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Yup - you’re right. I kinda have the same hang ups with both, and it’s late, so I got them confused.

It’s been too long for me to remember off the top of my head, but this SPLC article on Tom Metzger and the White Aryan Resistance should give you a starting point and some terms to search for. The Hammerskins were one of the bigger gangs back then that had a presence in multiple states and I think in the UK. The ADL also has great records and studies on these groups and are a key resource for researchers.

It’s been a while since I saw it, but I believe the older guy in AHX was supposed to represent Metzger. They were very much alike.

No, it is a legitimate mental illness.

I will lay a bet that if we were to perform a neuroimaging exam of this man’s brain, we would find a hypertrophic amygdala (which is the physical part of the brain that detects and classifies fear and threat responses) heavily primed to kick off a reaction in the limbic system. It’s a hair trigger over which you don’t have conscious control at that point. I will also guarantee he has a hypotrophied prefrontal cortex, which is the slower to react but more evolutionarily advanced part of the brain that’s supposed to keep all that stuff in check by asking “Is that what’s really happening?” and “What will happen to me if I do this?” There’s also a very solid chance we’d find evidence traumatic brain injury, with is present in 50%+ of persons in jail for violent crime and about 10% in the general population. We could do a blood work up, a DNA test, a psychological history, and so on.

We’re talking about structural, chemical, genetic, and psychological determinants. I don’t know how to classify that other than mental illness requiring treatment. I’m going to use a non-preferred term in its colloquial sense, but if a person is psychotic, you’re not going to punish them back to mental health.

Not everyone with mental illness is violent - almost none are. But people with these conditions are indeed mentally ill - it is a medical, not a moral condition - and until we approach it like that, we’re not going to be able to begin to address it.

I do not believe that we have free will, but I think in extreme cases like this you don’t even need to go that far. You’re no more going to fix a person like this morally than you’re going to cure epilepsy with an exorcism.

That’s fair. I struggled to find the word, but it was (again, at the time) a counterculture movement on the fringes of a counterculture movement (the punk/hardcore scene in general). There was a time when I was pretty elbows deep in researching groups like WAR and the role of bands like Skrewdriver and gangs like the Hammerskins. I even interviewed some people. They were all very surreally open to talking - you can see that if you watch some documentaries from the time.

I really don’t want to get back into that though. It’s a dark hole, and it’s getting close enough to mainstream politics that it’s an entirely different phenomenon.

What I guess I was trying to say is that Fight Club spoke to more people, and might have helped convert them. AHX was only seen as an endorsement by people who didn’t need converting, and who were such a tiny fraction of the population that they didn’t pose a large scale threat (although they did beat the crap out of me on a couple of occasions).

The fan interpretation of the movie as literally that really colors my perception of the movie. I love Bukowski (with some trepidation), and I know that the dudebro interpretation is 180 degrees from the intended meaning, but when it’s that badly misinterpreted I can’t help but feel like the cultural baggage weighs it down. It’s been decades since I’ve seen it, but when I started becoming aware of the PUA culture ((which I think provided the nucleus to the incel/maga culture we see today), they were leaning hard into it.

Contrast that with American History X, which I’ve been told has been interpreted by skinhead/WP subcultures as a film that portrays them positively and justifies their POV. I don’t associate that movie with that interpretation because they’re a much more marginalized community (at least until 2016), and because the movie really beats you over the head with the message so much that misinterpretation cannot be attributed to the film.

Agreed. The FSI method is the best I’ve found, and Pimsleur is the best implementation of it. The biggest weakness IMO was that it was about listening and speaking and had only a minor reading component. The new software versions correct for that.

From there, you should be able to have some simple conversations and watch TV shows, at least with the foreign subtitles on. As a note, I found that (as in English) the subs might not match the spoken words, but I found that in some types of media (eg telenovellas) they match pretty well.

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This is the correct answer. It doesn’t address the multiple mistakes in English and spelling that the OP ended up writing, though. Nor does it address the spelling variant, although that does not seem to be the particular focus of the original enquiry.

This is my favorite thing I’ve read all week.

Unless you’re really, really good at theory. See Von Neumann, Murray Gell-Mann, John Nash, and many others. It really goes for anyone who’s talented significantly above their peers in tech, the arts, sports…

The problem is that it scales with talent, so someone who’s modestly brilliant will get less leeway than a Nobel (or EGOT) level talent, and talent seems to scale non-linearly.

The problematic bit here is if the person (say, Hitler, in this case) is a true psychopath. This is where the mind/body (or soul, if you prefer) dichotomy starts to fall apart. I do not believe that free will exists, but I can give a light version of this that doesn’t depend on a complete rejection of free will.

We know as a medical fact that a history of traumatic brain injury (tbi) has a strong correlation with violent and aggressive behavior. Over half the people in prisons for violent crime have a history of tbi, versus about 10% in the general public. We can find similar correlations to other events that are known to physically alter people’s brains, from malnutrition to childhood trauma to growing up in a system of racism and violence. These experiences literally and physically rewire brains and alter neuroanatomy. These neuroanatomical changes result in neuropsychological changes, which result in behavioral changes. Think about today’s story of the banking manager who was recently arrested for shoplifting a couple of hundred dollars worth of goods from Target. She is a kleptomaniac (not sure if that’s the current term, apologies if not). She has no more conscious control over her actions than a person with epilepsy has control over their seizures.

Now, if your physical form were to go away, those impulses would theoretically be gone. You couldn’t feel any guilt over them - you had virtually no control. If you keep your physical form (as some Catholics believe), you’d theoretically keep your neuroanatomy. Then your “repentance” would have to be god fixing your brain, as it were, which raises the question why he didn’t just do that in the first place.

Obviously there’s way more problems just around this subject than I’m getting into here - memories of trauma that altered your limbic system, genetic and epigenetic drivers of behavior… is there a “fix” for that? - but the root of the problem is that the religions, in order to identify a behavior as “sin,” have to make assumptions about behavioral plasticity and more importantly a behavioral driver separate and apart from the physical brain, that’s just implausible. The facts are simply incompatible with that kind of redemption.

In the Bay Area, I doubt that’s even a starter home in a bad neighborhood. Most other neighborhoods are priced like that for a tear down.

Oh man, that’s a blast from the past. I remember that from Usenet days in the early-mid 90s or something. So, like 15 years ago.

Kris Kobach of Kansas is also well known for marketing a software package that is used to deregister voters preferentially with minority names and which has been used in multiple red states to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands to millions of people.

As long as he’s pissing off you Bush-loving, Cheney-loving neocons, he’s got my vote.

What I’m saying is that the loading records for the individual flights averaged and aggregated by flight number (or plane type or route or date…) gives sufficient data to do that. It’s something I do for a living - not plane loading, but statistical data analysis over far larger and much more complex data sets.

Not only can’t I imagine individual passenger data bringing any additional insights to the table, I can’t imagine any scenario where any imaginary advantage would pay for the cost of the additional data collection and analysis. I currently run a team of data scientists for a very large corporation, and that kind of thing is not free. I can’t see this costing the airline less than multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars between collection, analysis, and actioning the data.

Maybe there’s something I’m missing - like I said, I’m making an assumption about how they measure loading now - but this is something I do for a living and I’m just not seeing it.

If anything, I can only see it being more noisy and require harsher methods to get a proper descriptive characterization.

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I mean, sure maybe. But we’re talking about highly engineered systems here. They should already have tightly understood error bands.

Again, for the puddle jumpers, I can see it. I’ve been on planes with 20-30 seats where they reassigned passengers before takeoff (again, probably based on load data from the wheels), and that makes perfect sense to me. If we assume a model where people pick a seat at random, there will be some percentage of flights where too many people (or at least too much weight) lands on one side of the plane. But as someone whose flown in everything from tiny helicopters to C-130s to giant international commercial airliners, there’s a point where the capacity of the plane should so vastly over-exceed its load that it just doesn’t matter.

That might be the case here, but the article doesn’t specify.

Same. I’ve also had peer reviews that pointed out that I spelled Erdős’ name incorrectly as Erdos. I had another that I grew so irate over Reviewer #2’s critique of my lack of explanation that I turned a ten page paper into a 53-pager, which was then accepted. I’ve also seen absolute blatant inattention, and I’ve definitely been subject to being told to add coauthors because of their seniority/role or current lack of pubs.

I’m completely with you on the academic publication industry. I sympathize with the younger researchers now who are in a far more pay to play environment than I ever was. We’d always build public fees into our funding because we felt obligated to open access all of our work (being government funded, but also just morally), but we were a big money institution that had that kind of flexibility. $10k is nothing on a $5M grant. But now, there’s so many journals that exist only to churn out papers for the publish or perish culture, and no one seems to take seriously the fact that they go unread and are just hitting a check mark.

99% of the time I’m sure it doesn’t matter. It’s just flotsam. But there should be a way of gauging a paper’s potential importance, both by journal ranking and maybe by topic. I’m really not going to call out some overseas researcher who is just trying to keep their job for publishing in a backwater journal, but it’s like that old saying that a lie can travel around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. Or that Ashkenazi story about the rabbi emptying the pillow full of feathers to illustrate how a damaging lie is impossible to recover from.

Yeah - I mean, I can say an f-word like “fountain” without lowering my upper lip and (to my ears at least) it sounds almost the same if not identical, but I have to do it consciously and it feels unnatural.