philosoraptor
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philosoraptor
1yr ago
Even granting the premise of your whole post, I have to make this one tiny quibble: shouldn't principles make someone predictable rather than unpredictable?
Only to people who understand those principles. My read of the political landscape today is that even the possibility of having them is just invisible to a lot of people, much less the details of any particular set.
philosoraptor
1yr ago
IME actual doctors are confidently wrong with some regularity too.
philosoraptor
1yr ago
Not that there weren't recognizable proto-wokist streams within leftism at the time, but it wasn't nearly the all-encompassing thing it can seem to be now. In particular race was nowhere near as central to North American leftism before about 2014 as it is now. In fact one of the many things I (pretty leftist at least by current Motte standards) lament about the rise of wokism is the near-total absence of, not only anti-war sentiment, but of any consideration of foreign policy at all, from 2023 leftism.
philosoraptor
1yr ago
You're missing the point. It's got absolutely nothing to do with wokism, and for that matter, by any non-US standard, precious little to do with leftism of any kind.
philosoraptor
1yr ago
Perhaps not the most insightful comment, but I was always like "Why did the name 'K-Pop' stick when 'Seoul Music' is right there?"
Last I checked Facebook was still waaaaaaay bigger than all the alternatives proposed by people who say it's dying put together. I think that's mostly people trying to be all hipster-y.
(EDIT: Looked up some numbers and this is no longer true as stated. Insta in particular is far closer to catching up than I would have guessed. But it's still only close to catching up, not in danger of eclipsing it or anything.)
I mean...are you a tall dude that looks like he could be a male model? Are you a multimillionaire with yacht pics? Famous? Or...are you okay with women twice your weight? If this guy ain't conventionally attractive he needs a million a year and enough charisma for a career in politics plus the body of a Greek God, otherwise he's decidin' where he wants the ambulances.
This took me less than two minutes to find and is just one example of you doing the exact thing you claim here that you're not doing, and going out of your way to be clear and explicit about it.
Also, I think much of the objection is not to the content but to the repetitiveness. Making a dozen to a score of posts saying essentially the same thing (including two substantively similar direct replies to the OP) in something on the order of 48 hours is pointless and obnoxious.
What's the greater evil: my psychopathy, or OP's incel-ism?
Since the latter isn't an evil at all, whatever else it may be, your psychopathy, almost by default.
but 90% to 99% of Americans have spent more hours than that watching porn
I seriously doubt enough women watch porn on the regular for this to be true. Not that I care much about the larger topic (squaring Trumpism with the religious right is not a fight I have a dog in since I'm just like "A pox on both their houses!"), but that jumped out at me.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
the possibility of a human being choosing to disobey the law is just not something that exists within their philosophy even as they complain about rampant criminality.
As others have pointed out aspects of, neither half of this seems even remotely true of the woke progressives I know or the ones I see online (two groups that are quite different in some other ways). Plenty of both break laws all the time or cheer on others' doing so, and they don't seem nearly as likely to complain about rampant criminality as deny or downplay it at best, and not infrequently cheer it on.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
It’s really prohibitively expensive to attend games in person. Taking a family of four to a ballgame, buying each person a snack and a beverage is easily $100.
That's prohibitively expensive? I wish two people could get out of a hockey game for that, and I live in one of the less expensive cities in the NHL.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Is it still the same band? I think they have one original member left, and if it's not Paul Kantner (dead) or Grace Slick (retired), I don't see much point. Same with a lot of these "bands of Theseus" that are still running around with names made famous in that era.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Not that many males are either, if they don't share that specific interest. Or at least that's my experience, of being on both sides of conversations like that.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Is he actually omitting stuff, or is the original like that? I was assuming the former, but if the latter, that's just plain incorrect. It's like ending this post with a comma,
philosoraptor
11mo ago
All the talk in Dec Jan 2021-2022 was of making lockdowns semi-permanent and ramping up the vaccine passport system ever further to crush dissent.
A small percentage of the talk in places like this, maybe. This certainly wasn't a widespread, mainstream idea, much less a dominant one.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
You never say whether certain criteria are necessary, or sufficient, or both, or neither.
Yes, because that is the question that's at issue! The OP was, I thought, completely clear on this point, then in the direct reply to you she said this explicitly. You even say yourself:
You talk about whether X can be "the criterion" or Y can be "the criterion"
Well, yes. How is it not clear that this is the question she's raising, not one she has a worked out answer to? What else would someone you'd describe that way be trying to do? This honestly seems like basic reading comprehension to me.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Not as useless as repeating the exact point she and I have already addressed multiple times, completely ignoring everything either of us said about it.
Tell Gdanning that, please. Most of his posts lately seem to be nothing but a lot of words to say "I didn't read the post I'm replying to". It's obnoxious and infuriating and hard to believe it could be in good faith and I can't judge anyone too harshly for this kind of reaction. Just because it's superficially more polite (although even that gets borderline at times!) doesn't make it higher quality.
philosoraptor
10mo ago
... context?
philosoraptor
10mo ago
If this took place in 2021, it didn't involve anything recognizable as the AIs people are currently concerned about.
philosoraptor
10mo ago
puts a lot more sugar in absolutely everything than any other country in the developed world
Mostly HFCS, actually, as I understand it.
philosoraptor
9mo ago
Or telling an American in 1980 that 10 years later, the USSR would no longer exist.
They'd almost certainly be neither surprised nor happy about this, because the assumption would be that a nuclear war had taken place. People seem to have completely forgotten the grip that threat had on the culture around that time.
philosoraptor
9mo ago
Well, SMH only said a cock, not your cock...
philosoraptor
9mo ago
With the sheer number of Ph.Ds being minted in comparison to the number of available positions, I doubt spousal hiring hurts the quality of research or teaching much. You won't optimize, but you'll still get someone pretty good.
Well, what I want to know can be rephrased as "what's so special about nudity"? I mean, surely they see themselves without clothes all the time, and lots of other cultures, and not weird fargroup ones but familiar European ones, don't have these hangups according to other posters. It sounds like you're presupposing an answer to that, and indeed an answer you can't even seem to imagine anyone disagreeing with.
I don't really have an answer, beyond that "kids are property" is a nonstarter.
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