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elgenie commented on Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world axios.com/2025/11/24/jaka... · Posted by u/skx001

Froztnova · a month ago

Mostly just that it's easy for an American (or at least, myself circa several years ago) to assume that the overwhelmingly vast majority of Muslims live in middle eastern countries, and when I first learned that Indonesia was the world's largest Muslim majority country it proved that mental heuristic to be entirely inaccurate.

I suppose it shouldn't be too surprising though, I mean Christianity sure as hell got around too.

elgenie · a month ago

The top five countries in the world by Muslim population are not in the Middle East/North Africa region: Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria.

elgenie commented on Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world axios.com/2025/11/24/jaka... · Posted by u/skx001

superconduct123 · a month ago

I'm always surprised how big the population of Indonesia is yet it seems culturally underrepresented in the world compared to a lot of smaller countries

Almost 300 million people but it rarely comes up in the news or pop media

elgenie · a month ago

They're #4 by population, and the world's most populous Muslim country, but are also only a quarter century removed from a corrupt authoritarian regime.

They have very little in the way of exported cultural products ("The Raid" films?), are much worse in sports than would be expected based on population, spend relatively little on their military and don't do much in the way of regional power projection, and are growing economically but not remarkably, so there just aren't that many avenues for them to make international news.

elgenie commented on Where do the children play? unpublishablepapers.subst... · Posted by u/casca

Aeolun · a month ago

> Where do you find 10 kids together now

Walk to the park at the corner, have your child shout a few times, they’ll all pop their heads out of the door at the sound of others playing, desperate to do anything other than sit inside with their parents.

elgenie · a month ago

This working is a function of density. First, imagining a park at the corner is a huge assumption.

Second, if the park isn't within shouting distance of the necessary number of kids, half of the ones within shouting distance are at parent-scheduled activities, and half of the remainder aren't allowed to brave street crossings because of the six-foot-tall hoods and inattentive drivers of passing ChildMurker1050s, no amount of park yelling will be sufficient.

elgenie commented on Where do the children play? unpublishablepapers.subst... · Posted by u/casca

djtango · a month ago

Seeing tiny tiny kids walking around is one of my favourite qualities of Japanese life, and on the flipside I sensed a quiet but shared responsibility/interest everyone took in making sure no harm befell the child on their journey. One the purest luxuries of living in such a high trust society

elgenie · a month ago

That feeling of shared societal responsibility probably has at least something to do with the birth rate. Japan is down to just 686K babies born per year from a population of 123 million.

elgenie commented on LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger bytesauna.com/post/dunnin... · Posted by u/gridentio

cluoma · a month ago

I used to get this same feeling during lectures in uni. Often the information was presented well and, along with some clear examples, everything seemed to make perfect sense.

It wasn't until working through practice problems later, on my own, did it become clear how much detail I was missing.

elgenie · a month ago

Now consider what's happening to the learning process of the (rather large) subset of current college students choosing to replace that struggle for detailed understanding with LLM queries.

elgenie commented on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program pyfound.blogspot.com/2025... · Posted by u/lumpa

rectang · 2 months ago

Anti-DEI forces, once in power, turn out not to favor putative “diversity of opinion” after all.

elgenie · 2 months ago

Spelling things out helps with the euphemisms.

Anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion forces turn out to be (gasp) against all of diversity, and equity, and inclusion.

elgenie commented on Designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/Kye

elgenie · 3 months ago

This is an incoherent blog post.

1. The concept of "domestic terrorist organization" not a thing under any US law. Further, there exists no such organization in observable reality.

2. "All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations" is … nothing, because that's what federal law enforcement is already charged with.

elgenie commented on U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier barrons.com/articles/jobs... · Posted by u/Anon84

CaptWillard · 3 months ago

Except the BLS numbers have been significantly revised on an ongoing basis for the last five years.

That's been so widely known that I have a really hard time believing that you guys don't know this, which makes me wonder why you're out here propagandizing like this.

You need to understand it's a net loss in persuasion, this gaslighting.

elgenie · 3 months ago

You’re attempting to argue that “revisions exist” is somehow strong evidence for the proposition that “no aspect of particular revision X was politically motivated”.

That is gaslighting.

elgenie commented on U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier barrons.com/articles/jobs... · Posted by u/Anon84

CaptWillard · 4 months ago

Amazing how many here are so quick to lay the job numbers from last year at Trump's feet.

elgenie · 4 months ago

These are numbers compiled by this administration about a period immediately before Trump imposed some very very very economically stupid tariffs. It's quite suspicious to have such a big drop timed precisely as if to serve as a handy baseline to minimize the perceived impact of that idiocy; it comes out of an agency (BLS) whose previous head was fired for the sin of a displeasing report and was replaced with a commissar.

Note that survey data about the present is collected and aggregated piecemeal by a sizable bureaucracy and is thus hard for a dedicated ideologue to systematically revise without that leaking. However, when the data about today comes in below estimates the number of people involved in reconciling and dating the discrepancy to ascribe it to the past is much smaller.

elgenie commented on Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance whitecoatinvestor.com/fin... · Posted by u/wallflower

lvl155 · 5 months ago

Healthcare in the US is broken and they won’t let you fix it because the money is too good. Think about the fact that PBMs, which is there to save and manage on pharma is incentivized to promote drug price inflation. That’s just one “small” piece of this clusterf*k. It’s layers and layers of these convoluted system of incentives.

As to OP, the simplest solution is to move out of the US early enough or become “poor” enough and be in a wealthy blue state by the time you get to this predicament.

elgenie · 5 months ago

Like 5-10% of the US's total GDP gets wasted annually on the layers and layers and layers of healthcare middlemen… for worse outcomes.

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