04-20-2015 04:00 PM
#17776
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04-20-2015 06:29 PM
#17777
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04-21-2015 06:41 AM
#17778
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When you run on a waxed floor with socks and then stop and slide... I want shoes that can do that on any surface. I don't care about hoverboards. I want that. | |
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04-21-2015 04:51 PM
#17779
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I have a friend who is donating a kidney through a reputable service but to someone that she does not know. I'm completely blown away by her generosity and humanity, but can't totally decide if I think it's a good idea or not. | |
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04-21-2015 06:01 PM
#17780
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You can't decide if reducing your life quality/expectancy by an appreciable amount for no personal gain whatsoever would be a good idea? | |
04-21-2015 09:17 PM
#17781
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Donating organs is super irrational, you know, since we're arguing its "good ideaness." | |
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04-21-2015 11:02 PM
#17782
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I haven't put any thought into an organ free market, but the rest I completely agree with. Not only that, but I can't imagine how someone donating a kidney in this way can be considered mentally fit enough to engage in such a transaction. All virtues have a sweet spot-- overly charitable is equally as bad and results in equally bad consequences as being overly stingy. | |
04-22-2015 12:04 AM
#17783
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Kidney market is probably the first thing that the largest number of economists agree should be a thing. |
04-22-2015 05:19 AM
#17784
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I'm frankly relieved to see some agreement on this. Kingnat's post stirred something really uncomfortable within me. I actually felt offended by the fact not only that someone with a valuable life would do this, but also the fact that someone I respect would be inspired by it. It's weird because I don't really get offended by anything I read, and why should I care what someone else does with their own body? | |
Last edited by Renton; 04-22-2015 at 05:22 AM. | |
04-22-2015 09:11 AM
#17785
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It's not only the costs/risks that Renton describes in the bottom paragraph; it's the fact that the reward is close to null. | |
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04-22-2015 09:24 AM
#17786
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Well I think the whole point of doing it is to demonstrate that you value the net happiness/health of the world equally to your own. If you consider this from a game theory point of view, if everyone threw their names in the live kidney donor hat, then whenever someone needs a kidney they will have one, and there are fewer net deaths from kidney disease. The Nash equilibrium is for no one to give a kidney, but a forced cooperative strategy would ensure all are better off. | |
04-22-2015 09:32 AM
#17787
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Heeeeeeeeeeey there, pretty mamma! |
04-22-2015 11:15 AM
#17788
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04-22-2015 05:47 PM
#17789
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Hell'll be exponentially more fun. | |
04-22-2015 10:49 PM
#17790
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04-22-2015 11:48 PM
#17791
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I don't know if this is where he's going, but yes, a market would work better than any utopian charity ideal. The reason is markets have a mechanism by which resources are allocated based on perceived value. This means that those who trade a kidney do so because they benefit the most from it. In the charity ideal, value is not allocated to where it has most utility, but it does in trade. In charity, one party benefits. In trade, both benefit. The society that trades organs is more prosperous than the society that donates organs. |
04-23-2015 12:45 AM
#17792
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While I think that lady is off her rocker, I think you're missing something when you assign no value to monetary incentive free cooperation. Could it not be that people are more productive being content in the knowledge that should they find themselves with no working kidneys, a fellow human will step up and offer one of theirs? | |
04-23-2015 02:26 AM
#17793
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The assumption is inherently wrong. If there was a pool of kidneys magically created for us to distribute for free to people in need, the needs of people would expand until they exceed that pool of kidneys. You would need a state of superabundance for this not to be the case. Not all needs for a kidney transplant are equal. For example, with the current state of extreme shortage of kidneys, only people who are about to die are even considered candidates for the operation. If there were more, the candidate criteria would expand and expand until a point where people with only a 10% chance to die from alternate treatment would improve their equity by switching to a kidney transplant. It becomes clear that the resource will be at great risk to be squandered by all. | |
Last edited by Renton; 04-23-2015 at 02:31 AM. | |
04-23-2015 04:15 AM
#17794
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04-23-2015 05:20 AM
#17795
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I'm fairly certain Hell is more fun today than it was yesterday. | |
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04-23-2015 07:17 AM
#17796
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Not related directly, but this conversation reminds me of how people get really up in arms about price gouging during things like natural disasters. The textbook example is something like a bottle of water costing $5. The knee jerk reaction is to think that people are getting screwed over because water is normally so much cheaper and to think that it's just the people selling the water taking advantage of the situation to exploit people. In reality, the price adjusts itself because of the decrease in supply, and this helps everyone because it forces a scarce resource to be distributed in a much more optimal way than allowing some jackass to swoop in and buy up a lot more than he needs for the short term, which would leave people in actual short term need up the creek without a paddle. | |
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04-23-2015 07:41 AM
#17797
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The only issue with that spoon is economists use willingness to pay as substitute for need which ignored ability to pay. | |
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04-23-2015 08:36 AM
#17798
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Two things: | |
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04-23-2015 08:56 AM
#17799
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In general, I think a free market across the board is better for all. I think I bigger and more difficult question to answer is how you change from point a to point b. There's going to be a lot of misery for a lot of people along the way. | |
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04-23-2015 09:19 AM
#17800
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Only in price gouging prohibited places, would the supply of water be locked at 700 bottles. When prices are allowed to do their job, a huge profit signal cause new provisions to rush to the areas that have shortages. Without a doubt, a rationing system is best in an situation where a resource has completely run out, but there is a virtually unlimited supply of bottles of water in the world, its merely a question of how to motivate suppliers to put the water where it is needed. | |
04-23-2015 09:48 AM
#17801
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04-23-2015 10:37 AM
#17802
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http://gothamist.com/2015/04/23/call_me.php | |
04-23-2015 10:37 AM
#17803
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Also, yes, the Gothamist is a bullshit NYC site. But still. | |
04-23-2015 11:48 AM
#17804
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"Even the rape culture myth has been denounced by the Rape Abuse & Incest National Network, the most prominent US organization fighting sexual violence. In a press release, they stated that: Rape is caused not by cultural factors but by the conscious decisions, of a small percentage of the community, to commit a violent crime." | |
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04-23-2015 12:29 PM
#17805
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the Gothamist calls my friends "DIY hipsters" all the time >:O | |
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04-23-2015 01:08 PM
#17806
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Actual rape cultures exist in places like India, not where most of the complaining about it happens. | |
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04-23-2015 01:13 PM
#17807
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Last edited by oskar; 04-23-2015 at 01:16 PM.
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04-23-2015 01:44 PM
#17808
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https://twitter.com/louistheroux/sta...40344051834880 | |
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04-23-2015 02:48 PM
#17809
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04-23-2015 02:55 PM
#17810
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Enough would be more accurate than most, I think. Still, there's no better way than commerce to ascribe value to something. | |
04-23-2015 02:57 PM
#17811
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While I'm thinking about Economics and my distaste for it's resistance to accept human behavior as not readily simplified into mathematical | |
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04-23-2015 02:57 PM
#17812
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04-23-2015 03:44 PM
#17813
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1. The real incentive would be to monopolize the water market by employing very uneconomical means. The price signal that tells other merchants of new opportunity will have to flow by the hand of man. Someone needs to carry the news, whether it be a company's network of spies or a news ticker. If there is an opportunity to silence the signal, the price gouging would not be delivering the greatest of all possible results. | |
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04-23-2015 03:58 PM
#17814
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Last edited by a500lbgorilla; 04-23-2015 at 04:06 PM. | |
04-23-2015 04:01 PM
#17815
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04-23-2015 04:55 PM
#17816
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Last edited by aubreymcfate; 04-23-2015 at 04:58 PM.
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04-23-2015 05:03 PM
#17817
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And this is why men rightfully believe that they can be charged with rape purely from a woman experiencing regret of having sex with them. It's starting to be the case that men are required to prove consent was given (which is generally an impossible task), or they are guilty in court. | |
Last edited by spoonitnow; 04-23-2015 at 05:11 PM. | |
04-23-2015 05:18 PM
#17818
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04-23-2015 05:23 PM
#17819
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Let's take a moment to give thanks to feminism. | |
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04-23-2015 05:30 PM
#17820
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Your first sentence is a necessary factor in the total cost-benefit analysis. Your second sentence begs the question i.e., assumes that a market will always provide scarcely. My go-to analogy is food. Everybody needs it, everybody wants it, there is very little moral duty applied, yet it is as abundant as fuck. This is especially striking since we have historical contrast with some pretty powerful societies that tried to produce and distribute food based on mandates. Production was abysmal and starvation was epidemic. |
04-23-2015 05:33 PM
#17821
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She fucked Dolph Ziggler for a while. She could be hot if she lost some weight, and she's funny for a girl considering almost all of her comedy is making fun of herself. | |
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04-23-2015 05:40 PM
#17822
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If we're going down this route, even saying "enough" doesn't work as long as the argument that they're not actually benefiting can be made. Which it can. |
04-23-2015 05:49 PM
#17823
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I theorize that the concept of rape culture exists because of easy access to the internet and college for immature women. The internet gives them a voice. College does as well, but more importantly college delays maturity. So we have lots of 16-25 year old women who do not know anything about the world and are not provided much means to learn. They're told to be afraid and they're told men are dogs. They do not know better because they have not experienced life. Give women a good decade in the real world, and 90%+ will laugh at the lunacy of rape culture. |
04-23-2015 05:51 PM
#17824
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edit It's not worth choking this thread up. I will just once again suggest you read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Worst thing that could happen is you waste 15 bucks and so many hours reading before bed. | |
Last edited by a500lbgorilla; 04-23-2015 at 05:58 PM. | |
04-23-2015 06:07 PM
#17825
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posted in other thread. |
04-23-2015 06:17 PM
#17826
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I feel like you're being too kind. People know, they fucking know, they just have convinced themselves on like, a molecular level, that if something is conceivably rapey, than it is rapey. It's a zero tolerance mentality. | |
Last edited by aubreymcfate; 04-23-2015 at 06:22 PM.
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04-23-2015 06:22 PM
#17827
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it's not totally my thing, but i'm japanese and kind of purist in a lot of ways but i'm ok with westernized sushi with majo, deep fried stuff and barbecue sauce. people eat it, and have fun so meh. | |
04-23-2015 06:58 PM
#17828
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LOL | |
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04-23-2015 08:13 PM
#17829
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http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/23...ack-widow-slut | |
04-23-2015 08:16 PM
#17830
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04-24-2015 03:38 AM
#17831
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04-24-2015 10:54 AM
#17832
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04-24-2015 12:25 PM
#17833
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I disagree that people's comments on fictional characters are exempt from any critical lens. They can absolutely reflect real-world attitudes towards the demographic that character represents. (Not as a rule or anything, but you know, case-by-case basis.) However, I watched that video, and it was so clear to me that they were joking and not really shaming anyone that I couldn't even be offended by that if I tried. | |
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04-24-2015 12:38 PM
#17834
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Yeah I mean if I said I want to fuck Lisa Simpson up the arse while she's doing her homework, that could still be offensive, even though it obviously means nothing other than I'm a twat. | |
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04-24-2015 01:19 PM
#17835
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I see where you're coming from and I agree that it reflects on their real-world views, maybe. I guess the point was that we're getting to a place where we can't joke about jack shit without one group or other getting offended and it offends me as a lover of offensive humor. | |
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04-24-2015 01:23 PM
#17836
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04-24-2015 01:45 PM
#17837
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Some people just can't carry a few extra pounds very well. I think she's probably one of them. I'd probably fuck her with relative glee, but she would be much prettier if she lost weight. | |
04-24-2015 03:18 PM
#17838
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04-24-2015 03:37 PM
#17839
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Do you feel that I thought police people? | |
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04-24-2015 03:39 PM
#17840
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No, I can't imagine you in a uniform. | |
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04-24-2015 03:46 PM
#17841
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Oh ok, your comment was ambiguous, wasn't sure what you were getting at. I was rolling up the digital sleeves (as I'm always prone to doing prematurely). Your instinct is correct -- closest thing to uniform I've ever gotten was high school marching band. | |
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04-24-2015 03:51 PM
#17842
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Tuba? | |
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04-24-2015 04:01 PM
#17843
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Percussion, sort of. I played percussion in band/orchestra, and marched with the snare during Memorial Day parade. But during our annual marching band performance at Hofstra, as well as football games, I was the badass motherfucker off to the side playing bass lines on the electric keyboard. Our football team's theme was "Iron Man." All me baby, all me. | |
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04-24-2015 10:57 PM
#17844
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How about while kneeling? | |
04-25-2015 12:20 PM
#17845
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Subtle, boost. | |
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04-25-2015 12:21 PM
#17846
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This got some love in /r/writing, so I figured I would post it here: | |
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04-25-2015 09:23 PM
#17847
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04-26-2015 10:12 AM
#17848
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04-26-2015 10:21 AM
#17849
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Two really, really good articles (lots of data) on the war against boys in public school: | |
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04-26-2015 03:39 PM
#17850
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I don't think my friend views this as not providing her with any kind of personal gain. | |
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