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Joyful
3hr ago
Played a shaman in hardcore to 8 last week, put my nose out of joint, now I'm leveling up a ret paladin of all things in cata because I like MOP so I might want to play when that comes out. No interest in actually playing the cata dungeons or raids.
I dislike that they don't have bc and wrath servers, I don't like vanilla as much. I guess I have a private server to turn to if I need a wrath fix but I couldn't get their BC version working when I tried last year.
Joyful
3hr ago
They made us add the feminine version to every job description,
If anything "they" have been trying to strip out the gender entirely from job descriptions. Postal worker instead of mailman, calling all actresses actors, stewardess to flight attendant. Etc.
Joyful
3hr ago
what other aspects of her biology might take the sting out of her manifest physical inferiority and considerable neurotic pathologies.
Lol. Charitable. How about being able to not only live longer but also live better lives due to improved social networks. Men who lose their wives are emotionally screwed, women who lose their husbands are widows and mostly fine.
EdenicFaithful
Dark Wizard of Ravenclaw
3hr ago
So, what are you reading?
I'm still on the Iliad and Dialectic of Enlightenment, which has turned out to be much more interesting than I expected.
Joyful
3hr ago
If I remember correctly, magnitude is actually half of reality, not more than reality. (its been at least 15 years since I read the abstracts of the research from the 60s? 70s?).
For example, if the average person guesses that a black man is twice as likely to go to jail as a white man (stereotype), the reality would be that he was 4 times as likely. The gist was that we actually understereotype, that a pattern has to be really obvious to become a stereotype. But this research became taboo a long time ago and I haven't seen anything recent.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3hr ago
In the acclaimedmusic.net list of most acclaimed artists by critic consensus, cataloguing and adding together by some ratio a huge number of "best albums/songs of..." critics lists, Kanye is number 13, the best result by a hip-hop artist they have. The site was last updated in 2020 as the guy running it has had a number of personal and work-related issues which have pushed the planned new update forwards to some indefinite time, I wonder how Kanye's position is going to be affected if/when the new update rolls in. Of course there's a huge amount of acclaim already grandfathered in.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I mean, a pretty decent chunk of white descendants of slave owners are proud of their confederate ancestors.
Lizzardspawn
3hr ago
The woke problem with Kanye is that he doesn't want to kill jews right now. Sincerely. He wants to troll the woke.
flitter
3hr ago
Modern leftish associated movements analyze these cases based on who has power. The weaker party is the victim and should be supported.
A moral realist question about "how evil it is to support the murder of jews" isn't going to get a consistent answer because it's not a question the framework really answers. Also the rules are also going to seem arbitrary because you'll be talking to different people within a movement who have different fault lines they care about.
The animating question is which faction has the ability to control the other side. Oppressor/Oppressed dynamics. The history of the conflict matters less than you think.
Kanye/Kneecaps -> rich celeb supporting white supremacy or small artist supporting Brown foreign causes.
Hamas/Israel -> If Israel stopped caring about civilians casualties they could flatten Gaza with little opposition. This makes them the powerful side, and therefore actions should be more scrutinized. The retaliation violence is the voice of the unheard.
See parallels to discussions about police violence vs protesters in 2020. See parallels to USA military operations in Vietnam.
ChickenOverlord
4hr ago
A big chunk of the US white population just feels a lot less guilty about slavery than Canadians would.
I mean I have no slaveowner ancestors, and I have at least one ancestor that fought on the Union side of the Civil War. Why the hell would (or should) I feel any guilt over it? I imagine most white Americans that aren't direct descendants of slaveowners would feel similarly.
urquan
I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness.
4hr ago
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It's not so much intellectuals, but there are some right-wingers who believe Russia's actually a great wellspring of social conservatism. I know some of them personally. The overwhelming majority think Russia's a terrible, dictatorial place -- but there are a few who think the performative, nationalistic Orthodoxy of the government (as opposed to the quiet piety of the babushka) is an actual representation of Russian culture.
It's psychologically very hard to justify a worldview if there isn't somewhere where it's put into practice. So the deep desire to see your worldview reflected somewhere is what drives both the 20th century Soviet-boosters and the 21st century Russia-boosters. And it also drives, say, evangelicals to believe Trump is a great Christian man, despite his personal conduct and his lack of repentance!
Stellula
4hr ago
But he’s not just saying the words, he turned it into an incredibly catchy, well produced song/piece of subversive art. That’s not the same as a parrot.
sun_the_second
4hr ago
From what I understand there's a rather high variance. There's Oxxxymiron and then there's rhyming "nigga" with "nigga".
TowardsPanna
4hr ago
Rofl. 10 minutes per week is a joke. Cruel and unusual punishment.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
4hr ago
That fits the ambivalence theory. I don’t see anything in that statement that suggests he sees “the stockyards slaughter house pens” as worse than the ruin of Europe or the destruction of Eastern European capitals.
It's possible you may have heard of the Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecap_(band)), most of whose lyrics are rapped in the Irish language. They're best-known in Ireland and the UK, but recently they've begun to establish themselves in the US as well, to the point of performing in Coachella and selling out their US tour dates.
Their lyrics are often political, and they've been unabashed in their support for the Provisional IRA, their opposition to the British monarchy and government, their support for the Palestinian cause, and their concomitant opposition to Zionism. Their political lyrics have landed them in hot water with the British establishment on occasion (as they're from Northern Ireland, they're UK citizens even if they "identify as" Irish), with current Tory leader Kemi Badenoch once denying them an arts grant on their basis that the band "oppose[s] the United Kingdom itself" (a decision they successfully appealed).
Recently, the British government discovered footage of the band performing some time ago, during which the performers could be heard yelling "Up Hamas", "Up Hezbollah" and instructing the audience to assassinate their local MPs (it's unclear to me if all of these statements were made during a single gig, or individually during separate gigs). As a result of this, the band are being investigated by British police, because public expression of support for terrorist organisations is a crime in the UK (insert your own "loicense" jokes here). Their fans and many of their fellow musicians have come rushing to their defense. The band now claim that they have never supported for Hamas and Hezbollah (doubt.jpeg) and their message has always been one of "love, inclusion and hope".
First things first: as a freedom-of-speech diehard, the idea of arresting and/or indicting Kneecap for yelling "up Hamas" is unconscionable to me. The fact that this "investigation" is happening at all is yet another canary in the coalmine (along with the numerous people investigated or convicted for gender-critical opinions, or the recent fellow arrested for burning a Quran) that freedom of expression no longer really exists in the UK. Probably no one will benefit from this probe more than Kneecap themselves, who made a name for themselves by cosplaying as radicals and going out of their way to be edgy and controversial. Glorifying a pogrom (albeit under the unpersuasive euphemism of "Solidarity with the Palestinian struggle" while grinning ear-to-ear) is revolting, but shouldn't be a criminal offense.
But, as noted by Brendan O'Neill, the double standard among the woke left is shocking. Because of his anti-Semitism and professed admiration for Hitler, Kanye West is now considered persona non grata among the woke left, or elsewhere. (It need hardly be said that probably the only reason he's expressing admiration for Hitler is because of his unmedicated bipolar disorder - but Mental Illness Doesn't Do That, so never mind.) Meanwhile, Kneecap (individuals, to the best of my knowledge, of sound mind untroubled by psychosis) expressed support for an organisation whose founding charter clearly and unambiguously states that its ultimate goal is the extermination of all Jews from the face of the earth - and the woke left eagerly support Kneecap, attending their gigs, joining in their juvenile football chants ("Ooh! Ah! Hezbollah!"), buying their merch, and rallying to their defense at every opportunity. The rules seem so arbitrary to me: you can't express support for Hitler, but you can express support for an organisation which shares most of Hitler's defining, animating opinions (hatred of Jews and desire to exterminate them, homophobia, misogyny etc.). You can't say that the Holocaust was a good thing - but if you want to cheer on the worst antisemitic pogrom since the Holocaust, go right ahead. It seems like some sort of perverse Sorites paradox, or Goldilocks effect: saying that the slaughter of 6 million Jews was a good thing will get you cancelled, saying that the slaughter of 1,200 Jews was a good thing won't get you cancelled. "Experts now believe it may be possible to express support for the murder of as many as two million Jews without suffering any reputational damage, but other sources differ."
I don't understand it one iota. I'm increasingly starting to think that the Holocaust has become completely de-Jewified (for want of a better word) and drained of its specificity, understood primarily as a grave crime because it was a mass slaughter, rather than specifically a mass slaughter primarily of Jews. I wonder if the current generation of secondary school teachers will go out of their way to "recontextualise" the Holocaust by listing off all of the more fashionable groups targeted for extermination by the Nazis: gays, disabled people, trans people (a myth, one of several like "people have been acquitted for murdering trans people by using the 'trans panic' defense", that trans activists essentially dreamed up from whole cloth and which is now widely believed in woke circles), and then mentioning Jews at the end, as an afterthought. I wonder if the next generation, when asked why Hitler was so evil, will say that he was bad because he hated black people, he hated gay people, he started a war in Europe, and he killed lots of people - all true statements, and yet all statements which rather miss the point of why he was so evil. All of this "recontextualisation" of the Holocaust has the unnerving feeling of salami-slicing to me.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
While I agree that rap music's popularity is a bad thing, rap artists pretty clearly have high verbal intelligence- they're, quite literally, poets.
TheBailey
soapy mop
4hr ago
Should the Alabama DMV do as you ask, just wait for the first news report of "Biggus Dickus in car crash" about the guy who took out his licence in a joke name, has no insurance, and refuses to give any other name other than the one on his licence.
The uninsured cause car crashes all the time, even as it stands. It happened to me, and it happened to many people I know.
If you want to make the case that the DMV's refusal to accept common law name changes is somehow preventing this from happening more often than it does, then please make that case instead of just painting dramatic vignettes about how “it would be bad if a deadbeat caused a crash (and also that deadbeat had recently got a common law name change)”.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
A big chunk of the US white population just feels a lot less guilty about slavery than Canadians would.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
I remember conversations my parents and grandparents warned me never to repeat, about how it was the white man that built this country, that it sucked for the Cherokees at the time of course but the trail of tears was necessary and they're doing better about it now than the Navajo aren't they, about how full freedom for blacks was a failed experiment but we can't very well fix it now and anyways Jim Crow wasn't a very good system either. I think the US would have abolished Jim Crow sooner or later; my grandparents who remembered it clearly describe it as definitely on the way out and having some sort of violent struggle would have, uh, not improved race relations.
LeBronIsTheGOAT
4hr ago
That might just be due to the US's cultural influence. They feel like their white people must have done something horrible to feel guilty about, since that's the message they're hearing pushed all the time, even if it's really about the US and not Canada.
Mantergeistmann
4hr ago
Seeing the recent unexpected shift in online discourse to describe Trump as being similar to Mao, I wonder as well if his crimes are soon to be spotlighted more than they used to be...
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
The world's top polyglots seem to be male, but on average women are pretty clearly more verbal than men. So maybe greater male variability hypothesis comes into play?
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
or if there are racial differences in average age of menarche?
IDK about the first part but the order in average age of first period is pretty much exactly what you'd expect- Asians slightly older than whites, who are older than Amerinds, who are older than subsaharans.
Black boys hit puberty earlier as well, BTW, and this probably explains a small part of black overrepresentation in athletics in the US- blacks are noticeably bigger at the ages where it starts to separate by skill.
Wow is about half women, although the raiding scene used to be more like 25% (I haven't raided since 2016, no idea about now).
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