cpcallen
1yr ago
For some reason I only have downvote buttons, for both posts and comments. Is this a bug or did I do something wrong? I note that I saw only downvote arrows while not logged in, and logging in did not fix it. (I have tried force-reloading the page, opening a new tab, etc.)
Or maybe we are going to have only non-positive scores going forward? That seems… a bit negative to me. ;-)
cpcallen
8mo ago
Nominally, yes. But would they care about his open rejection of feminist ideology so much if he were stronger? In my observation the answer is usually either "yes, but not nearly so much" or "possibly, but they'd keep their opinions to themselves, at least around him", which amounts to the same thing from his point of view.
Attractive people (of both sexes) just get cut a lot more slack for their opinions and treatment of others.
cpcallen
10mo ago
Can you elaborate about how some make folding impossible? Are you speaking only about the difficulty of avoiding taxation, or do you posit other ways that opting out, MGTOW-style, is insufficient/impossible?
(As to taxation: I can see some might the on average unequal contributions/disbursements for men and women a source of resentment, but I hardly think this is universal amongst unsuccessful men—consider that at least some are socialist—while plenty of successful men object to taxation on grounds unrelated to the disparate impact between men and women.)
cpcallen
11mo ago
Corporations benefitting at the expense of the public purse is not exactly a new idea. Indeed, it is one of the more compelling arguments against unfettered capitalism.
I would absolutely expect that corporations would like more cheap labour that is ultimately subsidised by taxpayers, especially in places where corporations are not themselves especially highly taxed. It's the same principle as Walmart workers on food stamps, writ large.
The likelihood that the general public would not buy the economic arguments in favour of immigration if they were more familiar with the numbers (at least in Denmark) may explain why those numbers do not seem to be particularly well reported.
cpcallen
1yr ago
This talking point has been repeated ad nauseum but is it really true, though? I contend not: his candidateship brought an enormous influx of new members to the Labor party, resulting in it becoming the single largest political party by membership in Europe. The parliamentary Labor party evidently believed him to be unelectable—and did everything in their power to make sure that would be a self-fulfilling prophecy—but nevertheless under his leadership the Labor party made gains against the Tories in a snap election that Teresa May had opportunistically called to try to capitalize on Labour's supposedly weak leadership and Brexit position.
Corbyn was certainly deeply polarising, and in the end not an effective leader, but "unelectable" is not plausible except insofar as as his own party was willing to shoot themselves in the foot rather than risk finding out.
cpcallen
1yr ago
I don't know if the post is fake or not, but I do know that
know he should use a cutesy throwaway called "throwRA"
is not evidence one way or another: using a username with that prefix was previously a rule in that subreddit, that rule was promulgated vigorously enough that even people like me who do not regularly browse that sub knew about it, and it created a sufficiently strong convention that 12 of the current top 25 posts (sorted by hot, as of this moment) adhere to it.
cpcallen
1yr ago
I think this is disingenuous. Babbage certainly created the first design for a programmable computer as we know it, and clearly would have given considerable thought to combining instructions together. But if Lovelace was the first person to actually spend a significant amount of time constructing lists of instructions to solve particular problems then I don't think it's unreasonable to describe her as the first programmer.
By way of (concrete) analogy: in the fourth year comp eng CPU Design course I took as an undergrad, we all created pipelined RISC CPU designs in VHDL, and used an emulator to test them. To that end I did input several sequences of instruction to ensure that the (emulated) hardware was operating as it should, with the ALU generating the correct results, the pipeline correctly handling various hazards, etc., and while these might technically be "programs" I was not "programming" in any meaningful way. Like Babbage (and thousands of students before me) I created a design for a CPU which will never physically exist. Unlike Babbage, my non-existent CPU would never attract even a single programmer.
cpcallen
1yr ago
It was clear to me that this became, very quickly, something that was pure, unadulterated 100% culture war.
This strikes me as a very American perspective—or rather, since it looks that way from here too, a very American phenomenon. Not that there were no disputes about public health measures in Europe—we have our share of anti-vaxers too—but at least here in the UK conflict didn't break down along existing political lines so obviously as it did in the US, and though we did have some of the "do as I say not as I do" shenanigans (cough Castle Barnard cough PartyGate cough) they were more from the right than the left.
cpcallen
1yr ago
Thanks for introducing me to a whole bunch of things I'd not previously been aware of. I hope your won't mind a small correction: if I have understood Wikipedia correctly, it was Cash's private mansion that burned down, while the House of Cash was turned into offices and a cafe.
cpcallen
2mo ago
To me the most plausible claim you make is that all is all internal feedback would have been deflected. (I'd also give you the claim that all would have been forgotten after the PM got a promotion, except that unfortunately for then the promo cycle is a lot slower than the media cycle...)
cpcallen
7mo ago
Ahh, I'd read only the article about the court cases. The article about Schmeister does read rather more like a hagiography.
It is interesting to realise that I have higher expectations for internal consistency if Wikipedia articles than I do for inter-article consistency.
cpcallen
7mo ago
Wow I keep forgetting how extortionate US phone plans are. Here in the UK £8/month will get you a perfectly good SIM-only plan with 10+ GB of data, and unlimited data starts at £15/month.
cpcallen
8mo ago
Is it standard, though? I've never presented any ID to court in any Canadian or UK election—and I have voted in many. I understand that the UK will now be requiring ID in future elections, but this is a novel development that the current government seems to have cribbed (like many of their more dubious electoral engineering projects) from the US Republicans.
cpcallen
8mo ago
Why would any government subsidize the creation of a colony with no expectation of ultimately realising the profits?
cpcallen
10mo ago
For me the upvote/downvote mechanism did a lot better job of surfacing the most interesting things to read (posts and comments) that previous systems like Slashdot's moderation system.
cpcallen
11mo ago
I'm interested in knowing more about this. Growing up fairly poor it seemed like hand tools were ubiquitous but power tools were reserved for professionals and maybe rich hobbyists. I guess like horses and automobiles the ever-cheaper tech has reversed this dynamic?
Where do hand tool woodworking hobbyists congregate? Is Fine Woodworking magazine still relevant, or does it have too many power tools?
cpcallen
1yr ago
Not OP but: Perhaps to imply that there is much less mobility between them than the average American reader might expect had the word "class" been used instead? (And also to imply that birth remains disproportionately important in determining one's class despite increasing social and financial mobility.)
cpcallen
1yr ago
Notably the Japanese are reported to judge facial expressions much more on the eyes than other parts of the face, as compared to westerners. This is probably also why Japanese emoticons are eyes and nose laid out horizontally like so: O>O rather than full face like so: :-)
cpcallen
1yr ago
Hey, hands off: British Columbia is ours (or maybe the First Nations people's—though that's a culture war for another day) ;-)
cpcallen
1yr ago
This is interesting (but probably rather more so to those with at least a passing knowledge of football), but I admit that I'm not entirely clear what the culture war angle is. Just that the fans are NOT really taking sides, when they might ordinarily?
cpcallen
1yr ago
I think it can go not only either but indeed both ways:
During university years I found myself living in a very strongly communitarian, church-oriented subculture, which made me excited about the idea of having kids of my own one day: I was surrounded by good models of strong families and the kind of "village" that makes raising kids seem not too daunting. Alas, things didn't work out as I might have hoped, due to my poor social skills and atheist (or at least strongly agnostic) views disqualifying me as a partner for essentially my entire peer group.
Latterly, during the pandemic, I had front row seats to my sibling's family; I still love my nephew and niece a great deal but seeing the day-to-day reality of raising a family absent a strongly family-positive community—and the strain it put upon the parent's relationship, which eventually dissolved—makes me now terribly reluctant to consider that path for myself.
I'm under the impression that parental (or in loco parents) supervision of children has been more or less steadily increasing since at least the 1930s, hence why kids are driven everywhere, parents get arrested for letting their teenage kids play in the park I'm unsupervised and "free range parenting" hads emerged as an effort to counter this insanity.
At what point do you think supervision decreased?
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