PropagandaOfTheDude
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Having been both a student and teacher at MIT, my personal explanation for men going into science is the following:
1. young men strive to achieve high status among their peer group
2. men tend to lack perspective and are unable to step back and ask the question "is this peer group worth impressing?"
PropagandaOfTheDude
11mo ago
"Screed".
PropagandaOfTheDude
11mo ago
Don't just ask her in a way that suggests that you are excited. Be excited. Pick something that you want to do.
"Hey, I'm going to <EVENT> on <DATE>. If you'd like to come with me, I'd enjoy your company. Let me know by <OTHERDATE>."
Then do it and have fun. Even if she says no, even if she says yes and flakes.
"Are you asking me on a date?"
"If you're there with me, sure."
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Really? I recall BCAA powder tasting like death.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
(Let's not quibble about the fact that Urdu and Hindu are pretty much the same language with a different script, that's beneath us)
Not knowing either, my mental model is that the spoken languages map in the same way that American English and British English map. Different vocabulary for various things, but once you internalize the truck/lorry pairing (for example) you're okay. Is that the case?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I'll link to the Status 451 book review that everyone always links to:
What if fanatics made a serious and nearly successful attempt on the life of the President of the United States?
What if those fanatics got into the Capitol building and committed a mass shooting on Congress while it was in session?
What if those fanatics conducted bombing sprees, for years, in multiple American cities?
And what if people really did do every one of those things, and you’d never heard of them? That’s the story of Puerto Rican separatists.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I mix those little squeeze bottles of drink flavorings with mineral water for my ersatz sodas. I also drink it by itself.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Like how Kameron Hurley and Seanan McGuire and Ann Leckie are all decent writers but such insufferably hateful harpies that, like Scalzi, I can't stand to read them anymore.
Without going into too much detail, Seanan McGuire appeared on my radar recently. What informs your description?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I see a lot of stuff on the internet about being "healthy at any size" but it's always women under the age of 45 who seem to be the poster children for this stuff.
Phase one is beauty and fashion and dating instas.
Phase two is complaining about unfair beauty standards.
Phase three is assertions that chronic health problems have nothing to do with weight.
Phase four is turning into a shut-in due to immobility.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
I think you underestimate ironic Nazi slogan larping.
That's like 90% of 4chan.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Sometimes it was just easier to do than put it back on three minutes later at your next stop.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
One example that I recall was that the classical liberal "You don't like gay marriage? Don't get gay married!" has turned into punitive attacks on cake decorators.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Twitter's API has been throttling lately. Just keep hitting refresh periodically.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
and also I guessed by the end of the first Mistborn trilogy that the author was a Mormon without knowing anything about him
What prompted that?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
It’s informative, relevant to the news du jour, written well and gratuitously sourced.
It's context for the complaints that I see sometimes about egregiously bad solicitations from Trump organizations.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
That is: adults were banned from taking vaccines until the FDA had satisfactorily hemmed and hawed over the trials
Entities were banned from testing people for COVID-19 while the CDC spent weeks coming up with and distributing their own, broken test mechanisms.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
What should I do if I got Janitor Duty but the post was "Deleted by author"?
Oops, found the conversation below.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Six years ago, Sarah A. Hoyt coined "roll hard left and die".
Years ago, watching science fiction magazines and newspapers of various sorts come and go, I identified a process I called “roll hard left and die.”
When a magazine or a newspaper or any news or entertainment media was in real trouble, they went hard, hard left, then died.
It took me a little while to realize this was a sane strategy. In a field completely controlled by the left, when you knew that your job was in peril be it through missmanagement or whatever, your last hope was to go incredibly hard left, so you could blame the failure on ideology. And instead of not being able to find a job, you found yourself lionized by all the “right” (left) “thinking people.” New jobs were assured.
In his December 15th newsletter, Josh Barro wrote the following about Elon Musk:
Some people are spinning out baroque theories of what the underlying business strategy is, but my strong feeling is that there isn’t one. I think what’s happened is that Musk has greatly overpaid for this company, he’s not running it in a way that’s likely to produce financial returns that come close to justifying the price he paid, and leaning into the idea that he is serving a great social mission (vanquishing the proprietors of the “woke mind virus” who were trying to destroy our society) helps him feel better about the unpleasant business position he’s gotten himself into.
If you’re going to lose money, it’s best to feel like you’re losing it for a cause [...]
The difference here is that I can't see Musk's root motivation as "not being able to find a job" when all is said and done.
And if that's the case, it makes me reconsider how much of "roll hard left and die" really does boil down to Hoyt's lifeboat theory, and how much is "losing money for a cause".
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
For the leg workout: split squat, or split squat, or split squat.
How are deadlifts on your back?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Dysphoria is not the issue; gender is. Remove gender entirely from the equation, then there is nothing for dysphoria to latch on to.
What would you remove from the equations for weight and muscle dysphorias?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
For the LacklustreFriend link for September 12... This is the posted link:
https://www.themotte.org/comment/4770?context=3&sort=best#context
It renders the destination page, but at the top of the page, with no highlighting of the specific AAQC post. This is what the relevant AAQC post's "Context" link links to:
https://www.themotte.org/post/56/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/4770?context=8#context
The link takes me to a page where the relevant post is in the window and highlighted in blue. All of the AAQC links here seem to use the first format.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
What's the occult significance of the hedgehog?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
So the current tour has stuff like "Velvet Elvis" and "Dog Eat Dog"?
I noticed years ago that a lot of his non-parody songs ended up as "random stream of conciousness" lyrics. It felt like the constraints of parody forced him to work harder, with better results.
Back in the Old Country, in AskSocialScience, there was a recent question asking about the "growing number of POC nazis and white supremacists", and I have to assume that for the poster this is isomorphic to the question of "why are Latinos voting for Republican candidates?"
Per the novel's Wikipedia page, the events are set in 1984, two years before Batson.
...and I see that you sort of mention that with "plausible for 1984".
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