aiislove
8d ago
Have you ever seen Mennonites? I grew up around them, the women dress more handsmaid's tale-ish than this example and the men dress in modern clothing and no one bats an eye or cares at all. (If you google image search Mennonite you will get tons of images of the Amish where the men do not dress in modern clothing so just ignore those if you're trying to argue with me.)
I haven't read the replies below but I'm sure someone has more eloquently explained that the "role reversal" doesn't work for progressives because even if they admit the surface level irony they are bound to a more rigid set of beliefs and presuppositions that aren't simply taken down by a bit of cognitive dissonance.
aiislove
10d ago
I would agree with Hydro's assessment but don't know what kind of evidence to provide. It may just be the barber pole of fashion but there's a huge swing in the past year or two of people going back to 2000s fashion (Ed Hardy and Affliction for the depop ppl, Galliano deconstruction for the high end) which has a much more red tribe/straight aesthetic than the 2010s which were largely extremely gay/trans and alienating to straight people. Hydro mentioned the pop charts, the choosin' texas song has been huge and there's way less snobbery against country music today than there was even like 6 years ago. If Tiger King came out today I think the response to Joe Exotic would be less of a bourgeois dogpile, or at least a more self aware one.
However I think all of this is also playing against a massive backdrop of red tribe people largely abandoning anything they perceive as trashy from about 2004 through about 2020, basically culturally erasing itself in a way that everyone who noticed is too embarrassed to mention. It is similar to the way the 80s were remembered in the 90s, as a trashy embarrassment to be left in the past.
aiislove
12d ago
Huh are you saying you had the ai write a save file for a game and it did it with just one prompt? Did you upload a reference save file or the game code or something with the prompt?
aiislove
13d ago
I lived in Manhattan for a while when I was in college and learned to walk really fast or I'd get run over. Then I went to Vienna and everyone walks so slowly it's like a contest to see who can be the most elegant and have the most free time and have the least to do and it's much more dignified. The older I get the slower I walk because howling at me at 21 works but howling at daddy makes you the crazy one.
aiislove
13d ago
Half and half is just half cream and half milk. It's a bit lighter than heavy cream and a bit richer than just milk.
aiislove
14d ago
I was scraping the bottom of the youtube barrel about 6 months ago and started watching some Tucker Carlson videos. He is somewhat fine/normal most of the time but occasionally drops mind numbingly stupid thoughts or ideas that make me recoil with disbelief. My impression is that he is just not very smart and seems to revel in his kind of aw-shucks naivety that I imagine some part of his audience relates to or finds charming.
aiislove
20d ago
I have had more interaction than most people with non-native English speakers, including as a teacher. There are many second language learners who do in fact achieve native proficiency, often with a greater understanding of grammar and vocabulary than the average native because they have studied it so intensively.
I understand this perspective, having spent half of the last 5 years or so in non-english speaking countries. But in the context of hlynka vs smh it is the more class superior view to have, so you're not really refuting my point but rather reinforcing it broadly, reasserting the correctness or righteousness of formal education standards rather than seeing how treating that as the baseline is classist
He had a massive chip on his shoulder about being "not like the rest of you"
Yes this is the sad part about classism, that it excludes people. The solution to just ban people who are already on some level feeling left out is wrong imo
aiislove
20d ago
I am not an alt but I'd love to know a user I'm similar enough to to be suspected of being an alt of.
smh was at least as literate in English as he was
I can't really read this in a non-classist way, you are implying here that someone who is from an english speaking country may be less literate than someone who has learned it as a second language, basically the implication being something along the lines of the educated noble foreigner's english may or may not be superior to hlynka's white trash prose or something
I do think that classism is pervasive on reddit, on the motte, in the west, and around the world and that it is continuously unexamined, seen as crass to do so by the rich/educated and embarrassing by the poor/less educated and am unsurprised that alluding to the classism here is met with ridicule, derision, deflection and ad hominem
I do recall that Hlynka had a particular dislike of @2rafa, though, so it's very odd that you would be conjuring some conspiracy between us against him....
My impression was that his dislike of her was to some degree a class based ressentiment which is why her "Actually kind of racist" comment and its unobjected-to-at-the-time classism went unexamined and unremarked upon by everyone as far as I was aware
What bothered me most about hlynka's banning was the vulgar classism. Hlynka's "maybe because english is your second language" is an extremely inoffensive sort of thing to say if you're not living in silicon valley or London England but 2rafa decided it was racist and beyond the pail, the largely male mods took her word for it and banned an unpopular but valuable poster. It's no secret that Hlynka was
I suppose it's nice that now you regret his banning but from my memory it was mostly your fault.
More broadly I am against dase's permaban and agree with 2rafa's suggestion to just implement several day bans for valuable posters like him.
Edit: To speak more plainly, I am alleging that hlynka was unpopular among the board due to his class, style and socioeconomic status, that certain posters didn't like him around and that 2rafa in association with a handful of mods banned him on account of his rough style/socioeconomic status as much as the for the antagonism or "racism" he was accused of
aiislove
25d ago
Yeah, I'm with the earlier commenters who said they wouldn't trade in IQ points for athletic ability but would trade some in for other stats. I'd happily shave some intelligence off to be more attractive, less prone to gluttony, less fussy/more impervious to discomfort, better heat and moisture tolerance and so on
aiislove
26d ago
How do you know so much about so many different topics? You talk about zoos like you work at one as well as you know about like, the obscure ethnic tensions of Singapore or Saudi Arabia or whatever. I'm always fascinated by your extensive knowledge of so many different things. What motivates you to have such a deep understanding of so many different topics? People usually get annoyed with me in real life when I try to relate my obscure knowledge of things, mostly they don't want to be corrected or have their beliefs challenged they just want to assert their own opinions at me. Do you talk about these things with people in real life as well?
This simply will make the US or any country that does this so uncompetitive compared to any country that does not enact such draconian restrictions. Just reading about it has me itching to move to some developing nation that doesn't care. I guess in your broader scenario you'd rather be in whatever country has the nicest standard of living, or every country suddenly has a nice standard of living enabled by AI, but I'd still choose the high agency country you're allowed to make a two person corporation in than the make work pretend garden job world you anticipate
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