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anti_dan
2hr ago
Follow up question, does abstinence only sex education show any efficacy in preventing pregnancies?
Certainly not in the current welfare-state environment. It seemed like a stable norm, when combined with shotgun weddings, in previous environments.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2hr ago
I'm ... skeptical about the Milgram theory in general, and for this behavior in specific, but even presuming that they're correct and generally believing the Beware Trivial Inconveniences theory
I personally know a parent that it happened to, and I met them by chance rather than activism. On the activist side as well "my kid said they're trans, so I took them to a psychologist hoping they'll talk through their feelings. Instead, I got a referral to an endocrinologist, and was told the kid will kill themselves if I don't give them hormones" is by far the most common origin story.
As others pointed out, it's not about trivial inconveniences, it's about preventing authority figures from pulling parents into something that goes against their better judgment. If they are willing to go to another state for the trans care, they were probably ok with it to begin with.
anti_dan
2hr ago
Pretty sure abstinence only sex ed resulted in the highest rates of teenage pregnancy
We'd have to fisk both sides of the claim, and I'm tired, but doesn't this sound to you like a classic case of where black population clusters also correspond with conservative Christian clusters (aka southern states)?
anti_dan
2hr ago
This strikes me as an odd theory based on the fact that married folks with kids remain the core of the Republican coalition.
The reality is position 2 is a compromise position because you go to the war with the army you have. And the army of married folks are very nice people who are uncomfortable letting toddlers and homeless people die in the streets to save 5% of GDP or whatever the numbers bear out to be. The married people also have been paying social security and medicare all their adult lives at this point and want that security they were "promised". Thus, entitlement reform is a losing issue. Not with me, presumably me and you could win tens of thousands of votes nationwide campaigning on a platform of eliminating Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, LINK, and all the other poverty-reduction programs. But that doesn't work for a party that wants to have presidents and congressional majorities.
So what do you do? You target the unsympathetic leeches like single guys age 29 playing lots of COD, because those are the cuts you CAN make. The alternative is you lose handily, the cuts you made are reversed, more foreigners are added to the roster, and they lop off a lot of penises and breasts of confused 15 year olds.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
2hr ago
I don't think you are actually distinguishing between them
I provided an example of how they differ, which you ignored.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2hr ago
Where do you live that programmers are earning $50k?
Start job searching for an actual industry job. Again, really unappealing to me. The thought of presenting such a false image of myself as someone competent is quite repulsive, and I don't know that I have enough actual accomplishments on my resume to get any chances. I almost feel worse off than when I graduated, but I actually can't say I regret my decisionmaking.
A good industry position is quite cushy, although obviously not without the usual downsides that come with working for a big company. Who knows what will happen in 10 years.
What do you mean by "presenting a false image" of competence? If you write stuff you did on your resume, why is that presenting a false image?
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
2hr ago
given this place has always been more disaffected liberals than anything else
I think I probably fall into that bucket but it's funny because I've been turbo posting here for a week due to an injury keeping me indoors and I absolutely feel like my political/etc views are a minority
Maybe this is a recent development, but this place strikes me as profoundly right wing with a strong pro-natalist/Christian lean
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3hr ago
Do you already have a bachelor's degree in CS?
I have not found that the CS bachelor's degree syllabus is particularly useful for becoming a good programmer, much less becoming a good software engineer.
I think the best way to become a better engineer is to find a good engineer and work with them and learn from them. At least, that is what I have always been able to do, and that is what I have found helped me the most. If you are the best engineer around, it's time to find a new role.
The job market right now is not good, and while I don't think it's a permanent downturn, it's not easy to move around. If you have connections, leverage them.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
3hr ago
Putting everything else aside, flexing your upvote count on someone is profoundly cringe
Especially as this site has a pretty strong ideological bias, and like literally every website with voting, voting is 100% indicative of in-group/out-group agreement/disagreement and is largely unrelated to comment quality
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
3hr ago
But your entire premise is wrong. The "far right" and mainstream conservatives both prefer people not to have premarital sex. (Okay, non-religious rightists only disapprove of women having premarital sex.) I don't think you are actually distinguishing between them, as evidenced by the fact that you label "most people on this website" far right. I realize to leftists, "far right" is anyone who votes Republican, but it's still a nonsense categorization.
They're stupid by the standard of Supreme Court justices. The late RGB, although I ideologically disagreed with her, could actually argue the case for a living, prescriptive constitution. Sotomayor and Ketanji are unashamed diversity-hires whose dissents are so embarrassing that I'd credit them to their clerks to save face.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
3hr ago
I've participated in some dynamic, interesting stories while dreaming. I've threatened imagined entities with destruction if I choose to wake.
Nevertheless I agree with your main point that cognitive ability at any given point in time is not the sole criteria for judging right to life. Many are capable but evil and should be killed.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
3hr ago
A significant portion of MAGA agrees that the issue with enforcing immigration restrictions are business attempting to cut costs. It's not a direct contradiction if his argument, there are several factions in the GOP, but the tension between them does make it a bit awkward for the theory that "the heart of the GOP" has zero interest in immigration enforcement. Vivek found out the hard way that it's not so simple.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
3hr ago
Can I just register my annoyance with this kind of boo-light? Yes, I am just as annoyed by "radical feminists" and "extreme leftists," which 9 times out of 10 is used to refer to normie feminists and center-libs.
If you read my comment more carefully, you'd know the whole point was to contrast mainstream conservatives with the far-right, who I recognize as distinct groupings.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
3hr ago
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
They have, continuing a trend that started over a year ago
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
3hr ago
I would like to present one of ChatGPTs greatest works, it's also like chatGPT 3 or 3.5.
Shooty shooty pew pew pew!
Let’s all learn what guns can do!
Liberals in the USA
Love to nod their heads and say,
“You bought your guns from a store!
You can’t fight a civil war!
Fight the army, you will lose!
They have jets and tanks to use!”
That’s not where the story ends!
They have homes, and kids, and friends!
Tyrants threaten you with bombs?
Just remember: they have moms!
You can’t live inside your jet!
Can we find you? Yes, you bet!
You’d send soldiers and marines
Up against AR-15s?
They’re outnumbered ten to one.
That is why I need a gun.
Don’t forget, because it’s true:
Government is scared of you.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
3hr ago
Fascinating! I also had to memorize the Middle English Canterbury Tales prologue, and can still rattle off the first few lines. I always thought that was a unique quirk of my generally crazed junior-year English teacher.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
3hr ago
Have competent technocrats in positions of power? And then have them do competent things publicly
The Canadian liberals just did this pivot, although we'll see if they can follow through
I will note that since mechanisation, you kinda need militia to have tanks and MANPADs in order to provide a credible deterrent to tyranny.
What's your understanding of how the GWOT went? That's what it looks like when the American military goes up against a determined adversary armed primarily with small-arms and scrounged explosives.
Now, you might argue that America's heart wasn't really in it. Is their heart going to be more in it when it's their own homeland they're burning and shelling? Also, in the GWOT, America's military operated in a foreign land, while their entire support structure, industrial base, and their soldiers' friends and family were perfectly safe on the other side of an ocean. Try to picture how this goes when it's not just a soldier's fellow squaddies getting mortared in their barracks, but their kids' preschool.
This claim that government overthrow requires nation-state resources appears to be unkillable, and it will never cease to baffle me. There is approximately a zero percent chance that America as a going concern could survive a significant portion of its population concluding that they were being ruled by actual tyrants. Things would go so bad so fast it would make your head spin.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
3hr ago
I think his point here is that repeatedly having sex, if left to run it's natural course, will result in a baby.
So repeatedly having sex and always using birth control means you've deviated from the natural course in a way that prevents a baby from growing up
BreakerofHorsesandMen
3hr ago
I recall memorizing The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Destruction of Sennacherib as a yoof, and have had cause to pull out lines from each as the occasional pithy bon mot. I’m sure that if I had memorized more, I would have more pithy bon mots at exactly the right time, which does have a certain value socially. Even among Red-Tribe!
This is wrong. The far right (especially the areligious far right) is much more negative about single mothers, but mainstream conservatives have never approved of single motherhood. They just consider it better than abortion.
This is wrong. Mainstream conservatives also think the welfare state subsidizing single motherhood is a bad thing.
I think in general you have an extremely reductionist view of rightists, such that you cannot actually distinguish between "mainstream conservatives" and "the far right." The fault line there is not how much they disapprove of abortion or single mothers.
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