Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
If the juror is acknowledging there is reasonable doubt but voting to convict that's pretty different.
Perhaps it was "Yes, there is reasonable doubt by MA statutory law, but that law is insane". That would be pretty standard nullification.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
The core difference is ease of verifiability. In aerospace, either the plane flies at the intended speed and fuel economy, or it doesn't. You can just check. And if it works, it'll pretty reliably work almost all the time forever.
Medicine and psychiatry are, as you said, investigating the most complex organism we care about while hogtied by ethical concerns. This makes it much easier to get away with publishing papers that just don't mean anything at all. Who is going to fight through an IRB to check? Will the (n=25) replication attempt even matter? If so, will the results of some general study specify out to any particular individual with their own mix of genes and hormones and enviroments and everything else?
Like I said, there are definite successes. The comparison to homeopathy is unfair.
But so is the comparison to aerospace.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
If this goes to a retrial, I wonder if the defense will have difficulty finding women in MA who aren't on TikTok.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
I've banged the drum on this being medicine and psychiatry not psychology half a dozen times.
Medicine is a significant step down in reliability from aerospace engineering. Psychiatry even more so, again. Not to the level of homeopathy, not to the point where there are no successes, but both fields contain a lot of bad research.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
who have no financial incentive
Aren't expert witnesses usually paid?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
Because people just do instead of talk. My high school daughter watches her young cousins all the time so my sister and brother-in-law can have some time off.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
23d ago
Eh, if you want to talk about a news story but can't summon up two paragraphs of things to say about it, just wait for someone else to do it.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
27d ago
“One of our friends in particular had plans that didn’t involve being unceremoniously fired while on paternity leave, just 9 days after the birth of her second child.
What is happening with the gendered nouns here?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
My middle school aged son, who has never shown any interest in politics whatsoever, knew who he was, had seen some of his videos, and thought he was a "pretty cool guy".
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
AIUI, his ground game among young voters was considered very important, but in a way that wasn't really appreciated openly until after his loss.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Getting really sick of the enshittification of Google Maps. Any good alternatives that don't autistically warn me to "stay on the current highway in 0.5 miles" and then decline to mention that my exit ramp is 200ft futher on?
Or provide useful and accurate information about which lane I should be in?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
I've mostly seen people speak of Tracey approvingly for his aesthetics. He looks like an old-school "real" journalist, aka like he just woke up hungover and still drunk in yesterday's clothes to stand outside the Substack convention demanding Jim Acosta come face him like Achilles challenging Hector.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
A lot of the economy has already been separated from what is required to survive.
It provides a value that can be traded for what is required to survive. I think you underestimate the psychological impact of being wholly redundant and superfluous.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
If a public official think that's important enough to break the law and misuse his authority for, then he should do the time.
I agree, but I don't think that's what anyone else in this conversation was discussing.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
I think this is a lot of cope. If we didn't have washing machines I think a lot of people might derive a sense of personal definition from being responsible for keeping people's clothing clean.
There is a difference between less tedious busywork and having no contribution to your own upkeep. There is a reason there is a death spike shortly after retirement. It's hardly crazy to suspect we have relevant instincts here. The survival advantage is obvious.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
In the logic I'm talking about they are not breaking the law. They are applying it selectively and vindictively. The lowlife murdering rapist is not a challenge to State Power the way a vigilante is. Your logic would hold if the failure to punish criminals were the result of a loss of state capacity. What we're actually suffering IRL is a loss of state will to punish lowlife criminals precisely because they are lowlife criminals. And also racism, etc.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
I have an easier time believing that the claim is genuine if the person making it is willing to face the music afterwards, and it puts some sandpaper on the slide, too.
The State that would make vigilantism justifiable is the State that would brutally punish the vigilante regardless of the merit of their claim. The common term for this is "anarcho-tyranny".
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
That is not what bottom bitch means.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
AIUI, he wanted to do a completely unrelated sci-fi action movie, but only got greenlight with an established IP attached. The end result was a sort of bitter compromise that somehow merged into something excellent.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
ETA: I did try retard and it shifted everything down about 20 pounds,
Is this an odd autocorrect of an abbreviation of retatrutide, or are you insulting someone, or is this some hot new "retard strength" diet/workout plan?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
I know. Calling them breathtakingly gullible and stupid is one of those fun insult "conclusions" where any defense just makes it so much worse.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
The sheer outlandishness of the claims is a factor as well. Bro makes Leo in Catch Me If You Can look like a punk. For God's sake, he was a time-traveling, long distance running cyborg Rainman with 3 kinds of gigacancer! This is amplified further by how breathtakingly gullible and stupid it makes all the credentialed people who believed him seem.
Basically, the story is a lot more fun than "Academic #3475 faked a data set".
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
I'll straight up rec Atlas Shrugged. One of my favorite books. If it helps, think of it like a fantasy novel where the premise is "Capitalism is 100% correct both morally and practically", and then instead of the usual 95% action mixed with 5% crappy "What is Evil?", AS is 5%/95% the other way around. Same with the protagonists; they're not realistic people, they're hash functions defining her philosophy. Tremendous technical accomplishment, even if you disagree with the validity of the premises.
I also straight up enjoyed the writing. I bought it with the explicit intention of writing a critique and found myself enthralled. I want to say it's very Russian, but I don't actually have a broad enough experience base to make the claim with certainty.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Which countries are you thinking of? The big ones the US hears about are UK/Germany, and they both seem harsher on natives committing speechcrime, such as liking a meme or calling a violent criminal a mean name, than immigrants committing gang rape. Is it the Netherlands that keeps convicting that right-wing politician for saying unpleasant but true things about Islam?
FWIW, that does constitute a (minor) harm. Social friction isn't cost-free. Shared norms and expectations lubricate every interaction you have with other people. What hydroacetylene is talking about here is just the most stark gap in American culture.
In 2019 there was a list of "murdered trans people this year" going around. I was skeptical, because there was a similar list of purportedly murdered gay people from a few years earlier that was entirely made up names, so I started searching. The trans list was real. Most of the names had local news reports about the murder. And as nearly as I could tell, every single one where the offender data was known was a case of a trans sex worker murdered by a black john. Because in that specific American sub-subculture, finding out that your whore has a dick is an insult and status-loss that is worth killing to redeem.
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