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"Eat healthy food and exercise" has been recommendation #1 for ages. The idea that RFK and his friends are somehow novel in this public communication is bizarre.

A 60 year old was born in 1966 and started their career in the mid 80s. That's displaced pretty far from ww2.

Where?

At least where I live if I went to Kroger I’d spend $6 on bread, two tubs of Fage would be $14, eggs are like $3, the parsley would be like $1.50 and the rest of the veggies comes out to about $5.


And how much did that cost in 2022?

Fage and parsley are up substantially since 2020. The rest has been pretty stable, at least near me.

Programs that expand recruiting beyond the typical prestigious university track can accomplish this.

A great thing about literature is that it can be expressed in different contexts. A piece of art being about one thing at one time does not mean that we cannot use that art to explore a different thing at a different time.

I do not believe that AI weapons will reduce civilian casualties. Maybe per strike it will but we also know that when we give people new capabilities they will use them more. Suddenly instead of taking time to select targets you can ask an AI and boom you've got a thousand targets and you are off to the races.

That is not true. Disparate impact has never meant "literally anything that produces disparate impact is against the law." I guess until the Trump admin has started using it to mean this when it affects white people.

Hm. How does this vibe with your blanket judgement about Bangladeshis?

You shouldn’t make “blanket judgments” that apply to every individual Bangladeshi. In a context where you’re evaluating individuals, you should do so without regard to their ethnicity or nationality. In the context where you’re talking about masses, then it’s permissible to draw inferences about aggregate characteristics.

Simple example: at the doctor’s office, I want them to measure my height, without regard to the fact that I’m Bangladeshi. But that doesn’t mean that medical journals must blind themselves to the fact that a group of 10,000 Bangladeshis is going to have a much lower average height than a group of 10,000 Germans.


It is very clear that you are not talking about height.

You are also different policy treatment of these groups.


> It is very clear that you are not talking about height.

It doesn't matter whether it's height or anything else. The point is that there's a fundamental difference between contexts in which you're evaluating an individual, and contexts in which you're evaluating groups in the aggregate.

> You are also different policy treatment of these groups.

I do not support any policy that would treat a specific individual differently because they're Bangladeshi.


We are all humans sharing one planet.

Gerrymandering means that the house is a skewed representation of the people. The senate is a skewed representation of the people in its intentional structure.

Further, the Trump administration is happily destroying things that are funded by the lawfully passed budgets.


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