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EdithKeeler wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:46 pm

I read stuff like this and shake my head. I wonder how much contact you have with people different from you.

brute's whole point is: 95% of humans can't ERE either.

They hint at something deeper going on. maybe this is the fundamental difference. brute is quite convinced that there is nothing deeper going on. it's all just stardust. at a more practical level, brute finds that dialog, compromise, and communication provide far less marginal utility to him than d...

@BRUTE Here I see a difference between could and would. [..] On the other hand being in the 95th percentile even if every single one of them started following WSP guidelines isn't something more than 5% could ever achieve. what is the difference between could and would? surely learning a bunch of m...

TYP is definitely bizarre. it seems on purpose. just the intro sequence (one of the best of all time in brute's opinion) is a crass combination.

Does there exist a dichotomy between form and substance? No. Can it be useful? Do we not assume its existence when in conversation? example? brute does not understand what daylen is talking about. What are the necessary conditions for something to be a computer? Processes happen in it. In a sense, ...

+1 Seppia brute really thinks DLj and many other humans here are deluding themselves when they think "many humans could do ERE". being in the 50 income percentile might be easier than being in the 95 percentile, but brute is quite convinced that 95% of humans couldn't do ERE for any meanin...

Jason wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:23 am

https://www.hbo.com/the-young-pope

great show

how much weed was daylen smoking? How is the human body like an ecosystem? It's made of subsystems with many emergent and non-linear effects. What is the difference between a car and the human body? Cars are well understood by humans and easier to make. What is the difference between a simple and co...

You either want the tailored suit or the thrift store suit, you don't want off the rack. I'm pretty sure Jacob could summarize this with an S-curve. this (like S-curves) seems extremely dependent on the axes chosen. there was a topic on here once where a forum member graphed some thing versus anoth...

Fish wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00 pm

However, I do agree with your other comment regarding spoken Danish. I wasted an hour at near-zero comprehension

are these different dialects of Danish, or did Fish attempt to understand to a Danish show without knowing Danish?

I’d imagine a decade or two ago 1M was seen as the « you’re set, stop working » marker by most people, now it seems more like 3M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation @Jean that's the one selling point for brute - WSP is targeted at individuals that already have a career in a very well-paying ind...

wizards wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 24, 2018 4:42 am

For example, the minimum tax on dividends is 27 percent. It may seem harsh, but remember that we get paid education and health care through taxes. I don't mind this "offer".

and if wizards did mind, what good would that do, right?

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claiming that there's absolutely nothing to the anti-PC warriors at this stage seems deliberately uninformed or pretending to be. brute hates JP's blather as much as the next internet consumer, but pretending that there is no repressive dynamic is absurd and only strengthens the case.

vexed87 wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 20, 2018 6:27 pm

Damn, this thread made me lose the game. First time in about 4 years.

fffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

but if Jean drives a car on a generally accepted roadway in parallel to brute's path of pedestrian travel, where's the aggression?

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but presumably tonyedgecomb assumes the cost of vaccination is lower than its benefit. if the cost was higher, it would not be done.

@Jean
death penalty for potential aggression ("might run over") seems excessive to say the least. negative externalities should certainly be handled.

what it comes down to for brute is that even with non-reversible, non-linear phenomena, there is still an opportunity cost to fixing them. plenty of tragedies in human life have these characteristics. a human child only needs to run into a speeding car once for the non-reversible tragedy to strike. ...

EdithKeeler wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 16, 2018 3:18 pm

I doubt that women aren't interested in money, since many of us make and spend a lot of it.

would EdithKeeler say that human females are as interested in money, on average, as human males?