Joshua Crawford has moved @jlcrawf@librem.one

@Nobody Well, I'm not using any tricks. Maybe if you don't think a debate is a good plan, we could try just a normal discussion. My beliefs include that race is a bad heuristic and that as long as someone is capable, that's what actually matters, so in your personal life as well as at the level of a society, you're best to keep the goals and the heuristics as close as you can. So, for example, if you are trying to staff a Mexican restaurant, the only thing to pay attention to when hiring your chef is what their food tastes like, not whether they're actually Mexican. It's definitely more likely that you get a better Mexican chef if the person you hire is Mexican, but that's not actually the thing that matters.

So what are your goals for the world you want to live in?

I know that's kind of a broad question, so I'll give an example: I want to remain free to do what I want to the extent that I can, and I want that for everyone because I believe that the more people with that freedom, the better. I want to hear interesting things, especially strange things, and I can't do that unless everyone has freedom of speech, and I don't think that it is ethical or practical to prevent an idea by fiat, so I believe in that very strongly. I don't want to believe anything untrue to the extent I can avoid it, so free and open communication is a requirement: nobody can question me if we can't communicate freely.

Hopefully that makes sense. What kinds of things do you want and what kind of world do you want to live in? No wrong answer, I just want to know what your values are, what's in your core?

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Oh, the irony.

@judgedread Presently there are 2,287 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US, and only 49 people have died from it. (41 so far have recovered)

By contrast, the swine flu in 2009 infected 61 million people in the US, and killed 12,469.

Verdict: Like everything else that is made in China, the coronavirus is cheap junk that doesn’t work.

Honestly I have more faith in Walmart to be helpful during a crisis than the government, regardless of whether it's #Trump or #Obama in charge.

#Coronavirus

Domestic travel ban a possibility.
Fugg, this is the last thing we need!

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/12/trump-domestic-travel-ban-within-u-s-a-possibility-to-fight-coronavirus/

A: WHO announced Covid-19 is a pandemic
C: That's what I want to find out
A: I say the pandemic was announced by WHO
C: You mean you don't know?
A: Well I should
C: Then who announced it?
A: Yes

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/covid-19-is-a-pandemic-who-declares/

I really wish we would stop this stupidity

So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!

thebabylonbee retweeted Seth Dillon:

Breaking: Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs To Six In U.S., Nearing Number Of Abortions Performed While You Were Reading This Headline

2020-03-03, 13:17:50
https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1234830342059708416