Okay well as a medical doctor, you know better than I do that field specialization means you don't have to know anything about human nutrition lol

my understanding is that calorie restrictive diets are well known to fail at regulating obesity over the mid- and long-terms

but I haven't argued that calories don't matter. My point is just that the thermodynamic view of calories is meaningless

because it doesn't explain anything

186cm / 81kg

Exilarch are you really a doctor? what specialty?

My dad's a doctor

Exilarch what specialty?

isn't the fourth year of med school all clinical work tho

do they rotate you around specialties?

that's cool. I started college intending to do medicine but ultimately diverted.

My dad is a doctor and told me the same

Privacy is important but undisturbed focus is what I miss most right now because i am in the middle of raising two naughty puppies

sky news reported it's a terrorism investigation

and another outlet (NBC?) reported it was a suicide bomber

guessing muzzies is the probablistically correct guess in these circumstances

No. I don't have a problem with muslims though. I broadly agree with your point about natural selection.

@custer you just gotta remind yourself that everyone in here is a random dude with a socially unpalatable opinion and not get too wrapped up in the distorted internet personalities

Can't pick your family, or the people who share your paranoid underground beliefs 😃

My politics is less friendly. I don't need good ones or bad ones. I don't see the need.

Do I need to read more than the Koran and Hadith

because that's all I have on my bookshelf

That's a great book. I think probably the first book that made me cry actually

Everyone was angry that Trump said he hoped Comey would see that Flynn is a good guy and drop the probe but I respected that loyalty. Same with his defense of Lewandowski over that Breitbart reportress's assault fib

yeah. they try to slide stuff past people without the rhetorical tools to see the trick.

I deal with the same thing at work all day. it would be funny or interesting if it weren't so sinister

dunno. cultural tradition of rabbinical / hermeneutics text-parsing coupled with a constant feeling of being on the outs?

anyone think anything will come of Kim Dotcoms announcement about Seth Rich today?

here's a question though:

What is the benefit of a delineated and known caste system vs. a "de facto" caste system that functionally exists but isn't written down and enforced legally

Right but do those borders have to be clear and legal

or can they be softer and cultural

But let's say they're only cultural

what's the argument for making them true legal boundaries

your second point is really good I think

that's what's happening

for example, supreme court upholding disparate impact challenges under the fair housing act

I'm a lawyer

I like my job. but i'm in a specific niche I made a lot of sacrifices to get into

it's a big field. there are greasy areas and fine areas. diversity_is_racism is right about lawyers and leadership/policy. They shouldn't be making decisions.

I didn't sacrifice my soul. I'm doing exactly what I wanted to do and it's really interesting. But I know a lot of people who did.

most lawyers defending child molesters get paid dogshit by the state as public defenders

I and Foucault agree with you on public executions

explain

well arguments about the definition of "law" are kinda esoteric and the picture you linked makes no argument. It just says what does and doesn't count as law. But jurisprudence scholars like Hart or Dworkin would disagree on many points.

But I'm asking what the picture you linked is relevant to?

I just want to know what the picture is relevant to haha. It's a topic I'm interested in.

late 20s

bro where are you Marin County?

you're right broadly but you also seem to be somewhere with ridiculously right zoning. and an HOA?

my boss is a really reasonable communist

who has been left behind by the left and often says true things about the nature of women or whatever that would get him fired if he didn't own his own business

I admire the extent to which he acts based on principles he claims

not economic principles, generally haha, since he is a dirty owner of capital

should they not get married and pick up dog poop

> when in Baghdad

so when I step in dog poop in my yard

im giving the finger to bourgeoisie power structures

I dunno man I'm treated pretty well

Yes. I have no billable hour requirements and I work in a position that I genuinely enjoy. I can work from home, from traveling, or take whatever time off I want

my wife works, but when she didn't work she cleaned.

i represent renewable energy generation facilities.

I recognize I'm an exception. I agree with what you guys are saying broadly

no, I sue states and force them to enforce a set of federal and state statutes collectively known as PURPA

I don't need to be different but I am effectively different because everyone around me hates their job and spends their money on fast food and cable tv

haha

do you live in a big city

yuck

I am in a small town for the first time and it's a world of difference

yeah. it feels that way. I have plans to move back to a city in a year or two but I'm trying to slither out of it. after a year of walking to work I can't imagine getting in a car and joining the freeway of ants

it's funny how a long commute --> magnets --> no seratonin

a person I work with has been out of the office for two days at a critical time

due to an asthma attack

which would normally not bother me except that knowing he has asthma really makes his thrice daily smoke breaks look pretty fucking stupid

The only people hurt by my job are the corporate structure of power companies

who have a state-granted monopoly on a service area

Man. I could go on about this for days. It all starts with the concept of how power companies make money.

The state sets a price that includes a certain percentage of profit. This gives power companies a perverse incentive to develop unnecessary projects then recoup those costs + profit margins through raised electricity rates.

To answer your question, there is a ton of bureaucracy. De-regulation could solve a lot of that but also presents certain problems.

I think it's unlikely that the grid is developed enough that everyone could have reasonably affordable power on demand with a fully de-regulated grid right now. Maybe in the near future.

From a climate change standpoint, I'm not really qualified to address the question. I am skeptical of climate models. On the balance though, I would prefer a power source with non-deleterious effects on my local environment. I respect nature and think there are good reasons to preserve it.

The problem is more of an economic and political one. Renewable energy is not developed right now to the point that you can simply replace high-capacity baseload generation (coal, natural gas) with renewables and have all the nice things we have now, like all the power we want for cheap whenever we want it. This is true because we haven't solved certain fundamental problems (efficient transport, storage, intermittency).

Nuclear power could solve many of our issues but is politically unpopular.

no i'm private

I deal with the feds once in a while. I worked for a state government previously

Private renewable companies hire me

to sue the state or the feds

who then require the utility companies to buy the power we generate

since we can't sell directly to customers, since the utilities have a monopoly

btw is your avatar the Minas Morgul album cover? that's awesome

Yeah. it's a weird industry. it's really under the hood for most people.

crazy how much it takes to make the light go on when you flick the switch

english lit

yes

all music, but people usually say "all music" then mean "not metal and not country'

English lit was not the best choice and not the worst choice. I would say I missed a lot of opportunities in college due to left-wing / modernist brainwashing, but I also avoided major pitfalls thanks to a reasonable upbringing and old school parents

is that alec guiness

I think I agree. Can you give an example of a dishonesty bothering you?

Is it like r/The_Donald pretending like LEGAL immigrants are great?

subversive lol

the new right is just a smaller version of the dynamic of the old right. At least in the US. It's a coalition. In the old right, the an-caps and the christian fundies have to vote for the same guy, even though they share basically no beliefs. In the new right, dark enlightenment types are yolked to people who want to restore the monarchy or whatever. No two people agree on everything.

traditionalists feel like you're attacking their utopian family ideal I guess