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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 18, 2020 14:36:35 GMT -5
A last point: The role of professionalism. Reporters (and the editors who work with them) are quite capable of seeing past their personal values, just as teachers and scholars are capable of evaluating sources when doing research. Absolute, god's-eye-view objectivity is not possible--a lesson that undergraduate philosophy courses ought to make clear. But we have devised protocols to compensate for our sub-divine status, and any number of professions use them all the time. But we really don't believe that. At least not anymore. John might say something like "A room full of Democrats, trying their honest best to be neutral and impartial, and utilizing the best protocols to ensure such, will inevitably produce a different result than a similarly constructed room full of Republicans". And I think that statement is self-evidently true. But I'm not all that interested in that. What I'm more interested in is the near perfect overlap between those who say disproportional representation in the media is inconsequential and those who say, for example, sex and race base inforced diversity in hiring professors is mandated by needs of equity.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 18, 2020 14:15:29 GMT -5
One man's careful discernment is another man's bias.
I'm fascinated by the unequal application of the principle of proportional representation.
We have all sorts of employment law, that largely came from the Left, built around the principle that if a company finds itself with unequal representation among its employees, that fact alone is prima facie evidence that illegal bias exists.
Are your managers disproportionately white men? Are your engineers disproportionately men? Are your clerks disproportionately women?
The burden is on you to prove the absence of bias. Naturally, such proof is metaphysically impossible, so fines are imposed. Such is the nature of the shake down racket.
So there's an application of that principle baked into the law, but do we really believe in it?
Not when we personally have skin in the game, it would appear.
I'll also reiterate my comment re John's point. I think he is correct (so much so that I don't think it's arguable, really) but I think the media monoculture he laments does more harm to the Left than it helps.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 17, 2020 21:00:10 GMT -5
John, I grew up among Jeff Millers. Lucky guy.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 17, 2020 9:25:51 GMT -5
Isn't 2220 only 200 years from now? I didn't want to take off my socks.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 16, 2020 14:42:53 GMT -5
Funny you should start this thread. I was just contemplating this sort of thing the other day. Sunday night we modified our regular family dinner into something of a football party for the Packer's game. Decided to make some jambalaya. Took all this: turned it into this: Then served it up in this: I hope everyone here has had a chance to hold a piece of John's work in their hands. And I hope you've taken the time to really look it over. The absolutely mastery blows me away. I remain in awe. Not just of his abilities and the pieces he puts out, but that he has made his living doing this full time for his entire adult life. Its easy to skip over how amazingly impressive that is. Whether or not any Bauman stoneware survives 2000 years is mostly just a question of luck. But if 2220 guy finds some, he's going to be impressed.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 16, 2020 11:10:27 GMT -5
Maybe we're living inside the largest psychology experiment ever.
Humans (and every other animal) evolved in environments of continuous, existential fear. Every day the world was trying to kill us, either through deprivation (nothing to eat) or actively (tigers). That brutal reality is baked into our brains' hardware.
Relatively recently, maybe a few hundred years ago, the technological foundations of society reached a point where, in fits and starts, the average person was liberated from that continuous dread.
And maybe without it, we go mad.
We certainly try to replace it, buy inventing ever more imaginative demons.
For tens of thousands of years, our ability to survive was predicated on our ability to worry about the things that needed worrying.
"Progress" has taken away most of the need to worry, but not the need to worry.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 14, 2020 18:18:55 GMT -5
Just be careful with AWD because I recently found out you can't replace one blown out tire unless you can find a similar used tire with similar wear within a 1/16 of an inch. I'm gun shy now although otherwise I still like the Subaru AWD. Not sure what your point is here, Bruce -- what should hundreds of thousands of AWD-vehicle owners "be careful" about? Should they decide against choosing the safety and security of an AWD car because they might have to buy a set of tires they don't need in the very unlikely event of the scenario you describe? Sounds like the sort of thing a place that sells tires would tell you. In a perfect world, all four tires would be precision matched to the exact same diameter. In the real world, ordinary air pressure differences are be enough to change the effective diameter. As a consequence, your differential(s) get slightly more of a workout than they would with perfectly matched tires. With something like 11 and a half years left before human extinction, odds are we'll all go bye bye before that extra bit of wear does in your gears.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 14, 2020 15:43:06 GMT -5
I like it!
I'm kind of sort of in the market for a new truck, as my now 15yo Silverado is getting pretty rough. Certainly interested in the Fords, mostly because of the rust-proof aluminum body.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 14, 2020 10:40:22 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 13, 2020 18:29:33 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 13, 2020 18:28:23 GMT -5
Roger Scruton is dead.
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Jan 13, 2020 10:00:36 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 13, 2020 10:00:36 GMT -5
Ask him if he still has the Esteban.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 13, 2020 9:12:41 GMT -5
In a post Obergefell v. Hodges world, it's moot.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 12, 2020 22:27:43 GMT -5
Damn that Carl.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 12, 2020 21:53:03 GMT -5
So who won your wife?
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 12, 2020 20:04:34 GMT -5
Now we shift to the Green Bay/Seattle pre-game and idiot Joe Buck talking about how cold it is at Lambeau Field -- it's not snowing, the winds are mild and it's 23 degrees, which is a totally mild winter day for the Upper Midwest. Cold, BS. Shirt sleeve weather by Green Bay standards. Packers are looking strong.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 12, 2020 12:27:46 GMT -5
Good one Bruce. Sharyl Attkisson, who thinks the MMR vaccine causes autism. You should have saved this for April 1st. Mike There are 110 entries on that list. Which of them are untrue?
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 11, 2020 8:22:39 GMT -5
We vote for our candidates despite their faults.
Other people vote for their candidates because of their faults.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 10, 2020 18:45:00 GMT -5
Dang.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 10, 2020 14:38:56 GMT -5
$3.4 million.
Well done, Frank.
(I bet that guy is glad his dad didn't give away the car before he died...)
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