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Comment author: NMJablonski 26 November 2012 06:15:13PM -1 points [-]

No

Comment author: NMJablonski 15 November 2012 11:28:43PM 0 points [-]

SIAI needed to improve as an organization, so they brought in people who they thought could run a successful non-profit. What they got was a better non-profit plus the whole accompanying spectrum of philanthropy status divas, professional beggars and related hangers-on.

Most of the original thinkers have left, replaced by those who believe in thinking, but only for fashionable thoughts.

Comment author: NMJablonski 12 November 2012 11:28:14PM 2 points [-]

Jargon separates the raw value systems I'm talking about from the tribes that cling to them. I figured this would be less mind-killing but still communicative to the sort of person who cares about this thread.

Comment author: NMJablonski 07 November 2012 10:59:41PM -2 points [-]

It's not much better in the US. I live in a fairly Townie area, but there is a University, which has a student body unanimous in its adoration of Brahmin values. All of my young coworkers chattered with glee this morning at the "humiliation" of the "enemy".

Comment author: NMJablonski 07 November 2012 10:53:35PM *  8 points [-]

Konkvistador is a concerned Tutsi living in a politico-cultural regime which seems increasingly pleased at the prospect of watching Hutus eat Tutsis.

Comment author: NMJablonski 24 October 2012 04:17:28PM *  2 points [-]

Isn't it as simple as the fact that eugenicist ideas, even obviously good ones, assume the reality of HBD and therefore violate Western Universalist taboos?

Comment author: NMJablonski 07 September 2012 10:26:57PM 14 points [-]

Assume guilt!

In response to A free Utopia
Comment author: NMJablonski 21 June 2012 09:05:52PM 2 points [-]

It is a genuine challenge for me to tell if this is a joke.

Is this post meant as satire?

Comment author: NMJablonski 14 June 2012 03:59:00PM 6 points [-]
Comment author: NMJablonski 14 June 2012 03:47:41PM *  12 points [-]

All the reliable literature I have read says that:

a) Conventional produce and organic produce are nutritionally equivalent

b) Organic produce is more prone to rancidity as fewer preservatives are used

c) Organic produce will make you popular with people who wear glasses with no lenses

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