aaa
1yr ago
Google images "black dude sucking his own dick", tell me that's not what it looks like.
aaa
1yr ago
and "w*g" (what is this?)
aaa
1yr ago
If the price they report is right it could be this one: https://verabradley.com/collections/rolling-luggage/products/hardside-large-spinner-2813515185?variant=40622072627244 which does come with garish floral patterns but also in generic black and silver. All other models have one or two "boring" (sane?) variants. Regardless, none of this is a unique piece.
aaa
1yr ago
I've read it now. His story is weird but not impossible. If there is no sexual motive (which, if the bag doesn't have a garish floral motive, there probably isn't) then it's going to be even harder to prove anything.
aaa
1yr ago
But this argument is based on a particular interpretation of which portions of Marxism are salient (...) Specifics of the classes and their features and grievances do not seem terribly relevant to the question of how and why the ideologies operate.
IMO the contention that the salient portion of Marxism is not economic class is a pretty contorted view of how marxism has been generally interpreted in the past 150 years.
they appeal to the same people, they're pushed by the same people,
They don't, communism appealed very much to the working class. You may not see this because communism was basically illegal in the US, but where it did exist the parties were staffed by working class people and that's where they received votes. Wokism main centers of power are journalism and HR.
they attack the same important social structures in the same ways,
What would that be? I don't know where you are going with this, but often people say "the family" so I'll pre-empt that. All strong ideologies "attack the family" to some degree:
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in the 10 commandments, allegiance to the family comes after allegiance to God and to the Church
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fascism followed suit, proclaiming allegiance to "God, country and the family" (Dio, patria, famiglia) in that order
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Jesus says "For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother" as well as many others to the same effect
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Scientology practices disconnection from anyone who is declared SP, including family members if necessary
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Isolation from family members is a common cult technique
and the arguments against them are more or less isomorphic
Maybe for you.
aaa
2mo ago
I have no idea what is going on
What you are looking at, probably, is amplified noise. They display three models of increasing statistical complexity, the simplest one (model 1) got them almost no results, with almost all their results coming for the most complicated one. None of the models is explained in any great detail and this wasn't a pre-registered study (AFAICT) so who knows how many models they even tried.
aaa
6mo ago
PS. I'm glad that the religious right is making a comeback because maybe they can succeed in making sex negativity uncool again.
aaa
9mo ago
So you are making the argument from contingency not from motion? I don't think it matters much, I still think the dismissal of infinites in these types of arguments lack rigor: they were formulated during a period of time where the principle of non-existence of actual infinity was commonly accepted, but this is not the case anymore. Mathematics rutinely deals with actual infinity in a way that is consistent, so you have to justify why this particular actual infinity is impossible.
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10mo ago
Think about it from the perspective of someone who is already religious: you are already prepared to believe on faith that the gospels are a historical account. Many miracles would have only a few witnesses, so it is not surprising that they would not be recorded by historians (there probably were many false accounts of miracolous healers at the time and it would get lost among the fakes). But some of them are so huge and public that they couldn't escape notice.
As far as I am concerned I only believe (1) and partially (6) of that list with any certainty. There's too much conjecture in this part of history, if this standard of proof was applied uniformly we would believe in the existence of the philosopher stone too.
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10mo ago
The bible is vague on a lot of things, so early theologians filled in by borrowing from greek philosophy, mystery cults, etc. The idea that an infinitely good god will eventually save everyone, and therefore that hell is temporary (i.e. apokatastasis), is not that far fetched (certainly less so than a hierarchy of angels, or the trinity) and thus it circulated, pretty much for all of the history of christianity.
Eriugena's version is explained in his book de divisione naturae and it's a very abstract philosophical theory where creation starts in god as ideas (he thinks platonic forms) which eventually become material. Because god has to be the ultimate form of all aristotelian causes he's also the ultimate final cause so everything returns to him through an inverse process.
aaa
1yr ago
Sure. The point I was trying to make is that it has to fit with its surrounding.
aaa
1yr ago
The supernatural is that which humans are incapable of explaining with reason and science
Fair enough but that would mean that anything that has a natural theology isn't a religion, for example Heaven's Gate, Scientology and Catholicism.
What do you think is the difference between ideology and religion?
It's probably just a difference in intensity rather than in quality.
aaa
1yr ago
Like Borges says in his book about buddhism "the conversion of a congolese negro to the faith of Jesus Christ is really the conversion of the faith of Jesus Christ to a congolese negro". People are just going to do whatever they want, I even see it with american online catholics: why are you doing lent and reading the bible? Why aren't you worshipping your local saint/icon of mary?
aaa
1yr ago
ChatGPT 3 and 3.5 are shit at writing code. A couple of days ago I gave them another shot, I thought "I have the perfect task for this". Had to use an API, it's a well documented API from a OS, and the use I wanted to do was the most straightforward use possible. Just had to be done in Go instead of C (which is how people usually use it). I could probably go on google and easily find the function I wanted to write, verbatim, in C so all chatgpt had to do is translate it in Go. Couldn't do it. Literally every line was wrong. Also it crashed.
I'm not going to pay 20 dollars to see if GPT-4 works better, but, the way I see it, it can go one of two ways. Either this approach doesn't pan out, and nothing changes for us. Or it does pan out, in that case it will have been trained on code we wrote: you and I. We're going to be the last generation to get a free ride on the immortality train. Think about it, isn't that cool? If this were the case you should pity the zoomers who come after us and will have to die like mere mortals.
As for the job, whatever, if AI can replace programmers it can replace most other knowledge workers too. We're all on the same boat, misery likes company.
aaa
1yr ago
I disagree, I think our brains are sufficiently similar that if we understood them better we could come to formalize some basic universal principles of morality, indepent of trascendental beliefs. This is one way to come to an objective morality without revelation, there are others.
There's also a big difference between claiming that you need a god to define morality vs claiming that you specifically need the christian god.
aaa
1yr ago
I'd add that the vatican, on some issues, is aligned with left wing position. For example it has been very pro immigration for many decades. It has also opposed every war in the past 60 or so years which was usually considered a left wing position (not so much recently).
aaa
1yr ago
I think, given how much the movies argue that the inside of the Matrix is fake, that we should generally argue that whatever exists outside of it is the real stuff. So Thomas Anderson's whole life in the Matrix was fake, his body in the real world was the one in the pod. Analogizing to gender, the fake one is what "society" is telling you, the real one is what the people who broke out affirm for you. His mind didn't make that fake identity, it was indirectly given by growing up as a brain hooked into an existing system.
Sure. but isn't this just a lie. Are all lies a metaphor for transgenderism at this point?
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1yr ago
Sure. So what's the relevant differences between Marxists and Wokeists that I'm missing here, and how should people like me play them to our advantage?
For example: immigration depresses the cost of labor to the detriment of workers, a diverse workforce makes unionization efforts harder to achieve, the push of careerism on women is the capitalist sistem seeking to exploit them further. On the other direction: the lower classes are often the most bigoted (more homophobic, transphobic, sexist, etc).
What would that be?
Heirarchy, tradition, law, economics, justice, ethics, morals, etc. Ideas along the lines of "Social justice" or the cultivation of a "revolutionary conscience" recur with monotonous regularity, because the fundamental logic of Progressive Materialist revolution demand such innovations.
Any strong ideology will seek to change hierarchies, the law and ethics to match its own. Also I don't think SJW can be considered materialist.
Your examples seem fairly bimodal to me, in a way that is quite telling. I observe a significant difference between honoring God above one's father and mother, and honoring the state or one's auditor above one's father and mother.
For there to be a difference god would have to actually exist and participate in human affairs, but it doesn't so in practice it's just a stand in for a human institution.
Neither Christianity nor Judaism seem to encourage this.
Isn't the story of Abraham and Isaac similar enough?
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5mo ago
Did you know that radio transmitters can be damaged by operating them without an antenna?
But in this case the brain would be the receiver antenna. I mean, this is all an hypothetical so you can always make up an excuse how a damage on one end (physical) would propagate to the other end (ghost world?), none of this could disprove it but also none of what we've discovered in neurology so far reinforces the existence of an immaterial mind.
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5mo ago
I think you are reaching here. In general governments can't compel you to do any work, save for a few exceptions. The european declaration of human rights for example carves out 4 exceptions: prison labour, military service, emergency service and normal civic obligations.
For prison labour you would have to make the argument that prostitution is a necessary part of the rehabilitation process, which seems far fetched. Also most countries already ban prison labour for non-violent offenders (the US is basically the only western exception) and prostitution with a murderer seems a dicey proposition (I would want a prison guard supervising it, at least).
For military service I think the prostitution would have to be limited to other members of the military to count. You couldn't make the argument that prostitution to the general public is military activity, for example. However you could make prostitution one of the civil service options for conscentious objectors. I'm not sure if you could make it the only option. Also most countries have already abolished the draft so most governments could only do this during war.
An interesting case is emergency services, actually. In Iverson v. Norway it was determined that Norway could compel dentists to perform dentistry (for appropriate remuneration). You could use this to redistribute prostitutes (which tend to cluster in big cities) across your nation's entire territory. You could also make the argument that incels represent a national emergency that needs to be solved. But what principle would you use to compel incels to have sex with prostitutes? Probably something about involuntary treatments.
Normal civic obligations is probably your best bet. The case law on this is pretty nebulous, it's unclear what counts and you could make it like jury duty. I suspect it would get shot down, though.
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8mo ago
If you were in the marketing department at AB and someone said “hey, why not send a one-time promotional can to this influencer that she’ll only market to her (highly woke) progressive following and that our core audience will never even hear about?” what would you say to convince them of how badly things would go?
"He doesn't have a highly woke following he's a lolcow, hate-watched by a following of alogs. Just read the comments on youtube and then imagine what they would write if this topic wasn't heavily censored. This marketing campaign will only be seen by TERFs and chuds, the best you can hope from it is that it will have zero impact."
"What's an alog?"
But really, I think they knew what they were doing. If you spend enough time on the app formerly known as twitter you start developing a reactive mind, you do/say/think things just to maximally own the libs/chuds. Somebody in marketing just thought "what can I do in my line of work to own the chuds today? I know they seem to hate this Dylan Mulvaney person, I'll sponsor them".
I think that explanation is probably wrong. It is happening in the US but declining birthrates is a global phenomenon and it's happening in countries that don't do the kind of price discrimination the US does in healthcare and education.
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