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				Friday Fun Thread for April 12, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This thread is amazing, many thanks to all who contributed.  I am starting to wonder if the Motte is entirely populated by Indians though...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Transnational Thursdays 23
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Good post, but I've been waiting for the housing crash for 20 years and have become convinced that it will never happen without massively cutting immigration rates.  Enjoy the slightly decreased prices for a season and then hold on for the next run up...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				The Bailey Podcast E034: An Unhinged Conversation on Policing
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thanks for responding; sorry I failed to reciprocate in a timely fashion.




pretextual stops by police




There is an analog here in any technical profession; any time you need to investigate a minor problem you take the opportunity to poke around and make sure there isn't something big brewing in the vicinity.  Borderline negligent to not do that in fact.  "Where there's smoke there's (often) fire."




what I’m supposed to do if I’m the victim of a crime and I’m not able to successfully defend myself in the moment




I get it - I am old enough to have mostly become disabused of my childhood plans to become a Navy Seal.  But even if only... one in ten? civilians were capable of lethally defending themselves the pool of in-your-face criminals would still drop fast.




the possibility of genuine “tyranny” in this country as dramatically lower than what you, like my two podcast episode partners, estimate it to be.




I am defintely not an anarchist, but when I look around I see most political parties predicated on oppressing their "enemies".  Maybe a better election system than First Past the Post could help soften that... I dunno, only seems marginally better in countries with different systems.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				The Bailey Podcast E034: An Unhinged Conversation on Policing
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That was a great guest pairing; both positions are comically extreme but balanced in a way that allowed me to think about the space in between without getting my hackles up.  Let's see...


    

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    The repeated visits to "low murder clearance rates" were not challenged in the way i wanted to hear: If you instituted the death penalty for serious crimes that currently are punished in a way that encourage repeat offenses (theft, regular assault, etc) it won't take all that long for the murder rate to start dropping - gonna accidentally net yourself the murderers eventually!
    

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    Dramatically fewer limits on self defense strikes me as a far less morally perilous way (compared to turning the state into an efficient murder factory) to reduce the number of criminals dragging down society.
    

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    Both H and K are overly worried about the "feminization" of modern men.  We're all descended from thousands of generations of murdering rapists and that capability is just waiting for the opportunity to be deployed again.  if anything they should be worried polite society is breeding sociopaths that are capable of hiding these latent abilities/inclinations.
    

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    An epiphany!  There is a parallel between gun owernership and public defenders - both do small harm to society's interests on a day to day basis, but their existence prevents the government from trying to overreach and abuse (well, more than it does).  Seemed interesting as probably those things are supported by opposite sides for the most part?
    

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				The Bailey Podcast E032: Information Goons
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I concede I was thinking more of this podcast and less of some perfectly-satisfying video when I talked about creation.  But I think I'll double down here.


Even if the act of creation is producing something that is essentially crack cocaine in meme form there is still something to trying different things, refining your craft, optimizing your message for your target audience.  Whether the end result has cultural etc value is largely irrelevant to the experience of the creator.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				The Bailey Podcast E032: Information Goons
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Forgot to comment in a timely fashion and now the podcast details are fuzzy... one thing that stuck with me is that you guys didn't consider content consumption and creation as obviously very different things.  Maybe consumption and "getting likes" does scratch the same itch but surely the act of invention (and implied interaction with the wider world) should elevate creation out of the gooning category?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				The Bailey Podcast E032: Information Goons
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
RSS forever!


You can still get RSS out of Reddit and The Old Reader pretty much perfectly captures the feel of Google Reader.


Not that this meaningfully reduces my inclination to doomscroll the reddit app...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				The Quest for Funko Pops
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I enjoyed reading this but... have no idea what it means.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				The Bailey Podcast E031: We Say Gay
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Someone in the episoded noted how they felt that as a young gay they knew they needed to not be open about it, keep things hidden.  I found this a little jarring because I felt the same as a straight youth - any expression of sexuality seemed taboo to me.  Obviously there are circumstances where being gay makes that that instinct more meaningful but maybe it's not quite the dividing line it was presented as?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Does my Philosophy of Sexuality Professor Have a Point? (It's a mandatory gen-ed)
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Unhelpful to the discussion but your username and tagline crack me up.  Ah, fond memories from my younger years.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Does my Philosophy of Sexuality Professor Have a Point? (It's a mandatory gen-ed)
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Ask yourself how this professor would feel about “BIPOC choosing to prioritize relationships with other BIPOC so as not to reenact the trauma of white colonization” or whatever.




That's where the "except in cases where doing so comes at an unreasonably extreme cost to oneself" clause would kick in.  That loophole could be creatively used to avoid any application of these principles.  "Sorry, my family is racist and would disown me if I had non-black/white/brown friends"


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Does my Philosophy of Sexuality Professor Have a Point? (It's a mandatory gen-ed)
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yup.  Agree and amplify is the correct approach here.


"So you're saying I'm morally obligated to be friends with pedophiles?"


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				So is Shutterstock just doomed?
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I wish I could tell if you are joking...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				RSS Support?
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Took me a while to find this info on the RSS feed.  I have two suggestions to improve discoverability


    

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    Add a link to the RSS feed on the home page
    

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    Add whatever meta tags are required to the home page such that the RSS feed can be auto-discovered by RSS agents
    

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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm a downvoter in this case; not sure if my motivations are generalizable but here we go.


Why downvote this particular comment?


    

  • It contains a fairly outrageous claim with no evidence, not even bad evidence, presented.
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Why downvote any comments?


    

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    Comments like this reduce the value of the thread for me; stopping to consider whether it made any sense broke the flow and ultimately I discarded the claims without learning anything.  A downvote is a cheap way of giving feedback (to a well intentioned writer at least) that they should consider trying a bit harder.
    

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    Readers are going to have varying levels of knowledge on a given topic, and varying levels of patience for reading (and evaluating) rebuttals.  A big negative score will at least signal that a claim is controversial.
    

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