RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
1d ago
There are people, including lawyers and lawyers-to-be, who go through their entire days stoned. I have met them. They do things like take vape hits from THC pens the entire time they are awake. Someone getting high during the bar exam surprises me not at all.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1d ago
While we're on the subject of bar exams, I had an idea when I took it called the Mount Everest of Lays. There may be more difficult situations to get laid in, but I haven't though of one that has the same combination of a necessarily limited time frame, situational inappropriateness (without being too inappropriate), and theoretical availability of women. The idea is getting laid on the evening between the two days of the bar exam with someone you met at the bar exam.
Entirely different profession, but I almost managed that. I had just given the first of the two exams needed to get licensed as a doctor in the UK. Funnily enough, the same buddy I was supposed to come visit in London was with me, and once it was done, we were both gassed, deeply anxious about the results, and in dire need of a stiff drink.
We set off for a nearby pub, and were just about done discussing and drowning our sorrows when a pair of pretty ladies came up to our table.
They said they'd recognized us from the exam center, and evinced an interest in going out dancing. I can't dance to save my life, but I was several drinks in and willing to give it a go, especially when a pretty woman was asking.
That was a night to remember. I probably danced six hours straight, till maybe 4 am. For once, I wasn't the worst dancer on the floor, as my friend thought standing on the spot and autistically stimming up and down counted. He had a six-pack, so I'm sure it wasn't a deal breaker.
I would have gotten laid, if I hadn't been honest and told them that I was taken while we were riding an elevator up to the clubs. I resigned myself to being a good wingman, but even on the dance club, I'm sure that if I had fewer scruples it would have worked out.
Once even the girls, who absolutely could dance, were done (or the club kicked us out, I don't remember), we caught a cab. Ah, good times. Even if I didn't get laid, the mere optionality had plenty of value in my eyes.
Corvos
1d ago
The original flights had to work, right? They were America's way of showing superiority to the Russians and to Communism. Now that it's just another tour of service, albeit an unusual one, I'm not surprised standards have been relaxed.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
For all the hype of the selection process for the first astronaut class --- The Right Stuff is a fantastic movie --- I don't think the current process is anywhere near as physically rigorous. They're probably still fit relative to the populace, but it's no longer quite the standard of perfection they started with. Deke Slayton of the Mercury 7 was grounded at the time for a minor heart issue, but got to fly later, and John Glenn was pretty old (77) when he flew again on the Space Shuttle in 1998.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
Not at all. I'm not Blue Tribe. I just live with them and educate their kids. Academic justifications follow belief systems not the other way round.
Cool, thanks for sharing your experience, but I have my own, and I see no reason to accept yours over mine.
Having said that hydroacetylene also said the same thing above and he is a Red Tribe conservative (as far as I recollect), so someone in a very different milieu than I am is seeing the same things.
Saying "I'm deeply familiar with the Blue Tribe, and that's not what I've seen" makes sense as an argument, but I don't see how "this guy is Red Tribe, and he agrees with me" makes any sense in the context. I think he's also wrong, and responded to him. The bottom-up vs. top-down view of society is a disagreement that's (literally) orthogonal to left vs. right.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1d ago
Well no, because an idea can't take over anything.
Do you really, honestly, can't possibly imagine what this could have been a shorthand for? I'm happy to explain if so, but if this is just being pedantic, and I have to phrase my post like I'm talking to a lawyer looking for any loophole to get out of a contract, that's not going to be fun for me.
Is just a fancied up academic way of justifying already existing belief sets, the ideas and beliefs go way back beyond the 1920s.
Sure, and it was distinctly unpopular in America until recently. You don't have to go back very far, just watch some TV shows from the 80's and 90's, read some blogs from the 00's, and it will become clear that the Blue consensus at the time went against Critical Theory.
You're working from a perspective where people have their minds changed by theories,
No, I'm not, though my theory differs from yours. I'm arguing from a perspective where people have their minds changed by status and authority.
So no Critical theory did not take over the Blue Tribe
It absolutely did. It was an idea so unpopular that it was deemed a strawman whenever a concerned Blue Triber tried to raise concerns over it. A lot of it was happening on this very forum.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Check how many of Hollywood's elite kids are trans (fad of the day) and answer yourself
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
1d ago
People who don't believe in bioleninism in this case. Presumably.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Upper claaaes becoming a monoculture makes the revolution so much easier.
JarJarJedi
1d ago
Someone fired up a joint in the bathroom
So, somebody went to a bar exam, the most important exam to become a lawyer, and thought "what I really need right now is to get really stoned! Like, completely baked out of my mind, this would do wonders for me!" And this person may soon become a lawyer and one day represent somebody in court.
Corvos
1d ago
The idea is that naming something does not equal creating it. The thing was already there, you just named it.
However, that's not always the case, I think. Articulating an idea can bring it into being (this is why 'meme theory' treats ideas as organisms) and the way you articulate it significantly affects how it goes on to be perceived and thought about.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
1d ago
Who would have anything to gain by doing that?
Employers could hire people in the bottom fifth percentile for requiring sick days… and wanting vacations.
Political parties could put forward candidates with high empathy and cooperation scores, as determined by an AI, but with high loyalty to ensure they’d take care of their voters and not have a ton of affairs.
Every sport would become moneyball, even the Olympics.
Forget normal, the big money would go to edge cases. It would be meritocracy by caste.
FtttG
1d ago
I genuinely wonder if there's anyone so deep into wokeness and with enough disposable income that they would deliberately select for a gay son and/or thot daughter just to own the cons.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
1d ago
IMHO you should invest more energy of your process into the mindset.
Probably a good idea and something I should work on.
Why are you dieting in the first place?
To see if it's still relatively easy for me to lose weight. To see where I lose that weight from. To see if it positively effects some health numbers. To make distance running easier.
It seems you are training towards a marathon whilst also lifting?
Yes. For much of my 20s, I was strictly endurance training with no lifting, and I'm not going back to that.
better sleep quality (unless you are deep into a cut and go to bed hungry)
I'm not deep into a cut and going to bed hungry, but sleep quality has gotten worse.
performance in calisthenics - pullups just feel amazing for me in a diet
Bodyweight/calisthenics exercises have certainly gotten easier.
enjoyment of food
Unchanged.
looks when naked (at least after this first 'flatness' hump)
Not to be too vain, but I looked pretty awesome at 215. I'm far more defined now, but feel too skinny (although I recognize I'm not, and I'm still too heavy for comfortably completing a marathon or longer race).
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Schools and governments have already made it clear that responding to kind of thing oneself is verboten and will get the defender in trouble, so there's nothing left but either sucking it up or bringing in the authorities.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1d ago
Yeah, I phrased it poorly. I definitely don't think the ad agency was explicitly saying that. I do think they were consciously courting the outrage machine as a turbo-booster on the ad. Maybe I'm overestimating the Onlineness of marketers but I'd expect them to be second only to journalists in paying attention to the outrage machine. If they didn't play it like a fiddle deliberately, that's some great luck or great astroturfing.
It's an easy pun that's been done before, as Iprayiam shared downthread JC Penney doing it last fall, no reaction. Of course, that ad had a group, reasonably attractive and diverse but no major standouts. Sweeny stands alone.
her race is only relevant to the extent that you think white girls are/aren't hot.
We live in a weird culture that made race extremely relevant again after a relative low period; positive statements about certain races are treated as vastly more suspicious than positive statements about other races, and vice versa.
If it had been Halle Bailey in the jeans, the backlash would be limited to one dark corner of twitter and would never reach Good Morning America.
aldomilyar
1d ago
I enjoy Gattaca but I also agree that 'Key member of a long spaceflight being at significant risk of heart failure' is something that'd disqualify you right now without looking at your genetic code. The plot would probably feel better if it were pure genemod-bias at play.
Grant_us_eyes
1d ago
It's times like this I wish I could toss myself into stasis for a decade or two for this technology to hit mainstream.
Not that I'd use it myself, but I really want to see what people's revealed preferences would be if they have the option to pick and choose their offspring's traits.
SecureSignals
Training the Aryan LLM
1d ago
Very minor tustle between two FSU students, one wearing an IDF shirt which provokes a somewhat hysterical reaction from a female student who pushes his phone.
- FSU releases statement saying it has been reported to the FSU Police Department and is being reviewed for potential criminal charges and charges under FSU Student Code of Conduct.
- But that's not enough, the feds are now involved, Attorney General Bondi herself made a statement that Associate Attorney General Dhillon from the Civil Rights division, ~3rd highest ranking official in DOJ, is personally investigating this incident along with the DOJ Civil Rights Division, Leo Terrell who is Chair of the DOJ Task Force to Combat Antisemitism and Senior Counsel at the Justice Department, and another US Attorney Jack Heeken.
- AAG Dhillon also tweeted that she's "pleased to report" that the "gal" in the video is "into the FO stage of the equation."
This is an act of desperation, it's going to increase antisemitism because wildly disproportionate responses like this reveal the underlying criticisms made by "anti-semites" to be true.
YoungAchamian
1d ago
Any book store that doesn't stock a copy in the scifi/fantasy section is immediately suspect.
Absolutely! Also your cover is way better than my version.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
1d ago
it's obnoxious how much you're ignoring actual material impacts.
Thousands of extra murders? Billions in property destruction? The renewal of abject racism being acceptable as long as it has the right targets? Tiers of justice based on identity? Explicit discrimination in hiring and education?
What have been the benefits of wokeness if you consider these costs acceptable?
sammysoccer411
1d ago
Why is that exactly? I'm genuinely quite curious.
Just to be clear--you're against gene editing for moral reasons, rather than "we don't know enough and shouldn't mess with it" reasons or something else, yes?
If so, we know of a good number of traits that are influenced by genetics, and generally cause people to live better lives. IQ, self-control, disease risk, general positive vs depressive temperament, etc. Even something like superficial beauty might be slightly positive for society overall. Wouldn't you rather these advantages be accessible to everyone, rather than just those lucky enough?
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
1d ago
I would guess they thought that weed would make them more relaxed and therefore more capable. Like the Ballmer Peak but with a different drug. I have no experience so can't say if it's plausible.
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