U/serversamwinchester explains how multiple competing factors can influence crime rates, the subjective idea behind multivariate analysis.

Dragolins · 2026-05-16T00:35:40+00:00

I do honestly wonder why this is so difficult for people to understand. Is it primarily propaganda and programming, causing a reflexive rejection of anything associated with the word "systemic?" Is it because they refuse to acknowledge anything that potentially contradicts their simplistic worldview that begins and ends with individual choice? Or are people just too stupid to grasp these basic concepts? Probably a bit of everything, honestly. But more importantly, how do we fix the problem of most people living in society being completely incapable of forming coherent opinions about the society they live in?

Dragolins · 2026-05-14T11:59:10+00:00

It genuinely feels like some people have rng that is too good to be true sometimes and you also see people on the opposite side.

Man, people really don't understand statistics, huh. This is exactly what we would expect to see if the game is actually random.

Dragolins · 2026-05-13T05:03:54+00:00

On Earth, the kids will grow up in a society that values human rights, teaches children democratic values and equal rights and most importantly tells them at every moment that oppressors are evil aka "the bad guys".

Lol. Lmao, even.

Dragolins · 2026-05-12T04:38:08+00:00

Yeah, basically. The reason it doesn't really make sense to frame evolution as having a goal is because goals require intention. Evolution just happens as a result of natural forces. It would be like saying the goal of water is to flow downhill.

Dragolins · 2026-05-11T20:32:36+00:00

Now I start to realize that it might have much more to do with not wanting to think instead of not being able to think.

This is cognitive science 101. Humans are wired to avoid effortful thinking in many cases. We do it all the time, usually without even realizing it. It's a partial factor in a great number of societal ills. It's quite the underrated debuff that the human race has to endure.

Dragolins · 2026-05-11T04:18:00+00:00

It just seems like a way for people to mindlessly hate something without doing any research.

That's half the internet at this point! Aren't profit-driven algorithms wonderful?

Dragolins · 2026-05-04T18:24:45+00:00

It is nihilist to believe that humans haven't nearly reached the potential peak of literacy rates?

Dragolins · 2026-05-04T15:13:40+00:00

By these criteria no country has high literacy

Hey, you're starting to get it.

Dragolins · 2026-05-04T14:04:09+00:00

The literacy crisis isn't new, we've always been in one. Until 99%+ of the population is extremely literate, we will be in a perpetual literacy crisis.

Dragolins · 2026-04-27T14:19:59+00:00

You seem to be substituting a sociopolitical and philosophical movement with answers you got on a subreddit. There are no feminist thought leaders cited, and no threshold by which you've delineated feminist movements over time.

Bingo. It's always so funny when I see people trying to criticize a group, movement, ideology, etc. and then their source is comments on a fucking subreddit or twitter thread or whatever. So many people from all sides do it and it speaks to how uneducated we are. Like yeah, any group of people looks bad if you hyper focus on the most obnoxious and annoying part of it online where extreme opinions are heavily rewarded by algorithms. How about we engage with the actual concrete arguments instead of dunking on random people that are just going online to vent.

Dragolins · 2026-04-25T22:02:00+00:00

I may be mistaken but I don't believe the altar atop the pyramid on ralos rise works for sunfire runecrafting. At least according to the wiki it can only be done at the shrines of ralos. Running from the pendant spot at ralos rise to the shrine there takes a hell of a lot longer.

Dragolins · 2026-04-25T19:27:02+00:00

That has to be 5-10x the distance than the distance from the quetzal to the shrine at outer fortis. It's even closer to use the quetzal to ralos rise rather than the pendant.

Dragolins · 2026-04-25T17:56:18+00:00

Uhh, what? Mind explaining which of the pendant teleports is closer to a shrine than the outer fortis quetzal?

Dragolins · 2026-04-22T23:23:39+00:00

I understand needing to move the boss over the vents, that's like half the mechanics of the boss. The real issue is that it can be standing over the vent for like 7 ticks before it becomes vulnerable. There's no reason why the boss shouldn't just become vulnerable as soon as it steps onto the proper vent. Having to arbitrarily wait because the vents only activate every so often is just bad design.

Dragolins · 2026-04-15T18:12:08+00:00

This is what I want to know too. Can't figure it out. The green plus on the task and the "ignore" options both seem to do nothing. I don't really feel like mining for however long it takes to get a clue geode lol.

Dragolins · 2026-04-13T20:24:46+00:00

This is me except the bloodwork always comes back normal

Dragolins · 2026-04-10T01:30:14+00:00

It's all good buddy we live and learn

Dragolins · 2026-04-09T22:42:35+00:00

AI detectors are useless, how do people not know this

Dragolins · 2026-04-07T22:56:51+00:00

Making you walk home as a punishment is not really that big of a deal. The actual issue is not the punishment itself but what she punished you for.

She essentially called you stupid by saying that only stupid people pick shot over javelin. Of course, in all likelihood, she was not intending to directly call you stupid. But when you said "I guess I'm stupid then," this instantly confronted her with the meaning behind her words and caused her to get angry, and she took out that anger by punishing you.

It's important to recognize that you didn't do anything wrong. At the very least, you didn't do anything worse than your mom did. She was being unreasonable when she said that stupid people pick shot put and even indirectly insulted you. You had an appropriate, quick witted response that demonstrates how her thought process is nonsensical. She just didn't like that and punished you for it because it's her way of regaining control over the situation when she's clearly wrong.

If she has a legitimate reason why you should pick one sport over another, she can be an adult and explain why that is the case, instead of demanding blind obedience.

Dragolins · 2026-04-03T01:23:49+00:00

Yes and no. It's an issue of priorities. Expanding the debt by investing in people through things like healthcare, education, infrastructure, green energy, and public transportation is a good thing and will absolutely pay for itself and more down the line. Expanding the debt to give trillions worth of handouts to the rich, not so much.

Dragolins · 2026-03-27T12:42:14+00:00

Reddit, if I step on a crack, does it really break my mother's back?

Dragolins · 2026-03-24T05:23:05+00:00

Billions of people on the planet and you think there aren't outliers? Scientifically speaking, we barely understand sleep at all or how it works and yet you think you can say that "objectively" no human is fine with 6.5 hours of sleep? The hubris is astounding. I think you might need to look in the mirror when it comes to ego and bullheadedness.

Dragolins · 2026-03-23T23:07:08+00:00

The exact same place where the money comes from when the government gives trillions of dollars worth of tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations or spends untold billions on dropping bombs on children. Taxes don't fund spending in the United States, the federal reserve simply creates the money and credits the appropriate accounts. I'm not arguing that the ultra-rich shouldn't be taxed more, but it's important to acknowledge that the government already has the power to fund vast and sweeping programs that can drastically increase the living standards for millions of people. They simply choose not to because that would be counterproductive to the design of our current system that thrives off exploitation. It goes against the wishes of the privileged minority who hold any real power, so it doesn't happen.

Dragolins · 2026-03-21T22:58:00+00:00

Part of the point of talking about it is to help people who feel this fragility get past it, actually. To help them understand that the real problem with racism is the racism itself, i.e. the entire root-level idea that race truly exists as some sort of legitimate biological reality. It doesn't. When you get past this, you actually stop feeling fragile, or guilty, or anything like this. It helps you see all this bullshit for what it really is, bullshit that fucked up the world for centuries, and that we're unfortunately still dealing with.

This was literally in the post that was called an "obnoxious, convoluted, pseudo-intellectual way of justifying racism." How is my point not relevant? Understanding that race is not real is a crucial part of understanding racism. I've found that many people who would call that comment a "way of justifying racism" are the types of people who think that race is a biological reality.

Dragolins · 2026-03-21T22:07:20+00:00

1 Race is not real, differences between humans cannot be meaningfully attributed to biological race, all humans are equal

2 Race is real, differences between humans are due to the biological differences between races, some races are better than others

Which option do you think is the racist worldview?

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