^ This is how to get ahold of dang. Dang has also stated many times that `@dang` is a no-op, I don't know why people keep using it.
Possibly that they didn't see any of those statements?
Readit NewsCupertino95014 commented on · Posted by u/Cupertino95014
>It doesn't claim that Anja Lee has anything to do with Stanford, except for teaching this class.
I'm not sure what more people would expect, being hired to teach a class or classes is how a decent percentage of the people that how have anything to do with Stanford have to do with Stanford.
I don't even know what this means. Does the janitor have "something to do with Stanford" ?
Cupertino95014 commented on Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN mintpressnews.com/exposed... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Those figures are credible, based on research [1][2] that estimated total deaths including those by secondary effects from the attacks, like diseases and famine spread by purposeful destruction of medical[3][4], water treatment/sanitation[5][6] infrastructure and crops[7]. The figures quoted more often in the media, over 40,000 people killed, reflect only people that were directly killed and whose bodies could be recovered and identified, and so are gross underestimates of total loss of life.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/12/gaza-d...
[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
[3] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/4/18/satellite-...
[4] https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/...
[5] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-29/ty-article/.p...
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SLwaodt_Rw
[7] https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/gaza-geospatial-data-sho...
He quotes from The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Haaretz /s
How many of those killed were actually Hamas fighters?
Cupertino95014 commented on The Naming of America (2023) jonathancohenweb.com/amer... · Posted by u/dadt
To be fair, the author is definitely not arguing that America was discovered by Africans 3000 years ago. He is just providing some background regarding the controversy of who discovered and named the Americas. He also writes:
> Further, other discoveries of America have been credited to the Irish who had sailed to a land they called Iargalon, the land beyond the sunset, and to the Phoenicians who purportedly came here before the Norse.
I think his use of "it has been argued", "have been credited to", and "purportedly" in this context are not weaselly, and are fine in reference to unsubstantiated arguments that people have made. The author is clear though that the only two undisputed discoveries of the Americas prior to Columbus were by the Asian forebears of Native Americans and the Norse:
> They were of course preceded by the pre-historic Asian forebears of Native Americans, who migrated across some ice-bridge in the Bering Straits or over the stepping stones of the Aleutian Islands.
> the remains of an 11th-century Norse settlement in Newfoundland, excavated in the 1960s, that forms the only undisputed evidence of the first European presence in the New World.
> I think his use of "it has been argued", "have been credited to", and "purportedly" in this context are not weaselly, and are fine in reference to unsubstantiated arguments that people have made.
No, it IS weaselly. Unless there is any substance to the argument at all, it's like saying "it has been argued that the earth is flat."
Maybe say "it has been argued without evidence" like journalists do /s
Cupertino95014 commented on Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047 gov.ca.gov/wp-content/upl... · Posted by u/atlasunshrugged
To be fair, clowning around is a lot more tractable than homelessness, housing prices, health care, or immigration.
Hear.
Just keep getting reelected, since no one expects you to accomplish anything. People in the rest of the country push "term limits" as the solution to everything. I always point out that we've had them in CA for 20 years. It just means that they run for a different office after they're termed out.
Or become lobbyists.
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OP is saying the opposite: the TCR required huge investment, and was massively speculative, with a huge bubble ensuing. But rail travel did revolutionize the world, and few people sat around asking whether or not it was worth it.
TCR could have been justified by everyone having massive faith in the future, as OP is suggesting happened with roads. But you're quite wrong that "few people sat around asking whether or not it was worth it", as Iron Empires details:
https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Empires-Robber-Railroads-America...
it was hugely controversial in Congress.
I don't happen to know about roads, since that wasn't one single thing. But I doubt they happened because of blind faith in the future, either -- it was probably more businesses demanding roads NOW. So the argument that no one questioned them is dubious at best.
100 years ago was there this much bad-faith handwringing about all the new roads they needed?
You could go on newspapers.com (free for 7 days) and look at those old papers. I know that the Transcontinental Railroad was intensely controversial.
What's "bad-faith" about it?
so maybe it's an idiom that's spread beyond Twitter.