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So in the Netherlands, they would convict someone of manslaughter for an action that was in direct defense of the defendant's life?

That would make sense. You can see how the failure of local governments to protect life and property shouldn't affect our judgement if Rittenhouse, ri...

There's definitely a rift in outlook here because I don't understand what you're saying. You can't arrest someone because you think they're about to b...

It's more that a suggestion that we put aside the rule of law is anathema (if that's not what your were initially doing , I apologize, but it seemed l...

Left-handed people? Yes.

There aren't any lefties in the US.

The more stable situation would be to have the influence of both.

The issue is more obvious if you focus on vowel sounds. The vowel sound in the English 'dot' can be represented by an a, o, or u. In Spanish, that sou...

dinosaurs had chicken feet https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/statue-dinosaur-foot-isolated-on-260nw-414300616.jpg

both are cool

ok. how much do they cost?

There's an oort cloud outside my window.

Maybe. Still, nobody but the Dutch and a few stragglers care much about a Dutch attitude toward the Rittenhouse verdict.

Nobody but the Dutch particularly cares about the Dutch attitude toward the Rittenhouse verdict.

It's cold as shit out there.

H&N neurotransmitters have more to do with focus. Dopamine literally makes you think about what you don't have. It takes your focus away from, well, H...

noice

For the record, dopamine is the reason the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. It breaks habits as much as it cements new ones. The link ...

Serotonin is an H&N chemical, so that's expected. *Dopamine got the nickname “the pleasure molecule” based on experiments with addictive drugs. The dr...

Did you not read the passages you quoted?

The article specifies that events with high surprisal are surprising in the common sense of the word. Your posts are not the least bit surprising, tho...

They got used to a pattern and then they were surprised by a random deviation from the pattern. The result was a dopamine release, which speeds up the...

I was thinking about the one where they dropped food in a pattern for a while and then started randomly breaking the pattern. The result was a dopamin...

Research with mice shows it's not just stimulus that produces a hormonal reward. It's surprise.

I don't know about that. I know children are powerfully rewarded when they experience novelty as long as they feel safe. It's why falling in love is s...

Novelty is rewarded with dopamine in just about all animals.

https://youtu.be/SNeYM9yYb7E

I don't think there's any way around it. We like our hierarchies and their existence requires some measure of force.

Fix the problem, not the blame.

They can also eat fibrous plant material that we can't. There's a "flaw" in our genetics that makes our jaw muscles weaker. When Hayek first started w...

That's already happened. American factories used the same Prussian organizational structure that the US military uses. They learned about it from stud...

You poor thing.

Hayek would be proud. His later views on rule of law included deep suspicions about legislation. He wanted to see some sort of high court providing la...

I think you're probably genetically predisposed to behave that way. I got vaccinated because I hate being sick. NOS got vaccinated and then whined abo...

I don't do news these days and I still heard the rallying round this guy like he's a hero. I think that's the legacy of Trump, that it's ok for all th...

Do you guys still hate Bosnians or whatever? The real cure for racism is genetic mixing.

Ok fine my bad.

I'm not sure what you're asking. White guys were interviewed after the war and they said fighting side by side with black people made them realize tha...

1. US Military, Korean War 2. Integration of public schools by federal mandate 1970-1985 3. uh, why three?

I hope you have a great Thanksgiving!

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A lot of my reading about Neoliberalism orbits around the Weimar Republic. I think it's supposed to be a case of catastrophic collectivism?

I was thinking the opposite: the community would need to be mostly self sufficient for central planning. If a lot of their resources are imported, the...

If a community decided to provide housing and food for all it's members, would central planning be required?

Before free markets existed temple economies were common. Priests set exchange rates (there was no money yet). It worked, although moneyless societies...

Oh, I see what you're saying. Let me rephrase: if I showed Hayek a case of central planning that emerged spontaneously, he'd be have to approve due hi...

Right. This is the argument that central planning can't work. All we need is one example of it functioning successfully, and that argument falls. He a...

You can give bread and circuses to the people without central planning of the economy. That's what we call progressive in the US. But I think a libera...

This isn't my stroke of genius, man. Actualism is a form of hard determinism. You may be making up your own private actualism, in which case you shoul...