FtttG
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FtttG
1mo ago
Scott: "The phrase 'the purpose of a system is what it does' is dumb, you can't just judge the purpose of a system based on one or more of its outputs."
Everyone: "Obviously people are misusing this phrase, you have to look at the original context of what the person who coined it meant."
Scott: ahem
FtttG
1mo ago
I wonder what percentage of Brummies think they would lose a fight with one of the many rats crawling on their streets.
I can't believe these people used to rule the world.
FtttG
1mo ago
Up to 87k words on my NaNoWriMo project, and yet I don't feel any closer to completing it. Is this how Sisyphus felt?
FtttG
1mo ago
You might enjoy this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley_hoax
FtttG
1mo ago
I saw a review of this and it piqued my curiosity, might pick it up when it's on sale.
About a third of the way through The Door by Magda Szabó. I'm not loving it so far. In its focus on the blossoming platonic love between a woman and her housekeeper (who, to me, simply comes off as an insufferable, unpleasable bitch), it's definitely "women's fiction" in the same way Elena Ferrante's books are, so maybe I'm just not the target demographic for this sort of thing.
FtttG
1mo ago
Fascinating, I had no idea about any of this. All I'd heard about it was that it was an incel-inspired mass shooting.
Does that mean that there hasn't been even a single incel-inspired act of violence in the UK this century? No one in the UK has ever been called upon to Dodge the Rodge? This is a moral panic that Labour and the Guardian have ginned up out of literally nothing?
and will virtually only recognise "innate sex differences" in ways which justify special and preferential treatment for women
On the contrary: James Damore got fired from Google essentially for arguing that, because of innate sex differences in career aspirations, Google's efforts to provide special and preferential treatment for women were misguided and a misallocation of resources. It's my impression that most people in this space agree with him - certainly I don't think that qualified men who want to work in STEM should be passed over in favour of less qualified women just for the sake of gender equality. Likewise, I don't think fitness requirements for firefighters, soldiers etc. should be relaxed just because the candidate is female.
FtttG
1mo ago
We even have a case of murder, thePlymouth shooting, where the perpetrator was knee deep in anti-incel online communities
Could you expand on this? I was under the impression that the Plymouth shooter was an incel, even though none of his victims were women who'd rejected him.
FtttG
1mo ago
There IS a UK demographic in which knife crime is a huge problem. There IS a UK demographic in which systemic mistreatment of white teenage girls is a huge problem.
Neither of these demographics are the demographic to which the aggressor in Adolescence belongs, and I refuse to accept the claim that this was accidental.
FtttG
1mo ago
I vaguely remember hearing something about architects in ancient Rome (?) being obliged to live in houses directly under the bridges they'd designed.
FtttG
1mo ago
I'm having precisely the opposite problem, this shit is way too fucking long.
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1mo ago
When reading Orbán: Europe's New Strongman, my main thought was "why are the EU so reluctant to have an illiberal dictatorship like Turkey join the EU? In Hungary, they already have an illiberal dictatorship in their ranks."
After reading your post - well, I'm not going to say that France is as bad as Hungary, but Macron certainly can't throw any stones at Orbán.
FtttG
1mo ago
I presume I wasn't the only person to nominate @teleoplexy's post, but I feel it's worth mentioning I did so 10% for the social commentary and 90% for the density of creative "meth-" portmanteaus.
The Door by Magda Szabó is a little over 300 pages long. The plot starts around page 200. I'm not enjoying it.
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