Sam_I_am
1yr ago
Given that no one thinks that surgical amputation is the correct treatment for this psychiatric disorder ...
No one?
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/02/18/typical-mind-and-gender-identity/
More convincing to me is that the disorder has a very non-psychiatric resolution: if patients are able to amputate the offending limb, they are perfectly happy and never have any further complaints. Compare this to a more psychiatric population like hypochondriacs, who if you treat one of their fake sicknesses just come up with another, because the underlying psychological problem that makes them want to feel sick hasn’t gone away. After hearing this story I decided to count the previous dismissal/marginalization of these people as a huge failure of psychiatry and as exactly the sort of thing I need to watch out for.
Sam_I_am
2mo ago
A crucial element of this that you're missing is that almost everybody, liberals included, wants illegal criminal gang members deported.
The reason why there's upset in this case is because there's supposed to be a robust and transparent process that validates whether or not they really are illegal aliens and criminal gang members. Such a process is so important that it's enshrined in the 5th and 6th amendments to the constitution.
They also want the Courts and Congress to prove that they're a check on the President's power. The President should only have as much power as the constitution says he should have. He should not be allowed to validate the 5th and 6th amendments by edict.
That is the Schelling Fence. The 5th and 6ths Amendments are the Schelling Fence!
Sam_I_am
1yr ago
Gamergate 2
A week or 2 ago, someone made a Steam group called Sweet Baby Inc Detected. This group exists to let people know which games have involved the consultant company Sweet Baby Inc.
Sweet Baby inc is a company that seems to be dedicated to adding more diversity to video games, and many people believe their involvement makes games worse.
This heated up when an employee of Sweet Baby Inc tried to get people to report the group and it's founder in hopes that they get banned
This has been in my youtube and twitter feed quite a bit in the past couple weeks. Mostly it's accounts of employees behaving in similar ways as the above tweet.
I don't really play AAA games very much, so the actual effect of Sweet Baby on those games is not very salient to me, but when reading and hearing about it, I can't help but notice that they usually aren't giving many examples of of aspects of these games that people really think are bad because of Sweet Baby. In fact, before this controversy, the main thing gamers were complaining about was in-game transactions.
What people are mostly talking about is how their employees conduct themselves on social media. And even though the way they often conduct themselves is unprofessional and dumb, It's also understandable when there's a hundred thousand people telling you how bad your work is and trying to stop people from doing business with you.
What are your thoughts?
Sam_I_am
2yr ago
I define "zionist" as people with a real or imagined Jewish identity or loyalty, conspiring to promote their ideological and financial interests at the expense of others. This is done through finacialization, campaign finance and lobbying, and manufacturing consent through media.
Well then you define "Zionist" wrong. A Zionist is someone who is in favor of a Jewish state in Israel.
Sam_I_am
5mo ago
Enemy kills 1200 people and takes 200 hostages?
Just make peace with them in exchange for getting the 200 back.
It's the perfect solution!
Sam_I_am
2yr ago
For that matter the idea that Gender is not a direct synonym for sex is contested at best. If you just look at the way people debate the gender issue, you can confirm that this is the case.
Sam_I_am
2yr ago
They probably didn't and maybe still don't know(at the time of this writing) his party affiliation.
They knew the affiliation of his Grandfather because he is a literal politician.
More information is out on Paul Pelosi's assailant.
Apparently he has a blog(there's a link to it in the article), and most of the blog appears heavily antisemitic and conspiratorial.
I had a quick skim through it, and I'm a bit suspicious of it. He has multiple posts per day going back at least 2 months. Every thumbnail was AI-generated, and the headlines and bi-lines of his posts had a bit of an AI-vibe to them, although I'll admit my opinion on that might be affected by the AI thumbnails.
I'm not entirely sure what to make of it.
Sam_I_am
1yr ago
I know that any person can be in a bubble, but are you suggesting that Libs of Tiktok is a better representative of the political landscape sample than anyone's bubble?
Sam_I_am
2yr ago
Your satire needs work.
This post is not really that funny, and it's not really fooling anyone either.
Sam_I_am
2yr ago
In The announcement that we would migrate from reddit, ZorbaTHut said:
Alright, so the admins are paying attention to us now. Not going into details, they aren't relevant and I don't want to draw their attention more; ask me again once this is done and I'll vent.
Did he ever share the details of what forced us off of reddit? If so, where can I find it?
Sam_I_am
3mo ago
The pardons Biden handed out at the end of his term were unquestionably an abuse of power.
That being said, it is a power that the Constitution says the president has, and there is no way in hell that the next president should be overriding the constitution.
The autopen thing sounds like a flimsy excuse, and I sure hope that nobody is taking it seriously.
Sam_I_am
2yr ago
And when I see people being anti-Zionist, it's usually the left wing, and it usually has to do with problems in the Gaza strip.
Sam_I_am
2yr ago
I think it has to do with the fact that for a long time Christians were not allowed to do money lending, and Jews didn't have to rely on Christians' good will in order to get into that business.
That second example is another thing I don't really take seriously. I often get the sense that people are scraping the bottom of the barrel with some of the arguments they use.
I very frequently see people rely on weak arguments like that, I also too frequently see people rely on arguments that are just tangential the core issue at hand. It's almost as though they think that the number of different-sounding arguments is the important part instead of the collective magnitude and quality of the arguments.
You can kinda see this when the Association of National Advertisers talks about "essential deliveries of food, water, or medical products". I get the same feeling when people talk about the "handicapped accessibility" arguments with regards to why Reddit shouldn't increase the price using their APIs.
Sam_I_am
1yr ago
Yep. In order to get permanent weight loss, you need to make a permanent lifestyle change.
Sam_I_am
2yr ago
The value of writing isn't measured by the number of words. It's measured by how much you can get your reader to understand.
Sam_I_am
2yr ago
Hundreds of millions of people know about this shooting. If one in ten thousand of them of them posts online in favor of the shooter, then you have ten thousand online posts in favor of the shooter to cherry pick from.
Sam_I_am
1yr ago
I frequently see people in the West calling for Hamas to release the hostages or complaining that other people aren't calling on Hamas to release the hostages.
I don't see the point behind this. Hamas doesn't care what people in the west are calling for. Secondly, it's hard to imagine what Israel can be expected to give them in exchange for the hostages considering that Hamas already killed 1400, and they can't give those lives back. Furthermore, if Israel does make a ceasefire in exchange for the hostages, it rewards Hamas for taking hostages in the first place, which is not something anyone wants.
Ironically, I think that if people in the west are calling on Israel to make a ceasefire, but not on Hamas to release the hostages, it's a sign that they're more aligned with Israel than with Hamas because they seem to feel like they have agency over Israel's actions. Meanwhile, they feel no agency over Hamas's actions, which is why they don't call on Hamas to do anything. To them, Hamas might as well be an animal that you can't expect it to not attack because attacking is in it's nature.
Sam_I_am
1yr ago
I see it now. When I first hopped into this thread, it just said "filtered"
And after reading it, it kinda made me want to reply in a way that may be skirting the rules. I almost think it's a false flag comment. That's how outside the overton window it is.
I feel like Vivek is more of a salesman and Yang is more of an engineer.
I haven't seen much from Vivek so far, but what I have seen is mostly him iterating the populist right's position on every issue. He's very articulate about it. He's very direct about it. But I get a strong sense that he's just saying what the populist right wants to hear.
Yang, on the other hand, was out there pushing weird-sounding solutions for real, or future problems. Automation taking jobs? UBI!. Police using their gun too much? They should have a purple belt in BJJ. These don't sound like things you'd say if you want to be popular, but I get a sense that he was genuinely trying to come up with ideas to solve stuff.
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