It would’ve prevented the guy we’re both talking about from sneaking a bomb on the plane in his shoe.
He would have known they were going to make him take his shoes off and so tried something else instead that would probably have been more likely to work.
I think they’re taking it away because people don’t like doing it.
But we’ve never liked doing it
Well I also remember that, but it doesn’t mean making people take their shoes off actually improves safety. And the point I’m making here is, if they are not doing that anymore, doesn’t it mean they don’t think it helps? If it doesn’t help now, then why would it have ever helped?
So it was always useless bullshit? You’d think tensions would be ramping up at this point in terms of terrorism threats
Could this be done such that a person cannot prove that they voted a certain way (the source of the problems people mention, like vote selling becoming viable)?
Well what I’m seeing in this thread is two metrics, BLS and LISEP, with the argument being that the distinction between them doesn’t matter because unemployment is right now historically low by both measures (I don’t really know the difference between them myself, or whether these are the only meaningful ways to measure it). And you’re reiterating that there exists some measure where it is high, but I think for that to be a convincing counterargument you would need to say more about what that measure is, show that unemployment is high by that measure, and make an argument why that specific way of measuring things is more relevant than the other ones.
The comments you’re responding to are not making that kind of general argument though, they are only talking about whether a specific claim makes sense. If it doesn’t make sense, that doesn’t necessarily mean our economic system is working for us, maybe it means that whatever problems exist would be better quantified in a different way.
Literally billions of instances of censorship every year, the DMCA is such an awful law
That seems more coherent than the alternative to me…
Maybe still a little questionable? Like if you honestly convince someone that they are supernaturally compelled to be in love with you, that might be a bit manipulative
What about unjustly light sentences though? Like a sex criminal who is let off easy because he’s white, has rich parents and was on track to get a high paying career?
Yes, but the opposite way you might be thinking since mass death from war and other catastrophe is strongly correlated with very high birth rates. We’re on track for the global population to stabilize around 10 billion right now, but if billions die in a world war we will probably go exponential again for a long time.
For starting a fire, look for bits of birch bark on the ground, it is extremely flammable and is much better tinder than leaves.
There’s also birds being loud and the sun making the inside of your tent too hot to contend with
You can also take off your shoe and use that
I would like that to be true, but I don’t think the numbers really support it, at least for the approval rating:
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He was 6th lowest approved president ever for his first term, but that was with an approval rating of 34%, which is lower than it is currently. Bottom 3 are Truman, Nixon, and Bush, with 22,24,25% respectively.
“It’s curiosity about a really sick and evil mind. We read it the way you read [Karl Marx’s] Das Kapital.”
hmmm
It is a confusing way to frame a sentence though, saying “you” in the context of an acted out conversation with someone who isn’t there
The way I understand it, avoiding being in the same room is ideal, but the main thing is just not actually being in bed when you’re browsing the internet or whatever
For me the most effective tip has been, don’t spend time in bed/bedroom other than for sleeping, that way your body will take the cue from your surroundings and recognize it’s sleep time.
I don’t think anything is more likely to work. I don’t think they are capable of preventing terrorist attacks on planes directly, just like they aren’t capable of preventing any mass killings. I think TSA procedures are there to serve the purpose of pretending that they can. If it isn’t happening, it’s because no one happens to be trying hard enough. The only thing that could work is creating an overall situation in society where people are less motivated to do it, not preventing specific acts.