FtttG
User ID: 1175
If you're a male sex pest in denial, feminist messaging must be perversely comforting. You'll hear these angry women ranting about how all men are bastards who just see women as holes to put their dicks into and how men will never respect them, ever - and you'll think to yourself "woah, all men are like that? I thought it was just me, phew!"
I think the "every accusation is a confession" thing gets abused, but whenever I read an article by a male feminist talking about how men need to confront the fact that they tend to be dismissive towards women's lived experiences and fail to properly value their input, all I can think is - speak for yourself, dude.
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5mo ago
I don't think the OP was asserting that it's true - I think they were saying "this is the hypothesis, do you think there's any truth to it?"
FtttG
5mo ago
As previously mentioned, I was planning to spend the month of February doing a self-imposed NaNoWriMo. I unexpectedly had to move house last week so I ended up postponing the start date until yesterday. I will keep writing, aiming to maintain the pace of NaNoWriMo (1,667 words/day), until March 9th or I finish the first draft, whichever comes first.
Yesterday was surprisingly productive, I knocked out 500 words on my morning commute. Didn't reach my daily quota, but right now I'm 1,644 words up from where I started on Monday.
FtttG
5mo ago
A Google returned this article: https://nationalpensionhelpline.ie/taxation/etf-tax-in-ireland-might-be-changing/
I don't know if this is the same information you were reporting to me. It may be of interest.
FtttG
5mo ago
Can you suggest some of these Irish ETFs? Would I be charged at the upper tax band if I invested in an Irish ETF, as opposed to an American one?
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5mo ago
I know essentially nothing about investing, but I want to invest in a specific index fund. I understand I need to open an account with a broker to do this, and there are many brokers to choose from. Before selecting a broker, how do I know that I'll be able to invest in that specific index fund via the broker? Secondarily, which broker would you recommend I use?
FtttG
5mo ago
I can tell you from being adjacent to the porn industry for a while
I'd love to hear you expand upon this.
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5mo ago
I've only told a couple of people about the book so far and am deliberately not going into a huge amount of detail. The basic premise is that it's set in eastern Europe. There's a woman working for a pharma/medtech company, who's developing an invention which has the potential to completely revolutionise diagnosing fertility disorders, but she's concerned that the invention will be stolen from her and used for purposes she doesn't intend.
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5mo ago
Damn, that last line cut deep. I'm sorry bro, but you made the right decision.
I've been writing this novel in Google docs, periodically backing it up on Dropbox and on a thumb drive.
Why do you write?
I had an idea for a novel I couldn't (can't) get out of my head.
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5mo ago
I did read the Wikipedia page, but I'm also distinctly aware that, for any contentious topic, Wikipedia is ideologically captured and cannot be relied upon to provide a neutral answer. If there were a lot of psychologists, psychiatrists etc. who privately agreed that dyslexia isn't a real illness, and if there was a large community of people diagnosing themselves with it, I'm not sure if I'd trust Wikipedia to say so.
FtttG
5mo ago
I guess my question is more along the lines of "is dyslexia distinct in any meaningful way from a lack of skills in verbal reasoning?"
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5mo ago
I've occasionally heard people allude to the idea that "dyslexia" isn't really a discrete medical condition, but rather a sort of cope that parents use to prevent their kid feeling bad about being a bit on the slow side, or lacking in verbal comprehension. For example, Freddie deBoer:
Let’s set aside whether dyslexia is one thing or many things and whether or not it’s simply a term that we came up with to say that some people are poor readers, as a matter of compassion.
Is there anything to this? Is dyslexia a real medical condition, or a contested one? Is it generally sensibly diagnosed by qualified professionals, or is there an epidemic of self-diagnosis muddying the water?
FtttG
5mo ago
I recently announced my plans to do a self-imposed NaNoWriMo in February and document my progress in these threads to keep myself honest. I'm moving house this week and I've decided it's not feasible, so I'm pushing it back until next week. I apologise for not being as disciplined as I'd hoped.
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5mo ago
In his defense, in his first term Trump was the first President not to get the US embroiled in any new wars since Carter.
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5mo ago
Ah. Yesterday when you said that you were correct in your assessment that Russiagate was a conspiracy, I took that to mean "Trump really did conspire with the Russians to pervert the course of the 2016 election". I see now that you meant the opposite - that Russiagate was a conspiracy on the part of the Clinton campaign to discredit Trump, which is my stance on it as well. Carry on!
FtttG
5mo ago
I went into the weeds on the Russiagate story (and I have a lot of posts on that particular conspiracy theory on here) and took the conspiracy theory angle again... and it was totally, completely correct.
I'd be interested to read them, would you mind sharing the links?
FtttG
5mo ago
I'm kidding, it's a town called Peñiscola (so I'm sure it's pronounced more like "pen-YIS-co-LA" or whatever), but I did a bit of a double-take when I saw it.
FtttG
5mo ago
Still on Montaillou, from which I learned that there's a town in Spain called Stuck my dick in a bottle of Pepsi.
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5mo ago
Likewise, transness is such an intense and sacred topic on the left that many consider it offensive to put it in any film that doesn’t treat it with the utmost seriousness and deference. I’m pretty sure that’s the basis of the anti-trans claims against Emilia Perez. It doesn’t actually say anything bad about transness or trans women, it’s just inherently offensive to make a goofy movie that doesn’t take transness serious enough.
I see what you're getting at. On the other hand, my impression is that most progressives love Sean Baker's Tangerine, a movie about two trans women prostitutes which isn't merely a comedy but an outright farce, in which essentially none of the characters are remotely likeable. (Highly recommended, incidentally, I laughed my head off.)
FtttG
5mo ago
What is your basis for the claim that a large portion of those casualties were killed by the IDF?
One of the rules of the site is "Proactively provide evidence in proportion to how partisan and inflammatory your claim might be." Hard to imagine a more partisan and inflammatory claim than "the Democrats rigged the 2020 election in order to install their preferred candidate". It's very aggravating when this rule has been egregiously violated (i.e. an extremely partisan and inflammatory claim was presented without any evidence in support of it), I try to be charitable by specifically requesting that various posters provide evidence in support of said claim, and the best they can cough up is "well there would be evidence in support of this partisan and inflammatory claim if the Dems/deep state/Big Tech/WHO/Bilderberg Group/Illuminati/whoever hadn't suppressed it". This is not evidence in support of an inflammatory claim. This is an IOU for said evidence. This is a glorified "source: dude trust me". And when I respond with more than a little exasperated frustration at multiple posters egregiously violating the rules of this space, you accuse me of being "cancerous" and failing to argue in good faith.
Put yourself in my shoes: imagine if someone made an extremely partisan and inflammatory claim with which you disagreed without presenting a lick of evidence to back it up, you asked them to do so, and their response was "I don't have evidence for it because it's been suppressed". Would you respond with "huh, how unfortunate, that must be really frustrating, this thing must go all the way to the top"? Or would you roll your eyes and say "come on dude, get real, I need more than just your word to go on"? I strongly suspect the latter, as I did.
You're also failing to take population into account. The current combined population of Israel, Palestine and the West Bank is about 15 million people. In 1948 it was about 2.2 million. Let's average that and say the combined population is 8.6 million in the period under discussion.
The Troubles were almost entirely confined to Northern Ireland, only occasionally spilling over into the Republic and the British mainland. To keep things fair, I'll exclude any deaths which took place outside of Northern Ireland, per this table. The population of Northern Ireland was 1.5 million in 1966 (when the Troubles began) and 1.7 million in 1998 (Good Friday Agreement), giving us an average of 1.6 million for the period.
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3,272 deaths against a population of 1.6 million = 214 deaths/100k
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100,000* deaths against a population of 8.6 million = 1,221 deaths/100k
So the Israel-Palestine conflict is only 6 times as bloody as the Troubles, not 360 times. And that isn't even taking timescale into account, as the Troubles went on for 32 years while the Israel-Palestine conflict has been ongoing in one form or another since 1948.
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3,532 deaths against a population of 1.6 million, over 32 years = 7.2 deaths/100k/year
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100,000* deaths against a population of 8.6 million, over 77 years = 16 deaths/100k/year
So only slightly more than twice as bloody as the Troubles.
*Roughly.
IIRC Dworkin was married (in the common-law sense) to a gay man. If he was never accused of raping a woman, it was probably for reasons unrelated to his politics or hers.
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