The Republican party is not the same thing as conservatism. In the 70s, 80s, and 90s, there were lots of conservative Democrats in elected office; now there are basically none. I agree that conservatives were in a better position in 2017 than they are in 2023 or were in 2009, but it’s certainly not an all-time high watermark for conservatism.

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Wellness Wednesday for January 25, 2023

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

I do well with older men and young(ish) women, most younger men do better with young men and older women

Why?

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Stop that! It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

It's not Tourette's because it's a mass sociogenic illness that mimics Tourette's, according to the article. But I interpreted your comment as saying that it's a sociogenic illness either, it's kids consciously faking Tourette's to get out of work.

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Stop that! It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

I’m really not convinced anyone is consciously deciding to fake tourette’s to get out of schoolwork.

Tourette’s doesn’t really get you out of schoolwork. It’s not contagious so you don’t need to be kept away from other people and it’s not a condition that goes away after a day or two of rest so there’s no reason to allow that time.
Tourette’s is a permanent condition, which means deciding to fake it credibly is a lifelong commitment.
It’s a difficult condition to fake. If you tell your parents you have a stomachache or a headache, they just have to take your word for it, but someone faking tourette’s has to remember to tic regularly.

Anyone who thought about it for a minute would realize, as you did, that it makes way more sense to fake an infection.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 7, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

Mods, can we have an election mega thread please? It seems likely to dominate discussion for this week.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 31, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

here's a link to my repost on /r/Medicine, since Reddit's abominable search function makes it impossible to dredge up the original, which had one of the few comments Scott makes in these parts on it, still a highlight of my Reddit career:

I found the TheMotte comment. This website is good for searching Reddit comments.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

We do have data about comments per day etc. See www.themotte.org/stats, www.themotte.org/daily_chart, and www.themotte.org/weekly_chart.

Actually the daily and weekly charts aren't working right now for some reason but they normally do.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

It looks like a developer finally got around to hiding scores for 24 hours on this site (Thanks, FatherInire). I'm curious if people thought that the scores being shown immediately changed how they interacted with or saw the forum. For me it made things feel a lot more confrontational and higher-stakes, I'm glad we're hiding scores again. Immediately visible scores encourages dog-piling and "ratio-ing" in my opinion which goes against the goal of this forum.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

Like who?

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

The analogous case to art being used to train a model is code being used to train a model, and that's what GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex are. Most software engineers like the idea.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

A difference between Gawker and Alex Jones is that Gawker is a company and Alex Jones is an individual. What that means is that Gawker can file for bankruptcy as a company and leave much the personal wealth of the individuals involved out of it. The individual who published Hogan's sex tape, A. J. Daulerio, did not have his life ruined and pretty much carried on as usual; He went on to found a website and newsletter called The Small Bow. The individual who founded Gawker, Nick Denton, was "only" on the hook for $10M personally (this sounds like a lot but remember it's 1% of what Alex Jones was fined for) and is apparently running a venture called Dialog Engineers.

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 9, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

Do you have any examples? I have not seen people arguing that people do not have natural differences in conscientiousness etc.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

What's the limiting principle for this? Lots of people can be upset or offended by all sorts of things.

What if I find it offensive and upsetting when people censor words instead of spelling them out?

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

This seems plausible, but can you provide any evidence for this claim?

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

No, like I said it’s 47% of younger Trump voters that are female.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

Either I’m misreading you or you’re misreading me. The numbers I shared are for people under 30.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

So why do young women hate conservative men?

Young women don't hate conservative men. Liberal young women hate conservative men (and conservative women), but conservative young women like conservative men. The majority of young women are liberal, as are the majority of young men. Conservative young men outnumber conservative young women, but not by very much. In 2020, 47% of people under 30 who voted for Trump were women.¹ To the extent that this dating app is suffering from an imbalance of male and female users, it's probably for the same reasons that all dating apps suffer from that problem.

¹ I calculated this number using exit polls. For men, there were 7,457 total respondents of whom 16% were under 30 and 41% of those voted Trump, for a total of 489. For women, there were 8,096 total respondents of whom 17% were under 30 and 32% of those voted Trump, for a total of 440. 440 / (489 + 440) = 47%.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

If you Google "cheating scandal" right now, Google can't figure out which story you want. There's like six different things you could be looking for.

First of all, obviously these are two different kinds of cheating. The first three are people gaining unfair advantage in competitions and the latter are men having sex with women other than their wives. But I think it's defensible to discuss these together. After all, there's a reason we use the same word for both behaviors. Both are a major ethical breach where one person gains an unfair advantage at something by breaching an agreement.

(If we broaden the scope to "ethics-related controversy" we can throw in the recent chaos on Twitch over gambling and an alleged sexual assault coverup to this list.)

Is it schizophrenic to suggest that maybe it isn't a coincidence that this is happening at the same time? It kind of sounds insane, obviously it's a coincidence. But I don't know, sometimes it just feels like there's something "in the water" culturally and there are suddenly similar things happening in many places at once. An example of this is how sexual harassment/assault/etc. accusations tend to come in waves against many people all around the same time. Another example is just about everything that happened in June 2020. But in those cases I think the explanation is that a political movement that had been gaining steam for a long time is behind the phenomenon and the fact that the media is paying attention to it fuels more activism in a positive feedback loop. In this case there's no political movement and it's not clear how e.g. Magnus Carlsen withdrawing from a tournament over suspected would make it more likely for a fishing tournament organizer to decide to cut open some suspiciously heavy fish in the same sense that Harvey Weinstein getting canceled for rape makes more women share stories of sexual assault in Hollywood or one statue getting torn down leads to activists to try to tear more down.

Maybe this is actually normal, and there are always this many cheating scandals going on? If so, what were the ones from before? I heard of all of these stories, and I didn't hear about any from 2022 before September. Maybe this is a media phenomenon where cheating scandals are getting more attention now because there are no other major stories to take up the oxygen? If there were any cheating scandals coming out in, say, the month after Russia invaded Ukraine, or the beginning of the Covid pandemic, or the weeks before a presidential election, they probably wouldn't get much attention because there's just more important things to talk about. But none of that is happening now, so the media is free to focus on the Try Guys and it bubbles up to my awareness in a way it wouldn't otherwise. Maybe there's somehow a cultural energy towards exposing cheating, and for some reason people in many domains are turning their attention to it.

Or maybe I'm being crazy and it's a coincidence. I don't know. I'd be curious to read what other people think of all this.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

As The_Nybbler pointed out, there is also a vaccine mandate for foreigners entering the US and Germany has mask a mandate on public transit, so there are mandates that apply to the "general population" too.

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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022

DinoInNameOnly Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed 2yr ago

It's kind of hilarious reading all the Mottizens in this thread explain their interpretations of the term that are way more intelligent and charitable than the truth. It just means "women are a meme, lol".