Walterodim
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Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
2yr ago
shallow 6 pack 6 figures 6 feet evaluation
These aren't shallow requirements. Wealth, health, and fitness are clear markers of actual traits that women care about for very good reasons. I think it's pretty obvious to all that whatever putative gender blurring has happened on this front, it has had basically zero impact on the value of bringing wealth, health, and fitness to a relationship.
In other words: politics!
Not really. I honestly don't care very much what the local property tax rate is all that much. I have opinions, but it's not going to ruin my life if I get stuck paying an extra couple grand for some pointless makework project.
That's just a sleight of hand attempt on their part to move properly political questions into a sacred domain where their views will be beyond criticism. In exchange, they'll allow you to haggle over bureaucratic and administrative issues that no one actually cares about.
Didn't I just say that I have a bunch of things that I don't consider negotiable?
Your reply seems pretty unrelated to what I wrote. I don't get it.
Walterodim
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2yr ago
So does it being a national issue excuse Desantis or Abbot from not taking a hard line against employers within the boundaries they control?
No, it doesn't.
This looks to me like a 2002 Democratic governor pulling some stunt regarding gay marriage while their own state hasnt legalized gay marriage. My reaction would be "screw that! Do what you can in your state and then pull some stunts!"
Yeah, that actually worked. No one succeeded in taking that action at the state level, they pulled it off with federal legal shenanigans. I don't think this example works in the direction you're kind of implying.
I dont underatand why people againstt illegal immigration are giving governors a pass when they pull stunts rather than do what they can.
I don't think I'm granting such a pass. I think Desantis and other governors should attack the issue from multiple angles and do so as aggressively as politically feasible. I don't think there's 4D chess going on here or anything, I think Desantis just likes flashy, politically combative maneuvers. Sure, I'd like him to do more on it locally, but I'm still going to be happy to see a culture warrior on my side of the issue.
Walterodim
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2mo ago
The AI slop article in question is describing real events. For Silver, there simply was no need to go digging for a better source for something he had already heard about when he was just posting on X.
Walterodim
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5mo ago
It's only when somebody talks about White Advocacy that everyone pretends they don't know what White is.
OK, I don't know what "white" is for this purpose. Is a half-Asian kid white or not? As near as I can tell, they'll get to face the academic discrimination of any other Asian kid if they happen to have inherited Chang as a last name or the same discrimination that a white kid would if they're named Stevens. Culturally, they'll be treated as whitish. This isn't some weird, borderline case that requires adjudication via genetic clustering maps, it's just a common product of the many Asian-white couplings in the United States. That white nationalists would feel the need to dig into the PCA plots to answer the question rather than just saying that they're white enough or that they're actually Asian highlights a reason this project is just not very appealing.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
Trump and Elon Musk are extremely goal-driven people (I am choosing them because they are household names). Why are they both fat?
Poor impulse control and desire for immediate results. Of course, this has served both men well in a number of ways, but neither is known for their inclination towards gradual, incremental efforts that only yield results when done consistently for long periods of time.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
For pretty much any chronic disease that kind of looks like just being a lie-about, I would be more inclined to believe it if someone could show me an afflicted individual that doesn't seem like they were deeply neurotic, quite fat, or just generally frail prior to getting the putative disease.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
I don't think firebombing Tokyo feels quite morally right, but trying to fight a war when constrained to conventional moral standards is probably never going to really feel right. Leveling Hamas-occupied areas of Gaza has more moral legitimacy in my mind than leveling Dresden did.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
Did north Ireland work?
Nope, which seems like as clear of a demonstration that the problem isn't race. No one that's not from the isles knows what the hell the difference between Ulster and the rest of the place is. Ireland is pretty ethnically homogenous, but because it has conflict, you define it as multicultural.
Walterodim
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2yr ago
Haha, I feel like this replicates every one of those conversations I've had. Eating a half pound of cookies is absolutely wild to me. Just don't do that! It's obviously bad for you! Just eat one cookie, or maybe two! I realize that in practice people have very different impulses around these sorts of things, so this is a completely useless suggestion, but it seems like the heart of every anti-carb conversation winds up being people going absolutely bonkers on things that I just eat a little bit of and then walk away from. Admittedly, impulse control is a hell of a lot easier with steak and eggs than with a giant pile of fried rice.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1yr ago
The one he cheated on with a porn star?
Walterodim
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1yr ago
Yes, really, I genuinely can't imagine preferring a sedentary life to a life with some chosen sport. I chose biking because I like biking, but it sure doesn't have to be biking - go swimming, do a hard trail hike, roll on a ju-jitsu mat, do Crossfit, play soccer, just pick something and do it. I cannot imagine someone experiencing the joy of fitness and mastery in a sport and saying, "no, I am too busy getting knowledge". The extent of how weird I find it is that I basically just don't believe people and think it's excuse-making for sloth.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
I know people constantly insist on this, but running 50 miles per week is actually a lot of calories and isn't even half of what pros are doing. When I ramp up from my typical 40 mile/week schedule to 70+ miles per week during marathon training cycles, I will either lose weight or make a deliberate choice to eat more simple carbs and keep weight. This is even easier in cycling, where long rides are easier to pull off consistently than long runs. Unsurprisingly, the extra ~600-1000 calories per day from exercise makes it much easier to maintain homeostatic calorie intake than what sedentary people would eat; I know this because maintaining my weight required much more conscious choices before I picked up endurance sports.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
2yr ago
Waves of immigration to major cities continued apace throughout the 19th century as well. New York City, Chicago, Boston, Philly, and other large American cities relied heavily on immigrant labor and the new immigrants formed large ethnic enclaves in those cities. Irish, Italians, Poles, Germans, Jews - these people and their experiences building our major cities are certainly important parts of the formative story of the United States and many of them weren't headed for the frontier.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
2yr ago
If you would never have bought the pirated thing because you’re poor or cheap, you can pirate as much as you like.
Which, of course, encourages people to declare that they're actually morally righteous in their theft because they weren't going to buy it anyway.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
2yr ago
For what it's worth, my choice was already a unit in a multifamily dwelling in a relatively dense area of the city (although Madison is not an especially dense city as a whole. My preferred style of living are places like the row homes in Alexandria. I agree completely with preferring an interconnected community, walkability, bikeability, and a firm sense of city identity as important. I'm not interested in Retvrn-style politics of retreat, I'm interested in asserting the legitimacy of communities being able to say no to larger, non-local governments imposing deterioration on them in a way that no should accept for their neighborhood. I just have no particular desire to impose this preference on suburbanites - if they don't want this in their backyard, they get to say no, and that's fine.
Walterodim
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2yr ago
I can see the appeal to formalizing a process and that probably does make sense overall, but the enormity of Trump really does demand exceptional treatment. This is true whether he remains banned or is unbanned - the impact of the size of his audience, his stature as the former head of state of the most powerful nation in the world, and his previous prominence (mastery?) of the medium makes him at least an order of magnitude more important than any other user. Holding the guy that could singlehandedly spark mass political violence to the same standard as Catturd just doesn't make sense to me.
Walterodim
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2yr ago
Topher's The Patriot released in December 2020 and stirred up some controversy after the rapper performed it on January 6, 2021 at a Veterans for Trump rally and it was pulled from Spotify.
I don't know, maybe these sorts of things have to come from counterculture rather than the dominant culture. That doesn't seem like a very satisfying explanation, but it pattern matches from what I can see.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
2mo ago
OK, but who gives a shit? Would it change his point? Was the article he linked fundamentally false?
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1yr ago
Is Putin still strong and trad?
Probably. Are there people that would characterize Putin as strong and trad that like the CIA?
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1yr ago
I think I pretty much endorse this, even though I recognize that there's a fully general version of it that could be pretty mindkilling. Nonetheless, when someone sneers that free will is incoherent and would have to be powered by magic, I might as well just respond, "yeah, isn't magic cool?". I don't really buy that their argument amounts to much more than, "I don't understand it, so it must be magic", but since I don't think I actually understand it either, I might as well shrug and declare that it is indeed magic.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
Seems obviously stupid, like a waste of time to admit the not-very-bright kid, but I just don't care very much. Life isn't going to be fair in every individual example, but it's fair enough that I'm not really going to get wound up that a 1460 kid wound up one rung lower than they "should" be.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
2yr ago
...lack of access to weapons
The combination of demographics and access to weapons seem to combine to drive murder rates, in my view. As I mentioned in another post, the murder rate among whites in Minnesota and Wisconsin is incredibly low, almost non-existent, and yet there are tons of weapons in the rural areas. The people are just not really the shooty types so much. As @rudig points out, Oslo has some populations that are fairly violent; I would guess that their capacity for large numbers of murder is moderated by their access to firearms. Where the two intersect, Milwaukee and Minneapolis have high murder rates among their black populations - violent subcultures, predicted by demographics, combined with easy access to firearms gives predictably bad outcomes.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
2yr ago
I think DMCA violations are basically just stealing in the same fashion as piracy. Whether any specific example is permissible is contingent on more factors than just whether I think its stealing or not, with utility certainly being one of them.
It refers to people exercising intentionality to consume the foods that align with their physical goals. If that's losing weight, it means a caloric deficit. If that's endurance sports, it means eating a bunch of boring sugars and simple carbs out of your back pocket while you're on the bike because it'll go poorly later if you don't. If it's normal homeostasis, it means matching your appetite to your activity. If it's bodybuilding, it means protein shakes, egg slonking, and chicken breast when you don't want anymore because it's necessary to add muscle.
Basically, it means making an actual choice, electing to eat the things that make sense rather than defaulting to absent-minded gluttony.
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