JayDee

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not true. It can also end in a cartel.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Via panjo estas putino" doesn't roll off the tongue too well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What does "shm" mean? I'm currently only reading it as an onomatopoeia and I don't think that's right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'd agree, but I think Gianni Dukie knows what he likes already.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I actually watch Unlearning Economics, though only his video essays and not his streams. It's been a while since I've seen this one.

So what we're meaning is how much of Western culture undervalues care-giving since it produces no product, so stay at home moms, nannies, therapists, etc.

I thought of another example. In more nomadic and naturalist cultures, actually doing things to the environment destroys value, while leaving it be and allowing it to recover creates value. That is something else that is not accounted for in any theory of value to my knowledge.

An example would be American Indians in their dependance on foraging and hunting. I think that gives creedance to the idea that they thanked the things they harvested/hunted (I don't know the factuality of that), since from their perspective they were only a burden that the ecosystem was 'kind' enough to support.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Git hygiene is important for avoiding Git-Transmitted Infections (GTIs) such as Vim

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm not following what you specifically mean.

Could you provide an example of when the theory fails due to a culture's differing views of value?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The study assertion is funny, but I don't really think it's worth much in terms of proving anything.

The number of participants being 6,000 seems promising, but I question the value of the questions they asked.

Recall 10 words read to you immediately and then again after the interview.

Name as many animals as possible in an elotted amount of time.

Subtract 7 from 100. Then again. Up to five times.

Solve the missing numbers in two number sequences.

Answer 5 math word problems.

Depending on what mental state you're in, whether you're recently off work, high, coming back from a run, etc. I think you're likely to have dramatically different test scores from these.

Furthermore, these seem much more relevant to the education quality of an individual - and they call it "cognitive performance" (how good you think at the time) in the study which is kind of correct, but the article is passing it off as the participants' intelligence (how good you think period), which is fucked up IMO.

I overall don't like it and don't find it that persuasive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In the US, neonazis fuck up the symbol so often that it makes no sense to differentiate between the two. I don't even think most neonazis know there's a difference.

I don't think you're going to get rid of that symbolic appropriation either. Once you see a family member murdered by someone carrying a symbol, you're never going to see that symbol the same again. A trauma has been fused to it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

"Like real pashmina, shahtoosh is also from the Himalayas—it was a choice wrap for the 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar the Great—but instead of goat hair, shahtoosh is made from the underfur of the chiru, a species of antelope indigenous to the Tibetan Plateau in China. The problem is that these majestic animals must be killed before their wool can be removed. As a result, since 1975, the species has been classified as endangered."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

You should have gone for the head.

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