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> Threats in public are designed to make you feel fear. Even if you know that the threat is empty, it's difficult to just put it out of your mind. Regardless of the intentions of t…

Part of it may be the mindset of "paying for something = negative" and "getting something = positive." Micropayments maximize the time we spend thinking about the negative part of …

If there are people out there making death threats against you, do you feel safer just because some moderator is deleting them?

This was confusing. The narrator leads by saying that cities are ponzi schemes and supports this by showing a cash flow graph, but that graph doesn't seem to be grounded with any e…

What you're referring to as "gatekeepers," I would see as one of many sources of evidence. Others include direct experience, non-expert opinion, data from experiments/studies, and …

Interestingly it was Mussolini who said, “Fascism should more appropriate be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." And this past election cycle a…

> For example incitement to genocide must be a red line. I don't think this has to do with why Twitter banned Trump. > Iran’s leader has repeatedly shared tweets calling Israel a “…

> So the government should be able to force your business to do something against your will? No one said that. We can criticize companies for censorship with or without wanting gov…

You're comparing banning a company from the App store with having a comment show up in a lighter color.

> The first period includes within it a perfectly flat period longer than shortest of the periods you chose followed by a period of equal length that is more consistently increasin…

They are unequal periods, and that's why we annualize the growth. The periods aren't "cherry-picked." If you'd actually look at the plotted effective capital gains rate, you'd see …

Here is an image that plots the effective capital gains rate from the 1950s to recent years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_Uni... Let's analyze three per…

> and despite tax cuts for the wealthy wages haven't gone up. Real median personal income went up almost 8% from the year before the tax cuts (2017) and 2019. https://fred.stlouisf…

The price elasticity of higher education is 0, and healthcare is also very low. We see my more inflation in things that we're not willing to go without.

The nice thing about the median is that it's robust against outliers like the ones you've mentioned. It's over $300k, so we're definitely not talking about some hellhole in MS.

Median sale price of houses sold has increased 2% from November 2019 to November 2020. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPNHSUS That's on par with historical annualized inflatio…

Wages and the costs of hiring/employing are a cash outflow. Losses mean that outflow is greater than inflow, so wages can be related to losses, but they are not mutually exclusive.…

Yes, because you're only temporarily promised to get what you want at the expense of having voting power permanently diluted.

In other words, "I don't mind that my vote carries less weight for as long as the decision-makers happen to share my political views."

> that's obviously a different order of action with explicit criterion than whether or not this deserves third-party investigation which may lead to legal action. To my saying "pla…

If someone has a feeling that something was racially motivated but has no evidence, do believe that alone should enable actionable legal consequences?

Whether something is plausible doesn't make it actionable. "He said, she said" shouldn't be actionable because it lacks verifiable evidence, outside of two people's subjective expe…

Not ironic when you consider people don't always just vote for what will improve their present financial position. Wouldn't you agree that some vote based on their principles?