Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@carolleisa @charlotteclymer I'm curious how you see school choice as taking away rights. (For the others I can probably guess the circuitous argument.)

@Pourroy @charlotteclymer The US has done that as well, sort of. But sure: almost all governments can and do compel and ban all kinds of things (including many kinds of medical care).

@special-boy @freemo How Biden et al seem to think Israel's right to defend itself even though it of course causes collateral damage seems to end when the collateral damage is white people.

I totally disagree with @freemo on a lot of this: I think Hamas started this war, Israel needs to at least significantly degrade its ability to do that again, and collateral damage is unavoidable, and Israel seems to be doing as much as can reasonably be expected to prevent innocents' deaths (less confident on that last point).

So: these aid workers being killed is absolutely tragic, but certainly no more so than any other innocent Palestinian deaths. Those deaths are on Hamas' hands.

But I totally agree with @freemo that this is absolutely rank hypocrisy.

@darnell @randahl Right: and that's Randahl's point, I think – why is Biden changing his position all of a sudden when an American, a Brit, and an Australian is killed?

I suspect the answer might have something to do with this: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wisconsin-democrats-biden-gaza-uninstructed_n_660d7d84e4b083254eaa91ca

You hit the nail on the head: The death of these aid workers is absolutely tragic. Tons of collateral damage, just like this, is inevitable in any war. War is awful.

@rooster@chaosfem.tw Nah, abortion is kind of unique amongst hot-button political issues in that opinion doesn't really vary by gender.

@eshep @skyblond @freemo @SpaceLifeForm I think latin letters are similar; imagine writing letters like "r" from top right to bottom left: it would be slower, because your pencil would move more. Also, it would look a bit different, so your hurriedly-scribbled r would look different from everyone else's, and it would be harder to read. This is why kids learning to write in the latin alphabet get training on stroke ordering as well. I mean, sure: you *could* get it looking fine, just like one could write a perfect-looking "法書" with the wrong order, but it would still have those disadvantages.

@freemo Yeah, this gets at a big part of the problem, I think; failure to apply Bayes correctly.

The annoying thing is that the plot doesn't seem to need this: the Sophons can just act as the Trisolarian's agent here, and send reports back to the invasion fleet. (Granted, I have only read the first book and watched the first season.) When reading the book I think I even missed the part about FTL communication; I thought they were just doing what I described here.

@spoltier eh, sorry about that.

The term has transcended her work. 😂

Science journalism never fails to disappoint.

https://www.vox.com/culture/24108638/3-body-problem-science-physics-theory-explained-how-real-is-it This is one of those "the real science behind the show" things, and it says faster-than-light communication is possible through quantum entanglement. The author completely misses the point of the expert quote cited. #Ansible

@freemo @realcaseyrollins Maybe a happy middle ground is higher deductibles. A lot of people don't need insurance for things that cost a couple hundred, they need insurance for something that costs thousands.

In this way, a lot of people would shop around for a lot of medical purchases, but you'd avoid financial ruin for a huge thing.

@hisham_hm @liaizon "pentagram, which I'm sure people from certain cultures (the US Bible Belt?) have an innate resistance towards."

You called?

@yogthos @graywolf@emacs.ch @jimray It sounds like graywolf isn't the one who needs to learn about Communism's legacy.

@graywolf@emacs.ch @yogthos @jimray Well, pretty soon maybe we can get AIs that beat the free market when it comes to making resource allocation decisions. *ducks*

@jimray It's sort of baked in that individual efforts like reducing consumption don't work to help climate change. I mean, you should turn off the lights or whatever and buy less anyway, for other reasons. But don't kid yourself: it just makes the power you didn't use cheaper for someone else to use.

@LouisIngenthron @freemo I feel like "leftist" refers to someone on the left who is skeptical of liberalism, e.g. communists or someone overcome by identity/oppression politics (I'll call them CSJ here).

I'm sure it's one of those "ask 100 people you'll get 100 different answers" kind of thing.

@dangillmor ok but I feel like if Trump was trying to install corrupt judges who would do things like help him win cases or elections, he didn't do a very good job.

@largo @randahl Yeah, this is kind of Trump's point, too, I think. For all his other failings I think he's sort of on to something here.

I don't know if Europe needs a federation for coordinating military action. Countries at war seem historically to be able to solve that problem without too much trouble.