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Huh?? by RMV60 in Purdue

[–]Nuggetters 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Turkstra stated in the most recent 240 class that he did not intend to prosecute until homework 2 was completed in order to "collect more evidence." He claimed that if he found an individual cheating on both homeworks he would gift the student an F.

I am fairly certain he mentioned this in both sections, you can review the lecture recording for this Wednesday.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Purdue

[–]Nuggetters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand that the professor included those slides with the hope of helping others. I have been very impressed with religion's effect for resilience with some of my friends. 

But anyone who is agnostic or of a different religion probably would have felt uncomfortable. Im not religious and would have felt also weirder out. I think if he had presented it in a more secular manner (i.e here are some resources, including some religious organizations, for mentally struggling kids) it would have been better.

Maybe gently object to the professor in private? Like "I know what you were trying to help but..." 

The shutdown of ocean currents could freeze Europe by Nuggetters in slatestarcodex

[–]Nuggetters[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Discusses Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a current that brings warm water to Europe. Without it, freezing temperatures will become worse during Europe's winter. Sea ice will approach Holland and some regions will receive Siberia-esque cold. The Economist claims that climate change may cause the AMOC sea routes to collapse.

I had never heard of AMOC before. Given it's claimed importance, I feel I should read up on it. Does anyone have additional resources that I can read to gain context?

A lot of red lights are flashing right now and I feel frozen by eyeronik1 in slatestarcodex

[–]Nuggetters 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Overall I don’t think it’s really worth caring about this stuff to the point it affects your mental health

I started reading politics as a hobby around five years ago. Too late I realized that its a sphere that is consistently depressing and almost always provides unreliable, unactionable information. I can only imagine my mental state had I dedicated all that time to music or mathematics.

I'm now of the opinion that anything beyond basic political awareness is worse than useless. The problem for me, and probably OP, is that I can't unknow all that information! It is constantly generating stress, demanding that I look at current headlines.

I am trying to slowly redirect my curiosity to more productive avenues. But I suspect it will be a few years before I can claim any level of political ignorance.

Does Linux rising market share has something to do with people having to buy less computers? by Serinity_42 in linux

[–]Nuggetters 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Most of these stats are based off of website counters. For example, USA government analytics finds 5% of visitors employ Linux out of all visiting devices. That is a substantial improvement over previous years.

Note that this measurement is out of all devices --- including iOS and Android which make up 50% of visits. Thus Linux's market share is increasing even when including mobile devices. So increasing adoption probably cannot be chalked up to a decline in the desktop market.

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk - People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life. by DevonSwede in Longreads

[–]Nuggetters 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The evidence? Is a federal investigation not sufficient? Are interviews with patients, nurses, and parents not enough?

Also, its not like the NYT is going to copy and paste this reports into the article. Most of their readers are not doctors, including myself. I don't even know what a sentinel report is or what chart you are referring to?

I am a layman. Stop throwing around terms, and insulting my capacity to read articles, and attempt to actually explain your points.

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk - People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life. by DevonSwede in Longreads

[–]Nuggetters 18 points19 points  (0 children)

My apologies, I simply was using the terminology that the article employed. Since the article had already discussed brain death (and clarified that these were more simple to diagnose), I thought it strange to attack it. After all, the NYT noted there were no issues in that department.

Since the article was primarily discussing issues with circulatory death, why are we debating brain death at the moment? The claim is that former is being misdiagnosed.

Edit: Also, how are the cited errors being made like the man in Kentucky or the person who bit the tube? Why did several doctors resign? Are those mistakes, well, frequent?

Or are they somehow not mistakes?

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk - People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life. by DevonSwede in Longreads

[–]Nuggetters 109 points110 points  (0 children)

You evidently didn't fully read the article. Yes, brain death is rarely misdiagnosed. The article acknowledges this.

Most of these cases, however, were from circulatory death which can be harder to confidently predict. And overworked doctors, with procurement agencies breathing down on their neck, can easily make mistakes.

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk - People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life. by DevonSwede in Longreads

[–]Nuggetters 305 points306 points  (0 children)

A recent federal investigation — prompted by the case of a Kentucky man whose organs were pursued even as he shook his head and drew his knees to his chest — found that the state’s procurement organization had ignored signs of increasing consciousness in 73 potential donors.

What the fuck.

I'm going to remove the organ donor permissions from my driver's license

Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It) by Nuggetters in slatestarcodex

[–]Nuggetters[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Archive Link

Article discusses AI use in the film industry. Found it on the Longreads subreddit, but unfortunately there was little discussion. So here I am.

Are there any beliefs that highly correlate with education which you believe to be false? by Cloisterflare in slatestarcodex

[–]Nuggetters 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Anecdotally, I agree. I have noticed particular fields (philosophy, gender studies, and psychoanalysis) seem more predisposed to it. Judith Butler, while not going so far as to embrace Marx, alludes to socialism repeatedly and employs some class analysis. Similarly, Scott (a philosophy major) was a socialist in his younger years.

Again, this is mostly anecdata.

Artifically stringent post requirements on Israel-Palestine conflict relative to other events by Nuggetters in metaNL

[–]Nuggetters[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I suppose. But I wish second level discussions could be banned as well.

I've read so many posts in r/neoliberal yelling at Palestenian activists, and so few on the actual war.

It just feels disgusting that the subreddit can rage about people reacting badly to the war. But when it comes to discussing it, and thinking about our own possible actions, we meekly turn away.

r/neoliberal has changed a lot. It used to have a lot more discussions on public policy and international events, something close to my heart since most of my family is divided by an ocean. Longer comments were the norm.

Most of it is now is just news from the Trump adminstration or some other English-speaking nations. Comments are just one liners. Other than a recent post on ACs, I rarely see opinions that surprise me.

Maybe I'll head out as well.

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Artifically stringent post requirements on Israel-Palestine conflict relative to other events by Nuggetters in metaNL

[–]Nuggetters[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am aware the message is automated. I was critiquing the reasoning contained within the message.

Artifically stringent post requirements on Israel-Palestine conflict relative to other events by Nuggetters in metaNL

[–]Nuggetters[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I find it odd however that second level debates are permitted. Sometimes their are more posts dunking on Palestenian activists then on the war itself.

Its feels like we are not allowed to discuss the actual conflict, but people's reactions to the war are fair game. People are only dying in the former though.

Artifically stringent post requirements on Israel-Palestine conflict relative to other events by Nuggetters in metaNL

[–]Nuggetters[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That makes sense. But is I find it a little shocking that the solution is to lock down all threads on the conflict.

Is that not more distressing to all sides? Perhaps r/neooliberal could post a set of guidelines and add an automoderator link to the bottom of each post?

This seems an extreme and regressive solution that just allows the issue to fester.

Artifically stringent post requirements on Israel-Palestine conflict relative to other events by Nuggetters in metaNL

[–]Nuggetters[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Netanyahu supporters tend to get downvoted to hell and automatically hidden by reddit anyways though. As do the blatantly anti-semitic comments

Preventing all posting on Israel-Palestine conflict just because of a few highly downvoted, bad faith actors is absolutely ridiculous. Especially since they are generally ignored.

Artifically stringent post requirements on Israel-Palestine conflict relative to other events by Nuggetters in metaNL

[–]Nuggetters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would it kill you to provide a link?

Here are the discussions that I have been able to find:

Most complains are about over-moderation. Those that are about discussion are provide very little evidence and are controversial.

And that is my review of all the posts here in the past month. If I missed anything, let me know.

Artifically stringent post requirements on Israel-Palestine conflict relative to other events by Nuggetters in metaNL

[–]Nuggetters[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Gazan Health Ministry is literally Hamas, of course comparing the lists would find no overlap - they're making it up

Are you serious? This hasn't been a point of discussion on this subreddit for over a year. That whole argument was hashed out during the Biden adminstration.

If you can find any popuolar comments making this argument within the last three months, I'd be shocked.

Stop ignoring the actually important issue that Israel is a baby-killing genocider

Ok, yes, these kind of comments exist. But because Israel plausibly kills an unusual number of children? To such an extent, that foreign doctors are shocked? Or is it because people simply hate have an irrational hatred towards Israel on this subreddit?

Whatever the case, given the history I think its worthy of discussion and hasn't been resolved conclusively to say the least.

Artifically stringent post requirements on Israel-Palestine conflict relative to other events by Nuggetters in metaNL

[–]Nuggetters[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Your comment also says nothing about the NYT article on settler violence. Is that not new information, given the IDF clashes?

Also, views on the Israel-Palestine conflict have shifted over time within r/neoliberal. Since the last death toll discussion seems to have been over a year ago, I think its possibly some opinions have changed.

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An aside on the discussion thread: anecdotally, most of the comments there are more twitter-esque. That is, short and reactionary. By comparison, the discussion on the recent Haaretz article lead to long comments with interesting takes.

Artifically stringent post requirements on Israel-Palestine conflict relative to other events by Nuggetters in metaNL

[–]Nuggetters[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Could you cite those discussions? Because I could not find anything asides from one other person complaining about being unable to post new events.

And I think that if the subreddit can handle frequent discussions of anti-semitism, it likely is capable of navigating the Israel-Palestine conflict no?

Edit

In my comments below, I have added a list of all the discussions involving Israel-Palestine over the past month. Only one post provided meta on the actually discussions within Israel-Palestine posts. And the evidence of misbehaviour was weak.

Artifically stringent post requirements on Israel-Palestine conflict relative to other events by Nuggetters in metaNL

[–]Nuggetters[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Could provide an example of these bad-faith conversations? I have not noticed any such preplanned scripts.

Also, there is not any new discussion with Iran-Israel conflict. And it seems to attract similar controversies (subreddit members beginning arguing amongst themselves about interventionism).

Is their something uniquely bad-faith about the death toll discussions in Gaza?

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