Crowstep
2d ago
Is it their social and political capital? Or is it that people subconsciously see them as lacking agency?
Maybe those two things are related. The Women are Wonderful Effect seems to relate to regarding women as less agentic too.
Crowstep
3d ago
I've been enjoying the videos of Youtuber Bobby Fingers. A deadpan Irishman who makes dioramas of infamous incidents and goes to absurd lengths for throwaway gags. Due to the time it takes to create the dioramas and the time it takes to do all the stupid joke stuff, he releases a video every six months or so.
The most recent one, who crapped on Johnny Depp's bed?
Crowstep
3d ago
I'm not sure the anecdotes quite compare. Families/doctors choosing not to resuscitate is very different from allowing people to choose euthanasia for themselves. A fairer example would be if your father had asked not to be resuscitated but the doctors had ignored his request because not resuscitating him would be illegal.
Crowstep
3d ago
I'm frankly surprised the numbers are so low globally. Switzerland has had euthanasia for decades, and yet most elderly people there still die by very slow decay, with only 2-3% choosing the less painful, more dignified option.
I think comparing gun deaths in the US to MAID deaths in Canada is pretty facile. The age breakdown for MAID looks like this. Young and middle-aged people are tiny rounding errors compared to the overwhelming majority who are elderly. US gun deaths are the opposite, for both suicides and murders.
My grandfather was euthanised. Not legally mind you, this was in the UK in the 90s. But he had terminal cancer and had been given a year to live. He spent it taking lots of holidays and seeing his grandchildren as much as he could. All of my memories of him are from that year.
One year later, right on time, his health rapidly deteriorated. My dad had to drive him to the hospital and wasn't sure if he'd even make the trip, but he did.
Lying in the hospital bed, the doctor asked him: 'As we discussed Mr Crowstep?'
'As we discussed.'
The family left the room, and he was pronounced dead a few minutes later.
I've heard a lot of anti-euthanasia arguments, from people whose beliefs I generally agree with. I understand the points about normalisation, about old people feeling like a burden, getting pressured into euthanasia by grasping relatives and struggling health services. I even get the religious arguments, even though I don't believe in the supernatural.
But it's impossible for me to think about the overwhelming majority of us, the billions who will face an end where bodies and minds are dismantled bit by bit, by the cruel hand of entropy, and say to them:
'No, you have to suffer'.
I certainly know what my grandfather would say to them.
Crowstep
4d ago
That question would be better asked with more precision. If you are literally asking about Hasan's skin colour, then you can just look at him. He has skin as pale as the average European.
If you're asking 'Is he European?', well traditionally Europe ends at Istanbul, which would make Hasan Asian, but his wikipedia page says his father emigrated from Greece, although he has a surname which sound more Turkish, and that his mother has mixed Asian ancestry (Indonesia, Turkey, Kurdistan, Arabia). So on balance I'd describe him as mixed Asian, although that doesn't preclude him from having white skin, as many do in Asia.
Crowstep
4d ago
I enjoy reading these, and they're not unrelated to the thread topic. It's not like the Hock guy repeating the same thing over and over.
Why does making faces and doing silly walks make a conventionally attractive woman even more attractive?
My hypothesis, it doesn't, at least in this case. I've seen that ad before. It's a fantastic ad, but Margaret is making herself much less attractive with all the gestures and stuff. I think that's why it works as an ad. It's somewhat jarring to see a Hollywood starlet make herself look bad, there's probably some countersignalling thing about her being so beautiful that she can goof around like that (note that her hair, clothes and makeup are all perfect). There's probably also some interesting contrast with her hyper-feminine appearance and her (to my eyes) quite masculine gesticulating, which you noted in your third point.
It's very different from the playful, girlish kind of silliness that my wife (and many other women I've known) do. That's more attractive in my eyes and, I would bet, in the eyes of most men.
I use Claude as a normie. Not really doing any 'projects' but just using it as something between a research assistant, superior Google and personal advisor. I prefer it to ChatGPT because the latter will use 2000 words when 200 would do, and because Claude is noticeably less sycophantic.
I found it pretty helpful when I was applying for jobs, but I can believe that another model would have been about as good.
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