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For the Senate and the People of Rome
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Joined June 2023
>he doubted Q
Every year we hear of some new scary dangerous bogeyman taking over the Republican party. 2020 was the year of Qanon. A constant flood of breathless articles about the preponderance of Qanon believers and what this portended for the future of the American right. But when they
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Even simpler, private loans would do this since no private lender would lend money unless they’re getting paid back with interest. Federal loans distort the price signal
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What if the incentives are off ? What if we tie federal loan payments to % of grads with jobs as a metric. If the grads for a college aren’t getting jobs colleges get stuck with the bill or don’t get paid.
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Or alternatively why not just use college to train the grads for the job ? I mean isn’t that the whole point of college now they’ve we’ve dropped the whole “liberal arts education” thing ?
There's a market failure here wherein firms don't invest in training because a trained worker can then easily leave, instead electing to only hire people who can already do the job (hence all the "entry level: 5 years experience required" postings).
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Author notes advice to send more people to college backfired bc they thought college would increase human capital (it doesn’t) but at the same time increasing the supply of college grads means the competency signal weakens
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Why not just reduce the number of college graduations so having a degree becomes a competency signal again?
This creates a feedback loop where Western firms get away with never training anyone, which in turn causes actual skill shortages domestically, which is used to lobby for more immigration and so on. Australia is the extreme example of this.
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@RorateCaeli Incredibly important point. The experiment has already been run and it failed.
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“Literally or metaphorically?”
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@Crypthomas Tempest is a great starting point. From there, start with Troilus & Cressida, the Greek trilogy and the Roman trilogy, then the Henriad, then back to Tempest
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Beautiful understated drawings of an unbuilt development by Folium Architects. With just a few colours it manages to evoke rural England. https://t.co/29IlwVinZF
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The brain, really, is just the organ whose job it is to keep the penis alive long enough to fuck. The brain serves the penis, not the other way around.
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Why not the penis or the gonads ? After all, the body is just a massive life support system for the penis or the uterus. The naturalistic “goal” of life is to live long enough to excrete the sperm into the female so we can reproduce
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What does it say about man that we considered the brain the root of the soul and not the heart?
“Behold, a man!” The endpoint of social media is to reduce the user to his central nervous system alone — the physical body made vestigial, skipped entirely in favor of machine-legible reflexes. You already have Neuralink; we all do. 1/
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There’s been an interesting increase in atheists who, while not believing in religion, nonetheless admit religion is a social good, or at least better than atheism at creating that social good. My questions are as follows (1) what that does that say about your ideology (2) what
The issue of atheist morality has lit up my feed today, so let's take an unwise dive into the non-technical and contend with it, just for flavour. Because the theists have a point. First off, cards on the table, I'm a non-believer. There's no particular political slant with that
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Perhaps everything worth saying has already been said
Why have there been so few great philosophers born in the last 100 years? Answers of no more than one sentence please.
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lmfao
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"unnatural hair colour predicts mental illness with a moderately large effect size, β = -0.33, and there is also a notable effect size for vegetarianism, β = -0.31. … Having tattoos is comparatively a much weaker signal"
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