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5434a
1d ago
Context is enough to convey that "they" = the people who support and defend transgenderism.
The difference with Christians is indeed that I've never heard an individual Christian sincerely deny allegiance to the Pope one minute and then affirm it when it suits them. Transgenderists on the other hand must switch positions because the indispensably binary framing of the question requires that they do so.
I don't know the formal logic notation but it's logical that only an X can be a trans-Y, therefore no Y can be a trans-Y, therefore trans-Ys are not Ys. QED.
Extend the logic a little further and it resolves to X=X, Y=Y, X=/=Y, and anything that falls outside of X and Y can be Z, or Q, or K, but it's not X or Y. Or we can throw the whole lot out, there's nothing inherently inconsistent in writing the whole thing off and washing one's hands of it.
Trans logic rests on an argument that X and Y are not meaningful categories, and therefore X can in fact be Y. The flaw in the logic is plain to see (only one of those conditions can be true) and if you press them on one they must abandon the other to defend it. If you point out that the underlying inconsistency remains they'll switch back as required by the last conditional you pressed on even as it demonstrates the same inconsistency.
DiscourseMagnus
1d ago
Perhaps you could compromise by making it more aware that it's bullshitting so it can say so explicitly? Surely "I don't know, but the best I can come up with is X" is better than just "X", for a bullshit X.
aqouta
1d ago
When you get really into porn degeneration you start wanting more and more specific stuff. It's like any connoisseur, you're satisfied with slop and don't even have to words to describe the notes of different fetishes involved. Yes, yes, pornoisseur could get an orgasm with your 2000s era stuff, and the wine connoisseur could get drunk off the swill they serve at college bars but they're chasing a more refined pallet. They're trying to recreate the wonder and discovery of when they first snuck into their dad's office while he was away and typed 'S-E-X' into google and were forever changed.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Depends on how you define ‘regular tax paying’. There’s definitely a social class which works and also just pees in an alley.
Again, this is a widespread practice that has been going on for a very long time. Officers in the British army used to literally buy their commissions. Officers in the Roman army (above the rank of centurion, who were basically the equivalent of modern noncommissioned officers) were political appointees and political office holders.
There has never been an army where the officer class has been made up of promoted grunts; they always come from a higher social class than the men and start their careers as officers. And armies are the most ruthlessly selected of all human institutions; any that fail to perform are literally killed off by their rivals. That makes the officer-enlisted dichotomy one hell of a Chesterton's fence; I don't know why it works, but it does.
aqouta
1d ago
I did my AML training recently if you're making either 10k+ payments or "structuring" by making many smaller payments you will set off some alarm eventually, especially if it's new behavior. Another part of AML training is no one is supposed to tell you if you set off this alarm.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Romance is not a physical desire/need, though, in the same way that food and sex are.
Throwaway05
1d ago
While I think OP is overstating the case I find that the majority of people underestimate how bad the weed crisis is, it's not that the majority of people have a bad outcome but culturally it has no immune system, many many people abuse it to an absurd extent and some of the problems (like addiction, hyper-emesis, psychosis) are super under estimated.
The people in society who we are always complaining about are all abusing weed. it might not be the cause of the problems but it is contributory.
NunoSempere
1d ago
Items I'm looking at this week. As in previous weeks, these are headlines, no implicit promises are made about the bias of the sources.
Geopolitics
United States
Trump cancelled $5B in foreign aid
Executive order to prosecute desecrating the American flag
The Rest of the Americas
Venezuela Sends 15,000 Troops to Border as US Warships Approach
State Department Report Warns of Escalating Violence and Human Rights Violations in Haiti
Europe
EU chief plans 7-country tour of Russian border to promote defense buildup
Russian envoys summoned after strikes hit UK, EU offices in Kyiv
Chikungunya Virus Spreads Rapidly in Europe
France reported 45 new cases and Italy 22
Noem's special adviser Corey Lewandowski holds 'veto' power on FEMA expenditures, staff says
Middle East
At least 600,000 displaced from Sudan's El-Fasher amid RSF siege: UNICEF – Middle East Monitor
Afghanistan faces severe health crisis
Iran
Iran-backed attacks in Australia
Gaza
Trump holds Gaza policy meeting with Tony Blair and Jared Kushner. Kushner seemed a bit more competent than Witkoff
Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
Protests in Israel for release of hostages
Anyone in Gaza City who doesn’t evacuate ‘can die of hunger or surrender,’ Smotrich said to tell IDF chief
Eight Palestinians die of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza as humanitarian crisis deepens
Four Palestinians, Including Two Children, Die of Starvation and Acute Malnutrition in Gaza
Ten more Palestinians die due to starvation and acute malnutrition in Gaza
Israeli tanks close in on Gaza City
289 Palestinians, including 115 children, die of starvation: Gaza health ministry
This number is much higher than other reports, and maybe even chosen to meet the 2 deaths for 10K people threshold for subregions.
Colombia to progressively impose sanctions on Israel
Catholic leaders demand end to 'barbarism in plain sight' in Gaza
Israel declares Gaza City a 'dangerous combat zone', ends tactical ceasefire
U.S. Revokes Visas of Palestinian Officials Ahead of U.N. General Assembly
Yemen
Asia
Internet satellites for China
Kim Jong Un to attend China's military parade with Putin and Pezeshkian
Kim Jong-un supervises test of anti-air missiles
India/Pakistan
Pakistan evacuates thousands as India releases water from swollen rivers
Nearly 190,000 relocated in Punjab amid rising rivers
Vietnam starts mass evacuations, shuts airports as Typhoon Kajiki approaches
Bangladesh Islamist Rise Threatens Hindus Amid Election Delay Crisis
Religious intolerance and Islamist mobilisation rising in Bangladesh
Africa
DR Congo, M23 rebels resume talks in Qatar after renewed violence in east
Sudan records 1,210 new cholera cases, 36 deaths in a week
Children in Sudan's el-Fasher 'starving' after 500 days of siege: UNICEF
At least 600,000 displaced from Sudan's El-Fasher amid RSF siege: UNICEF
Africa launches Cholera response plan as Sudan faces deadly surge
Lassa Fever Cases Decline in Nigeria, But Fatality Rate Rema
Nigeria air force kills dozens of militants near Cameroon border amid rising insurgency – The North Africa Post
Nigerian military airstrikes free 76 hostages, including children and kidnapping victims
4,722 kidnapped, ₦2.57bn paid by Nigerians in two months
Vulnerable South Africans struggle to find HIV medication after U.S. foreign aid cuts
Africa Launches Continental Cholera Response Plan to Eradicate Disease by 2030 – Medafrica Times
Biorisks
Lassa Fever: Death toll rises to 159 – NCDC
WHO Warns of Drug-Resistant Whooping Cough in US
CDC vaccine officials resign while childhood vaccination rates decline
RFK, Jr. says 'let measles run its course'. That's what some said in 1990, and we had an urban health crisis
WHO warns of worsening global cholera outbreaks, urging swift response-Xinhua
How West Nile Virus Is Spreading Along the Columbia River
US Coast Guard seizes record $473M drug haul in historic operation
Artificial Intelligence
More tech
Economy
Talks of Fed reform
"North Korea’s economy grew 3.7% in 2024, the fastest annual pace of growth in eight years, driven by Pyongyang’s expanding economic and military ties with Russia."
Climate and Nature
Study finds that AMOC might not be low likelihood... if one extrapolates models into the 2100s
Others
Evidence of UFOs
Hidden dangers: The risk of America's aging dams
chineseproctologist
1d ago
Jewishness in Nazi Germany wasn't a trait you opted in to; visible transness in America is. Many of the people claiming to be afraid of genocide could just wipe off the make-up, ditch the programmer socks, and become indistinguishable from the average dorky guy in less than five minutes. This isn't proof that social disapproval has no effect on their mental health; but how strong of a force can it really be when its victims make no effort to avoid it and instead choose to present themselves in ways that will inevitably attract more negative attention?
quiet_NaN
1d ago
The strategic bombing, while it kill a lot of civilians, was at least nominally aimed at military targets and done in an impersonal way.
From acoup:
[Arthur Harris] wrote that, “the aim of the Combined Bomber offensive…should be unambiguously stated: the destruction of German cities, the killing of German workers and the disruption of civilised life throughout Germany…these are not by-products of attempts to hit factories.”
The difference between dragging a civilian out of their house and shooting them in the head and dropping a bomb on the from the air is that for the former, there is no ambiguity of intent. Luckily for us, Sir Harris has left no doubt about his intent. WP estimates peak around 350k dead Germans from the air raids, while the total number of civilian deaths in GWBs Afghan adventure is given as 46k.
Both of these numbers include casualties which were genuinely unintended. Some civilians will always die in war. But in my world model, the median Afghan civilian death was unintended while the median German air raid death was intended.
(Lest there be any confusion about me whining about dead Germans, let me also state that the conduct of the Western Allies in WW2 was the least war-criminal of all the parties involved.)
That being said, I agree that any intentional killing of civilians is terrible. Ideally, it should happen very rarely and the perpetrators should be punished similarly to civilian murderers. For the US troops in Afghanistan, I do not think that there existed a directive to kill as many civilians as possible, but GWB was obviously not very concerned with human rights. So I think that there was a widespread culture of commanders turning a blind eye to any human rights violations their unit might commit.
Throwaway05
1d ago
For Season 1 purposes:
orthoxerox
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1d ago
Older verion control systems tracked changes all right, but they didn't have a good diff-merge mechanism. In something like SVN you would normally check out a file, leaving an exclusive lock on it, modify it, then upload the new version and release the lock. The system would track the difference as a reverse diff to save space, but wouldn't really let you merge two diverged histories like git does.
JTarrou
1d ago
Let me shorten this for you.
Amateur "pro" wrestler roid-rages during match, badly injures opponent.
Apparently subcontinental ethnic bigots have strong feelings on the matter, which is the more interesting bit.
He acts like a friend, and the two use cuss words when they talk.
and scene.
hanikrummihundursvin
1d ago
Whenever the rubber meets the road I feel like I see posts like these.
Yes, 'genetics' is the entire story. There is no moderate racialist camp. Bad parenting doesn't fall out of the sky by chance. And the bad parents don't keep their bad genes to themselves.
Technically we could take someone with Brunner syndrome and, through manipulating their environment, make sure they never have the need to violently express themselves. But that's if we are omnipotent. We're not. No ones life flows flawlessly. There are always moments that call on violent reactions. What separates the wheat from the chaff is how a person responds to these stimuli.
People have to be capable of living in the real world with other people. If they fail that it's not a matter of 'could would should' on behalf of everyone else to coddle these people into not being violent retards. Raja is 25 years old. He should be way past the point of pining for his fathers approval and attention like a dog. And way way past needing to hospitalize another person to do it.
Just think about what kind of an insurmountable failure you would have to be to express yourself like Raja did. At no point did his brain go 'nah, I'll just not do this because attempted murder is bad' or 'I'll probably get arrested' or 'that man apologized to me so it's ok' or 'he probably has friends and family'. None of that.
What Raja did is not the reaction of a fully grown man, if we use the average white person as a comparison. This is the brain of a child in a grown mans body. Which is, as you've mentioned, very similar to his father.
beciase there isn't any meaningful religious beliefs to trans idealogy.
In my opinion, the belief that "everyone has a gender identity wholly distinct from their biological sex, knowable only to themselves and which can never be questioned by an outside observer" is an unfalsifiable dualist belief, functionally indistinguishable from the belief in an immaterial soul.
His messy life, beliefs and actions are incoherent and hard to understand just like most psychotic crazy people are.
Yes, exactly. Which flatly contradicts your previous ironclad confidence that it was his participation in Nazi fora specifically which drove him to violence. But I'm glad we now agree on this point.
And I'll keep saying it about other groups, like trans people now. People don't deserve blame for things they don't do, and they don't deserve blame for happening to share group/geographical area/etc with someone who commits violence. Especially because of the Chinese robber fallacy, but even without it.
I agree with you: people shouldn't be blamed for things they didn't do. They certainly shouldn't experience guilt-by-association just because they belong to the same immutable identity category as someone else who did a bad thing. (Although I'm not persuaded that being trans meets the "immutable" criterion.) Absolutely no argument here. I have friends and acquaintances who are trans, and I don't want to see them being stigmatised just because some people who happen to identify the same way they do committed horrific crimes halfway across the planet.
The point I was trying to make in my previous comment wasn't that "being trans should be treated as a red flag for potential violent behaviour" but rather that "radical trans rhetoric may be a potentially concerning memeplex". I don't think it's controversial to assert that people are more likely to commit violence in the name of certain memeplexes than others. If you're looking at a neo-Nazi skinhead and a dude whose entire degree of political engagement boils down to "legalise weed 4/20", you don't get any prizes for guessing which of the two is more likely to go out and beat up a Pakistani teenager minding his own business. Most Muslims are peaceful people, and yet the number of suicide bombers per capita is vastly higher among Muslims than among, say, Buddhists. We could debate until the cows come home why this is: are violent people attracted to ideologies/memeplexes/communities in which violence is encouraged? Most religious people tend to follow the same religion as at least one of their parents, so when a religious person commits an act of violence, it's impossible for us to control for whether it was the religion that "caused" them to do it, or if they had a genetic predisposition towards violence. But in spite of this, nobody thinks it's controversial to assert that certain memeplexes/ideologies/communities are more closely associated with violence than others. If you had a teenaged son and he started spending a lot of time on Stormfront, that would be cause for concern in a way it wouldn't if he started spending a lot of time on a D&D forum. This is true in spite of the fact that I am fairly confident that the overwhelming majority of people who post on Stormfront have never committed a violent crime.
The whole point of my previous comment was that the question "is the radical trans memeplex a potential red flag for violence, in the same way that certain other memeplexes are?" is a question which is worth investigating. I'm emphatically not asserting that it is. I'm emphatically not stating that if your teenaged son starts spending a lot of time in trans communities, that's exactly as concerning as it would be if he started spending a lot of time on Stormfront. I'm emphatically not stating that if your teenaged son came out as trans, you should be concerned about him potentially committing a violent act in the near future, in the same way you would if he started hanging around with skinheads.
But I am saying that there is a particular strain of trans activism which, to an outside observer, looks really scary and seems to actively revel in the glorification of violence, particularly gearing up with assault rifles and attacking unbelievers (and specifically, unbelieving female people). In the past three years, we've seen two acts of indiscriminate Columbine-style violence committed by perpetrators who may well have been active in this community, along with a crime spree committed by people (the Zizians) who were certainly active within it. The law of parsimony demands that we investigate whether or not these perpetrators' participation in these radical communities may have contributed to their decision to commit these horrendous crimes, in the same way it would if there were three unrelated crimes committed over the course of three years by, say, the members of a new religious community. I don't think it's good enough to just throw our hands up in defeat and say "whatever, there will always be mentally ill people and these things are impossible to predict". That, to me, amounts to putting one's head in the sand, intentionally overlooking potentially relevant patterns just because they make us uncomfortable.
hanikrummihundursvin
1d ago
There are plenty of people who have harsh upbringings who don't turn out to be violent retards. There are also people who inherit their parents violent genes and are much more likely to become violent retards despite good upbringing.
Everything is 'about race' because there is no environment without genetic expression happening within it. Black people as a group in America are a lot more prone to violence than whites or asians. This event falls within that context and is therefor a part of that wider pattern.
Beyond that fact this is not a matter of personal opinion. But if we were to put our own spin on it, I'd argue that the post-attack rant by Raja exemplifies exactly what kind of person he is and the characteristics of many young violent people: Self centered, egotistical, lacking in empathy and willing to express their emotions through physical acts of violence without any intervening thought for what comes next after assaulting a human being.
On top of that you have the typical black tribalism on display. With black former WWE star Mark Henry making mealy mouthed excuses for the incident on behalf of Raja. Raja being a 25 year old adult with experience in combat sports, who knowingly and willfully punched a human being into a coma, and gave them serious brain damage.
There is always a reason to engage with reality.
ZanarkandAbesFan
1d ago
How necessary is elite buy-in for modern first world militaries? Are there not enough soldiers that the best can be selected and promoted into officer roles?
It just seems bizarre to me that you can have people making on-the-ground military decisions who have no actual fighting experience.
ZanarkandAbesFan
1d ago
Thanks for the explanation.
DradisPing
1d ago
Wikipedia had diffs long before that. There were also older source control systems, but they tended to focus on tracking files instead of tracking sets of changes to multiple files.
The Canadian legislation process was pretty archaic back in 2010 or so when I had some direct knowledge.
The House of Commons, the Prime Ministers Office, and the various ministries are all involved in drafting legislation and all have their own completely separate IT systems. Their IT departments disabled all of the collaboration features outside of their individual Microsoft Domain for "security". All collaboration was done by emailing full documents or reading changes over the phone.
So screw ups like this will naturally happen. Of course it's entirely possible that someone did it on purpose.
Corvos
2d ago
Agreed, that’s what I was implying really. So it’s only ‘sort-of’ legal in the UK.
cpcallen
2d ago
I was a little confused: I looked up Sakamoto and didn't see the connection!
orthoxerox
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2d ago
The daddy, the fat shop owner and the two kids that all die in episode 3, the aforementioned Chad Beefcake, the hairy mascot guy.
I know someone whose husband bounced between the minors and majors for a few years and it was brutal. It was essentially a full time hobby where she was having to support both of them. And he spent most of their first couple years of marriage on the road in shitty motels while she was at school/working. It was only sustainable because they knew he only had a few years in him and had a degree to fall back on once they actually wanted to buy a house and have kids. She was willing to accept a few years of him chasing his dream, but only because they both knew it wouldn't be long term.
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