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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
9hr ago
Surprised by your reaction to the latter. I've read it so many times there are entire passages I can quote from memory. One of the funniest books I've ever read.
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17hr ago
He named a talk he gave after a Bon Jovi song and has rambled on at length (both in lectures and in journal articles) about how important bands like Oasis and Simon & Garfunkel are to him. The Eagles thing might well be the only autobiographical claim he makes in the memoir which is uncontroversially true.
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17hr ago
Who is claiming that?
Many of the denizens of /r/ireland, or the people who comment on The Journal.
Your summary seems to be nothing more than a straw man argument
Maybe a weak man. Not a straw man.
Kathleen Stock is so based.
Even severely debilitating physical conditions produce good days as well as bad. On some bad days, a person may need extra help. But when a disproportionate number of young women are insisting this applies, we need to find out what is going on.
Serendipitously, the book I'm currently reading notes that, while the people being hospitalised for Covid were overwhelmingly old and male (and often diabetic), the people diagnosing themselves with long Covid were overwhelmingly young, female and not diabetic. O'Sullivan is much nicer about this than I would be, insisting that psychosomatic illnesses are not any less "real" than those caused by viruses or bacteria. But occasionally the mask slips, as when she notes that a widely-circulated list of possible symptoms of long Covid included both "loneliness" and "feeling scared".
I don't know why young women in the modern era are disproportionately prone to malingering or diagnosing themselves with diseases and medical disorders they don't have. But they are.
Daniel Kinahan extradited from Dubai back to Dublin.
Daniel Kinahan is a member of the Kinahan crime family, who control much of the drug trade in Ireland and Europe more broadly. At one time the US State Department were offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his arrest (apparently at one point it was as high as $15 million). In April he was arrested in Dubai (where he and several other members of the cartel have been holed up for years) and arrangements were made for his extradition.
I actually heard the plane taking him to the Casement Aerodrome flying overhead earlier this evening, and passed close to the Special Criminal Courts where he was taken for his sitting. There was a heavy police presence with roads closed off and armed guards patrolling the streets (most police officers in Ireland are unarmed). A lot of men want this man dead, as the Kinahans have a longstanding feud with another criminal gang, the Hutch family. Kinahan has now been transported to a maximum security prison in Co. Laois pending his trial. One wonders if he'll live to see it. Most likely he will have to be kept on 24-hour protection.
Finished The Mothman Prophecies during the week. Good spooky fun, although I hardly believe a word of it. Makes me want to watch the film for the umpteenth time, though I'll have to wait for spooky season. The "prophecies" part of the title refers to how various contactees reported foreknowledge of assorted international events after interacting with Indrid Cold and co. I had to laugh when the first example used to illustrate these entities' supposed prescience was something along the lines "there will soon be a major escalation of one of the conflicts in the Middle East".
My word. Who but a clairvoyant alien superintelligence could have predicted such a thing!
A few months ago on a whim I bought the comic book The Con Artists by the Irish artist Luke Healy, which I read from start to finish on my evening commute the same day I finished Mothman. It concerns two gay men who were childhood friends, one of whom fractures his arm after being hit by a bus, an incident that in turn exposes thitherto unacknowledged tensions in their friendship. Aggressively millennial: the protagonist is a shitty standup comedian who claims to suffer from an anxiety disorder, but can't stop cracking self-deprecating jokes during his therapy sessions. The artwork was clean and minimal to the point of lacking character. Healy is talented both in writing and artwork, but I think he could benefit from getting off Instagram and trying to carve out a more unique identity of his own.
On to The Age of Diagnosis by the Irish physician Suzanne O'Sullivan. My fiancée attended a talk by her to promote this book and was very impressed: she read this one before I did. O'Sullivan's thesis will be familiar to many of us here: medics now diagnose and prescribe more than they ought, characterising problems as medical disorders when previous generations just considered them personality traits or the ordinary slings-and-arrows life throws at us. The first chapter concerns the ethical dilemmas surrounding whether to get tested for Huntington's disease. O'Sullivan's prose sometimes reads like a case history, and she has an annoying predilection for sentence fragments which should have been caught by a copy-editor, but I'm interested to see what ground she covers and how deep into the culture war she goes (in the introduction she touched on "long Covid" and the skyrocketing rates of autism and ADHD diagnoses).
Crazy how you always use these rambling irrelevant "analogies" when someone points out a hole in your worldview. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
As ever, there's a rather obvious elision in your analogy which you seem determined not to acknowledge:
However, if her father were to refuse her request, in order to avoid the slight possibility of her getting away with anything, while subjecting her to the far larger likelihood of spending every night for many years terrified out of her wits
I agree that if a girl is scared of something in her bedroom and wants a nightlight, the most parsimonious explanation is that she really is scared of it. The ratio of girls who claim to want nightlights because they're really scared of something in their bedrooms vs. girls who do so for some ulterior motive must be heavily weighted in favour of the former category.
But for your analogy to work, we need a good reason to assume that "people don't lie about their gender identity" is the null hypothesis. You seem to have essentially decided that the number of people telling the truth about their gender identity is vastly in excess of the number of people lying about it for ulterior motives. I genuinely don't know how you arrived at this conclusion.
Bryan Caplan had an article this week talking about how many socialists (and progressives, by extension) seem fundamentally incapable (or unwilling) to grasp the basic concept that people respond to incentives. I feel like I'm going nuts, because proponents of gender ideology will scoff at the idea that anyone would lie about their gender identity – then immediately turn around and say "so, anyone who identifies as a woman should be permitted to compete in female sporting events, should be allowed to use dating apps for female lesbians, should be sent to a woman's prison if they're convicted of a crime, should be eligible for grants and scholarships earmarked for female people, and there should be no gatekeeping on any of this because People Know Who They Are, and anyone who suggests that people who've never been diagnosed with gender dysphoria aren't really trans is a Nazi, and it doesn't matter if someone only discovered they were trans after being convicted of a crime, and it's wrong to ever refer to someone by their deadname even if they've been convicted of a violent crime..."
Why would someone lie about their gender identity? My brother in Christ, you just told me. The policies you're advocating are the reason they would lie.
I suspect I'd know it when I see it.
First the definition of the word "woman" depends on the context, and has something to do with either having concave genitals or really wanting them. Then you admit that wanting concave genitals has nothing to do with it and it's all about self-identification. Then you admit that even self-identification has certain arbitrary carve-outs which you are unable to enumerate.
What this means in practice is that, in your framework, the word "woman" is undefined. It has no formalised definition. It is a floating signifier.
Do you understand how you've completely vindicated the effectiveness of the "what is a woman?" gotcha question, when by your own admission you literally cannot define the term under discussion and it ultimately boils down to "you know it when you see it"? Do you understand how frustrating it is to have a debate with you, when you're constantly changing around the definitions of the words you're using, how it makes the act of talking to you feel like a shell game? Do you understand why most people find gender ideology alienating, incoherent and intellectually unserious, when it proposes taking a commonsense word like "woman" with a simple and intuitive definition based on anatomy, and replacing that definition with "idk whatever you want lol but don't ever make fun of us or we'll call for you to be murdered"?
The word "woman", as used by you, means nothing. In future, I will simply disregard any sentence you write which contains the word "woman" or its derivatives, as I have absolutely no idea what entities you're referring to by the use of said words. By your own admission, neither do you. You literally cannot provide a working definition beyond "I know it when I see it". You cannot define one of the basic terms on which your ideology rests, and yet expect the rest of it to accept that ideology at face value.
'[She's] a convicted rapist' is not such an indication because convictions for sexual assault are not the exclusive province of people born with male genitals.
Note the elision here. Yes, female people can commit sexual assault (although they commit a tiny, near-negligible proportion of sexual assaults every year – 1% in Ireland, <4% in England and Wales, 3% in Australia and so on). In many jurisdictions (including the UK, Ireland, Queensland and others), rape is defined as forcible or non-consensual penetration with a penis, which female people definitionally cannot commit.
I don't know if your acceptance of people committing the most quintessentially male of all crimes in the category "women" can be attributed to sheer unbridled gullibility, or an outright (but unacknowledged) hatred of female people. What's that saying? Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice?
You casually describe others as misogynistic without once stopping yourself to ask if your own attitudes are misogynistic, in practice if not by design. In your eyes, a man using the word "female" as a noun is misogynistic. But forcing a female person to share a prison cell with a male person with an intact penis who has used said member to penetrate multiple females without their consent and proudly declared his intent to do so again at the earliest opportunity – that's progressive. That's just "being a decent person".
"Why should I have to share a cell with this rapist?! He's going to rape me too!"
"Well, he's a woman."
"He only started 'identifying' as a woman post-conviction! In what possible sense could be be considered a woman?"
"Eh – you know one when you see one. His raping is so femme-coded. It's like, yass kween."
Is that seriously the argument you would present in this case? If so, does it seriously not strike you as utterly repulsive and abhorrent?
What the fuck is a female-coded rape with a penis? You ask your victim their star sign while overpowering them, or enquire about their skincare routine?
The fact that you can look at a male person who has forcibly inserted his penis into a female person without her consent, has no desire to remove said appendage, and proudly declares his intent to use it for that purpose again – you can look at him and announce "I know a woman when I see one, and boy are you ever one!" – just, honestly. This worldview, to my mind, seems far more misogynistic than those people who want to repeal the 19th amendment. After patiently listening to you expound on this ideology for months, the only reasonable conclusion I can draw is that anyone who endorses this ideology is either ignorant about what it really entails, or has a profoundly deep-seated hatred for female people as a group. Perhaps both.
Given you purport to be such a devotee of Eliezer, let me put it in terms he might endorse:
- There are two kinds of entities, Bleggs and Rubes. They differ along numerous axes (shape, colour, size etc.)
- Sometimes a particular entity looks very much like a Blegg, but is considered to actually be a Rube, or vice versa
- But conversely, sometimes something that looks very much like a Blegg is categorised as a Rube, but this turns out to be a false positive, and it really was a Blegg all along
- Most entities never exhibit a particular behavioural trait (which I'll call Stux), but 97-99% of entities who exhibit Stux are Bleggs. There are occasional Rubes which exhibit Stux, but those that do tend to be central examples of Rubes along most other axes
- An entity which was categorised as a Rube, but which has numerous Blegg-like traits, exhibits Stux.
Which is the most parsimonious explanation of the above scenario? That the entity is an extremely non-central example of a Rube? Or that the entity really is a Blegg, and we were wrong to categorise it as a Rube in the first place?
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
The lawyer actually said the famous words: “Permission to treat the witness as hostile”.
The only time I remember hearing this phrase was that one scene in The Dark Knight. What does it actually mean, in practice?
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Completely forgot she was in Into the Wild, shows what a big impression she made. I heard Spencer was pretty good.
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2d ago
None of the other actors in this pretentious French movie struck me as exceptionally talented, and yet she was still the obvious weak link. Even Taylor Lautner upstaged her in the first Twilight movie.
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2d ago
I went to a gig on Thursday in which a moshpit ensued. It was the first time I'd been in a moshpit this year.
When was the last time you were in a moshpit? Which artist was performing? How old were you? Did you have a good time? Did you suffer any after-effects? Would you do it again?
There is no greater motivator than spite.
Some arsehole charted out a running route which spells out a political slogan, ran that route, then posted a screenshot of his Strava run on Instagram. A Facebook page I follow shared it, soying out over how "based" and "redpilled" he is. I pointed out that this is stupid performative virtue-signalling nonsense. Various people replied to me saying that I'm just envious that I'm not as good a runner as he is. I pointed out that I've completed three marathons with a PR of just under four hours, and also that this guy's stated pace (10km in 53:20) is not even particularly fast, and significantly slower than my PR for that distance. These people were incredulous. I was planning to go to the gym this afternoon anyway, so I dutifully hopped on the treadmill and ran 10k in 48 minutes exactly.
Mogged.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
I'll begrudgingly admit she was alright in Love Lies Bleeding, but she's always been the weakest actor in anything I've seen her in.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
Supposedly the director didn't want him in The Notebook as he didn't think he was handsome enough to be a romantic lead.
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3d ago
My fiancée says Jennifer Lawrence. Obviously attractive, obviously a talented actress equally adept at comedy and drama, and yet has a certain girl-next-door quality that you could imagine shooting the shit with her over a couple of beers.
She also co-starred with him in Gangster Squad, and Crazy Stupid Love (the latter of which, despite the silly title, is actually well worth checking out).
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
Yeah. "That's XCOM, baby!" Still bollocks though.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
XCOM 2, Commander Ironman mode, of course.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
Florence Pugh, by virtue of being Literally Me Her.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
Malicious compliance, in other words.
I've been meaning to read Screwtape. Out of interest, how long was your copy, and how long did it take you to read it?
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