Deadly kaleidoscope

All philosophers are considered crazy during their lifetime, so if I’m making sense than we have a problem

[Deadly kaleidoscope @LethalShimmer]

#test #Memes #meme

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@VochtigV @in_my_hyde_out @loveologian The fact that they are desperate enough to resort to these methods of making money means that there wasn’t a better alternative. In fact, banning surrogacy might force people who’d otherwise be surrogates into the organ trade

[Deadly kaleidoscope @LethalShimmer]

@kh666ra Average indian salary is about $4500 a year. Surrogacy costs in india look like about 15k-20k dollars; about 3-4x the national average income. Doesn’t look like breadcrumbs to me

[Deadly kaleidoscope @LethalShimmer]

@ElisaEFS @Le_Dannyboy @RarrettBoss @loveologian Possibly better than our system where people die on the organ transplant waiting list

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@RarrettBoss @loveologian Now, I can understand requiring potential contractors to make potential surrogates aware of the risks, but that’s regulation, not banning the whole industry.

[Deadly kaleidoscope @LethalShimmer]

@sportsbyshayla Same as I am turned off by women who have very negative opinions about men, even if they don’t apply to me.

[Deadly kaleidoscope @LethalShimmer]

@loveologian … it’s not entitlement to a womb, it’s “We will engage in a mutually beneficial agreement whereby I pay you thousands and thousands of dollars for you performing a service to me.” Both parties agree. Is there something I am missing?

[Deadly kaleidoscope @LethalShimmer]

@portiabk Triplets are strongly correlated with low and very low birth weight, which reduces IQ. Would you be okay with your children all having an IQ that’s 10 points lower?

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Triplets are highly correlated with low birth or very low birth weight, which lowers IQ. Would you be okay with having your other two children losing 5-10 IQ points each?

[Portia @portiabk]

Just asked a lady on the train if she had kids (she smiled at my baby). She said “I’m pregnant with twins”

After chatting it turns out she isn’t pregnant but froze her eggs & her surrogate in Iran is pregnant with triplets & having a “reduction” tomorrow to make it twins

WHAT?!

[Deadly kaleidoscope @LethalShimmer]

@wanyeburkett Does that mean that you argue disingenuously about the things you really do support?

[Deadly kaleidoscope @LethalShimmer]

@wanyeburkett Still, many small pieces of “evidence” build up to a larger opinion. A “death by a thousand cuts” method, if you will. Plus, when people read memes, their guard is generally down. There is no way that the CIA does not have a meme warfare department, I’d bet.

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“I before e except after c” does not apply to the word “protein”

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The problem with fact checking is what I like to call selective checking. If both candidate A and B tell 5 incorrect statements, and you only correct candidate A, candidate B seems much more trustworthy than candidate A. So, by controlling the fact checking happening during a debate, you can influence how people perceive candidates unjustly. Secondly, you can also fact check in a disingenuous way. For example, if candidate A says “there was no inflation” you can say “Aha! Actually, there was 1.5% inflation per year, so candidate A lied” (when 1.5% inflation is in the healthy range; when A said “no inflation” they meant “no detrimental inflation”). If the “fact check” doesn’t change the overall point of the candidate, then all it seeks to do is sling mud at an unliked candidate (and make “candidate A lied” headlines).
#FactCheck #FactfulDebates

[Deadly kaleidoscope @LethalShimmer]

@wanyeburkett There’s also the problem of selective fact checking. If both candidates say something untrue, but you only correct one of them, it makes the other look more authoritative. The problem is that these debate moderators are incredibly biased.

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It always annoys me when women complain about how men view sex, or look down on men for wanting sex. You cannot understand it because you aren’t a male. There’s really nothing that makes the desire for cuddling more “sacred” than the desire for sex (other than health risks / pregnancy), and even then the reason women look down on sex is not because of the health reasons; it’s because sex is “gross”.

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@hollowearthterf Anybody with a basic understanding of biology knows that females maximize their chances at having their offspring reproduce by selecting very carefully who they reproduce with. This is because having children is more costly for a female than a male.

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@wanyeburkett The problem with these people is that it doesn’t even enter their heads that they could be wrong. A huge part of intelligence is self-awareness; the stupider people are, the smarter they think they are [well, rather, most prominently in the pseudo-intelligista]