Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
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Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
Gotcha. I think the AI concerns with Twitch are more like people using AI to create fake nudes of actual people. They cite to issues with people being able to tell the difference between photo-realistic images and photography.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
I'm confused. Enough people were showing NSFW material Twitch thought was inappropriate that they reversed course. This seems quite different from your description of humans trying to become "teenage-presenting (cat?)girls."
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
What would you estimate as the ratio on Twitch of women displaying their asses to men displaying their asses salaciously? 1:1?
Part of my point is that salaciousness is something we often project on women's actions that we don't on men's, including when the woman herself does not intend her actions that way.
Otherwise I agree that having a higher viewership, being more visible, is probably a significant causal factor in being moderated.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
Of course, on seeing this news I immediately wondered why it would count as "punishing" women to prevent them from doing something men don't generally have the option of doing (that is, making money by flashing breasts).
The policy is broader than "don't flash your breasts." According to your link it prohibited any content that "deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region." I have no trouble believing that women were modded for content that men got away with. If a guy did a squat stream that prominently displayed their ass (maybe for form demonstration reasons) would Twitch mod it for sexual content? What if a woman did the same? I have no trouble believing Twitch would mod the woman but not the man. I think there is a pretty straightforward sexist implication to "men are allowed to do this thing but women aren't."
Why don't we say it "levels the playing field" to prevent women from using their sex appeal to crush their competitors on a gaming platform?
Because the conception of Twitch rules as existing to level some competitive field between streamers is nonsensical? Should Twitch ban streamers who are too good at games, because they'll get more viewers by being better? Should Twitch ban face cams, because more attractive streamers will get more viewers? Or maybe mandate face cams! No hiding for you uggos, you might get undeserved views! Make everyone use a voice modulator to have the same voice, some people might have nicer voices that lead to more viewers!
I guess someone realized that if you allow streamers to turn your site into OnlyFans with Vidya, then the women are going to drop their tops and the men are going to just... use filters?
Wat? How many men on Twitch do you think are currently using filters to become women to get people to watch and sub?
I don't actually know, I don't use Twitch because I play video games and have no interest in watching others do so, but I am decrepit and out of touch so whatever.
You didn't need to put this here, it's apparent from the rest of your post.
Now I'm left pondering the apparent Fisherian runaway of human beings trying to become--virtually, at least--teenage-presenting (cat?)girls as quickly as possible.
Wat. What fraction of twitch streamers do you think are involved in this "Fisherian runaway?" What fraction of, say, the top 100 or 1000 streamers?
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
I think this undersells how much of the emphasis on WMDs was on nuclear weapons, specifically. As other commenters have pointed out we did find large stockpiles of chemical weapons in Iraq. The problem with using chemical weapons as a justification for invasion is that (1) lots of countries (including the US) had large chemical weapons stockpiles at the time and (2) chemical weapons are not actually that effective. I think there was much more focus on nuclear weapons than other categories of WMD due to the idea of Iraq giving terrorists sufficient material to make a dirty bomb or similar. As you note, manufacturing some kind of plausible trail or stockpile of nuclear weapons or fissile material is much harder than doing so for chemical weapons.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
and the set of "people who will definitely vote for Trump but respect the decisions of a DC court as to his morality" seems really, really small?
Why is agreeing with a DC court as to his morality the relevant criteria? How about "the set of people who wouldn't vote for a convicted felon?" I bet that's a much larger set!
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
Ok, but how does energizing his base going to translate into more votes? Were a bunch of people who make up his base also not going to vote for him until he got convicted?
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
This doesn't make any sense to me. There are two important groups of people here. People who would vote for Trump if he isn't convicted but wouldn't vote for him if he is convicted and people who wouldn't vote for him if he wasn't convicted but would vote for him if he was convicted. Is it your contention the second group is larger than the first? This strikes me as wildly implausible.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
Seriously. What are we even talking about here?
There was a period of time where, among a certain set, "high egg prices" was a synecdoche for high inflation and rising prices more generally. Tucker's reference here is probably not to convey that he literally pays $11/dozen for eggs but something closer to "prices high, economy bad."
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
I agree in general but it's not clear to me the IH references in question, as described, are mocking the things they're referring to.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
I feel like Popehat's Rule of Goats applies. "Yea I made a bunch of Nazi references, but I wasn't doing it sincerely!" Ok, well you still made a bunch of Nazi references. I am somewhat sympathetic since I had my own edgy-4-chan-humor phase when I was younger, but I also did actually have a bunch of unironically racist opinions at the time.
These arguments strike me as so divorced from reality that it’s difficult to bridge the gap. These jokes are not actually making light of Hitler, Nazis, and the KKK. They are making light of online lefties being pathologically obsessed with speech. Referencing Hitler isn’t funny; what’s funny is watching online lefties think that referencing Hitler indicates a deep seated hatred of Judaism and a real desire to exterminate non-whites. It’s the overreaction that’s funny. Or another way to put it – edgy Hitler jokes are shibboleths indicating that the speaker doesn’t buy into the predominant lefty internet culture. The speaker signals that he has such little concern for the culture that he considers stifling, censorious, and ridiculous, that he invokes the greatest taboo possible. IMO, this is the essence of edgy 4-chan humor.
I am confused. If this is what IH is doing then isn't getting threads like the ones you've linked the point? Those threads (the leftist overreaction) are the punchline to the joking references, right? The point of the jokes was to make leftists think he was a Nazi! Is it surprising or disturbing that he succeeded? So he spent a bunch of time and energy making references to try and convince certain people he was a Nazi, he succeeded, and now... those same people need to be convinced he's not a Nazi? Why spend all the time and energy in the first place convincing people you were a Nazi!
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
I think acknowledging the Christian roots of these holidays and wanting acknowledgements of other religious holidays is distinct from being an attack on Christianity. The obvious reason why holidays like Good Friday and Christmas are holidays acknowledged by the federal government is religious, specifically Christian, influence. This is distinct from other non-religious holidays (like Canada Day or Thanksgiving). The question is whether the elevation of those specific holidays comport with our present values. What's the justification for having a federal holiday for Christian holidays but not Jewish ones? Or Muslim ones? Or any other religion? Having your nation's federal government have specific holidays that correspond to Christian holidays, but no other religion's, certainly feels like religious bigotry to me!
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
I mean, I'm an atheist for whatever that's worth.
For my part I think of the "holiday season" as encompassing all the holidays from Thanksgiving to New Years. Christmas is the biggest of those but not the only one. I'm also unconvinced that because Hanukkah is not that big in Judaism it deserves to be ignored.
I'm also unclear on how attacks on Christmas can be anti-Christian if Christmas is not particularly Christian. Are people opposed to Christmas because of its celebration of consumerism anti-Christian?
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
I feel like there's some tension here.
Is Christmas a particularly Christian holiday, so that attacks on the prominence of Christmas are attacks on Christianity? Or is Christmas so secularized as to have not much association with Christianity, and so non-Christians should have no objection to celebrating it?
I feel like this comment is trying to have it both ways. Whenever Christianity is under attack its a distinctly Christian affair so that attacks on Christmas are attacks on Christianity. Whenever Christmas is being celebrated, though, it's merely a secular holiday with no particular religious associations that no one should feel uncomfortable celebrating! This might be rhetorically convenient for Christians but seems like there's some tension here too me.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
I am not sure how much less the acrimony was between Irish Republicans and Unionists, given their history.
Reconstruction in the US ended with the Redeemers winning.
Sure, but I don't think this was a necessary outcome, it could have been otherwise if the Federal Government had the will.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
It might eventually lead to peace between the two peoples. I'm thinking of things like Reconstruction or The Troubles as models.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
Imagine a creature that, while married to Ana de Armas, would empty his shared savings account, and sink into bankruptcy in order to pay Lizzo to ravage him [2].
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[2] Yes, I’m aware that in our current context, the ‘creature’ is more likely to be female. I just needed to use Lizzo here for the clicks.
I'm confused. As far as I can tell Armas and Lizzo are both straight. Armas is married to a man and Lizzo is dating one. Why would the "creature" be more likely to be female?
My political journey began on the left. Every once in a while, I catch myself trying to rewrite the story of one thing or another that I believed so as to make it more palatable to the person I now am. But there is one story I’ll never have to rewrite. It’s the story of seeing a ‘letter box’ for the first time, and knowing it does not belong here. And it’s the certainty that those that would bring it here do not belong in power anywhere.
What is wrong with letter boxes?
More generally I feel like this post could do with a good deal less euphemism or metaphor and a good deal more actual argument.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
I assume some period of bloody inter-ethnic conflict, with what ultimate end I am unsure.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
And they were soundly defeated. And Israel siezed a bunch of land beyond those borders, have never returned it, and have continued to sieze more.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
Optimistically we can reach some kind of stable power sharing situation. Possibly with international guarantee.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
Ideally we end up with a state that integrates both Jews and Palestinians equally. I an agnostic on whether this state is named "Israel".
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
This may come as a surprise but I do not support the forced expulsion of Jews from current Israel either!
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
Ceasing being an ethnostate need not entail letting some other non-ethnostate conquer you.
I do not think one injustice justifies another. We can, and should, get rid of both.
I don't understand this sentence. No amount of women "show[ing] off" justifies sexual assault or harassment.
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