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fmaa
15hr ago
Ok, I don't believe we have metaphysical free will. That in no invalidates any choices I have made so far or any choices I'll make in the future, because their importance to me has never been based in metaphysical free will, see also the litany of Gendlin. That an algorithm is deterministic doesn't make the work it does any less real or avoidable.
If you want to call this belief something else, go ahead, but then also replace all instances of "free will" in FCfromSSC's posts with that same word, because we're both talking about the same internal feeling of making choices.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
15hr ago
Well I mean what about building 7 though?
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
15hr ago
Conspiracists who can see past the “controlled demolition” of 1 and 2 to the truth of the floor truss narrative nevertheless tend to get one-shotted by talk of building 7. They don’t know NIST also has a report on why that building collapsed.
Thoroughlygruntled
15hr ago
I remember Scott sharing a "Tolkein name or pharma startup" buzzfeed quiz once in a monthly links post that was almost impossible for anyone who wasn't both a pharmacist and a Silmarillion fan
aceventura
15hr ago
The NYT article is far more interesting than what you've excerpted here. I recommend everyone actually read it.
Modern society does indeed seem very fucked up, so I'm sympathetic to these young women wanting something different. On the other hand, I've seen firsthand that the "trad" lifestyle does not always work out. Men are often just as unequipped as women to start and raise a family in their early 20s.
The grass is always greener on the other side; as always, the trick is finding the reasonable middle ground.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
15hr ago
I didn’t miss it.
And you didn’t miss the rest of my post either: I want to know why you view what you shared in your post about that woman in a negative light?
Again, it just seems like a woman getting her shit together in her mid 20’s. I did that for the most part in my late 20’s … I know dozens of people that did in various ways.
You don’t like that she did it in part through maybe finding god based on a Turning Point USA (yuck) podcast?
HaroldWilson
15hr ago
the left worshiped him.
Maybe for a short while but left-wing opinion turned cool on Obama surprisingly quickly, and the 'anti-imperialist' Chomskyite left never liked him. As early as 2009 not-exactly-radical-lefist Bill Maher said that:
Barack Obama is not a socialist -- he’s not even a liberal....this country needs a left wing. It doesn’t have it, and part of the reason is the media... I don’t know if this administration has really caught up to the idea that Americans are a lot more liberal, perhaps, than we think they are- or they think they are
More importantly, I think the election denial/J6 clearly puts MAGA a class apart from any other modern American political movement in terms of cultishness.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
15hr ago
Yes, the government's total inability to meaningfully make life better anymore has cratered faith in every institution across the board.
The reasons are far beyond just blaming the government. There's the whole Meaning Crisis, death of God aspect as well.
I want the old America back where children were born within marriage, didn't try to change their gender, and got all the vaccines their pediatrician recommended.
The problem you have there is that 90s liberalism is not stable and therefore not something you can aim for except as a transitional state.
Without the incredible institutional legacy that period benefited from and the incredible level of trust that went with it, none of your goals are possible. The richest man in the world has basically the same political program you do (like literally wants everything in your list), and he's powerless to enact it for this specific reason.
DradisPing
15hr ago
Mitch McConnell has announced he's not running again, so Kentucky is open for 2026. McConnell has a replacement planned but Mitch is less popular with his electorate than Trump is.
Lindsey Graham is also up in 2026 but is planning to run again as far as I know. South Carolina.
They've both been thorns in Trump's side and aren't very popular in their states. However they both have the state primary apparatus locked down and could engage in shenanigans to stop an unwelcome competitor.
In theory Eric Trump has the access to money and connections to make it a real fight.
Throwaway05
15hr ago
Commitment hearings are tricky, often there is some type of collusion between the judge and both lawyers. This is because 99/100 the situation is super obvious.
I imagine (as RovScam points out) that the everyone involved quickly identified this guy as a full of shit asshole and they went this way to avoid wasting everyone's time.
It isn't great - and I'm a very strong 2A advocate, but when you see the circumstances that result in admission you realize almost nobody who has been involuntarily should be allowed near a fire arm.
It's like prison. Are some people in prison under false pretenses? Sure. Do they almost all clearly deserve to be in prison. Yup, and it's obvious after five minutes working in a forensic setting.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
15hr ago
Same! It's making me think.
For instance - I wonder what he could've gotten that would've appeased him?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
15hr ago
Hmm you do have a point here. I suppose I see the Democratic party more as one undifferentiated blob, although that's likely my personal bias peeking in.
I think Trump does plenty to allow others to take the spotlight though - J.D. Vance has been doing the rounds quite publicly for a while, which Trump could easily put a stop to if he wanted.
SecureSignals
Training the Aryan LLM
15hr ago
To Rightists with daughters reading this: are you concerned that they might encounter "natural family planning" on the internet and really f*** up their life?
I know this is bait, but the number of childless women I know is so much higher than women who have ruined their lives with natural family planning or children out of wedlock. Childless woman is the scarier outcome for a daughter than even teen pregnancy IMO.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
15hr ago
but the licensing procedure is devolved to a local County Level gun club.
Oh, great, bring small-group politics into it, that'll surely make things good.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
15hr ago
I've been saying it for a while: it's gotten to a point where saying "having a kid out of wedlock is a bad idea" is left-coded.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
15hr ago
True, but the theory isn't that the beams melted, it's that they weakened due to the temperature.
That's not quite true either, though. In fact, one of the reasons the conspiracy theory is wrong is there weren't any steel beams to begin with. The NIST theory is the floor trusses on the damaged floors lost stiffness (not strength), sagged, pulled the (remaining) structural columns inward, and the cascade started from that.
Tree
15hr ago
judges tend to take a dim view of the tactic of taking a lower paying job to decrease child support.
It used to be that the child would go to the parent who can afford him, and the deadbeats of either sex would just not get guardianship. If you can’t manage to take care of yourself, you shouldn’t take care of children. Makes sense to me.
Then the justice system was bent precisely so that the economically useless parent, usually the woman, could extract resources from the productive one.
And now the conversation goes : “But I don’t want to get exploited by a deadbeat!” “Wow you’re such a deadbeat.”
gattsuru
15hr ago
To Rightists with daughters reading this: are you concerned that they might encounter "natural family planning" on the internet and really f*** up their life?
Funny story: typical use of condoms is about as effective as typical use of natural family planning (which in turn is about as effective as the pull-out method). In general, there's a lot of good arguments against overlapping multiple different methods if you aren't using an IUD, but a lot of the 'herp derp they hate birth control' stuff is a lot more workable than most people expect.
((I don't have a daughter (or son), but especially given the chances my preferences are genetic I'd be more concerned about the other consequences of sex, like bad relationship fallout.))
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
15hr ago
I know what I saw on my timeline. And Trump didn't keep his intervention limited because everybody was so supportive of it.
I don't know what your second paragraph is in reference to
Really? You never ever heard any public official or intellectual from a particular political side being evasive on the question?
aceventura
15hr ago
The force of the impact on 9/11 was orders of magnitude greater because the planes were traveling at much higher speeds. More obviously, the building that the Air India flight crashed into was a small four-story dormitory made of brick and/or concrete. The building was significantly damaged (effectively destroyed), but of course it's not going to fall as catastrophically and dramatically as the 110-story WTC towers.
ABigGuy4U
15hr ago
It means... oh god... it means she might HAVE A BABY?! AHHHHHH I’M GOING INSAAAAAAANE SAVE ME MARGRET SANGER!
BreakerofHorsesandMen
Sweet Sejenus
15hr ago
If they are already married (and you express that as a goal), then in what way are they going to really fuck up their life by using natural family planning?
If she's trying to find a husband, presumably the baby would be with her husband. That's not out of wedlock; that's in wedlock.
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