TIRM
6mo ago
Not every slope is slippery. Pedophiles are reviled in a much different manner than internet contrarians. Some guy posting about how he votes libertarian isn't in danger of imprisonment.
We can make new laws. If sexual predilections are not influenced by therapy or conditioning, then it could be made a legal requirement to hold child molesters in prison for many decades or for them to be involuntarily committed.
In other contexts people can be involuntarily held on the say so of a cop or a psychiatrist. If they are a likely danger. I don't want thought crimes, but being a pedophile is a real danger to children. This is not inherently legally impossible.
TIRM
7mo ago
I looked through the first page of Darwin's reddit profile and it is fine. Not clearly a troll.
But I do recall them being one of the more dramatic contrarian-against-the-local-contrarians on the old subreddits.
TIRM
9mo ago
I rode a bike last weekend with my wife and child. We rode with another family and their kids. Of course all those things go together.
TIRM
9mo ago
This is my most hated "feature". If I slightly miss a finger press it minimizes everything or loads a different page rather than posting my comment. It's so fragile.
TIRM
9mo ago
If I fat finger press the left portion of a comment it minimizes the comment chain. Can only the top level post minus symbol minimize a comment chain?
TIRM
1yr ago
Saying reloading is massively faster than throwing away a gun and presenting one that is strapped to your chest just isn't true.
I don't know what to say anymore. It just is true. I know I'm merely asserting, but I'm right, Tarrant be damned. That one bad data point of a guy purposefully making as much of a spectacle as possible doesn't change reality.
I wish we were on BLM land with a few rifles right now. We could compare the amount of fumbling and bumbling involved with throwing down a rifle and switching to another one vs swapping mags. You'd rock solid see I'm right.
TIRM
1yr ago
What is 8 pounds of extra weight on your chest compared to a rifle backup that is quickly and easily presentable?
Weight is everything. A true cost benefit analysis rejects excess weight with extreme prejudice. Here's where I'll assert that weight is a consideration so powerful that "I'll carry a second long arm" is ridiculous. "Quickly and easily" is reserved for swapping mags, not silly video game switching from one rifle to the next.
TIRM
1yr ago
I'm aging. In order to prevent weight gain I have given up on breakfast and eat a light lunch. I know a much older and equally lean man who follows similar routine. It obviously and unambiguously works.
Eat less to lose weight, eat more to put on weight. I purposefully ate more while I lifted. I now have a kid and a busy life and cut back on eating.
How long can society be obviously right but people pretend otherwise in order to excuse personal failings leading to the unavoidable consequences?
TIRM
1yr ago
I also "didn't live in San Francisco" for years. I still lived in the Bay Area, like I believe Scott does.
Is that a serious question for me to answer? The Bush administration seriously misunderestimated how hard nation building can be. Blame them.
Let's not recursively ask questions driving towards "why are all nations not maximally isolationist?" Because they just aren't. That's not a privileged or default state. For many reasons many countries are in conflict. I don't have a pithy satisfying answer to such messy and varied matters.
TIRM
1yr ago
Thanks for the surprisingly detailed writeup. I'll read quite a bit more before attempting DYI pharmacology.
Japanese research for example, see e.g their research on tinnitus.
Do they have any treatments for tinnitus that you know of?
TIRM
1yr ago
I suspect "polite society" being used to judge fitness for public office would just be moral busy bodies banning anyone outside of a puritanical norm. Like how all homosexuals were banned from security clearances and witch hunts were ran to try to root out closeted homosexuals from security and defense jobs.
And yes, in this one case such moral nannies would have been correct. But as a general principle I don't want them gatekeepers. A closeted gay engineer in the 80s working on missile tech shouldn't live in fear of getting caught and fired since polite society had nothing but cruelty and derision for such people. Hell, I'm in a mixed race marriage. Thank God it isn't a few decades ago when polite society didn't take a fond view of miscegenation and deviants such as myself.
for equality's sake we will support Mr. Mugabe
I didn't research this myself, but I've heard it asserted that Rhodesian army killed all the sensible moderate black leaders and the horrible monster Mugabe was the one who survived and ultimately took control. There were options other than "minority white rule or suffering under Mugabe". But they were all shot to death.
Edit: apparently not. I know Robert Evans asserted this twice. Don’t believe everything you hear in podcasts.
In 1948 or 1949 he attended a church social in Greeley, Colorado. Here are his thoughts:
The dance hall was illuminated with red, blue and a few white lights. It convulsed to the tunes of the gramophone and was full of bounding feet and seductive legs. Arms circled waists, lips met lips, chests met chests, and the atmosphere was full of passion.
Which is a less disgusted and condemning than I recalled. But anyways, it is silly that he thinks a 1940s American church social "convulsed" with "seductive passion". He spent the rest of his life bitterly complaining about all aspects of American culture and saying that opposition to all white people must be the cornerstone of the Egyptian nationalist movement.
TIRM
1yr ago
I read The Picture of Dorian Gray maybe 15 years ago. I recall it being equal parts boring and pointless.
Edit: Below someone says it made a big impression on them. I guess it really shows different strokes for different folks. What a waste of paper and my time that book was.
TIRM
1yr ago
my recollection is that
You know the "source: trust me, bro" joke? You are doing it to us right now. Knowing how fallible human memory is, we can't take vague recollections as meaningful evidence.
TIRM
1yr ago
Like, would you be okay sending a Senator who has Locked-in Syndrome to Congress, who could only communicate through blinking, as long as he had a long prior history of supporting your favored policies?
Absolutely. Policies and voting records are king. If the alternative is a Senator who doesn't vote how I like, I'll take anyone.
TIRM
1yr ago
I say silly and fake because it sounds like a poorly done affectation. They try too hard and screw it up. Not that an actual British accent is inherently silly.
But the American accent in the Beijing subway was spot on. So I’m saying that announcer probably grew up in the US and speaks like a native English speaker. That one announcer doesn’t have a silly edge to their speech.
The premise here is the claim that sexual predilections are not subject to therapy or conditioning. So in the narrow context of sexuality you can't cure pedophiles or "cure" gay people through conversion therapy.
I don't mean this as fully general advocacy of thoughtcrime.
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