Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org
Computer programmer
"From what we can tell, Haugen works at Google. So much for "Do no evil."" – Kent Anderson
Joined Mar 2023
@Daojoan Sam Harris would be dismayed to be lumped in with Jordan Peterson, to put it mildly.
Are you just sort of listing intellectual-wannabe-types who don't give a full-throated endorsement of extreme leftism?
@QasimRashid @QasimRashid You get the feeling from news coverage that this kind of argument is holding with students in a big way, but then certain things make you realize that it really is not! Columbia elected Maya Platek as student body president, for example.
@QasimRashid You get the feeling from news coverage that this kind of argument is holding with students in a big way, but then certain things make you realize that it really is not! Columbia elected Maya Platek as student body president, for example.
@QasimRashid You get the feeling from news coverage that this kind of argument is holding with students in a big way, but then certain things make you realize that it really is not! Columbia elected Maya Platek as student body president, for example.
@GM7077 @QasimRashid As far as I can tell it means about 600 of the 2000 law students voted to urge Harvard not to invest in any companies that help Israel defend itself: I think the language is “divest from weapons, surveillance technology, and other companies aiding violations of international humanitarian law, including Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine."
Harvard has an enormous endowment of like 50 billion that it uses to pay salaries and fund programs and whatever. It seems to regularly be the focus of activism, like "don't invest in oil companies" or whatever. As far as I can tell the folks running the endowment mostly just smile and nod at these fringy activists.
@jhansen @farbel Yeah I don't think they're invading for petrol; one theory is that they are invading to prevent Ukraine from becoming an prosperous neighbor, an example of what Russia could obviously be if they didn't have a kleptocracy. If you're Putin and willing to sacrifice your entire populace for your own wealth, you can't have them looking over the border at that now can you.
@MikeDunnAuthor https://apnews.com/article/james-crumbley-jennifer-crumbley-oxford-school-shooting-e5888f615c76c3b26153c34dc36d5436 I wonder if Mangione's parents will be indicated.
@StarkRG @MikeDunnAuthor You /might/ be in a bubble.
@QasimRashid Great point about the 1994 crime bill!
@adamrice @Some_Emo_Chick yeah do we have any reason at this point to think the mcd employee won't get the 60k, assuming there's a conviction, which seems highly likely. Genuinely curious.
@peterbrown @Rasta That isn't quite how fiduciary duty to shareholders works, legally. At least not in the US.
@DavidM_yeg @ikanreed@mastodon.social @Rasta Well, reasonable people can disagree on that question for insurance, generally speaking; e.g. if I have to buy my own insurance then maybe I will avoid taking certain risks so I can save on insurance. Like, if I drive a car I should probably be the one who pays the premiums, I shouldn't force others to via taxes like you seem to be suggesting. That seems like a useful incentive structure.
And yeah, there's a lot wrong with private health insurance.
But I think OP is clearly overstating the point here; the reason for private health insurance to exist is to pool risk. Even if you believe this is not a good way to do that, it does serve that function.
GOP/uspolitics
@paul_ipv6 @randahl Pam Bondi seems to be advocating for release of names?
@Blanco @Dingsextrem @silberfuchs same reason; they can use whatever you say against you in a variety of unexpected ways.
@Discountgothamknight Mastodon.social by default shows you popular posts, sort of, and lots of Mastodon instances are basically a lefty echo chamber so this is what you get.
You can go here instead just to see the latest posts: https://mastodon.social/public/local
Or you can start following a bunch of people that you *are* interested in, and then just read those posts. lots of options! good luck!
@lulu @gwynnion One problem currently with abandoning gender-separated sports is that there's a lot of money involved, e.g. without women's sports there's a ton of athletic scholarship funds that would, as a practical matter, only be available to men; this would be highly regressive in practice. (e.g. Title 9-related issues in the US.) Similarly for pro sports; the situation as-is is already pretty regressive, this would make it far worse.
Computer programmer
"From what we can tell, Haugen works at Google. So much for "Do no evil."" – Kent Anderson
Joined Mar 2023
