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erwgv3g34
24d ago
There is a wider question here: discoverability. Some friends have inquired if a space like the theMotte exists. I usually shurg and pretend this place doesn't exist. My policy has been that if you are meant to find it, you will find it. But, after our divorce from Reddit, I'm not so sure anymore.
We don't have a pipeline anymore. You should absolutely be recommending The Motte to your friends. If we don't get new members, we are going to die of attrition.
erwgv3g34
24d ago
There simply isn't enough pre-90's material available. The internet produces exponentially more content than the printing press, and even with it AI trainers are running out of text and resorting to artificial (AI-generated) data.
Letting Reddit purge all thoughtcrime out of the platform is going to have far more implications than were ever imagined.
erwgv3g34
25d ago
erwgv3g34
25d ago
Archipelago (Scott Alexander).
Please, please link to the original version of "Archipelago", not to the (horrible) revised edition.
Which is, of course, why the Allies did not march all the way to Berlin from Italy; they invaded Normandy.
erwgv3g34
25d ago
...but it was? This ribbon nonsense makes it so much harder to do things.
"Better to have a bad doctor than no doctor."
Unironically yes, which is precisely why occupational licensing is evil.
So why the fuck are they forfeiting their own integrity to appease them?
Because they are true believers? Wokeness is simply what you get when you take antiracism and antisexism seriously. You can get away with 90s colorblindness and gender neutrality right up until you notice the huge disparities in outcome that result from equality of opportunity, and then what? Shrug and say "well, shucks, I guess the racists and sexists were right, but I stuck to my principles and treated everyone like an individual, so even though I got an outcome that is 90% similar to what the bigots would have gotten with discriminatory policies that is still a moral victory?"? Only a few autistic libertarians are OK with that. Everyone else starts looking for a way out, whether looking for ever earlier, ever smaller environmental causes ("no, it's not that blacks are less intelligent than whites, it's that complimenting their mothers for being articulate while they are still in the womb causes irreparable trauma that shows up as disparate test scores by first grade"), or sticking their head in the sand and shutting the fuck up while neurotically telling people to go away every time the subject comes up until genetic engineering makes everyone equal (Scott Alexander).
If women are equal to men, if blacks are equal to whites, then every gap must be the result of evil white males oppressing minorities in ever subtler ways, and ever more extreme measures are justified to combat this. Wokeness is simply the elimination of unprincipled exceptions. If you believe the moral message that every school and TV show has been putting out since the 1960s, you believe that the woke are more holy than you, morally superior to you, and are at worst a little misguided and overzealous. Certainly nothing like the racists and sexists, who are pure evil.
It's just good practice to specify which Creative Commons license you are talking about whenever you mention one, because each of the six different licenses has wildly different implications (the NC option is particularly dangerous). Saying "under a Creative Commons license" is like saying "owns a four legged pet" instead of "a dog", "a hamster", "a pony", etc; it's not as natural of a category as you might think.
WOTC making orcs basically humans with an odd skin tone is an unusually poor choice. Really speaks to them missing the fundamental purpose of morally unambiguous enemies in a game.
From a gameplay perspective, if you want the tabletop equivalent of a video game beat-em-up title, it makes sense that you want a race of always chaotic evil antagonist who exist in endless supply and can be mowed down with no moral compunctions. It's the same reason we have zombies, or Nazis. But, from a worldbuilding/roleplaying perspective, that seems both pretty boring and also kinda unrealistic? Not unrealistic in the sense that you cannot build a world where it doesn't make sense; with enough effort, I'm sure you can. Unrealistic in the sense that it doesn't map to anything in the real world.
I get the real point is they don't want a race of dumb savages so they have to change them into human with oddly colored skin. Like an identifiable group of real life humans drawn in fantasty style.
If they are going to turn a monster race into fantasy Mexicans, then I prefer goblins. They are much cuter.
There is a difference between the occasional queer-coded alien and just outright portraying homosexuality as if it were normal. Not a huge difference (it's pretty clear the TNG actors wanted to push the gay agenda and had to be reined in by the producers), but still a difference. It's the next step in promoting deviancy.
I'd be pretty comfortable letting kids watch TOS-era Star Trek, somewhat comfortable with letting them watch TNG-era Trek, and very uncomfortable letting them watch NuTrek.
Why are you reviving a week-old thread?
I was reading over the thread again when I had a burst of inspiration; I thought it would be a shame to let it go to waste, but it wasn't long enough for a top level post. Better to put it out now; I expect I'll have a chance to use it again later.
All your answers are straw men, and they begin with the word "entitled."
Children are entitled to be cared for by their parents. Citizens are entitled to certain rights.
Beyond that, nobody is entitled to much of anything. You have to earn what you want in life. That is the human condition. You have to earn food. You have to earn shelter. You have to earn sex.
Nobody is entitled to a wife, a husband, a relationship. Because entitled implies someone else is obligated to give it to you.
Saying you are entitled to a "mid" as you put it implies that somewhere out there is a woman who is obligated to fuck you, and you exclusively. Who is she? How are we to locate her? By what means do you propose this involuntary fuckable be provided to you?
I believe that there should be a chicken in every pot. That does not mean I want the government to assign each worker a chicken, and set quotas for the raising thereof, and nationalize the means of production to make it happen, because we have run that experiment for 70 years in half the world and every time it ends in disaster. Rather, it means I want the government to create the economic conditions that allow each man to buy his own damn chicken. And that starts with the government just not doing everything in its power to obstruct the commerce of chickens, such as preventing shop owners from lynching shoplifters or setting price ceilings on the true price of chickens.
Likewise, I believe that every worker should have a wife; that does not mean I want a government mandated gf. It means I want the government to create the conditions where every productive man can find his own damn wife. And that starts with the government not doing everything humanly possible to undermine the institution of marriage, such as stealing from working men to provide welfare to single mothers, or rewarding wives who break up the marriage with half of their husband's assets, or locking up the man who murders his woman's lover in a fit of rage. When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
("Every man" is a bit of an exaggeration; just as the correct number of collapsed buildings is not zero, because that means you are overbuilding your houses and spending too much money in construction, the correct number of incels is not zero. But, to paraphrase Kevin Dolan, marriage and reproduction should be normal and typical; the supermajority of working men who want a wife should be able to get one while she is still young and virginal, and involuntary bachelorhood should be an unusual tragedy.)
Patriarchy, you say? But even under patriarchy, you'd have to impress some girl's father enough to be willing to give her to you. Even if you want to DreadJimmax and say women are property, you are just transferring the obligation upwards: somewhere out there is a man who's obligated to give you his daughter to fuck.
Also note that under most real-world patriarchies, fathers still tended to have some affection for their daughters and would not give them to a man who truly repulsed her and seemed likely to make her miserable. And those patriarchies that do treat women as literal commodity goods in that fashion are pretty fucking miserable places to live for everyone!
If we ration women to one per men, which is part of the plan, then at some point fathers have to look at their aging daughters and make a decision between picking one of their suitors and spinsterdom. When women are allowed to make the decision themselves, they either oopsie into single motherdom while fucking men who have no intention of committing to them, or, if use birth control religiously and willing abort any accidents, end up as childless catladies. At best, they might snag a beta in their last fertile years and have 1-2 kids. I trust fathers to make a better choice, sooner, and without attendant promiscuity. Not to a repulsive man, unless the daughter herself is repulsive, but to an average man. And if the daughter finds him repulsive, it is she who is being spoiled and unreasonable.
erwgv3g34
28d ago
I am erwgv3g34, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a producer not entitled to his own mid? "No!" says the PUA, "she belongs to Chad." "No!" says the feminist, "she belongs to herself." "Yes!" says the Churchian, "but only after she hits the wall." I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... patriarchy, a system where the beta would not fear divorce, where the incel would not be shut out of the sexual marketplace, where fertility would not crash below replacement! And with the crime of your thought, patriarchy can become your system as well.
erwgv3g34
28d ago
Actually, this isn't too hard if you note that both the numerator and denominator are multiples of 13
How the fuck do you notice that? I know how to tell if a number is a multiple of 2 (last digit is even), 3 (all digits add up to a multiple of three), 4 (last two digits are divisible by 4), 5 (last digit is 0 or 5), or 6 (divisible by both 2 and 3). But not 13.
Okay, looking it up, there are divisibility rules for 13, but none I ever learned. Do you seriously have one memorized?
So, on the one hand, yes, the characters in HPMoR don't act like realistic kids. But, on the other hand, I don't want to read about realistic kids, because realistic kids are annoying and boring; I'd much rather read about an MIT freshman. There is a reason I dropped Harry Potter after Order of the Phoenix, and that's because Harry goes all emo.
I only went back and read the last two books because Methods was ongoing and Eliezer was clearly drawing on material from all seven books so I wanted to make sure I understood the lore. Half-Blood Prince was decent; I'd probably have enjoyed it a lot as a teenager. Deathly Hallows was terrible.
Ins't the US age of consent 16?
Like everything else in America, it varies by state. However, since Hollywood is in California, 18 has been memed into the canonical age of consent throughout the country (and, indeed, around the world).
erwgv3g34
28d ago
Because it means that failing is virtually impossible. Which means everyone graduates, which makes the high school diploma a useless credential, which means now people need a college degree to stand out. Rinse and repeat.
For a comprehensive list, try "Heroes of the Dark Enlightenment", or one of these charts.
My personal recommendations:
(What's that old quote, from a Roman author IIRC, about people mistaking their particular cultural norms for universal laws?)
From Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw:
BRITANNUS (shocked). Caesar: this is not proper.
THEODOTUS (outraged). How!
CAESAR (recovering his self-possession). Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
Sabaton? Excellent taste.
You know, the charge of the winged hussars at the siege of Vienna is one of my favorite historical events. As much as I love, say, the ride of the Rohirrim or the battle of Cardassia Prime, they are marred by being fiction; they never happened. Even something like El Cid's posthumous attack on the Moors is most likely a legend, while other events like the undying loyalty of Spartacus's army were completely made up by Hollywood.
But the battle of Vienna actually happened. The winged hussars really did arrive. King Sobieski literally led a charge of 18,000 horsemen at the head of 3,000 Polish heavy lancers that broke the Ottoman army and saved the city right as it was about to fall; it's very well documented. Something out of stories truly took place in our world, and that makes me very happy.
It's not down, it just moved from alljapaneseallthetime.com to alljapanesealltheti.me
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