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Joshua Reagan

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7 months

I don’t normally let my kids play video games but I recently let my kids play Minecraft. I don’t know a lot about the game and my daughter just told me, “We’re killing all the villagers so we can take their stuff. It’s fun watching their houses burn!”

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@Noahpinion You paint a bleak and unappealing picture. Thank you for exposing the misanthropic core of progressive neoliberalism.

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@eigenrobot I do not agree. I’m a father of five and you can definitely see distinct personalities much earlier than that.

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@Aristos_Revenge I’m waiting for the browser extension so I can have a dignifAId internet experience.

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2 parents + 5 kids = 21 bedtime hugs. Coordinating this is getting to be logistically unmanageable.

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@tracewoodgrains @turrible_tao One day someone will become a utilitarian for reasons more principled than “this will allow me to justify my sexual desires”. But today is not that day.

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Children simplify and radicalize a subset of their parents’ beliefs. The compromises adults make to cope in a complex world do not appeal to them. That’s part of what makes children so pure.

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@kunley_drukpa I know people like to post fake things as a joke, but I actually looked these up, and only the first of these three citations is genuine.

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3 months

@eigenrobot This goes back at least as far as John Stuart Mill.

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3 months

Untrue. The Bible describes some men as “worthless” (e.g. Eli’s sons Hophni and Phineas, 1 Sam 2:12).

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3 months

The important distinction here is: 1) Everybody does matter the same amount 2) And I am called to compassion to everyone I encounter BUT 3) God has also placed on each person special duties to certain others (especially kin!) 4) "Reading an article"=/=Good Samaritanism

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@skdh This is not a good argument. I cannot observe electrons (they’re too small), yet their existence elegantly explains what I do see (e.g. when I am observing a cloud chamber).

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4 months

@ZachWLambert @TheIllegit This is, at best, a speculative reading whose only merit is that it minimizes conflict between a literal reading of Scripture and the modern pro-LGBT movement, which didn’t exist in St. Paul’s day. This is not a plausible construal of his meaning.

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@eigenrobot Imo a lot of low agency people are just chronically demoralized. I also think that’s a fixable problem.

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Joshua Reagan

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7 months

This guy was my boss for eight months, and this 100% describes my life the whole time.

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7 months

"Ah, but what you haven't considered yet is this digression. This digression will spin a long yarn based on an extended metaphor, and this digression, the digression will take thirty minutes to explain, when in fact the point could be stated in plain English in ten seconds,"

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The first "romances" were stories of chivalry written in post-Latin vernacular (i.e. in a romance language).

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@eigenrobot I have some sympathy for the idea that economics has more under-theorized applied math than is ideal. But the idea that *English* departments are somehow more rooted in reality is deranged. (My undergraduate degree is in English.)

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@MiddleearthMixr Unfollowed, blocked, arrested, executed, patriots in control

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Joshua Reagan

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9 months

The most dramatic and romantic parts of the Iliad center on humans and human conflict. The comic and light-hearted parts center on the interactions between the gods.

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Joshua Reagan

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5 months

@mattparlmer Maybe so, but if a little socon disagreement is going to rustle your jimmies, you better plan your escape too. Because we're just getting started.

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Joshua Reagan

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7 months

@Mythotard In the books the elves (the playful, singing ones anyway) are comic relief as often as the dwarves.

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Joshua Reagan

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3 months

@VDAREJamesK If you cut off Satan’s head that’s a hate crime. If you cut off Robert E. Lee’s head you are rendering a service to the state and they will cut you a check.

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5 months

@VDAREJamesK People talk as if "decadence" is just a meme but it's obviously real and destabilizing.

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Joshua Reagan

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6 months

@CityBureaucrat Huh. I guess you’ll just need to find another group to replace Christians in your right-wing coalition.

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4 months

Alfred Tarski’s theorems should be marked with an asterisk because he constantly abused amphetamines to derive them. Kurt Gödel’s proofs are all natty.

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Joshua Reagan

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7 months

On my word of honor this is a real quote. I would not tell woke-8-year-old lies.

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1 month

@eigenrobot This is the reverse of when Russia warned us before the Boston marathon bombing and we didn’t stop it.

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Joshua Reagan

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4 months

@MiddleearthMixr I agree that the first one is the best. But my kids favor Two Towers, so, ratio.

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Joshua Reagan

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@TheIllegit St. John Chrysostom did it all the time. But he did backtrack at least once, on the grounds that it is wrong to affirm that wild animals are as debased and vile as sinners.

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Joshua Reagan

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7 months

@memeticsisyphus It depends on the state and the value of the property in question. Texas is famously staunch on the right to protect property.

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3 months

@bronzeagemantis The same place “glory”, “excellence”, and “meaning” come from. If you’re going to scoff at metaphysics why don’t you go all the way?

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Joshua Reagan

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@charlesmurray @poodlebeenz I use these for homeschooling my children. They are fantastic.

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Joshua Reagan

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6 months

@unusual_whales Just goes to show that GDP is not a good measure of productive economic activity.

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4 months

@shakoistsLog It is an achievement to have a model with which to quantify uncertainty appropriately. If you don’t have such a model it’s good to be honest about that fact.

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Joshua Reagan

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6 months

@gomiam @skdh You observe something that can be explained hypothetically as “their effects”. But you cannot observe the electrons themselves, because that causal connection is itself also not known by direct observation.

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4 months

@LandsharkRides “Nooo Mr. Landshark, you have to insulate yourself with irony or you might have to take responsibility for what you say!”

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Joshua Reagan

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8 months

@stan_okl “You know what would solve the problem? Becoming a lower trust society.”

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Joshua Reagan

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4 months

I made it out to the Reconciliation Monument, which is apparently to be removed from Arlington Cemetery in a few days. It’s a beautiful piece whose existence reminds me of a time when we were led by great men with a sense of honor and magnanimity.

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Joshua Reagan

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Joshua Reagan

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7 months

Eventually the tension will resolve when someone develops a superior browser-replacement, one that doesn’t bother with existing browser protocols.

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the complexity of building a new web browser from scratch

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@VDAREJamesK I think this is a lot more true of pro-life pundits than of the pro-life base.

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4 months

@knrd_z As someone picking up a part-time MS in math from a cow college you’re wounding my pride.

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@phl43 I will make them based by doing land acknowledgements for the Southern Confederacy.

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Joshua Reagan

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6 months

@0x49fa98 What exactly is Pharisaical about her mentioning Christianity on her social media account?

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Joshua Reagan

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5 months

@horacesvilla There’s shamelessness, then there’s Hanania shamelessness. He’s truly in a league of his own.

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Joshua Reagan

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6 months

@CityBureaucrat Until you offer something a little more substantive than OP I’m inclined to write it off as low-effort infighting.

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Joshua Reagan

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6 months

@keithfrankish I disagreed with what Sabine said, but I was very disappointed in some of the philosopher response. IMO no one should shame her for not holding the most popular position among philosophers, or for not “staying in her lane”.

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Joshua Reagan

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In fairness he was very far from the worst boss I’ve had. Also very funny.

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Joshua Reagan

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8 months

@Prof_RBW Why not?

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Joshua Reagan

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3 months

@tracewoodgrains @Steve_Sailer @know_tru @whstancil I could be mistaken, but I understand Sailer’s irreverence as aimed against liberal conversational norms that punish candid & important conversations about race. To the extent that’s true I think such irreverence is salutary.

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Joshua Reagan

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4 months

@knrd_z I don’t even have that justification, lol. I have a job. I just like math and wish I’d done more of it earlier in life.

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Joshua Reagan

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@shakoistsLog Wrong. There are different dimensions of uncertainty, not all of which can be captured in whatever object level model you’re using to give the probabilities. Someone might think the object level numbers aren’t appropriate for the situation.

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Joshua Reagan

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@phl43 To be honest I don’t think the latter is very different from a lack of sincerity. It’s not that I think they were lying per se, only that one can be self-deceived about the depth of one’s beliefs.

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Joshua Reagan

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4 months

@xenocosmography Your comment is funny, and the implied criticism is probably true—but also Steve is right.

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Joshua Reagan

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6 months

@Aristos_Revenge I think he’s coping a little about Russia’s situation re: the west. It’s been a tough couple of years for patriotic Russians.

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Joshua Reagan

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4 months

@LandsharkRides Service academy uniforms are wonderful. I might have to beef with you over this.

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Joshua Reagan

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7 months

@woke8yearold It’s a big screen tv for showing ads.

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Joshua Reagan

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3 months

@memeticsisyphus I’m fairly certain Dostoevsky named it that because he thought they were literally possessed by fallen angels.

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Joshua Reagan

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2 months

@opinonhaver Only if public school teachers are held to the same standard

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4 months

@LandsharkRides Tbh this is perfectly rational, conditional on the assumption that they are correct about their messiah.

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5 months

I cannot take seriously the idea that LLMs are an existential threat to mankind.

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Joshua Reagan

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6 months

@ContraireSous @skdh But that is always true. There is nothing necessary about our postulation of electrons. Science involves deducing things that aren’t necessary all the time, and that’s ok.

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Joshua Reagan

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9 months

@DamonLinker Atheist liberal: “The Christian thing to do is to pick my faction of atheists over all the others.”

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2 months

@phl43 Just give them the money Philippe.

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Joshua Reagan

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4 months

@jordanbpeterson @EMECONOMOU Western civilization was around long before anyone came up with “free speech”.

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The Enlightenment era was a time of relative stagnation in the development of logic. The late medieval and Romantic periods saw much greater progress in that science.

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@CitizenFreePres One’s a poll, one’s an “analysis”. These figures aren’t directly comparable, so it’s not obvious that this represents a huge shift.

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Joshua Reagan

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@Peter_Nimitz Nothing in these passages suggests that Christianity “adopted” Neoplatonism. Christ lived long before the existence of Neoplatonism (Plotinus was born in the 3rd century after Christ), and Hebrew monotheism (which was appropriated by Christians) long pre-existed Plato.

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@townhallcom @LadiesOfReddit is this Jimmy Neutron hair?

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Joshua Reagan

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6 months

As our Christian moral inheritance is set aside we’re going to see more of this. Human reason alone is incapable of leading us to any stable moral foundation.

Peter Singer

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Another thought-provoking article is "Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible" by Fira Bensto (pseudonym), which is just out in the current issue of @JConIdeas . This piece challenges one of society's strongest taboos and argues for the moral permissibility of some forms of sexual…

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Joshua Reagan

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@MedGold_ You are literally scolding Matt Walsh et al in this tweet. This is some kind of liar paradox neg.

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Joshua Reagan

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3 months

If anything the word from the Septuagint is even more harsh:

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Joshua Reagan

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6 months

@Philip_Goff I share your view about the explanatory value of the existence of electrons, but I think you are too hard on the physicist in question. She explicitly flagged herself as an instrumentalist, so she’s at least familiar with the philosophical debate.

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Joshua Reagan

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@OrthodoxHistory Great-great-grand-uncle of @LandsharkRides ?

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@eigenrobot I was going to fight with you because I live in the DC area, but since my suburb is outside the circles that means only I’m getting cooked during the workday. Family is safe. Not ideal but not worth beefing over.

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Joshua Reagan

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@phl43 Couldn’t disagree more. Any kind of accountability for academics on any dimension is past overdue. Plagiarism may be mostly harmless, but clearing out academics guilty of doing it would be a positive good.

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Joshua Reagan

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@RepubSentinel Seems pretty hypocritical.

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@eigenrobot :(

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Joshua Reagan

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Fwiw they did *not* find a general statement of the theorem. They found a few Pythagorean triples (e.g. “3, 4, 5”). Interesting, but not the same thing.

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this is incredible—how did they know to call it the Pythagorean theorem???

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An extraordinary quote from St. Pantaenus, a second century Church Father whose works are otherwise lost. This is as radical a statement of creatio ex nihilo as I’ve ever seen.

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Joshua Reagan

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@TheIllegit @ZachWLambert All Christians everywhere should believe in Romans 13, which mandates respect for the law and thus respect for borders. The authorities do not bear the sword in vain.

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Joshua Reagan

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Friedrich Nietzsche and Tom Holland disagree about whether Christianity has been beneficial for mankind, but they both characterize it in the terms of a secular anthropologist. I recognize little or nothing of my religion in their words.

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Joshua Reagan

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@turrible_tao Arguably not just Joseph, but also Onan (though it depends on how one interprets Onan’s crime).

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@LandsharkRides Also they often don’t hold up in court. It’s sacrificing one’s honor for literally nothing.

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5 months

A planned economy can only be as good as its inputs. This is where centralized economies fail, because there’s so much decentralized info planners can’t access. How do faster computers address this?

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Controversial take: Centrally planned economies probably work better than market economies with today's compute

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Joshua Reagan

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My daughter announced that she’s going to solve a Millennium Prize problem for the $1M reward, so she can buy a farm, a horse, and a pony.

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Having no pull-up bar in the workplace is a violation of my human rights.

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Joshua Reagan

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4 months

I want to solve the border crisis as much as anyone, but sex changing someone just for violating immigration law seems excessive to me.

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🚨New: California will provide free sex changes for all illegal immigrants.

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My first mini-ratio of a large account. When I married a Greek woman that came with certain duties…

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The math: there are n(n-1)/2 distinct pairings for each set with n elements.

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The Enlightenment era was a time of relative stagnation in the development of logic. The late medieval and Romantic periods saw much greater progress in that science.

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@knrd_z A hero to manlets everywhere.

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The Nixon administration was full of so many high IQ weirdos.

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Joshua Reagan

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4 months

@knrd_z Philosophycel reporting in. This proved to be 100% correct for me when I took a STEM job.

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Joshua Reagan

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5 months

I used to like self-deprecating humor until I realized that it’s often used for manipulative purposes. Not wanting in any way to be manipulative, I stopped using it. I miss it, but I’m worried that I miss it for the wrong reasons.

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Joshua Reagan

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@Aristos_Revenge Imagine wanting to bet on child outcomes from poly "families". Totally delusional.

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Joshua Reagan

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3 months

A few years ago I mentioned I was having trouble finding a math curriculum I liked for homeschooling my kids. I’ve finally found it: Math Academy. It’s insanely good. My kids love it, it works, & it allows kids to go at their own pace, much faster than a traditional program.

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Joshua Reagan

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8 months

@tabletmag @maggiemphillips This article is impressively free of any substantive content.

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Joshua Reagan

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3 months

@imperialauditor @eigenrobot Source:

Romance and Socialism in J. S. Mill - American Affairs Journal

John Stuart Mill had the worst personal life of any libertarian philosopher, a competitive category for bad personal lives. Marriage in particular has a record of making libertarian philosophers...

americanaffairsjournal.org

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Joshua Reagan

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@AetiusRF I have to pull my pocket pistol out to get to my pocket knife.

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