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New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:37:38 +0000

Okay, but I don’t interact much with Mormons either. Doesn’t bother me that there’s a Mormon enclave. Not my thing.

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:48:25 +0000

I don’t mind more Bangladeshes. Seems like your whole issue is that they’re a different ethnicity. Kids born in the US are citizens and you have no good reason to think they’re worse somehow.

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:46:53 +0000

Why wouldn’t they be skilled or motivated? They’re just not tech workers. Even if they were all lazy or whatever, what about their kids?

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:21:03 +0000

It doesn’t do more damage though. Our shared culture is like 99% copyrighted media for a variety of reasons. In books for example, the language becomes harder to read, and while many things remain constant across time, old works can become outdated and not address issues relevant today.

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:05:43 +0000

Legality doesn’t define whether it’s good or bad for humans or their society.

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "The Undermining of the CDC"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:18:18 +0000

Yup. I’m not sure who downvoted me but I meant my comment as a genuine compliment.

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "The Undermining of the CDC"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:41:52 +0000

> Introducing this idea of "mocked and ostracized," is a rhetorical tactic to try to establish the idea of some sort of mistreated people that other mistreated people can identify with. It's not based in truth of how the scientific community worked. If there's "mocking and ostracization" then it's in some sort of other social space, not in the evaluation of the vaccine safety studies. And by trying to conflate these two areas, you are trying to undermine the very idea of truth seeking, and replace it with this weird vibes-based in-group/out-group emotionally-based judgements.

Well put

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "The reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:51:34 +0000

That’s just a restatement of the original argument

>Anarchist's believes exclude or at least severely limit the state as a force that can prevent warlords, gangs and mob rule which inevitably arise in any power vacuum.

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "The reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 03:04:57 +0000

I get the sense smart anarchists don’t want no organization, but organization with borderline zero coercion, and they’ve got complicated ways they imagine that might be possible. I also think many consider an absence of coercion the aim, but don’t feel it can be reached; rather, we should approach it asymptotically. I’ve heard some say in response to the warlord point that an “anarchist society” (if such a thing could exist) would police the warlord, but through the spontaneous action of its participants, not with a centralized hierarchy+bureaucracy. Can you point to any specific anarchists as counterexamples?

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "The reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 02:38:13 +0000

>Which happens to prevent immature, dumb and cruel mafias from taking over, the latter are the wet dream of Anarchists, that's why they hate governments.

No, they hate governments because they think they’re a kind of mafia. Which anarchist likes cruel mafias?

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:33:13 +0000

“They want us to fear birds” is wild man

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:55:05 +0000

What’s the point that stands? How do you justify the initial framing of “sounds over a beat”

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:16:20 +0000

Complexity isn’t really the thing either. I’ve heard a ton of terrible but technical songs. Often the coolest songs are remarkably simple, yet manage to do something that feels new. A modern example: https://youtu.be/ga8K_diGviw

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:12:12 +0000

What I’m hearing is “it’s different music.” Why does this justify a reduction to “sounds with a beat”?

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:26:54 +0000

Ever since humanity crawled from the muck it’s had some dude yapping about how uniquely cool and special humans are because it feels good to do and to listen to. As we’ve learned more, we’ve realized that the underlying principles of our thinking apparatus are more similar to those of animals than we thought and we’ve continually found more high-level capacities, like surprisingly complex language, in various animal species. In my opinion, it’s valid to want to talk then about a non-dichotomous view of species’ cognition and, personally, I like it because it’s a whole lot less boring.

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "AI has a deep understanding of how this code works"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:09:29 +0000

I think it’s really good for people to have good case studies like this they can refer to in the case of ai prs as a justification rather than having to take the time themselves

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "Raycast for Windows"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:42:56 +0000

The cost is 8/m of profit that wouldn’t show up on the balance sheet

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "McDonald's is losing its low-income customers"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:40:35 +0000

Yup i second this mcdonalds is cheap but they hid it as best as they can. You can minmax a good meal with 7.80 or so.

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "McDonald's is losing its low-income customers"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:36:58 +0000

GL-what pills?

New comment by BriggyDwiggs42 in "McDonald's is losing its low-income customers"

BriggyDwiggs42 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:36:30 +0000

The only place i can get a falafel wrap is 12.50. Alright on a tech salary but way too much for most ppl.