DuplexFields
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DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
11mo ago
The system is built to notice and disrupt coordination.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
11mo ago
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It’s not for the sake of being weird, it’s in spite of.
Generations X and Y grew up watching quality fantasy adventure comedy ensemble cartoon shows, often from Disney with the exception of Sonic the Hedgehog: Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck, Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers, Tale Spin, Goof Troop, The Mighty Ducks, and more. The fandoms of these shows endure because of the care taken with the storytelling and the high production quality. (They also tended to be incubators of furries.)
In 2010, such shows had basically gone extinct. There was the oddball Adventure Time and the “combining robot” adventure show Sym-Bionic Titan, and little else. Then The Hub channel from Hasbro debuted with My Little Pony, and fans of shows like Tale Spin or Sonic the Hedgehog recognized a return to the classic form: a quality fantasy adventure comedy ensemble cartoon show. It was not just fun, it was meaty in how enjoyable it was. Storytelling was back. It was written so parents could watch with their kids and not be secretly wishing to turn it off.
The basic premise is that a top student (nerdy, autism-coded) in an elite prep school gets sent by her mentor to a small Midwestern town to make friends with the local small business women who are vendors for the mentor’s big event: a farmer, an animal caretaker/trainer, a party planner, a dressmaker, and a crop-duster/cloud-seeder who dreams of flying with the national airshow team. They rescue the mentor when her estranged sister kidnaps her. The mentor assigns the student to learn sociology there in the town with her new friends.
Except they’re all technicolor horses (unicorns, pegasi, and “earth ponies”) in a quasi-feudal fantasy realm, the mentor is the princess alicorn (winged unicorn) who raises the sun each day, and 1/3 of the population has reality-warping magic.
And both GenX and the Millennials adored it.
DuplexFields
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11mo ago
In shorter form, Kamala Harris’ Blackness has a lot in common with the personhood of an unborn child: it depends on who’s asking and why, and it’s a political football in the hands of a Lucy van Pelt.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
11mo ago
The ones who would inherit the power vacuum caused by recusal would, by the same logic, need to recuse themselves, leaving nobody.
DuplexFields
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11mo ago
This sort of mirroring rarely if ever works in doing anything more than just giving more strength to the original meme.
It’s ironic that the original “weird” meme could have been easily countered with either of the two classic responses: “I’m rubber, you're glue, anything you throw at me bounces off and sticks to you,” or “I know you are, but what am I?”
Make it clear they’re using playground insults, third-grade level at best, and don't deign to rise beyond that level of seriousness with a considered and unique response.
DuplexFields
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11mo ago
Any thoughts on the “secret service agent accidentally delivered the kill shot” theory? It’s the most interesting one I’ve recently heard.
DuplexFields
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11mo ago
I’m your peer in age, approximately, but I never saw a reason to “grow out” of watching cartoons; I still enjoy them for their fun and fantasy. So do Lauren Faust, her husband Craig McCracken, their frequent collaborators Genndy Tartakovski and Rob Renzetti, and lots of other GenX and Millennial cartoon creators whose skill in the storytelling medium of 2D animation carry forward a century of tradition.
I found the MLP show when I was in deep depression, and because I still watched cartoons, I had the joy of watching the show and discussing it online to help me overcome some major difficulties in my life.
(As for “why furries,” I’ll wait for a less sneering phrasing with fewer bundled implications.)
DuplexFields
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11mo ago
Some thoughts on self-sabotage, also known as akrasia.
People generally want to face the world with accurate perception, sound judgment, and intended actions. The product of these three things is a choice made wisely.
Not doing one of the three makes the person appear to have chosen foolishly. If one of these was not within their power, they have an excuse. If all three were within their power but they didn’t do them, they chose foolishly.
When someone is punished unjustly or out of proportion for choosing foolishly, usually by a parent, manager, or teacher, they might become a perfectionist, of either the harder-working or the avoidant perfectionist (procrastinator) types.
Perfectionism and procrastination are often seen in people who have a toxic “need to be right” impulse.
DuplexFields
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11mo ago
I immediately imagined having to pretend I’m an anarchist (full grey tribe mode) in order to continue being a libertarian conservative (grey-red).
DuplexFields
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11mo ago
A speedy decapitation is the least barbaric method I can conceive of.
Skydiving without a parachute has always been my preferred autoeuthanistic endeavor, though as a Christian I am honor-bound never to do such.
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11mo ago
I’m an individualist American, an objectivist libertarian, and well versed in Western mental health models. This informs my Christianity that I should strive for health as one of my highest utility functions, and suicide outside of martyrdom is one of the unhealthiest acts I can perform.
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10mo ago
Licensed fiction. I’ve probably read more Star Trek, Star Wars, movie, and video game adaptation books by volume, plus fanfiction, than original works.
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10mo ago
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One of the Bernalillo County (where Albuquerque, NM is) Republican Party’s big talking points is that the Albuquerque Public Schools district’s total budget is poorly spent by government.
Divided by pupil, the cost is a few thousand dollars more per year than tuition at Albuquerque Academy, the swankiest of our two prep high schools and the one with the biggest, showiest campus. At that price, we should be turning out Silicon Valley/Harvard/MIT-level high school grads, but we’re not.
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10mo ago
I’d like to register my disgust with this definition.
Civic nationalism, the choice to become an American through the legal naturalization process, is as fundamentally American as birthright citizenship. As long as my neighbors have come in through the front door, or were born on this land, I welcome them as my cousins.
If someone rejects America while living here, as many WEIRD socialists do, they are to me as alien as the person who snuck in under cover of night.
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10mo ago
Has any other natural-born citizen of America here ever spoken aloud the oath of allegiance required to obtain immigration citizenship? I did so once, alone in the dead of night, and it was a surprisingly powerful experience.
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10mo ago
our institutions should require religious belief in a personal diety for high-level positions which require trust, without favoritism toward any one system of belief or denomination.
That’s what the Masons tried… and ended up accused of all sorts of evils.
That’s what the Boy Scouts tried… and ended up a skinsuit for the egregore.
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10mo ago
I had some plums from a Kroger store this week which were almost completely free of taste despite being the perfect softness to eat. Very offputting.
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10mo ago
Another difference is the amount and types of data to be processed by the driver/rider.
As a person with high-functioning autism, I’ve been blessed with a computer mind and very few sensory issues. I’m a car driver with no blemishes on my record and a good feel for safety.
However, I didn’t learn how to ride a bike until the age of 21 due to severe autism-related clumsiness. The person who taught me was surprised when I wasn’t able to do with my left side what I could do on my right. He said it was the first time he truly knew I had a disability.
I wouldn’t survive a week on the bike lanes and intersections of Albuquerque.
DuplexFields
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10mo ago
I was at the UNM Lobos football opener, first game for their new coach.
A sudden windstorm blew a camera off the stadium roof and almost injured spectators in the crowd below, but one data cable held firm and didn’t snap. Someone on the second story pulled it inside safely.
We were ahead of the other team for all but thirty seconds of the game. Too bad it was the final thirty seconds. On the way out of the stadium, we heard some hate-watchers saying they knew it all along that the new coach was never going to cut it, and he should just quit now.
So, business as usual for the Lobos.
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10mo ago
Any moral system that insists you have some obligation to black crack babies across the country is trivially extendible to cover unfortunates all across the world and I suspect there's cognitive dissonance in not doing so.
I mean, if your god is anti-murderist, you’ve got an obligation to save your enemies from themselves. Save the babies and let God make them Republicans.
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10mo ago
If it is true that “God makes no mistakes” he has some very serious explaining to do in regards to why he engineers certain pregnancies to result in a fetus with half a brain, or with no lungs.
Creationists say there would be no such mistakes were Adam not to have eaten a specific delicious fruit. There would be no mutations, humans would live a thousand years even without eating the fruit of the tree of life, and T-Rexes would still be vegan to this day.
Christian evolutionists have a much simpler answer: God used the death-churn of evolution to make us, so we should have no complaints about the problem of evil/suffering.
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10mo ago
Problems can be classified on this four-axis model by how much or little they remove these four qualities of value from anything of value, or introduce the negative values. This is a step toward the creation of my universal problem-solving project.
DuplexFields
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10mo ago
Linkback to a new Triessentialism post: An Ontology of Values
TLDR: the four qualities or axes of value are Agency, Utility, Experience, and Esteem.
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10mo ago
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My Triessentialist classifications into What, How, and Why has the potential to give insight into comparative rankings of value amongst people-groups.
- I expect physically intuitive people (biggest groups: men and the red tribe) to value enjoyment and agency higher than esteem and utility.
- I expect emotionally intuitive people (biggest groups: women and the blue tribe) to value esteem and agency higher than enjoyment and utility.
- I expect logically intuitive people (biggest groups: the grey tribe and people on the autism spectrum) to value utility and agency higher than esteem and enjoyment.
Now, that’s not to say that people don’t value their group’s “outvalues”! Everyone values all four values in most situations. That’s just human, or perhaps I should say, mammalian.
I’m saying that when one value is weighed as the cost of another value, such as giving up tasty food to lose weight, gain status, and retain health (gain utility and agency), people who categorically prefer one value will devalue the others in their economic calculations.
They’re also more likely to see agency in terms of their preferred value: enjoyment, esteem, or utility being the true end for which agency exists as a means.
Vance had to choose his own identity when the institution of patriarchy broke down in his family and failed to give him one. I don’t think it’s cringe, given his life story as portrayed in Hillbilly Elegy.
I can think of two other circumstances treated somewhat seriously by society, beyond legal name changes and brides taking their husbands’ names.
A story trope I heard about, growing up as a GenX kid in America, was how generic Noble Savages would rename themselves following their Trial Of Manhood. I have never heard nor researched this tradition’s provenance in any particular tribe or people, but it was played straight in the Star Trek TOS novel Uhura’s Song.
Then I discovered the Internet and chose a handle or two. This one dates back to finding out My Little Pony had the answers for my autism-based lack of relational instincts.
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