polygamous_bat

Not having any way of reverting transactions definitely makes the jobs of all sorts of shady characters much simpler, that's for sure.

Sorry, this libertarian logic falls short because there are taxpayers who are not customers of bottom-of-the-barrel Chinese doodads, and thus are being hurt by this laxness. Why should I subsidize someone else’s “seen on social media” gadget addiction?

But somehow, surprisingly, it’s what I’ve come to expect of most “rationalists”.

https://www.joshuakennon.com/the-six-common-biological-sexes...

“The Six Most Common Karyotypes The six biological karyotype sexes that do not result in death to the fetus are:

X – Roughly 1 in 2,000 to 1 in 5,000 people (Turner’s ) XX – Most common form of female XXY – Roughly 1 in 500 to 1 in 1,000 people (Klinefelter) XY – Most common form of male XYY – Roughly 1 out of 1,000 people XXXY – Roughly 1 in 18,000 to 1 in 50,000 births When you consider that there are 7,000,000,000 alive on the planet, there are almost assuredly tens of millions of people who are not male or female. Many times, these people are unaware of their true sex. It’s interesting to note that everyone assumes that they, personally, are XY or XX. One study in Great Britain showed that 97 out of 100 people who were XYY had no idea. They thought they were a traditional male and had few signs otherwise.”

Given this, Perplexity seems fine?

Perhaps you can eventually submit a FOIA request?

Second of all, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

> Nothing to do with the nation state law (which to be clear is a stupid mistake), as far as I can tell it’s not even mentioned in the article.

LOL.

A silly mistake, surely, to codify apartheid into law, teehee. And then one thing leads to another, and people somehow end up being discriminated. Completely unrelated, though! Could happen to any of us if we’re not careful!

Here you go, 30 seconds on Google: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/middleeast/israel-arab-citize...

Will you stop spreading misinformation now? Or will you start splitting hairs, "Oh it's not due to the law, probably a coincidence haha"?

Unfortunately, that's because they have Wall St. analysts looking at their videos who will (indirectly) determine how big of a bonus Sundar and co takes home at the end of the year. Mistral doesn't have to worry about that.

You literally said nothing about cost of living here?

What’s stopping me from having a “MTN DEW makes you obese” banner on my channel?

Isn’t this consistent with decriminalization that people aren’t afraid to talk about past drug use? You see similar statistics with, say, people coming out of the closet when homosexuality is decriminalized; which conservatives like to paint as “legalization making people gay”. The OD cases could also be from people more readily calling for help rather than trying to cover up.

Oh really? I was born and raised there, so please tell me more. Also, did you know that the blackouts are back? Was there during this ramadan, and power is in shortage ever since the Ukraine war. Probably your daddy didn't tell you the whole story?

> My dad went back to his village this year and was shocked to see how much it has changed, thanks to the World Bank-led GDP growth that’s happened in the last 20 years. The best foreigners are the ones that invested in those H&M factories.

I am sure H&M would like you to believe that, LOL. One of the largest driver of Bangladeshi GDP is remittance, which comes from people dying while bringing luxury to the oil-rich like the Fifa world cup [1]. But yeah, US ultracapitalists paying cents on the dollar to the garments workers [2], most of which are then again stolen by the local polticians is what's causing the "development", sure.

If you would genuinely like to know more, find a Bangladeshi person living in Bangladesh instead of reading Marc Anderssen's memo and posting everywhere pretending to be Bangladeshi because you visited Bangladesh once 20 years ago. If you can't do that, then please, for the sake of the millions of people currently in Bangladesh, stop spreading propaganda and misinformation online about Bangladesh. Thank you.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/r...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_Plaza_collapse

Do you know how climate change affects Bangladesh? People in the coastal area lose their homes and livelihoods. These people are generally farmers, living off the land, providing food for rest of the country, but not adding that much to the “GDP” otherwise.

Do you know how GDP growth happens in Bangladesh? We open more sweatshops for H&M and fast fashion, providing labor for cheap so people can look fancy. These are largely in the urban area, with workers mostly living in slums, and working 12 hour days 6 days a week.

So your “rational” solution is to let some people lose their homes and livelihood so they have no choice but to become refugees in their own country so that in America there is an abundant supply of twice-worn T shirts? Because that’s how you maximize GDP while increasing inequality and totally destroying the stability and peace within the country.

Hope you can think a bit more “rationally” with the added context, but maximizing the sum of any utility value has never been an ultimately good thing, including GDP/GDP growth.

    "The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
    "Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that something so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

    "The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.' 'But, says Man, the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' 'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and vanishes in a puff of logic."

Please explain to this ruby noob if you have time, why use =? Why not some other less used symbol or symbol pair instead? What are they trying to achieve with this?