ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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19hr ago
Or how interstate commerce was taken to mean intrastate, as any change in latter could by substitution effect, affect the former.
Not only was it taken to mean intrastate, it was also taken to mean lack of commerce.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I think I remember seeing a lot of discourse a couple of years ago about how Title IX is this awful leftist thing that's the justification of universities' kangaroo court administrative proceedings against male students accused of sexual assault.
I think that was after a similar reinterpretation by Obama. Title IX itself is from the 70's.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Is there any society where owning a house/apartment is not generally considered necessary before marriage?
Plenty of married couples rent? That's without going into the "living like a pack of sardines at your parents' place, possibly with your sibling(s) and their spouse(s)" arrangement that was pretty common in my parent's generation, even in Europe, and is likely still common in poorer parts of the world.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Stage 1 and 2 seem to imply that all movements start with elites, who are not themselves a natural client. I'd prefer a more market-style reading, where the niche exists first, and may be filled with a variety of solutions. But as in a nature documentary, we choose to follow a particular entrepreneur who comes up with an idea that allow them to make money/gain power in the niche.
And I'd prefer that the proponents of a market-style reading made their assumptions explicit, and backed their interpretation by argument and evidence, rather than relying on the truthiness of their story, hoping it will be enough for the picture of "organic" power that they paint to remain unquestioned.
For example, sure it can be seen as "market-style" and "nature documentary", provided you have sufficiently cynical view of the market/nature. But for people who grew up under 90's liberalism, that sounds like the choices to follow particular "entrepreneurs" are freely made, and if this is what you assert, I'm prepared to push back with examples from both the market, nature, politics, and social movements.
I think this would capture an important truth, that a mass of people looking for change can be a powerful force, if they can somehow be harnessed to all work together.
That's no really new, it's a message that all democratic countries bombard their citizens with. What I think is far more useful for people to know is that this implies that if an "organic" movement is getting anywhere, rather than flailing around aimlessly, it means it's being led. If you're participating in one, and think it's "bottom-up" nature is evidence of it's good intentions and mundaneness, you better look twice, identify it's leaders, find out where they actually want to take, and make sure you are comfortable going there.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
This one's actually scary though, especially if your contributions have been reevaluated within your lifetime.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Huh... that was not my first thought upon seeing your username, but I suppose it does check out...
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Maybe his petty squabbles were with a different ideological subset of posters
As someone who caught a few bans from him, I'd say in that sense he was very fair.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
What makes you think Hlynka wouldn't ban her even sooner? He had an extremely short fuse as a moderator, and his decisions always struck me as arbitrary.
I use it for Twitter, Youtube, and Substack. It might be applicable to more, but since these are the only SocMeds I use, I wouldn't be able to tell you.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
your next thought might be "Is there a hamster on a wheel in my head too?!"
Yes, but I find the thought quite comforting. Looking at it this way keeps me from huffing my own farts, and in the end snaps me back from changing my perception of others. I know for a fact that I do actually think about all the crap going on around us, and I know for a fact that I'm also an NPC repeating other people's talking points most of the time, so, I assume, my thoughts about my interlocutor are just an expression of frustration, rather than saying anything deeper.
Maybe an elite, which really is better than us, and which really is necessary to keep us from all choking on our food because we forgot to chew (metaphorically) is real and required.
After a fashion. They're needed to coordinate society at such a wide scale, but going by the ideas they're implementing they're either not that bright, or comically evil, and in either case, I don't think we need them that much.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Bro, just listen to your aunt, and take the arranged marriage.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
If you can get something with around 1GB of RAM for free, it should pan out. If you can only get half of that, it might work, but I feel like you'd be pushing your luck. Although for personal use, the performance hit of using swap shouldn't be too annoying.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
I run them both on a VPS I use for various side projects. Like you said this let's me browse from other devices, and have a consistent feed state across all of them.
Like I said I was planning to set up a demo for you guys, but I want to do it on a separate server.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
Yeah right around the time that countries decided that they no longer had duties and obligations to their own citizens. The sword cuts both ways here.
Well, that's what I'm driving at. The issue isn't as narrow as women not being drafted, as some people say, it's that people are being asked to take one for the team, when the same people who are asking, are deconstructing the team.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
If this is how things are supposed to go, on what grounds are you demanding that anyone fights and dies for your vote to say "fuck that guy, he's already dead"? Go and fight yourself, if you think it's such a great idea.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
I never suspected you to be one of the Western (or Ukrainian, for that matter) elites, so this doesn't come as a surprise.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
Then we're right back to conscription, and why do some people have to fight and die, while others get to enjoy a carefree life in the West.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
That non-Ukrainians are cheering them on makes perfect sense because of "enemy of my enemy...", if nothing else, but acting like this is supporting "self-determination" is indeed incoherent, when you're working day and night to abolish the "self" of Ukraine. This applies to the Ukrainian elites as much es the broader West, by they way.
The Ukrainians on the ground can fight for some specific, blood-and-soil concept of Ukraine if they want.
Letting them believe that this is what they're dying for, and standing by as they're being conscripted, when you know you won't let them keep it when the fighting is over, is precisely the part that's hellishly dystopian.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
E-mail can be done fine for a toy project, or where you're measuring reliability by licking your finger and sticking it in the air rather than by count of nines. If you're going to move the system you use to handle your bank account's verification to it, or how you send bills to customers, you gotta be willing to put a lot of effort in and realize it may not work.
Ok, thank you! That's exactly what I suspected, and not what I'd characterize as "basically impossible".
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
In case it isn't obvious, I did literally just say that both men and women should have obligations to the larger group they belong to, and only imposing obligations on one side is, indeed, a raw deal. I'm not seeing how that implies men's ownership of women, though.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
There is something hellishly dystopian about fleeing to another country, possibly even across the ocean, and your country of birth is still trying to pull you back. Particularly because women are given a free pass.
No there isn't. The idea that people have duties and obligations to their nation was considered so normal you could mistake it for the air we breathe until, like, yesterday. That women get a "free pass" from violent conflict is basic common sense, a conclusion reached by any society that isn't actively suicidal.
What there is something hellishly dystopian about, is that the very same people who demand you fulfill your duties to the nation, are working tirelessly to abolish the very idea of there being a nation to start with. That they're demanding you fight and die for the privilege of having your replacement shipped in in an Amazon package, from the country of the lowest bidders, and for your children - if you have any, and they make it through the war - to be raised with the values of Californian progressives.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
There's a pretty common issue in the tech community where someone writes a blog post about their experience, and after a long game of telephone a caricatured version of it becomes The Truth. It's been a while since I heard that one, but every once in a while someone still repeats the "98% of programmers can't code FizzBuzz" thing, for example.
I dunno, I played around with self-hosted email, the only time anything landed in spam was when I setup some cronjob that regularly sent mails. Never saw problems with manually sent stuff, and since I almost never send emails as it is, I cannot imagine tripping any spam filters in the course of normal usage.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
I prefer moderate indulgence to sanctimony.
I might take that, if the offer was credible, but I hope you understand why I soured on the promises of only moderate indulgence.
Where are you getting that idea from?
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