netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
This isn't a very realistic model of academia.
"Back in my day" is one of the easiest and most natural criticisms to make in any field. I think you should take what this guy said with a grain of salt.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Some hot takes you've got there.
"True believers" are, by definition, awfully hard to convince. But why should "anti-Muskites" act anything like Communists? People hate him because he flatters their outgroup, not because of some abstract reasoning. He personally did something that annoyed them, so they started showing symptoms of Elon Derangement. This is pretty normal.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Reversed stupidity is still not intelligence.
Since you don’t play games, let’s talk movies. Assume you have to choose between a perfectly neutral film and one that flatters your politics. How much is that flattery actually worth?
We don’t really have to imagine this, because the Christian film market exists. They’re still trying to tell compelling, entertaining stories, but they’re doing it without the talent, funding, or awareness advantages of Hollywood. As a result, they are generally worse on technical and social metrics. The audience is there because they think the messaging is laudable.
soy-type politics
Come on, now.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
…yes and no.
Devs are overworked, underpaid, and lack creative control. Yes. They are politically oblivious, subject to the whims and aesthetics of their MBA-wielding superiors. Yes.
But these are not a consequence of anti-expert sentiment. The door isn’t open for everyone. Those managerial nobles and HR legions were invited in thanks to the iron law of scaling: comparative advantage. Time spent managing is time not spent on interesting technical problems. Most of the senior devs I know, socially competent or not, are much more interested in the latter. So they hire their counterparts who, technically competent or not, prefer to manage.
Cartelization doesn’t help. Every hour spent on management or marketing or compliance or HR or accounting or basket-weaving is an hour not spent on the core technical task. If you need them all you have to hire more manpower. That’s more expensive with constricted supply.
The smaller studios of the 90s just had fewer non-core tasks. You don’t need a manufacturing specialist when your whole production line is one CD burner.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Why?
I mean this in the most sincere way. Other responses have straightforward mechanisms. I do not understand how that could be true for adopting a belief which I do not—can not?—rationally hold.
So I would be genuinely interested in hearing your justification.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
It’s funny to call a $20B business “modest,” but I suppose that’s true for Google’s scale.
According to this report, their services division spent $87B to make $144B. The Cloud and “Other Bets” segments are basically rounding errors in comparison.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Well, if there’s one thing that would elevate your risk, it’s a front-row seat to world war.
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Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Three separate objections, I guess:
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Generalizing from the most visible member of a population is probably not a good way to draw conclusions about desire for attention. Most of the trans women I know very much care about unsexy, routine things so long as they can be labeled femme.
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Wait, do you know any common fantasies that don’t involve being on the tail end of a bell curve?
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In the spirit of the “male fantasy” meme, I think you could swap out “AGP individuals” for most any recognizable subgroup. They don’t just wanna be tradcons, they wanna be the 95th percentile tradcons, with a homestead and 11 children!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
In my experience, they totally do. Not the pregnancy ones but the social through romantic ones. The o the point of loudly proclaiming how great it was to do housework.
I’d have said it was downstream of viewing everything through a gendered lens.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Why are they usually in those? I seem to remember reading it was a default option. If true, the U.S. would just pivot to holding them somewhere else.
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Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
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Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Yeah, flashing the fake titties would be inappropriate. Has McBride done that? Or posted provocative pictures, or stolen women’s luggage, or whatever?
Last I checked, most women have their breasts even when they aren’t nursing a baby. This doesn’t lead you to assume they are sexual deviants. Unless, I suppose, you take the fundamentalist view. Would you feel better if McBride wore a burqa?
There is a whole world of impractical signals out there. I think you’re picking one to back up a mistaken intuition.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
I suppose not.
Not sure how I can effectively challenge their assumption, though.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
They’re about as practical as replacements after a mastectomy, augments on a post-menopause trophy wife, or whatever the hell Rudy Giuliani was doing. Which is to say, not very.
Not everything impractical is a fetish.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Source for Twitter being 50/50? I assume it’d lean one way or the other.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Uh, no. He’s jumped pretty hard on whatever populist-right memes are floating around Twitter.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Right, though I don’t have information for that on the other deaths. So they could also be the % of society who can’t or won’t get to a hospital.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Here is what I actually think a reasonable framing of this question is: "can men with a cross dressing fetish involve non-consenting women in their crossdress-play?"
This is about as reasonable as asking why we tolerate bondage fetishists in the police force. We don’t; the handcuffs have a practical, unobjectionable, non-sexual purpose. Anyone abusing such privileges for sexual gratification can and should be punished.
Has McBride done or said anything to convince you her presentation is sexualized? Because if you’re going off base rates, I think you might have the wrong idea.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
That’s still unworkable because you can’t separate outside knowledge.
If you’re sentencing someone to women’s prison, do you really rely on passing? If I’ve got a vendetta against a trans coworker, can’t I out her no matter how well she passes? If my buddy Big McLargeHuge, manliest of teenagers, wants to get into the women’s locker room, what’s stopping me from playing wingman by accusing him of insufficient T?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
No, it doesn’t. In the first footnote of their response, the Supreme Court defines “reasonable medical judgment.”
a medical judgment made by a reasonably prudent physician, knowledgeable about a case and the treatment possibilities for the medical condition involved.
Which of these did Dr. Karsan not attest? More importantly, why doesn’t the Supreme Court specify?
Even if you don’t think the abortion was necessary—isn’t this perverse? The state is shooting down every attempt to clarify its laws before committing a potentially criminal act.
What time frame do you have in mind, exactly?
This report suggests doctorates surged in the late 60s as the Space Race and related investments peaked. But that was tracked by similar ramps in number of institutions, amount of funding, etc. so I wouldn’t expect the professor:student ratio to crater.
I was pushing on this because it didn’t match my grad school experience. We still had wide latitude, minimal make-work, very specific classes with low headcount. I’m willing to believe that’s an artifact of engineering and wouldn’t hold for humanities, but my instinct is skepticism.
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