teleoplexy
20d ago
Fun exercise - shuffle the CSV and get entirely different outputs! Not a bad thing per se, just abusing the Lost in the Middle problem to get more different songs you might like.
teleoplexy
23d ago
If I tell a Christian that their belief in sky-fathers is ridiculous while they're hosting an unrelated activity
That’s not a fair comparison. I preferred the comparison to a Black person among white people, although that one isn’t perfect either. In my experience, Christians and Black people generally don’t test others to see whether they hold haram beliefs, whereas trans people and trans-friendly communities routinely test whether you agree with them. For example, I once felt tested through a joke, where my reaction seemed to be examined to see whether I laughed along. Another time, I was asked directly about JKR and Harry Potter. I’ve never had similar experiences with Black people or Christians, despite knowing far more of them than trans people.
Yes! It's your hobby-horse, as you put it yourself, so I think it's pretty much your only set of opinions that I can coherently judge
teleoplexy
24d ago
I personally know many people that share my views, that I think are more liberal than yours
teleoplexy
24d ago
It may not apply to literally everyone in the community - people differ and hold different views - but effectively, there is an atmosphere of fear around being ostracized for questioning anything. Many people share my views in private (which are much more liberal than FtttG, for example), but are afraid to dissent, because if they do, they cease to be a good person in the eyes of their peers and colleagues.
when it seems easy to ignore
Not the OP, but five or six years ago, I was on the side of supporting transition and never criticizing it. After that, I became interested in the issue because of several factors that came together.
- An FTM person in my family desisted while she was a teenager. At the time, I was supporting her, if not encouraging her, but then she fell out with her queer friend group and later moved to a different school. After that, her suicidal ideation and desire to be a man seemingly disappeared completely. Partly, I credit her parents, who refused to let her visit a gender clinic, which otherwise might have put her on an irreversible path. She now has a long-term cis male partner. This episode shattered my conviction that being trans is based solely on an internal, innate, hardwired feeling of gender.
- The school hid the fact that this person had socially transitioned for a full year. I put myself in her parents' position, and I think it would be unacceptable to me if someone else decided that I couldn’t help - or rather, that I wasn’t allowed to help - my child.
- Speaking of the feeling of gender, neither I nor anyone I have talked to about it has that feeling, so naturally, I can’t relate.
- The episode with my family member was interesting because mentioning it was taboo in trans-friendly circles. I never felt animosity toward trans people, yet by the standards of the leftist community, bringing up desistance or detransition is itself transphobic. So there was no way for me to square my real-life experience with the community consensus. I researched the topic myself and found that there are other liberal opinions on it, some of which reflect my real-life experience much more closely than unquestioningly accepting the idea of a gender journey.
So, if the school or state is silently aiding a child in transitioning - and, for the sake of a thought experiment, let’s say it’s my child - does that really look like an issue I can ignore? I don’t think the people who push this policy in schools are ignoring me; they are putting me in a position where I have to take some sort of stance.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Man I even made the rice cooker pancake due to this trend. It was okay, not the best thing I've ever eaten.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
teleoplexy
3mo ago
Another vote for This Is Going To Hurt
teleoplexy
3mo ago
Sam Kriss is an amazing writer, a true jester
teleoplexy
3mo ago
DO NOT MAKE THIS BAKED ZITI RECIPE IF YOU WANT TO MAINTAIN YOUR DIET
I REPEAT DO NOT
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/281646/the-best-baked-ziti/
teleoplexy
4mo ago
It is unambiguous given the videos that she did try to hit the officer with her car, but just barely, and seems to have backed off immediately when her tires slipped on the ice.
What happened to "be charitable"? She's just a libbed out body who got scared when she saw the people she was reading about online in real life. The people who will disappear her, deport her to El Salvador, put her in a cattle wagon straight to an Auschwitz equivalent located in Texas. Then she panicked and tried to flee without thinking too hard how her actions are going to be interpreted by a hostile party. Why instantly jump to accusing her trying to kill someone?
teleoplexy
4mo ago
Mainstream media
Who do you mean by this?
Might as well include the whole population of the world in this category.
various politicians
This one would be the simplest to prove, so if you don't respond to other ones, I'd like to see your response to this - who incited the assassination?
teleoplexy
5mo ago
I kind of hate private group chats. I have a private group chat with friends to shoot the shit and it makes sense if I just want to keep in touch and make each other laugh, but Discord style real-time model just doesn't fit my mental model of deeper discussion:
- If you don't have a lot of time to constantly check on it, it's hard to understand where an ongoing conversation started.
- It's hard to follow the discussion because multiple groups of people can talk about multiple things at the same time. Thread model captures my mental model of discussion much better.
- I don't have time to read it to an extent where I keep up with everything going on.
- It's unsearchable - sometimes I want to find an old conversation. On Reddit, here and on forums, the conversation about a topic will be organized into a nice thread. On discord it's interspersed with some random conversation without start and end.
If it's a smaller group chat like Signal or Telegram or whatever, those problems are less prevalent but I just don't have an understanding how to join one with an anonymous group of people I don't know.
teleoplexy
5mo ago
I mean they already consume shit like tiktok too, but there’s for example us, here on the Motte talking to each other. The Motte IMO is going to be affected by the coming avalanche sooner or later, so in my head the question is - where would I go? I came up with “a paid forum”, but I think touching grass OSS an acceptable outcome too
teleoplexy
5mo ago
It would be funny is the main political divide in the future is “grass touchers vs slop eaters”?
teleoplexy
5mo ago
Maybe we won't want to talk to each other online anymore in the future, but I think the problem will become a real pain point very soon. If I'm forced to make a bet: will we stop talking to each other online or will people pay for the service somehow, I'm betting on the former.
teleoplexy
5mo ago
I think there's a free niche, in our AI world. Strike it while it's hot deal, IMO. There's only one way humans online can keep talking to each other without the doubt that it's really another person you are talking to and not AI: paying for posting. And also having anti-AI policy. I don't think it's going to be easy to create something like this, we would need a Bluesky style mass-exodus to that platform and we are all so used to posting for free that the idea will be met with natural revulsion, but IMO it's the only way to continue talking to real people.
Or maybe such a platform already exists: Something Awful still validates people like that. I'd love it to be not ideologically captured like SA. Maybe framing it as a monthly subscription would be acceptable.
I think the dead internet is going to become true very soon, it already is to an extent. It must get much worse before people will really resort to paid posting.
teleoplexy
5mo ago
teleoplexy
6mo ago
Not surprised about this at all 😬
teleoplexy
6mo ago
Russia is not some magical land of freedom.
Glad that we agree)
And guess what public officials did to a handcrafted fairytale playground someone built for everybody in the neighborhood? Yep, you guess it, demolished it to avoid liability.
In this hypothetical, I think it's much easier to rouse your neighbours to defend a working slide than to rouse the bureaucrats to fix it.
- NL is spinning a yarn to entertain the viewers first and foremost, the rambling is supposed to be entertaining, not a representation of how he communicates with the outside world.
- You are right to question his intentions. It might be an exaggerated account of events to entertain the viewers.
- He can definitely afford $15k + installation.
- I inferred that if he wants to fix it, then its reasonably fixable. So the discussion is about fixing it, not installing a new one, which is why I'm skeptical about the necessity to drill and the overall costs you mention.
- I really doubt that the corruption was mentioned as anything more than a joke - feel free to correct me on this though.
All that said, I don't doubt that budgeting and building and maintenance and commitment are the meat and bones of the problem. I take issue with needing to prove commitment in a roundabout way, rather than a direct way. If it really is how you describe it and not an issue of distributing funds equally between neighbourhoods, you still need to infer the intent of a bureaucrat, translate the invitation to donate as an invitation to a game in which you prove your commitment. If I were in NL's situation, I would miss this entirely. Frankly, I don't want to play the courtship game with a bureaucrat, I want to do stuff that is pro-social.
teleoplexy
6mo ago
Picture of me egressing out of my apartment window: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/The_Falling_Man.jpg
teleoplexy
6mo ago
why not be a man instead
I agree
Unbuckle
I refuse the notion that unbuckling makes me more manly. Getting rid of the Watchers doesn't mean upping my chances to die. If anything, I think of my family and doing a responsible thing for them.
I think Russians would disagree that this is the case. The majority of immigrants doesn’t settle in Muslim majority regions, they go for places that have jobs - big cities. And there certainly isn’t any [successful] ethnogenesis going on.
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