21/ Anti-union and pro-billionaire attitudes are the best and most obvious examples of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
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31/ The people who complain the loudest about filter bubbles suspiciously curate the social media presences near the limit of homogeneity. Very often, they're just as technocratic as the people they condemn.
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32/ Private schools create more socialization-induced problems than public schools do and it isn't even close.
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33/ At once, racism explains more than the right admits and less than the left asserts. But you'd be a fool to claim either that racism isn't a persistent issue or these errors are equally bad. Or you'd be a racist.
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[okay. Shitty boingo airport Wifi is to spotty on my laptop and I hate phone tweeting. Tbh]
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34/ People who call and reach out for “civil conversations” don’t care about the conversation part, only the pretense of *their* civility that they’re asking you to commit to.
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35/ The past is important to understand but given the combination of technological progress and hysteresis, at society scale it’s all basically n=1. Somehow only the left and cryptoland seems to believe this.
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36/ If you are over the age of 30 and you are engaging with early twenty something edge lords, you’re making so many useless mistakes.
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37/ “Triggering” is a damn near sociopathic strategy for hijacking attention and agendas. It’s also unfortunately an effective one given the environment. We live in right now.
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38/ If your politics doesn’t include some fiction — particularly of a brighter possible tomorrow — you implicitly assume history *must* repeat itself, which is the most pessimistic and self-perpetuating view imaginable
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[it was a very long travel day and I am unfortunately still caffeinated so I just smoked some of the marijuana and think it’s best to pause]
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