Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
While I think some people are limited in some fashion, I also think basic math is just taught in a horrible fashion.
The contrast between my econ and finance courses and the math courses I was required to take were like night and day.
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
Slavery never caught on in the British isles because they had population in excess; the same time that the US was still using slave labor had the British loosing children in mining accidents.
And despite eliminating the slave trade in the early 1800s, they didn't manumit slaves in the Caribbean holdings till around the 1840s.
If you want to be very, very cynical, the British anti-slave movement was a mix of virtue signaling and economic tactics to try and neuter an up and coming economic super-power.
Please excuse the lack of sources. It's early morning for me and I'm being lazy.
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
The majority of people don't understand economics and finance and wouldn't be able to if you tried.
I really, really wish I was wrong about that. But when you have a practicing medical doctor having to wrestle with money management, you start to realize really quickly that there's a broad spread of intelligence types and not everyone is good at everything.
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
In Trace's own words when forging thier 'evidence';
The worksheets were meticulously laid out: mostly innocent on the surface with hints of something people would find sinister: “musky” and “husky” planted next to each other in the word search, a “non-binary” check box next to “male” and “female” on the fursona design worksheet, games every child plays next to memes only people far too familiar with the furry fandom would pick up on. That taken care of, we seeded the word search with a few references to rdrama, the trolling forum I had gathered the participants from.
Emphasis mine.
Also, more from Tracing;
In all honesty, with the replies we were getting, we thought the game was up pretty quickly. She replied quickly wanting, oddly enough, more details than the vague stew we provided. So we got to inventing. Charles, we decided, desperately wanted the world to know, but his wife’s friend insisted that specifics be kept out of it. We could give the school district, but nothing more.
...With the next reply, apparent disaster struck, as Libs of TikTok elected to do the one thing that could foil our scheme: look for actual evidence that any of this had ever happened.
Again, emphasis mine.
People who argue that LoTT didn't do due diligence clearly didn't read the article; Uncharitably, they're just trying to carry water for TW and obscure the fact that TW and his cohorts made up alot of fake shit to try and sell a story that LoTT is somehow just blindly repeating whatever it is people tell her.
Yes, it's very easy to sell a story someone doesn't fact-check when you go all-in on trying to scam them.
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
There's been a recent push to change a whole plethora of state flags to look more akin to Microsoft Office clipart just because some rando with delusions of competency put out a pamphlet of what he thinks state flags should look like.
There are some people who really should have been bullied more in high school.
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
To paraphrase a video essay I'm becoming more and more fond of, 'These people don't realize they're one bad week way from being dragged out into the street and burned at the stake.'
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
German Shepards have potential health problems, though. And they're still a high-energy herding breed that'll require proper training and handling, so the poor thing doesn't go all squirrelly.
If you do go that route, anyone, please do your research and purchase from a good breeder.
There are better breeds I'd suggest if he was going the herding protection route, but none I'd advise for someone who knows nothing about dogs(and most people who do).
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
The MSNBC article has a photoshop of a German youth rally throwing Nazi salutes with the subtitle 'Physical fitness and violent hypermasculinity have always been central to the far right' as a header to said article.
That's less a 'dog whistle' and more an airhorn going off behind you.
You won't hear me argue against the benefits of exercise, though.
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
MSNBC, for one.
The Guardian, for another. Does that count? I understand they're very well left-leaning, but it's atleast a glimpse into what left-leaning individuals are telling each other.
Here's an older opinion article that shows it's not a new trend. A single data point, sure, but a data point is a data point.
Funny enough, this seems to be a theme for her. Here's a much more recent article from the same individual. Money quote: 'The more self-actualised you become, the higher you are on self-righteousness, blaming other people’s problems on their failure to be as healthy as you.' Interesting take, I'll admit.
Was the MSNBC article mocked? Yes. But it's telling it was voiced at all; liberals tend to be more insular with little understanding of how conservatives think. The concerning part isn't wether it's true or not(color me skeptical), the concerning part is that liberals are telling one another that this is a thing.
And the political divide widens.
Grant_us_eyes
11mo ago
Has there been any forum to succeed RPGnet that doesn't require a blood-sealed pledge to leftism? A part of me misses being able to browse threads about TTRPG development, strategy, and playing.
I'm not really hoping for much, admittedly. It feels like any vaguely popular thread gets flooded with leftist activism with tacit and/or explicit moderator support.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
I've had Windows 10 updates fuck up some of the older software I have running for my job.
And people wonder why I turn Windows 10 updates off.
Now I'm going to have to fight off a Windows 11 upgrade, so as to not fuck up said software. You'd think local IT would be more paranoid about just gleefully installing whatever it is Microsoft tells them too, but...
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
An interesting video. He makes an off-hand mention to the high-pressure sales tactic of 'receiving the call' and talks about the various negatives of having one.
One thing I'm surprised about is that they're apparently... finiky? As in, need regular maintenance. Rather disappointing. Give some of the videos of watch restoration of Rolexs that were worn as a daily beater for decades, I wonder if that's a more recent development.
Still, having one isn't on my to-do list, ever. If I wanted a high-end watch, I'd just buy an Omega Speedmaster and be done with it.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
I grew up obese, by the medical definition of the term. Lost over seventy pounds via CICO, and kept it off. So spare me the 'Oh, you've never been fat, you just don't know.'
I have been fat. Double-chin, no jaw-line, pear-shape. By all rights, I still am obese by strict BMI measurements, and believe you me, I'm constantly going over what would be needed to loose weight even further.
Please understand the PoV I'm coming from, because I've been there. When I say 'organize your life better', it's because I did exactly that, and I have difficulty putting myself in some sort of special, super-human category that can somehow overcome your phantom hunger, akrasic mindsets, and neural miswirings.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
Pretty much, yes. Sugar-free snacks don't help much when I clean out her car to find discarded taco bell takeout and ice cream wrappers.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
I'm not sure if I mentioned this, but I have a friend of mine who's already on ozempic specifically to loose weight.
Ironically enough, he's not obese - he just knows he eats alot and wants to stay at a healthy weight.
He literally cannot over-eat. As in, physically impossible. It makes him uncomfortable bordering on painful. Solid foods, atleast - does it affect liquids? I don't know.
So there's something there, atleast.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
Do they, though?
Yes.
My friends and I joke that a friend of mine, if we tied him to a chair, would then proceed to vibrate the chair apart.
And given everything I know the man does and has on his plate, it's only half of a joke.
And even he admits there are times he just wants to laze about rather than do what's necessary. It's something everyone goes through. It may not be common or regular, but it still happens.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
Oh, she's taking it willingly. I didn't even suggest it or bring it up - she did that herself. I'm being just a little bitter when I call it a magical potion - I fully expect it to work.
It's just... one of those things that makes me grind my teeth a little. You'd rather pay 500 dollars a month for a weight-loss drug when you could just... organize your life better?
(To be clear, I don't know exactly how much she spent on her prescription - I'm going off by what a friend of mine pays for his prescription.)
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
I can criticize old, white men until the day is dead on whatever policy they have.
I can't do that with black men and/or women. Unless I have a D next to my name, in which case I can call Ben Carson an Uncle Tom or House Nigger and not receive one iota of pushback.
Spare me the entire guilt on slavery and racism speil. I don't care. The past two decades have made it clear that every ethnicity will follow along tribal guidelines - so I will take that lesson to heart and move forward with that in mind.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
Never underestimate the power of self-willed delusions.
My brother and I have to deal with our mother effectively killing herself by her lack of exercise. She developed a bloodclot from sitting still too much, and has refused to change her activity level, in addition to her near morbid-obesity. We have begged, pleaded, harassed, done meal prep, purchased equipment - nothing. Meal prep was a special kind of clusterfuck, as it merely resulted in her consuming the prepared meal shakes in addition to her normal food intake.
And yet, despite all this, she still claims she's more than capable of helping out outside with yard chores(she isn't). Commentary on her health and various drugs she's taking will have her brush it off, commenting on how many of her sisters were long-lived. Same with my advise that she needs better self-scheduling and to manage her food intake better(3 meals instead of 2).
All ignored.
The only time, the only time when she lost weight was when her and my father were on strict dietary regime due to his health(and hers).
That's what it takes - someone riding her near 24/7 with shame in order to actually eat properly.
That isn't to say that she hasn't tried to loose weight. Sugar-free snacks, drinks, meal shakes(as mentioned) - all of them treated like magic totems and talismans and potions that if she consumes this, she'll loose weight as if by magic while not altering her diet in the slightest.
I don't know if there's an official term for this. I like to think of it as 'Magic wand' thinking. That somewhere, somehow, something is out there that fixes everything - a magic wand, a golden ticket, that one thing that does it all without them having to expend one iota of effort, one dram of pain.
Mind, there's an aspect of culture, as well. I wonder how my mother would react if America was more like Asia in this regard - that, when getting fat, would have people actually tell her she's getting fucking fat - and, when reaching out to the wider culture as a whole to affirm her delusions, would instead be met with a cacophony of 'You're fat. Loose some fucking weight, fatty.'
Still. Her latest magic potion is ozempic. So, we'll see how that goes.
As for me, well, I've already learned my lesson long ago. And I get re-affirmation of the value of consistent exercise watching my friends barely a year or two older than I am - helping them with projects, seeing their stamina flag and suffering from minor ailments and injuries that I don't have to deal with - yeah, I'll stop exercising when I'm dead, thank you very much, and I intend for that to be a very, very long day off in the future.
(Also, don't think being educated doesn't mean you're immune to self-delusion. I have a friend of mine who's a lawyer, who doesn't believe in CICO dieting. He tends to bluescreen when I tell him how much I lost just by doing that alone.)
Now, as far as dieting goes - y'know what, I've ranted enough. Needless to say, 90% of the people who've I've seen try to diet start off on the entirely wrong foot to only have it crash and burn two weeks later.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
What do you mean 'didn't check'? TW, by his own admission, claimed that he believed the 'jig was up' when LoTT kept asking for, gasp, more evidence of their claim!
Leading to them faking copies of the handouts.
Stop trying to play this off as LoTT just blindly accepting whatever was sent to her. She never did.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
I've been around long enough to remember when, pre-election, the attempt to focus on the Hunter Biden laptop was dismissed with the blithe response along the lines of 'We're not electing Hunter to office', roughly paraphrased. Amoung others, yes, but that's one that stuck in my mental craw.
And yet, here we are.
There's a lesson to be learned here, but the people whom need to learn it will never listen.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
The fact that you're unaware of this rather says alot of how the media propagates some things and stifles others.
Grant_us_eyes
1yr ago
'Intelligence is useless if it's constantly being crippiled by it's lesser' is how I read it.
'mutatis mutandis' translates to 'with the respective differences having been considered', so it's a cute allegory with AGI being Socrates in this tale, and the Athenians being your censoring authority of choice.
Slaves are not 'free'. Intial purchase, maintenance, oversight - all costs. Then there's the social aspects - slaves in the South were, ironically enough, treated very well compared to thier brethern that went elsewhere. It's why you get twisted situations such as the Irish Canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, that was so named due to all the Irish immigrants that died during it's construction in 1830s.
Why didn't they use slave labor? Because immigrant labor was much, much cheaper.
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