$15.3B for Ukraine/China compared to $82.9B for Russia/China. To put in
perspective, U.S. trade with Canada is $581B and U.S./China is $635B.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_Russia
Not sure of 6 data source, but the difference between China and Russia is
interesting.
https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-ukraines-top-trading-partners-and-products/
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Tom Johnson
Inst. for Analytic Journalism
Santa Fe, New Mexico
505-577-6482
I guess I'd approach it by trying to see what gender means to people decoupled
from society and decoupled from sex. To the laity, I think it probably has
something to do what team you are on, and the implicit rules of the teams and
whether one respects them or disrespects them.Changing
Biologists are NOT held to a higher standard. But when they do just go on
speaking without ever listening, then they deserve some pushback. In this
particular context, there was no bad faith on either side. But one of the
biologists is accusing bad faith on the part of the non-cis people.
As
It seems to me it is like a paper where some symbol is used without
introduction, but it becomes clear from context and reflection.
Not clear why a biologist should be held to a higher standard for explaining
themselves when speaking to the laity. I mean their reality feels real to
them so
The jargon being used by the biologist came in the form of "male", "female", "gametes", and such.
"Male" and "female", when used by the biologists means something very different from what it means to the laity. And
the biologists should know that. If they don't, they're stupid. If they do, but
The distinction I'd make is between talking about identity in principle and
talking about the details of my identity.That's not a question of jargon,
but of detachment. Jargon is a tool for detachment.
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Maybe. But I don't think it's generosity that's required. I think it's humility that's
required. Anyone who both engages a group of strangers about identity *and* identifies in
a non-standard way is already demonstrating that they're not too damaged. Or, I'd turn
the tables and say that the
Glen writes:
< I think they're just defense mechanisms they've learned over years of abuse. >
The defense mechanisms could be more like acquired allergies and do harm.
Once one is dealing with reflexive mechanisms, I start to worry that a
conversation is not possible. Because they would
Yeah, that's a good take. It also helps in distinguishing between reflexive defense
mechanisms and cryptic character traits. Where me and the biologist who felt shut down
disagree is in the interpretation of the non-cis participants word and body language
choices. He thinks they're reflections
Hmm. Another experience I have had while deconstructing someone with "charged
feelings" is coming to the ought-to-be-obvious recognition that neither of us
care about the other, but nonetheless the counterparty who feels compelled to
share their boring feelings believes it is my job to
Ha! No, I was making a point about freedom of speech, in particularly
"academic" speech, and canceling or shutting down others. Sorry if my anecdote
got in the way. I pared it down for you below.
On 3/3/22 12:16, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Anyway, I guess you were making some point about people
The declare-your-pronouns thing seems to me to be about narrativity and social
perceptions. I know two very intelligent people who transitioned in mid-life.
One completely makes sense to me and seems happy now. The other is constantly
bickering about the words people to use to address her,
She almost definitely doesn't represent "Russia"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpB721W1l34=1122s
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 4:56 AM glen wrote:
> This video brings home, to me, the inherent conflict with "do what it
> takes to ...":
>
> I'm Russian I want the rest of the world to hear me out
>
Obviously, I'm either procrastinating or unclear on how best to do actual work
today because here is yet another thing I meant to talk about with someone,
anyone, awhile back:
https://patrioticmillionaires.org/about/
A salon participant recently asked whether "greed" was our most nefarious
I doubt there are any hard and fast answers. But my predisposition is, as I've stated before in other contexts, some of us are
more narrative-driven than others. I've known cis-resistant people who don't care, seemingly at all, about where they might land
on a spectrum or not. Most of them
So, what's a hypothesis for a strong affinity toward a non-cis gender? I
can see that gender is arbitrary, but why non-arbitrary and the opposite?
Sure, I'd be interested it taking other forms and experiencing life with
different frames and sensors. The imposition of one identity by birth
Yes! We had a particularly explosive conversation at the pub salon a couple of weeks ago. The context is that everyone
who attended was easily classified as "liberal", though some leaned pretty far right in some slices of their
culture (guns, hunting, political correctness, etc.). Two of the
"Academic Freedom" is an issue that I would love to discuss in the tavern
sometime. My side of the conversation would necessarily be personal—based on 25
years as a professor; ten years at a conservative Catholic University and
fifteen years at public universities in New Mexico.
Lot's of
Send the Ukraine a ton or two of gold bullion along with a Rolodex of mercenary
forces with the ability to acquire black market armaments, perhaps Chinese or
North Korean in origin. Then sit back and watch. Some care would need to be
taken that the mercenary forces are not ones that we used in
Climate and health issues are written on these signs, and they remain very
controversial. And the asphalt industry is getting a massive injection of
money,
(
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/19/us/politics/infrastructure-plan-asphalt.html
) in part because we can't talk about changing (e.g.
[sigh] It's not hedonism. Beer is food. Potholes are infrastructure. If you
think food and infrastructure are hedonism, then you've got too much money. As
I said, food, health, shelter, climate, infrastructure, etc. these things are
better foundations for conversation than whatever nonsense is
So you think the antifa will care about the actual beer, but just not talking
about it? I don't think I agree that everything can be boiled down to
hedonism.
There are other dimensions of personality (e.g. love of dogs) that might bypass
other disagreements, but I don't think they are
Yeah, I'm not sure I buy the rhetoric that NATO countries can't directly engage Russian
forces because of the risks associated with world war or nuclear war. But I'm too
ignorant to play that game at that level. My sentiment is the US should just take out
that convoy. "Bring it on," I guess.
< We won't win the socio-cultural or climate war that way. We need tactics that
unify the geographically/politically *perforated* in-group as a network, not
according to artificial nationalist citizenhood and such. >
There's a targeted way to stop attacks on Ukrainian cities, and that's with
Here's why I think the Academic Freedom Alliance (and similar things like the
Heterodox Academy) are bullshit [⛧]:
In a defamation lawsuit, the hype around digital health clashes with scientific
criticism
https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/02/health-fertility-thermometer-valley-polis/
There's a
OK. I don't disagree with any of that. But I still think it's somehow "flat" or
"surface" tactics only. Thanks to Tom for the Meduza link, this story also targets the
problem:
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/02/why-no-mass-protests-in-russia
Similar to the link off Cody's post, where you
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