response.

Is Talos Principle 2 any good? I got stuck on the latter puzzles in the Road To Gehenna expansion and didn't want to progress in case TP2 needs knowledge of this expansion.

After watching Nerd Cubed play Coin Pusher Casino, I also got hooked. Bit of a guilty pleasure, that. But, three things to recommend it, though:

1. Realistic physics throughout make it quite a technically advanced game despite it probably all it took was a toggle in Unity.
2. There's a native Linux port.
3. Other than the initial outlay for the game the only resource you'll expend is your precious time alive. So, there's no freemium model where you pay to advance. And no payment for additional unlockable content.

You play tables to get credits, to get perks that make it more pleasurable (not to mention possible) to play tables, to ... The very essence of an RPG grind. And a bit of a skinner box.

... And? A lot of socialists are also libertarian in equal measure.