Trojan Centaur (15/100 songs)

jack of no trades, m̶a̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ o̶f̶ a̶l̶l̶ elitist in recovery, amateur songwriter

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@RandomSprint @eigenrobot Sometimes the leader is not really in control

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@eigenrobot my wife registered some email addresses with my last name before we got married, and gets online deliveries with my last name, but didn't legally change it

where does that leave me

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@goblinodds maybe they aren't as bad as a lot of other drugs, but you are still signing up to be with someone who is on a serious drug she needs to quit

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@goblinodds they cause big psychological changes when you get off them, and they are not good for fertility

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@smilerz91 @DKThomp Easily for a seasoned researcher who is aware of what's going on

Not for the average reader

The extra effort still matters, and you overestimate how hard most people will work to overcome small inconveniences

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@sam_kritch @goblinodds @hyperdiscogirl to be clear I don't agree with utilitarians because i think they have an extreme bias toward things that they can measure and neglect things like culture

but i do think we should prefer metrics that better align with our values

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@sam_kritch @goblinodds @hyperdiscogirl sure

but the death of an 85yo is not as sad as a child dying or becoming an orphan

and people can also grieve about developing chronic illness

there's no objective way to quantity grief but there are clearly some outcomes that feel like greater loss and suffering than others

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@sam_kritch @hyperdiscogirl @goblinodds vapid vocabpoasting

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@sam_kritch @hyperdiscogirl @goblinodds if anything it still undercounts the ratio of severity

quality adjusted life years are a very commonly used metric, and years at the end of life are given lower value

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@sam_kritch @hyperdiscogirl @goblinodds in 1918 it was normal for people to drop dead from the flu at age 30

if you count expected years of life lost, covid really was about 10x milder

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@sam_kritch @goblinodds people under 50 mostly remember that time as one more way they suffered for the benefit of boomers

raw death count is an easy metric to point to but it greatly overstates the level of tragedy

meanwhile the harm of lockdowns is hard to quantity in a way people can agree upon

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@lymanstoneky My fiancee has no intention of changing her legal name, but is okay with using mine unofficially in social contexts, email adresses, etc

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@feelsdesperate Artistically we can't claim much

Technologically I think we are huge

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@DKThomp @RichardHanania I think educated Americans have a default tendency to assume participation is generally good and populism is generally bad

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@_skaface_ @ArtemisConsort Synthesis: 3/4 of people vote to feel superior rather than to achieve good results and precisely those people should be disenfranchised.

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@_skaface_ @ArtemisConsort No, some ideologies are much better than others. Most political parties have deep flaws but they are so different that it is rare for two to be equally bad.

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@matthewstoller @Chris_arnade You would rather blame the Trump administration and Israel than a terrorist for the actions of the terrorist

I presume Chris thinks that the terrorist is in fact more responsible for the terrorism, and therefore finds your take to be wholly wrong

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@ClimateWarrior7 have you considered that maybe her boyfriend told her to tell you to say it