guy
2yr ago
No reports from people with pacemakers who tried cooking with induction and died.
A very literal example of survivorship bias.
What exactly is your prior here when you say it's a psyop? That no one actually came and shot people? That the shooter was a government agent?
guy
1yr ago
I can't help but disagree here. Lots of 21-year-olds like kinky sex. Not to mention with a celebrity! WhT a bonus! Where's the immorality?
guy
4mo ago
From the article:
the so-called unitary executive theory, which states that the president has the sole authority over the executive branch
I straightforwardly thought this was always the case. I thought the current controversy around Trump was about whether his actions trampled on the domains of the other branches.
guy
2yr ago
In my experience, it's the losers that do most of the bullying. The kids with dysfunctional families who don't have anything going for them. The actually smart, successful, socially adept and resilient kids... often do a lot of posturing and casually put others down... but the kids who go out of their ways to be bullies are not our future stars.
guy
5mo ago
I don't see how Trump's plan would satisfy the leftist motte... Direct US control (ownership ?) of an area is the paragon case of "oppressor nation persecuting the poor browns".
guy
7mo ago
It doesn't take a super-Straussian read of Scott's material to know that he is into eugenics. I suppose he has always towed the line of encouraging eugenic reproduction rather than discouraging dysgenic reproduction, so this does feel like a newer take.
guy
2yr ago
I was a math major, and I am very glad my university required a liberal arts education. I had a couple philosophy courses that really stretched my intellect, an anthropology class, a sociology class (we read Fussel's "Class" and it's stuck with me since) and a Brit Lit class that left me with a sincere appreciation of boring dead peoples' writing. I also enjoyed poetry for the first time in my life.
All that said, I have no problem with the decline of the humanities, as long as there is still some significant chunk people who get to dedicate their lives to it. English major became, IMO, a standard choice for middle-intelligence people who wouldn't have been in college a generation before. The development of the humanities doesn't depend on them.
guy
5mo ago
I have to admit, I was surprised and I am trying to acknowledge that my prediction was wrong: when I read the text I thought that whatever Elon did would have to be a stretch to call a Nazi salute.
Then I watched the video and... yeah, idk. Based on priors I assume he wasn't trying to do a Nazi salute, but it really is what it looks like to me prima facie. If you point out that "no, a real Nazi salute is..." I just have to say: yes, I believe you, but that salute definitely fits with a normie imagining of what it looks like.
guy
2yr ago
I think TRN's statement could be fairly glossed as "The primary cause of this shooting was the oppression that trans people face."
That has scissor potential.
guy
1yr ago
I wonder if it has to do with increased marijuana use. My impression is that it has skyrocketed the past few years, and most people don't think driving stones is dangerous.
guy
2yr ago
Yeah, that middle school was a horrible horrible time for me, filled with with what would rightly be classified is ongoing physical abuse and verbal harassment in an adult context. The setting of middle school makes bullying a much bigger issue than most people will ever encounter as adults.
I don't know what the best solution is -- I don't want kids' lives getting ruined because they were a dick as a 12-year-old -- but I think it's perfectly appropriate for a school to investigate and take serious action on it.
guy
2yr ago
Oh my gosh... my son uses ChatGPT to generate Minecraft commands for him, and he asked how to fill the woodland mansion with TNT. ChatGPT said that it was not right to fill servers with TNT because it could affect other players' experiences. He explained that he was playing single-player and ChatGPT still said it wasn't right to blow up a bunch of stuff with TNT.
guy
2yr ago
I really liked Knives Out, even though I do have a mild allergic reaction to overt woke messaging. There were several "good guy" white characters, including the old dead rich white man. Yes, the 1st-generation Latina is the one winning out in the end, it's obviously a movie of its time, but I think it did a pretty good job of being detective-movie-for-the-Trump-era. The family of humorously horrible people is very much a mix of clueless conservatives and out of touch liberal elites, and I think both sides are getting poked fun at. Also, it's just good in its own right. The clever inversion of the traditional detective story arc, while leaning into classic mystery tropes, was very well-done.
Curious to see how I feel about the sequel.
guy
2yr ago
Well, it would be nice for a consumer to be able to distinguish between delicious-food-and-excellent-service and oh-my-god-this-place-is-on-par-with-the-French-Laundry by seeing if people rate it 4/5 or 5/5. For many people, 4/5 means "excellent service".
I think giving a place a less-than-5-star rating for adequate service does not mean we expect more than we paid for. Maybe what we're paying for is a 4-star restaurant!
guy
5mo ago
I just can't believe I live in a world where "woke gender ideology" appears in official executive memos.
guy
7mo ago
But as a white-collar worker who gets up at normal o'clock, waking up in the dark is something I do not want to deal with on a regular basis, as it is noticeable harder to get going in the morning when it's still dark.
Then tell your employer that if they want to keep you, you must be allowed to come in later during the winter. Why is this the government's job to solve?
guy
5mo ago
But these don't have to be handled federally. Honestly, student loans don't need to be government-granted at all.. why can't the market take care of that?
Public schools can be funded locally/state level. Though I'd rather just a federally-issued voucher for everyone and let schools compete for students.
guy
7mo ago
Hmm, but then why do I hear stereotypes about various central American or SE Asian countries being very friendly? I'm sure there are many rude tourists there, but somehow they come away thinking everyone is nice.
guy
11mo ago
I am Chinese in origin, and I can confidently say that if outsiders moved in and learned and spoke Chinese and did so for a thousand years, they would still be foreigners. (No one thinks that Mongols are Chinese.)
Yes but no one thinks the Mongols immigrated "recently".
The point here is that it's not people saying "we don't like foreigners" but rather criticizing policies that are not 20 years old.
guy
5mo ago
I guess I just wonder how much this sort of thing happens.
guy
11mo ago
I (American) remember ordering two beers at an English pub, holding up two fngers, palm-inward, and being told by the bartender something to the effect of "Mate, never do that. Palm facing me."
idk, Scott makes a compelling case that the proto-woke side was the atheists. That coheres with my personal experience as well. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/
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