Devonshire
2yr ago
Putin might think that the West is not going to sanction him any more than it already has. And that the West will not invade/seize control of the nukes/de-nucelarize Russia because that means total war.
What is the appropriate escalation for the West for 1 nuke used against Ukraine? One nuke against Russia?
Devonshire
2yr ago
https://www.themotte.org/images/16637686202253878.webp
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Devonshire
2yr ago
Kingmaking based on in-game grudges is fine.
Kingmaking based on out-of-game status seeking is not and always what I think of.
Devonshire
2yr ago
with the political valence reversed
If you read the essay, the point is that all spaces love bullshit that confirms their priors. Whether MRAs convinced that people hire only women or racists convinced that people only hire white people, people want that kind of content, really bad. And everyone should ask themselves how they fit in that narrative.
Devonshire
2yr ago
A lot of Voter ID laws have some kind of exemption system that handles the "I just totally let my driver's license lapse" people.
Devonshire
2yr ago
FIRE has had to turn down donations from people who wanted to spend money just to "own the libs."
And if you look at what happened to the ACLU, which became an "own the cons" organization, that was a really good idea, assuming they care about their core principle and not "their side" of the culture war.
Devonshire
2yr ago
This, particularly for the "load more comments" button.
Devonshire
2yr ago
Once you start having any quantity of non-native speakers, you need to have a foreign-speaking doctor and a teacher and a dentist and a lawyer and ...
I am on the conservative side, but this thread was about the steelman.
Devonshire
2yr ago
If your entire career is being a performance athlete like A-Rod, yes. Otherwise I am quite skeptical.
Devonshire
2yr ago
Man, even the arguments on Hacker News that agree with my viewpoint are very poorly made.
Was it always like this or did it go downhill?
Devonshire
2yr ago
Tip for married life: When your wife says "I just heard about this horrible thing!" you do not say "axxshually you are wrong and misinformed."
Devonshire
2yr ago
at least in moderation.
That is my instinct on exactly where it might go off the rails. If you have to be 100%, then it does not matter, you will never achieve that. Like never ever drinking unfiltered water, sooner or later you are at a restaurant or friend's house for some reason.
Devonshire
2yr ago
Like /u/EfficientSyllabus below, I am not at all surprised if the diet "works" for people who try it, for whatever reason, because they are at least thinking about their food for more than a few seconds.
I would still like to know what kind of follow-ups this stuff gets, though.
Devonshire
2yr ago
Do you have a citation? I see no news stories, and https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/ does not have it although I admit I do not know if it normally would.
Devonshire
2yr ago
but you'll recall that most of the dunking on Ivermectin was when people were going out and taking megadoses and getting sick
The Motte is "taking too much and getting sick."
The Bailey is "ha ha they are taking horse medicine" even when taking the human form in human doses prescribed by a human doctor. Like Joe Rogan got. https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-don-lemon-cnn-ivermectin-sanjay-gupta-lying-1639240
I agree with the object level point that the election was not stolen, and find constantly mentioning it as "false" to be extremely weird and off-putting. I cannot imagine someone who disagrees with the object level point (or merely being on-the-fence) being convinced one bit.
Devonshire
2yr ago
Bari Weiss had a podcast with Dr Casey Means about Means new "Levels" diet.
https://www.honestlypod.com/podcast/episode/d0186220/eating-ourselves-to-death
(Bari Weiss does not really interview, in the sense of pushing back on her subject and making them take tough positions. I guess that is podcasting world.)
The tl:dr is to not eat anything processed at all. There is some kind of biofeedback which shows you getting better by not eating processed food. The episode's arguments about why there is no support for this range from extremely reasonable to conspiracy theory stuff.
Is there any follow-up research on how well her diet works?
(I do not want "her ideal diet is wrong, follow my ideal diet instead." I just get this sinking feeling whenever I ask questions about a specific diet that people see it as a chance to talk about their own, and that the proponents of the diet in question will say that any problems with it are from not following it closely enough.)
Devonshire
2yr ago
even Afghanistan, I believe, never got a mass protest reaction beyond the usual, ie. the small Communist parties
People's memories are hazy, but Afghanistan was incredibly popular at the time. The US was actually attacked on its own soil. The casualties were even greater than Pearl Harbor.
The anti-war people I knew on September 10, 2001 had reactions ranging from "well, I said the military is only for self-defense, this looks like it" to "shrug I guess we are gonna go to war."
Devonshire
2yr ago
A lot of poor people do work and are still poor,
It is extremely rare to have a full-time job and still be in poverty. The fable of an idle rich is a powerful tale, but at least in 21st century America, upper-class people work more than middle-class people who work more than lower-class people.
they can easily end up with huge bills for seeking medical care so they avoid it as much as possible
Like above, "people defer basic care until it gets more expensive" is an appealing story, and it is easy to imagine it being true. But aside from very specific exceptions, there is no measurable difference in health care outcomes from being given health care.
Devonshire
2yr ago
DeSantis absolutely should get e-Verify going.
Devonshire
2yr ago
"You can fix things yourself as long as the other side does not notice and put up a fight" is kind of what my starting position was.
Devonshire
2yr ago
I really cannot overstate how much I despise these lawyer
If the answer to "why are we punishing the lawyers" is "because I hate them" then we have really cut through all the bullshit exceptionally fast.
I really like Patchwork_October's idea for requiring birthright sponsors for immigrants. I would go further and have them put up a bond to stop some judgement-proof patsy being used.
Devonshire
2yr ago
And I'm advocating changing the rules.
To say that people questioning the rules get punished. Typical strongman behavior but I will try literally anything else.
If you have the power to punish lawyers for representing the wrong people, you also have the power to say those immigrants just do not have legal rights to stay in the country in the first place.
Devonshire
2yr ago
I would like to make a standing offer to anyone reading this, that I will coach you through fixing any "political lean" problem of the sort you're alluding to.
How long do you think it is going to take? How many rounds of edits? If they keep on holding me off for a month and I get tired, do you win?
What if the source got cito-genesised?
One thing I would like fixed is their article about Kiwi Farms. The article has this:
Julie Terryberry, a Canadian woman, died by suicide in 2016 following sustained harassment from Kiwi Farms users.[10][11][13]
Follow those three citations.
[10]: Gizmodo article. The full sum of their Terryberry coverage is this:
In 2016, a Canadian woman, Julie Terryberry, ended her life after being targeted by the site.
"ended her life" is a hyperlink to some rando's Wordpress site, which doxxes Josh's mother, and has this:
Kiwi Farms had about 200 webpages bullying a teenaged girl named Julie Terryberry and she committed suicide.
That is it. That is the entire chain of [10].
[11] is in Fucking French.
[13] is to Business Insider, and just links to [10] and [11]. BECAUSE THEY JUST SOURCED IT FROM WIKIPEDIA.
Those are their own sources. But even if I tried fixing them now and we got Business Insider kicked out as trash, this "fact" from the Wikipedia article has been cite-washed through the Washington Post https://archive.ph/ExKi4 "At least three suicides have been tied to harassment stemming from the Kiwi Farms community." Will you help stop that article from being cited?
When a conversation gets really heavily nested, I want to pick a comment and make that the new root of my discussion, like on reddit. If I click on "context" I get sent to a page with all the parents still existing.
Example: https://www.themotte.org/post/75/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/8664?context=8#context
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