BANNED USER: Persistent culture warring and petty antagonism
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
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User ID: 1266
Banned by: @Amadan
Why are we talking about child sex trafficking when they should already be serving a lifetime sentence for making those shoes? Priorities, people.
The last I heard about this was years ago and don't currently have any cites, but apparently the US broke up pickpocketing rings in their cities while the Europeans didn't. This was part policy, part sentence length, and partly because European pickpocketing rings are ensconced in difficult to police ethnic communities the way US drug gangs are.
There's a lot of institutional knowledge and organization involved in running pickpocketing scams rather than the customary beating-people-over-the-head-with-a-tire-iron, and putting away the leaders/teachers broke the cycle.
This is now considered "discredited" as it suggests that policing rather than police abolition can reduce crime, but even Slate acknowledged it at one point (along with "lazy millennials don't want to learn an honest trade any more" lol)
Edit: have to give the slate article credit: "professionals from countries like Bulgaria and Romania, each with storied traditions of pickpocketing" is a wonderfully polite way to say "fucking gyppos took my wallet!"
Building on methodology pioneered by Azusa_Admirer88 et al. (2017) and further developed by Sailer, Steve (see bibliography pages 3-47) in this paper I argue that...
I don't know why, but you've made me really want to read an academic style Semite-Critical Theory paper.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Thanks, I thought it might just be my old browser or potato phone causing it. Markdown is a pain.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Is there any way to do single line spacing on here, or are we forced to reddit-space in shame?
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Don't worry, it's not just you. I'm finishing up some graphs for a big post, and it definitely feels like pissing away time for no real benefit.
Beats playing video games though.
This is ridiculous. You leaping to the defense and trying to paint the whole thing as some kind of weird coincidence was one thing, but this is just obtuse nitpicking.
It's the exact same line communists use to claim the USSR wasn't really communist, just State Capitalist because the workers didn't really own it. It comes across as disingenuous, and desperate to defend bad people with bad arguments rather than discuss anything.
I wish I could understand why some people get so weirdly evasive and dismissive to the point of making arguments like "woah, you can't prove there was anything sexual about the drag strip show at that kindergarten!" An enemy of your outgroup is being attacked for something they did. It's presumably not even an attack on your ingroup, so what's even the point of doing the whole "maybe those words randomly appeared on that paper" thing? It just comes across as covering for them for literally no reason except maybe who the criticism is coming from.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Wish I had time to stalk all the accounts running for it like I usually do. Don't recognize any names on here though, which is probably a good sign. Do you know any of them?
wherein a private company is compelled to put their ad dollars towards another company
"compelled" is a nice choice of words there. Is saying "you'd better not advertise with this company because we don't like what they say" compelling anyone? Is organizing a cartel with ink companies to deny a publisher ink if they print books you don't like compelling anyone?
Something seems perverse there to me, but it's not the concept of free speech.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Making me feel guilty for not getting in a single range day all summer, damn it.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Is that the doggerland civilization, or something else?
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
He(?)'s the only person I've seen doing the actual math on it with General Social Survey data though. Is that the same way Jones supports his argument?
That "it is a mystery" line has to be subtle mockery from the NYT, surely, right? It's positioned and worded so perfectly...
Or this like the reactionary version of stoned people thinking everyone on TV is high? Do I just want to believe that everyone's walking around laughing at this stuff and only pretending to take it seriously so they don't get purged?
Man, I've been reading a lot of Climate Justice And Atonement blogs lately, and there is definitely a certain demographic that is all about unending shame and punishment. I feel like it's a natural urge that used to be filled by religion, and was significantly neglected by humanist types until it was seized on by the woke.
For some of these people the only reward they want for spending their retirement savings on this stuff is for Greta Thunberg to step on their balls and yell that it's not enough. And I think any group trying to craft a counter-narrative has to acknowledge and engage with them somehow, a la Scott's "they love being berated" bit in his advice to conservatives post.
(Look I know that last part sounds uncharitable, but this dude literally had a post about how good it feels to imagine being scolded by the figurine of her he keeps on his desk. Far be it from me to criticize a man for his waifu, but come on bro: just go to a dominatrix club, it's a lot cheaper and I'm sure they have some angry goblins with pigtails)
See here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrationism_and_diffusionism
Not to put too fine a point on it, but an entire generation of anthropology was communist fanfiction with no grounding in reality, and this stuff still informs the prejudices of our educated class today.
"100% green power" is nonsense marketing, because electricity on a grid is the ultimate fungible commodity. During periods of high load, your marginal watts are being generated by a simple cycle gas turbine just like everywhere else, but you pay an extra indulgence fee to be told it was "net green."
Avoiding use (especially during high load periods) is the only way to do anything about that.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say either is preferable to the most likely outcome: a lifetime spent being reeducated in Correct and Harmonious Xi Jingping Thought at his local inpatient therapy/organ donation facility.
And given how unlikely the liberty part is... I hope it's at least quick.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
I hope Jones credited anechonicmedia for that insight.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Damn it, guess I should finally finish part two of that rambling post.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Mass and the energy of the sun, which is the eventual limiting factor for an interstellar civilization. (Realistically, any civilization limited by anything less wouldn't be capable of interstellar travel in the first place)
They wouldn't be spreading across the galaxy for spices, gold, and women.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Do you know if nydwracu is still around somewhere? He was fun.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Jesus Christ that sounds painful. How about pushups to a count of 8 instead?
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
The big problem/secret is that none of these boycott campaigns are effective on their own; they're just ammunition for subversives within the company for winning their takeover fights.
Sales don't actually have to drop, the company blucheka just need to wave some splcadllgbtbbq attack ads in the CEO's face and pull the "do what we want or you will lose subscriber!" trick.
Conservative boycotts don't have this essential feature. They are the cargo cult coconut radios of corporate activism.
I keep wanting to write a post about the difference between honest paedophiles and the "we're coming for your kids to own the cons, hail Satan" cruelty- & dominance-motivated trend that's so popular on the left now. I feel really bad for all the people being tarred by association with that stuff.
Sounds like you could do a better job explaining it to conservatives, as long as you don't start explaining the mechanics of closing German hell portals.
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