AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Alcohol and a grope, likely undersells it. Many would feature hard drugs and sexual assault, the Bryan Singer senario.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
not actually as common as reading conservative media would lead you to believe
Which variety of child sexual abuse? The sort where two men adopt / foster boys they abuse and sometimes produce pornography with or the sort where homosexual men will invite teen boys that are 'old souls' to pool parties for leering, letchery, drug use, and also sometimes pornography production?
I find both unacceptable. I suspect the latter is more common than the former. I also suspect the latter is more acceptable in the letch community.
How common does conservative media lead people to believe it is? I'm certain there are unreported instances of both occurring this weekend. Given the current year acceptance of alphabetism, isn't it likely there's more of this abuse now than anytime in the last 40 years?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
ADA earn less.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
teachers were paid like lawyers
In the private sector lawyers are frequently paid on their performance / success.
In the public sector, the median doesn't look too different from public education.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Poor women, forced to strip for internet strangers by... who?
Not forced, probably. Though there are examples of women working where they have to pay a house fee to rent their internet connected performance stage / bedroom while their travel documents are held for 'safe keeping' by their landlord / manager / pimp. I'll happily concede this is not the majority.
There's been some coverage on Andrew Tate who we are told is lots of -ists, it remains to be seen what the outcome of his legal difficulties will be.
Leonid Radvinsky is the man behind onlyfans, though not it's founder, he made it much pornier than it had been initially. Arguably onlyfans has one of the more transparent ownership structures.
young women that are sufficiently attractive should seize the day and sell pictures of their hoo-ha for $10 per viewer per month while it's still pretty
It may not be 'men' promulgating this message, but it's a message that is being heard by a cohort of women. Along with the message that this isn't a degenerate choice and anyone shaming you for choosing totally non-degenerate 'sex work' is misogynist, culturally backwards, insufficiently sex-positive, controlling, etc.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Have a car seat with a handle that also attaches to a stroller. Being able to shift a sleeping baby out of the car either onto a stroller or into a shopping cart while leaving them in their carseat / bucket is useful. Practice with the empty seat securing it into it's base in the car and onto it's fixture on a stroller.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Have you seen The Effectiveness of Cobalamin (B12) Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis?
The author of this blog https://www.epiphanyasd.com/ does a reasonable job keeping up with much of the published work in this area.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
To what end? Even the towns that would be small enough to fire all their police, would then have less control over policing by the subsequent agency until thw town reconstitutes its own force. Once you've lost so many of the police there are none to enforce the law you've also likely lost the consent of the governed or made the expectations and duties of the police untenable. I see the police more like firemen, garbagemen or water and power workers, infrastructure.
The deep state is more public private partnership.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
I modeled the Furguson Effect more as a work to rule union slow-down.
I'm not sure I can apply that to the deep state.
An opinion piece in the WSJ calls out poor numeracy. It appears the false claim was copied from an amicus brief, still it appears sloppy. I'd have thought statistical claims especially would receive specific attention / validation.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson enumerated purported benefits of “diversity” in education. “It saves lives,” she asserts. “For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live.”A moment’s thought should be enough to realize that this claim is wildly implausible. Imagine if 40% of black newborns died—thousands of dead infants every week. But even so, that’s a 60% survival rate, which is mathematically impossible to double. And the actual survival rate is over 99%.How could Justice Jackson make such an innumerate mistake? A footnote cites a friend-of-the-court brief by the Association of American Medical Colleges, which makes the same claim in almost identical language. It, in turn, refers to a 2020 study whose lead author is Brad Greenwood, a professor at the George Mason University School of Business.The study makes no such claims. It examines mortality rates in Florida newborns between 1992 and 2015 and shows a 0.13% to 0.2% improvement in survival rates for black newborns with black pediatricians (though no statistically significant improvement for black obstetricians).The AAMC brief either misunderstood the paper or invented the statistic. (It isn’t saved by the adjective “high-risk,” which doesn’t appear and isn’t measured in Greenwood’s paper.)Even the much more modest Greenwood result—which amounts to a difference of fewer than 10 Florida newborns a year—is flawed. It uses linear regression, appropriate for modeling continuous normally distributed variables like height or LSAT scores but not for categorical low-probability events like “newborn death.” The proper methodology would be a logistic model. The authors did one, hidden deep in an appendix rather than the body of the paper.There, the most highly specified model still shows an improvement in black newborn survival. But if you know how to read the numbers—the authors don’t say it—it also shows black doctors with a statistically significant higher mortality rate for white newborns, and a higher mortality rate overall, all else being equal.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Reading previous posts of moded users is one of the few times I use the profiles screen.
@Amadan ban @BurdensomeCount seemed to be in this instance directed at a specific word choice in the post, combined with his 'history'. Evidence for the history claim would have been nice, but then so would a more charitable reading of the post in this instance. After scrolling through a month or so of their posts he didn't seem to me to be excessively inflamitory. Reviewing his posts; I had engaged with several via the ⬇️ button. That we didn't immediately appear to be overly ideologically aligned, reinforced my belief that he had been modded unfairly.
Is there an easy way to filter for modded comments by a specific user? The mod log doesn't appear to be filterable by user.
I understand the desire to bring more light than heat. Sometimes the modding seems to stamp out the ember before there's evidence that anyone other than non-contributing snitches or mods has actually been inflamed. My preference would be for at least some heat before it's stamped out as inflamitory.
Myself upon reading something inflamitory to me often like to pause to see I can understand why I'm having an emotional response. That I'm then able to challenge or put inquires to the poster helps me understand their position and my emotional response. Part of the reason I come here is to be inflamed by people that are more accessible and responsive than is generally elsewhere. I find this helps me generally be less inflammable and parse the arguments of others.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
children should be taught that there is nothing wrong with LGBTQ people.
Nothing wrong in what sense and context?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
No. Obviously not. Nor is inflamitory a binary measure. An inflamitory scale could be vermin > animals > savages > barbarians (a notorious slur against the germanic people and other non greco-romans) > rioters > protesters > teenagers > joggers.
Reasonable people may disagree over the inflamitory nature of any particular word, as it relates to their specific linguistic or cultural context.
Modding for indelicate word choice and labeling as inflamitory when the 'inflamitory' word represents a necessarily small portion of the entire post, seems unnecessarily uncharitable to me. Especially when arguably more inflamitory nouns have already been deployed in the larger public discourse.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
A charitable reading of @BurdensomeCount comment might find it less inflamitory than the police unions reference to the rioters as vermin, a specific class of animals. Or is the objection to the characterization of westerners as pussies?
Are mods susceptible to the 'othering' that can be seen in law enforcement that have repeated exposure to high crime cohorts? In those contexts it seems to result in uncharitable views.
Jewish cultural influence
books containing LGBT themes
They're the same picture book.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Nobody has a sexuality until they lose their virginity
I don't think this is true. I'd argue for internalizing and owning the identity. It may be concurrent with first sexual contact but does not have to be.
actively practice your sexuality in order to possess it
Non-offending pedophiles aren't still pedophiles?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
The Daily Mail had a better headline for that story,
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
messaging around "it's okay to experiment, it doesn't mean you're necessarily gay" when I was a teen
I'm not sure if we were teens at the same time, I was a teen in the 90's. I heard this messaging then too. We would object to being 'labeled'.
suppressed just as much as hetero opponents
Are there enough of you to rebrand this gay lifestyle?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Any decrease?
I think this may be a bit of semantics but there's certainly a cohort of men that have had some same-sex experience that never accepted / identified with the gay idpol.
The stereotype of the libidenous man between girlfriends who'd accept oral sex from 'gay' guys because the casual sex was easier.
Are you gay if primarily you desire opposite sex experiences and you don't identify with the idpol?
I think it's the shift from sex with men is something you do, to I have sex with men because I'm a gay. Is how you catch gay from the idpol.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
No time limit. Once you internalize and accept the gay idpol, you've caught the gay.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
a dark reactionary taking power
Would you see this as a preferred outcome?
You have to be the change you want to see.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
No gay sex or no sex? Were you trying to have a different sort of life during this period?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Drag Race and circuit parties have become the mainstream representation of being gay
and gay cruises, gay resorts, gay pride, gay...
The 'other' gay orthodox path in current year is 'marriage' and sometimes gaybies. Though this does not preclude drag, circuit parties, drugs and parphillias.
Calling it a subculture problem seems a little dismissive, especially when any move against it is met with accusations of bigotry or homophobia. Would the Birkenstocked claim bigotry against their sensible shoes?
self reinforcing
Largely because there's so much more of it, and it's so accepted by segments of society. Is there any counter messaging that there are other ways to be gay, or you might not even be gay just a confused horny teenager without a regular non-gay outlet for your libido?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Have you seen "Boys Beware"? The stereotype of the sinister predatory homosexual was for a time the only depiction of male homosexuals in popular media.
I was more concerned with the exclusion of adult homosexuals from spaces traditionally for men and boys.
Yes.
Except as a town of only around ~4000 we don't have many tracts, and the duplexs that were built are selling for $670k.
The surrounding farmland and greenspace contribute significantly to the rural character, the historic buildings, church and common provides a canvas for the town events and a gathering space for the residents. That town leadership is responsive to residents in protecting the character is an example of democracy in action.
Perhaps if you joined us at church service or patronized our local businesses you'd have a more charitable view of the stewardship many feel for their communities.
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