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I noticed the same thing, and was considering making a post. At this point, just assume that the Hugos are entirely a bluecheck award.
More interestingly, it really stood out in the /fantasy discussion that no one was willing to point out the near total sweep by the ladies. It's kind of eerie, to see something that blatant just go unremarked. I thought about pointing it out, but I expected I would just get the comment deleted and a mod warning.
Iconochasm
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2yr ago
From what I have seen, there are pockets that are overwhelmingly positive, which makes it jarring when they suddenly start discussing the soul-rending drama happening elsewhere that they're mostly all aware of or to some degree involved in.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
2yr ago
I'm indifferent to ethical veganism for the exact same reason I'm pro-choice - I think there are vanishingly few animals who are high enough on the ladder of self-awareness that their lives are morally meaningful. I would decline to eat octopus, and prefer dolphin-free tuna out of an abundance of caution.
I find it very difficult to imagine what sort of logical process brings a person to a point where they care about the suffering of a weeks old chicken, but not a 39th week human fetus.
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2yr ago
Do we know how this new system will handle 2k comment posts? And is there any way to change the number of comments that load?
I think this particular failure mode is less common on the right for two reasons: age and tangibility.
For age, there are a couple of relevant saying. "Everyone is conservative about what he knows best", and "A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality". I think the general motto of leftism could be summed up as "Why don't we...", while the general motto of conservatism would be "Oh, that's why we don't!" I think just by virtue of being older, conservatives are more likely to have had a relevant personal experience, for example a job that was actually impacted by a strike.
And that ties into the tangibility point. I often see leftists on reddit engaging in cargo cult thinking that seems in the rough ballpark of "Stores are places where food happens, and people have to work at them because billionaires are mean." I think the warehouse workers and stockers who know firsthand what goes into keeping food on those shelves are very unlikely to be politically active enough to be anything-ists. So we have these online discussions that are dominated on that side by people who don't have extensive work experience, and have negligible responsibility experience, in the sense of being the person who has to get the job done no matter what.
It's very easy to confuse cause and effect when you live in a world of words and abstractions and never encounter what Big Yud would call Final Responsibility. Compare that to the plumber in a MAGA hat, who lives every day in a world where the water runs or doesn't by his own ability to manipulate reality.
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