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DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
22d ago
Iran is run by an ethnic supremacist Arab ruling class forcing (at pain of death or worse) the native Persian populace to bow to their god. The tens of thousands of protesters they killed are more legibly a genocide than the fog-of-war deaths of far fewer non-Hamas Palestinians.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
28d ago
Have you attempted changing the color filter accessibility feature to deuteranopia, and then looking at scenery pictures?
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
30d ago
I just discovered that everything looks better with the color filter in the Windows accessibility features, and I may have very slight sub-clinical deuteranopia, weakness of the green cones. I was just playing around with the feature and realized the desktop wallpaper on my second monitor looked a lot better!
So I took the https://www.colorblindnesstest.org test. Apparently there aren't supposed to be any "hard" guesses on the Ishihara plates (bubble numbers), but four of the plates took me more than five seconds to decipher.
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1mo ago
I wondered why the attack happened on a Sabbath, but it being the week of Purim makes sense. Per Google:
Shabbat Zachor: The Shabbat immediately preceding Purim is known as Shabbat Zachor ("Remember"). During this service, a special Torah portion (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) is read, commanding the remembrance of Amalek, an enemy who attacked the Israelites from behind, specifically targeting the weak and elderly. This connects directly to the villain of the Purim story, Haman, who is considered a descendant of Amalek.
Trump’s team is doing a Pascal’s Wager that it’s worth supporting Israel religiously, as well as politically. This will make the anti-Zionists and antisemites “big mad” as the kids say. I do wonder if this strike counts under the original Persian decree of Xerxes that the Jews be allowed to defend themselves; in the Book of Esther, a decree written in the king’s name and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.
As for the direction of the Middle East and Levant going forward, I want to see Iranian blood money dry up and see the region incentivized to peace by the siren song of capitalism.
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1mo ago
The FairTax prebate (flat “precalculated rebate”) of >$250/mo could be direct-deposited in a real bank account or dropped onto an EBT-like card.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1mo ago
There are people who will never understand dysphoria and cannot bring themselves to believe such modes of mind can exist.
To me, this is like the aphantasic disbelieving I can actually have a picture in my mind of a horse spinning in three dimensions while galloping.
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1mo ago
When I was somewhat deep in the furry fandom, circa 1997-2003, therian was the new fancy word for “furry lifestyler,” and otherkin was for non-furry species dysphorics who felt they should have been born elves, hobbits, or other fantasy/D&D species/races.
The first time I remember it leaking out into normie culture was the Na’vikin inspired by James Cameron’s Avatar.
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1mo ago
I would love to find out someday that Bashar al-Assad was the temporary Emperor of Tamriel for a month in Elder Scrolls Online, holding the city against all attackers through keen tactical plans and good structural strategy.
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2mo ago
slow clap
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2mo ago
It’s that NPR/New Yorker slice of life tone. It’s part of the blue tribe sensemaking apparatus. If they were forced to describe things as the red tribe do, all action and import, they feel they’re betraying a vital part of themselves.
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2mo ago
Treating America as a store where you can “buy” jobs with your promise of labor, someplace where you can earn money to send home, may have some “capitalistic” feel to it, but even conservatives, libertarians, and capitalists like to have a Real Home For My People like anyone else. And to have the “customers” pushing us out is untenable.
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2mo ago
Don’t forget “both sides” being egged on by their preferred media, social media, and private group chats and meetings. “Tomorrow we enter the Capitol!” “Drive, baby, drive!”
Don’t forget the policy wonks claiming “Defection!” on “both sides,” citing the constant denial and dismissal of court cases seeking to reexamine the 2020 vote totals, and the international law re refugees and immigrants from Somalia.
But also don’t forget Statuary Hall and the peaceful televised procession between velvet ropes. The chaos was mostly left outside.
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2mo ago
The villains were based on the Communists ruining the Russia she grew up in and escaped. They’re not unrealistic because choices that absurd and worse happened, and are happening.
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2mo ago
Her earlier novel, The Fountainhead, was what awoke me to the realization of how my codependency (that very specific people pleasing behavior) was crushing my soul. It was my first breath of fresh air in a long journey of recovery. Iron Man 1 was my second.
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3mo ago
Have you ever played Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse)?
It's a drawing game played by artists, both the Surrealists and inspired schoolchildren. Someone folds a sheet of paper into thirds, as one would when preparing to mail a letter, and the first artist draws on the top third the head of a character, monster, person, etc. He makes sure to extend the lines of the neck briefly into the middle third, and passes the paper to the second artist. The second artist, without viewing the top third, draws a torso, extends the connecting lines of the waist into the bottom third and gives it to the third artist to draw the pelvis and legs.
Someone at Adult Swim (formerly Cartoon Network) had the grand idea of having three or four of their most famous cartoon producers create an Cadavre Exquis, animated by different production companies, with none of the three knowing what the others would be creating. Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time), a duo of Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) & Ian Jones-Quartey (OK, K.O!), and Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall) collaborated blindly.
The result is neither disjointed nor meaningless.
As a lifelong fan of cartoons and other forms of animation, I found it a fascinating and compelling half-hour of artistry. You can watch the entire thing if you have a cable TV provider, a satellite dish subscription, or an HBO Max account. The documentary is freely available on YouTube, but I highly recommend watching the actual show both before and after you see the documentary, first to prevent spoilers and later to find themes and symbols you missed on the first watch.
What I found interesting on my second watch was how politically tribal it is. I don't mean in the culture war sense! (Except that a character named Donald wields a gun at one point, but that's expected CW claptrap at this point.) I mean that the shared language of symbols shared by the artsy blue tribe at the pinnacle of the corporate art-making world became obvious on my second viewing. This, more than anything, is what makes it feel like a single piece planned collaboratively from the start.
All three segments share a focus on identity, since the main characters of each are directly based on Exquisite Corpses drawn by these three famed animators. There are elements of body horror and bodily integrity throughout, and an undercurrent of the expectation that being embodied includes the fragility of death.
All three segments share oppression as the primary physical threat to the main character: antagonists, the alienation of fame, and one's own existence are each, in turn, seen as oppressive.
This "tribal hive mind" aspect is why it feels like a unified whole instead of the disaster that was the Star Wars sequel trilogy, which is itself considered a Cadavre Exquis by some reviewers. This is the tribe that communicates asynchronously what the media story of the day and The Latest Discourse will be, acting separately and alone but toward a shared goal, surviving as a group mind by winnowing out and excommunicating members who don't get the memo.
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4mo ago
Same as Reddit: surround the hyperlink text with [square brackets] and immediately follow it with the (URL in parentheses).
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4mo ago
We talked about this at my computer-savvy workplace yesterday and agreed if we were going to leave Windows, the Steamcube would be why.
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4mo ago
Using Windows systems for business at work and at my third places, with minimal downtime and zero tinkering. That’s what I’m doing.
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4mo ago
I went to two in Colorado and one in Albuquerque. That last one impressed upon me how much at risk I was of losing my salvation were I to continue doing nothing related to my faith. Thereupon I began studying the Bible in earnest, and thinking theological and philosophical thoughts. I can draw a direct line from Promise Keepers to Triessentialism.
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4mo ago
FYI you can use
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to keep the site from renumbering
2- all of your heading lines
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4mo ago
Agreed. That entire reply was cosmologically incoherent and probably facetious: if Christianity is true, then no other faith’s afterlife even exists, nor do their rules apply.
As for blasphemy, “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain”, the actual commandment against blasphemy, is not about hitting your knee and using God’s, Jesus’, or the Holy Spirit’s name as a profanity. (Though doing so is unhealthy to the psyche.) The better way to read it is “don’t claim to be authorized by God,” which is why false prophecy carried a death sentence in BC Israel.
An intriguing and sobering clue to the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is found in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: “You have heard that it was said to our ancestors, Do not murder, and whoever murders will be subject to judgment. But I tell you, everyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Fool (raqa)!’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, ‘You moron (morē)!’ will be subject to hellfire.” (Matthew 5:21-22, HCSB)
This detailed scholarly analysis of insults in the cultural mileu in which Jesus taught His disciples summarizes Jesus’ likely intended meaning thus:
This sentence should thus be read: “Whoever says to his brother or sister [a fellow, not a deserving opponent], ‘Raqa,’ [accusing his brother of false and empty interpretations of Scripture] is liable to the council. Whoever says, ‘Fool!’ [insulting his brother as one insults polemical opponents] is liable to the hell of fire.” … Consistent with the rest of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus turns to a moral proscription rather than a legalistic one: it is not just the misinterpretation of Scripture that is the cause for such punishments, but even the false accusation that another misinterprets it. You say that we should go to the Sanhedrin and gehenna [hell] when we misinterpret the law? I say that the flinging of such insults deserves the same severe punishment. Easy recourse to anger, slurs, and insults deserves just as much punishment as the original crimes you insultingly accuse your brother or sister of having committed. In this context, insults are genuine social weapons and cause real injury, especially where these specific insults are understood as denoting a very specific theological transgression.
In other words, a dismissive or dehumanizing attitude toward someone you’re angry with is what becomes a danger to the soul’s destination. This means social media is a moral hazard and Christians should be extra wary about opining online. And calling someone a retard is a highway to Hell.
Interesting that The Motte itself moderates along these guidelines! Claim that someone’s wrong using detailed rebuttals all you want, but hurling insults and dehumanizing your rhetorical opponents is subject to immediate moderation or bans.
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5mo ago
There are plenty of reasons to think it justified. It does also inhibit power-seeking in society. But that may be a feature, not a bug.
I still remember the day my dad said he was worried about my job prospects and said he didn’t get the impression I had ambitions. I was flummoxed; as a good autistic Christian I had always equated ambitions with being worldly and prideful, so I’d never bothered to cultivate any.
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5mo ago
Just finished reading this feel-good fanfic on AO3, and it has my erisology circuits buzzing. What if Foggy Nelson, law partner of Matt Murdock the Daredevil, started doing social work law? The Angel of Hell’s Kitchen has some CW themes but isn’t about the fighting, it’s about the morals.
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5mo ago
Would you happen to be the Twitter Skeletor? That guy rocks and you rock.
I started in on Gravity’s Rainbow, but it was in no way a book I enjoyed. After three pages I returned it to the library.
I want to enjoy reading. My flavor is more in line with Weymouth’s Veddy British translation of the New Testament. His St. Paul is a true philosopher.
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