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Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
1hr ago
Both @Belisarius and I speculated four months ago that @TequilaMockingbird may be the return of Hlynka, but my confidence was fairly low then and remains a bit shaky even now. The “Steve Sailer is actually a liberal” thing is so inexplicable a delusion that it’s tough to believe two people could arrive at it independently, but I guess it’s plausible, given a certain set of intellectual priors (and generalized mistrust of urban Californians) which Hlynka and TequilaMockingbird might just happen to share.
I support the ban because anyone who peppers their post full of “dude I’m totally gonna get banned for this one, the mods are gonna be soooo pissed” ban-baiting deserves to get what they’re asking for. This can be true even if he’s not truly a ban evader.
Gaashk
1hr ago
I’ve had to unfollow a couple of people I used to be friends with and like well enough in person for this, though I think it may be decreasing. In person they’ll read the body language of people around them, but only positive reactions are allowed on most social media, which was a mistake. There’s probably no solution, women have been spurning each other on moral grounds forever.
HereAndGone
1hr ago
So no, Miss Smith, second grade teacher number three at literally who elementary that used to be named after a well-known but now problematic individual, does not bear responsibility for this proxy battle.
Unhappily, the most vocal and most online ones are the Mx. Smiths in a polycule who were highly indignant over not being able to tell their eight year old pupils all about their sex life as a queer non-binary folx because some repressive, probably MAGA, parent snitched on them to the administration about what was really being taught instead of readin'/ritin'/'rithmetic.
I occasionally dip into the Reddit teachers sub-reddit and sometimes there are sensible posts (e.g. violent students being able to beat up teachers and other pupils with no consequences, and the administration doing nothing) but equally there are "now today I was highly disturbed because I failed to inculcate into one of my 15 year old male students that Patriarchy Bad, Toxic Masculinity To Blame For Everything, and Men Bad, White Men Especially Bad, what can I do to steer him onto the right path?" posts.
(In case you think I'm inventing the polycule teacher, nope, that's a real example from a few years back).
Tree
1hr ago
I am hugely disappointed that rather than taking your ban like a man
Never understood this concept. In Paths of Glory, when they decide to execute three soldiers at random, one of the condemned starts whining and dragging his feet, saying it’s so unfair and he doesn’t want to die, and his executioners and their priest tell him to show courage and die with dignity …. But why should he help them to commit an unjust act?
That quivering mess is the only honest man there, and moreover he’s morally correct. You want your “comrades” to have nightmares for years where they see you begging for your mother – their conscience torturing them is good. You don’t want them to commit a grave crime, then eat breakfast like it’s tuesday.
When you make it easy on them, you are cooperating with defectors. In modern parlance, by acquiescing to your own destruction, you become a cuck.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
1hr ago
95% sure. The report made me look back over his comment history and previous warnings.
We do frequently get reports claiming someone is an alt, but we usually don't find them particularly credible.
HereAndGone
1hr ago
Luckily I went to school before the "whole reading" thing kicked off (indeed, I was able to read before I started school) but I was there for when the New Maths kicked in, and oh brother.
I think they did to English what they did to Maths: don't teach it the old boring rote way, be the guide helping children discover for themselves, draw out of them what is naturally there.
That's fine for people who have talent for maths and can figure out on their own from first principles. For the likes of me, it meant I understood nothing of what was being taught and scraped along with barely passing. The old "rote learning" would have worked a whole lot better for me, rather than "now we'll just write this on the blackboard and you can all figure it out for yourselves". Even the teachers were stuck at times! They couldn't follow the methods in the new textbooks and were reduced to "just look up the right answer in the back".
For kids who got thrown in at the deep end with "just look at the shape of the entire word and take clues from the context and then you'll figure it out", that must have been a nightmare if your parents weren't teaching you how to read at home.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1hr ago
I thought South Park went fully mask off at the end of the 2017 or 2018 season when they looked directly at the screen, broke the 4th wall, and told me "Well Whites, what are you going to do about Trump?" Haven't watched it since.
HereAndGone
1hr ago
To be fair to Freddie, I don't think he's claiming "education doesn't work". He's claiming "some kids are academically stronger, some kids are academically weaker, and all the interventions in the world are not going to magically give Susie a six point IQ leap up to the same level as Theophilus if she doesn't have that originally".
It's the push about "all kids must go to college" where experience at the coalface has shown him that some kids are not college material and would be better served being educated for a different path. But if the 'cure' for poverty or getting out of your original social class is being pushed as "more college! college for all!" then you are faced with (a) be honest and some kids won't get into college, any college at all (b) go along with what the government and everyone else is telling you, fudge the figures, lower standards, and graduate kids to go to college who will then drop out in their first year because they are not able for it.
I think Freddie sees (b) happening and thinks that is worse for everyone: schools, parents, the kids, society itself.
HereAndGone
1hr ago
Are you sure it's Hlynka? It's easy for someone to tell you "Dude, I think this is him" but if you didn't catch it before, then maybe it's not?
I dunno, I can't identify posters as easily as others on here claim to be able, so if it is him, okay.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
1hr ago
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It seems to me the ways we can be internally wired are surprisingly numerous. For me its neither. Emotions aren't a physical sensation, they aren't thoughts either. Instead they are a different sensation i'm at a loss to describe.
I would basically agree with this, yes. That was the "something ineffable" part I mentioned in my own description. I think that's what a lot of the people who answered "thoughts" were getting at, although obviously there's no way to be entirely sure.
One person mentioned that they literally have to examine the linguistic contents of their internal monologue in order to know what they're feeling, which is quite bizarre to me, and not how I experience things.
It feels more like my mind operates in an abstract, global regime, where meaning exists in a raw, platonic form before any linguistic scaffolding is applied. The “translation” into language is almost a compression process, reducing something vast, multi-layered, and instantaneous into a linear stream of words that inevitably loses detail.
The MBTI jargon for this way of thinking is called "introverted intuition". I was always under the impression that this is just how "thought" worked in general, although recently I've discovered reasons to doubt that this experience of thought is as universal as I had originally anticipated. Although I wouldn't describe my experience quite as intensely as yours (maybe you just have a stronger "CPU" than me haha), I do feel that my thoughts exist in non-linguistic form prior to being given linguistic expression (the "thought" comes first, abstractly, and then I have to start "writing out" as a sentence what the thought actually means and what implications can be drawn from it, assuming I want to communicate it).
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
1hr ago
Raksha Bandhan
We had Raksha Bandhan or rakhi today, sisters tie or at least strings tied around your wrist which are called rakhis, these exist to signify that the brother will protect the sister, its a very popular festival here which is also super commercialised. My mom was the youngest of 6, all 5 being brothers who are sort of people Jim Donald would approve of to state things mildly. Not criminals or anything, but they are not city cats.
Many festivals here now seem emptier by the day. We went from having large families that were interconnected to frequent visits and now sending rakhis via delivery apps. Technology moves towards more abstract, interconnected, nuclear structures, which seem off to me. All my years alive, I am yet to see the kind of sibling bond my mother's brothers have with her. I got some rakhis, including one which was packed with a copy of the Bhagavat Gita in Sanskrit, unabridged, that fits in your wallet, the size of a zyn tin or smaller.
nvim
Since Saturday is also my non-work workday, I will finally complete my tutorial of nvim. My mentor helped me set up kistastartnvim based on TJ Devreis' recommendation. I will watch his video and Luke Smith's Vim Diesel tutorial so that I can have more productive Python sessions. Conjure, an extension that works much better with Clojure, was one that my mentor insisted I add. The learning curve is not easy; once you start, everything else feels clunky. Opening a Facebook webpage or a Google Docs one vs nvim is a night and day difference. Does anyone else have any favourite IDEs, text editors, or debuggers? I know very little about nvim, it still feels like a 1000 cc barely legal road bike compared to everything that is also not old. Once you get even a little comfortable, it feels simpler too since your screen is not cluttered with random buttons that you do not even know how to use. I write some basic code, run conjure, and it instantly shows me what the output in that block would have looked like, extremely limited, but it makes writing code enjoyable.
marinuso
1hr ago
In 2013 the Mississippi State Legislature enacted the Literacy Based Promotion Act (LBPA) which required kids to pass a reading test to be promoted from elementary to middle school or else be held back or forced to repeat a year.
It's crazy that this is considered cheating. You can't seriously let someone into middle school who can't read. What are they going to do there? Certainly not learn anything if they can't read the textbooks.
In the Netherlands it's normal to be held back if you haven't learned whatever you had to learn in a year.
Totalitarianit
1hr ago
I think this is probably largely true. My kid's teachers have all been pleasant types who are passionate about helping kids and who do not seem overly political, but I can't help but be pulled away from your claim every time I pop open Facebook or any social media site and see, on my feed, some of the few random "friends" that I acquired through acquaintances in college (some who are now teachers) start talking about the patriarchy while simultaneously demanding that they and their districts receive more funds. The one thing they have in common is that they are all college educated, middle to upper middle class liberal-progressive white women.
The online world probably skews my perception of reality when it comes to the actual percentage of teachers these types represent, but they are so loud, passionate, and irritating online that it starts to feel like they are the majority simply because they take up the majority of the conversation online. Not sure what can be done about these squeaky wheels other than just waiting for the continued vibe shift brought about by regular people finally having had enough and insisting that these women shut the fuck up and that no one cares about their personal vendetta against the toxic masculine white man.
For me personally though, this group has become the most annoying group on the planet. To clarify, I'm not saying they're the worst people. It's just the combination of them dominating the online conversation and acting offended (either over something that happened to them or on behalf of someone from a marginalized group) while also having the cultural momentum to impose and enforce all of their bullshit rules and policies that makes them exhausting to endure.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
2hr ago
This is now what has happened- the right overspent hard from 2016-2024, and now the left is hunting the right's institutions of social capital generation (academia, etc.)
Um, did you perhaps interchange the words "left" and "right" in this sentence? Because if you didn't I'm not sure how this makes sense.
Also, I'd say that the period of overspending social credit is more like 2015-2021 or -2022 (the extreme measures taken against Trump and Trumpists started back in 2015 IIRC; the Fair Game order on Musk was 2022-4, and was an utter outrage, but that was naked governmental force, not weaponisation of social credit).
FistfullOfCrows
2hr ago
Do you feel emotions as physical sensations or intense thoughts?"
It seems to me the ways we can be internally wired are surprisingly numerous. For me its neither. Emotions aren't a physical sensation, they aren't thoughts either. Instead they are a different sensation i'm at a loss to describe. Same for internal monologue, I can do it, but it's not something that's inherently needed for thoughts. In a sense I can construct ideas/notions/sentences instantly as fully formed thoughts. Indeed it takes concentration and some work to translate these into words in English (or other languages), the speed of this subjective experience is incredibly fast, I have nothing to compare it to, but it feels like it's definitely on another scale compared to some of the people i've talked about this with. It's like the monologuers are beholden to this external framework of language and ideas they have absorbed from the outside, but that's not it for me.
It feels more like my mind operates in an abstract, global regime, where meaning exists in a raw, platonic form before any linguistic scaffolding is applied. The “translation” into language is almost a compression process, reducing something vast, multi-layered, and instantaneous into a linear stream of words that inevitably loses detail. Emotions in this space are not felt as muscle tension, chest tightness, or heart rate changes, nor are they simply patterns of thought.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
2hr ago
ADHD people should just... not become accountants
FUCK
In my defense, the ADHD diagnosis came after the CPA, although admittedly it wasn't much of a suprise to anyone (except me)
Quit accounting last year though, life has improved a lot since
Throwaway05
2hr ago
Sorry I don't really have a dog in this fight I just wanted to make that point specifically.
In truth I remain somewhat undetermined about how to handle this specific issue which is awkward given the possibility of it appearing in my clinical practice, however my plan is to just follow legal, regulatory, and hospital frameworks and stay out of the ethical side of this thing.
That said it is worth dialing in just how miserable certain classes of patients are. Again I'm not convinced we should assist them in dying but certain patients have a lived experience that is comparable or worse than the more typical examples (dying of chronic disease, intractably bad life experiences, significant chronic pain*).
For instance someone with severe borderline personality disorder may find themselves zigzagging from being too happy to wanting to kill themselves to burning down their relationships to getting fired to whatever on a regular basis. With associated involuntary suicidal ideation it can approach a point where the life experience is almost abhuman, miserable, and devoid of the traditional pleasures of existence.
That's a reasonably good case, especially since some people like this may struggle to successfully kill themselves because the system does a good job of preventing it and because the problem isn't pure depressive misery, therefore it becomes challenging to overcome the routine desire to live.
Again not necessarily advocating here just pointing out if you had chance to interact with one of these people you might go....oh yeah, I get it, holy shit (or might not).
*Although best we can tell this is somewhat linked to psychic distress.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
2hr ago
Also, creating alts to get past a ban doesn't mean you place no value on your word or reputation
Yes, it does.
Suggesting you'd be willing to reverse a permaban for things other than error in imposing it, however, does cast doubt on your word
We have always been willing to consider granting amnesty to someone who contacts us and asks for reinstatement, with the important proviso that they promise to stop behaving in the way that got them banned in the first place. I pointed this out to Hlynka when he first started coming back with alts.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2hr ago
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I suppose you're right, because no one else would refer to Steve Sailer as a liberal (except maybe Dreaded Jim). But both Bulverism and Ad Hominem being a formal fallacy but a practically useful idea are things I refer to often enough, and I'm definitely not him.
(Also, creating alts to get past a ban doesn't mean you place no value on your word or reputation, at least if you did not give your word not to. It merely means you don't respect the authority of the moderators. Suggesting you'd be willing to reverse a permaban for things other than error in imposing it, however, does cast doubt on your word.)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2hr ago
The median teacher is a normie. Mathematically, this must be true- there are simply too many of them for it not to be.
There's about 4 million primary and secondary school teachers in the US, compared to about 260 million adults. That leaves plenty of room for non-normieness among teachers.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2hr ago
We should ban guns below a certain size limit for everyone except police/government agents/licensed bodyguards but otherwise legalize larger guns, including crew-served and mobile weaponry.
We do that, gun misuse shifts to larger guns, someone draws a circle around some subclass (e.g. "assault weapons") and moves to ban that one, lather, rinse, repeat.
Most legitimate uses (hunting, home defense, overthrowing a tyrranical government) are equally or better served by larger weapons
Personal defense is not.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
2hr ago
I have a cynical answer that I expect to get me in trouble with the moderators, because I am about to take a stand in defense of Bulverism.
Not for this, but for unmasking yourself. Someone else finally pointed out the obvious, and I am kicking myself for not seeing it.
Hlynka, I have told you this before, but I am hugely disappointed that rather than taking your ban like a man, or asking us to reinstate you, you keep creating alts. Good job that you managed to run this one for months and being actually rather flamingly obvious about it in retrospect and not getting tagged, but you're done now. We don't exert much effort to catch alts and some people think they are clever, clever little people bragging about how easy it is to recycle an alt every time you get banned, but it just shows you have no integrity and place no value on your word or reputation. You're there to troll, to shit up the place, to giggle and get your digs in before the mods swat you and you reboot. Hoorah, a winner is you. Yes, it's easy to do this. Eventually, however, everyone regresses to their mean.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
The unadjusted scores are still quite good; perhaps they're not as good as Massachussets but leading the second quintile ain't bad.
Old age and actually having status to lose has made them cowardly. The new school principal character South Park introduced in 2015 was basically a meta-textual admission that they just can’t do the same kind of jokes that they did in the 90s for fear of getting cancelled. Even with their criticism of Trump, they spent 10 years walking on eggshells and are only being really vicious in their parody now that much of controversy over Trump has died down and he has safely solidified into a semi-establishment figure.
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