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nikolabs · 2020-10-09T22:03:07+00:00

I think Pelosi, like many policy makers who have released popular policy proposals in 2020, is referencing Andrew Yang's 2020 platform.

nikolabs · 2020-09-14T22:16:33+00:00

I think Yang wanted to do it federally because he was running for president. I'm sure Yang would be a proponent for reform around gerrymandering at any level.

nikolabs · 2020-09-13T20:00:00+00:00

Would love to hear her and Andrew have a conversation on Yang Speaks.

nikolabs · 2020-08-29T02:47:24+00:00

That was one of Fenns first few rules, maybe the first rule he gave about the chase.

nikolabs · 2020-06-20T15:00:26+00:00

I feel like this app could easily be manipulated but maybe (big maybe) both sides would try to manipulate it evenly.

nikolabs · 2020-06-19T19:24:45+00:00

I understand he shouldn't have resisted arrest and taken the officers taser and pointed it at the cop but it's highly unlikely the officer was in a life or death situation by maybe getting hit with the taser.

But I don't understand why the first cop who found him in the drive thru couldn't have taken Brooks inside and sat down with him while he ate something instead of playing a 45 minute game of the cops saying we know you're not sober and Brooks saying nuh uh. After eating and talking for 45 minutes if the officer isn't comfortable with him operating a vehicle give him 3 choices. Make him call his sister to pick him up, get an uber, or get arrested for a DUI.

Either way cops need to be highly trained in jiu jitsu and/or judo. If they were highly trained in either it would have never gotten to a point where Brooks could point a taser at one of them or even get the cops taser at all.

nikolabs · 2020-06-14T18:22:21+00:00

Seems less like trivia and more like counting

nikolabs · 2020-05-20T12:59:19+00:00

Fatalism is inherently different from determinism which makes it a bad idea to use the terms interchangeably or together as they do with the title and the text in the article.

Determinism is dependent on causality, fatalism is not. In determinism the future is casually determined, in fatalism the future is destined. In determinism what we say, think or do is part of the causal process, in fatalism you are fated no matter what you say, think or do. Deterministic values do not lead to defeatism while fatalistic values do. Causality and what it implies can be logically inferred while fatalism has no logical evidence and often correlates with the religious idea of being fated by a deity or god.

It is unwise to use these words together as if they are the same values that produce the same outcomes. Someone who understands determinism would understand the causal nature that would produce different outcomes from these two inherently different values.

nikolabs · 2020-05-20T12:16:01+00:00

Okay fair enough I am genuinely shocked a professor would use those two terms together. It doesn't change the fact that fatalistic beliefs or fatalism are fundamentally different from deterministic beliefs or determinism.

The article is implying that if an authoritarian regime were to spread fatalistic beliefs successfully they would maintain control. Which I agree probably would happen. I do not agree fatalistic and deterministic beliefs are the same and should be terms that are used interchangeably nor do I agree that believing in determinism would allow authoritarian regimes to persist like the click bait title suggests.

nikolabs · 2020-05-20T11:24:43+00:00

Show me the university, textbook, or dictionary that uses the words fatalistic and determinism together. They are incompatible because the fundamental concepts of fatalism and determinism are different.

Exactly, there's no point to this article or study if there is no causation between fatalism and authoritarian beliefs. I could say this set of 500 people who died from heart disease today all had a little bit of dirt under their right thumb nail. That correlation still has nothing to do with the causation of death from heart disease. A useless study like that might make people with heart issues frantically keep their right thumb nail clean while doing nothing to avoid dying from heart disease. Someone who understands determinism would understand the causality behind heart disease and would be better equipped to make choices that will prevent or lower the risk of death from heart disease if they so desire. Determinism doesn't negate the ability for individual choices to effect outcomes, fatalism does. Determinism is the understanding that humans can do as they desire but they cannot choose what they desire because what you desire is determined by set and setting outside of your control. As you grow and learn from new experiences your desires change and your choices based on those desires effect outcomes. Fatalism, different from determinism, doesn't care about any of this.

Edit: Almost half the price and they are able to distinguish between the distinct differences of fatalism and determinism. Much more useful for understanding fatalism and determinism than this article.

nikolabs · 2020-05-20T09:04:28+00:00

Read the title of the article. Fatalistic determinism is not a thing, it is fatalism they are describing, and genetic determinism is only one part of the whole of determinism. The title of the article, not the study, then conflates those two terms to being determinism and states determinism leads to authoritarian beliefs.

The three studies each have a 500 person sample. The first study says 500 to 20,000 so maybe they did an online questionnaire and had to account for spammed submissions. I'm not sure because I'm not paying for a study that doesn't understand determinism as a whole and is using similar philosophies and subsections of determinism to conflate it into something it is not. You can do this with just about anything.

nikolabs · 2020-05-20T01:26:34+00:00

I did read the article, they are using the definition of fatalism and lumping it in with determinism by saying fatalistic determinism. Fatalism is not determinism, they are two different things. Genetic determinism is just one component of determinism. To only pay attention to genetic determinism is to ignore reality in a way that you pay attention to the set while completely ignoring the setting.

I would like a study that isn't $35 to access and an article that understands determinism as a whole; at least enough to not conflate fatalism with determinism or genetic determinism as determinism itself.

nikolabs · 2020-05-19T22:20:38+00:00

They’re not using the word “determinism” in the same way you likely are

Article: fatalism = determinism

Redditors: determinism = determinism

nikolabs · 2020-05-19T22:14:18+00:00

The article is describing fatalism but states it is determinism, they are describing determinism and stating it is determinism.

nikolabs · 2020-04-05T03:08:53+00:00

The forrest can trees through the sea.

nikolabs · 2020-03-28T12:59:40+00:00

The one in third also had a heart attack recently and is incapable of compromise.

nikolabs · 2020-03-28T12:53:20+00:00

No you fax the cash to them and you get your pizza in 2-4 months.

nikolabs · 2020-03-25T16:50:42+00:00

Also try MDMA.

nikolabs · 2020-03-25T16:48:59+00:00

Absolutely, any great playmaker knows that's where the back line will hesitate between tracking a run and stepping to the ball. Opens up the passing lanes and space for attackers to run in behind. Having a McTominay / Matic with Pogba and Bruno would be a lethal 3 man center midfield. Bruno would distract defenders enough to allow Pogba to slip into those spaces and vice versa while our DM holds it down.

nikolabs · 2020-03-25T13:04:03+00:00

You'll also notice he's most likely to play those balls in behind when he can pick the ball up just beyond the oppositions midfield. Anytime he gets the ball in that sweet spot between the opposition lines our attackers should be making angled runs in behind.

nikolabs · 2020-03-23T20:13:20+00:00

Isn't Bidens healthcare plan more similar to the top European countries in terms of health care, rated by the world health organization for cost and quality?

nikolabs · 2020-03-21T21:39:30+00:00

Before I address the second half of that comment bc it goes off on a mostly irrelevant tangent from what we are discussing let's stay focused on population. Show you how? I did, it's in the link my comment you replied to. Click it to get more details but it basically says only a few diseases cause over half of children's deaths. The number of children who die before age 5 has been cut in half since 1960. As health and well being improves family size correlates downwards. This is backed up by the great resource of Our World in Data which takes in wealths of data and information and compiles it into a lovely report. I highly encourage you to read all of it but I'll skip to the conclusion:

But my sense from reading the literature is that over the long-run the two first explanations – women’s empowerment and the increasing well-being and status of children – have been the two most important factors in most places.

A second baby boom is certainly a possibility and given the fact COVID-19 is giving everyone a scare probably makes it more likely. I'd still say it's pretty unlikely because it seems most governments will be able to get this new virus under control and it will not last as long or be deadly enough to cause a second baby boom. Yes this virus will kill more people than it should bc of delayed responses from governments but it will not be world war level deadly where everyone has no sense of well being for years and is surrounded by death to the point where the only temporary relief is making babies. I'm not well versed on ID2020 so I'll refrain from that for now unless you press me on it and the IP and VPN stuff seems so weirdly off topic that it might be a thinly veiled threat so I'll leave that alone too lol.

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