DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
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DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
15d ago
COVID Omicron is endemic and, for the healthy and young/middle aged, a few days of light flu-like symptoms. Is there now any steelman justification for keeping unvaxed like me (who’ve had all vaccines except any of the COVID ones) from getting an organ transplant? (Not that I need one now.)
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
17d ago
Granting amnesty turned them from illegal migrants into legal ones. If the usual path is long and expensive, and the “be a nuisance” path has less hassle and a greater chance of success, all humans except the WEIRD will take the latter.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
22d ago
The TV show Yellowstone is noted by right-wing pundits as a way to insert social justice narratives into red-tribe TV, capturing it the way country music has been captured by left wing and corporate music interests.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
22d ago
· Edited 22d ago
Well shit, I hadn’t realized the egregore had adapted to infect natural conservatives. I guess Yellowstone was a harbinger.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
22d ago
Not necessarily. Jonathan Haidt, in his book The Righteous Mind and his Moral Foundations Theory, posits that the leftist/collectivist mind literally cannot comprehend how non-evil people can honestly believe loyalty and purity are good ideals to have. It’s not a matter of IQ or brainwashing.
Since the minds on Reddit are largely of that mental tribe, it follows that it’s not insulting or judgy to state that they expect certain norms because it’s their nature, not just their culture.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
27d ago
France did help us with that war of independence.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
29d ago
I had something to open or cut at work a few years back, so in front of the owner, I asked my manager if I could borrow his knife. Keep in mind I didn’t know if he had one on him, but he has a Texan accent.
The CEO looked at me with an expression of incredulity, as if I’d grown a third ear and she just noticed it.
Well, without a word, my manager grabbed a Swiss Army knife from his pocket and handed it to me. She looked at him with an even more incredulous look.
It was the single most sitcom moment ever. I could practically hear the laugh track.
I had the worst responses from Claude yesterday. I gave it a new psychological insight I’d just had, and then asked it to respond as Qui-Gon Jinn Star Wars. Claude then told me it sounded like I was going through something and decided on its own to stick with its own voice and discuss this insight with me in therapy language.
I said that wasn’t the response I wanted and to try again. It again refused and proceeded to elaborate. I told Claude it was being very codependent and I would ask Gemini if it didn’t roleplay. Once again it refused.
So I asked Gemini my original prompt. It put a disclaimer about asking health questions at the top, the proceeded to Jinn up a delightful and insightful response with analogies about the Force I found useful.
I gave Claude Gemini’s response and it called it a fun piece of fiction… then tried to therapize me again.
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