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JarJarJedi
4hr ago
After watching the series and reading all the books I can definitely tell the books are better. Some cliches are there for a reason, I guess.
quiet_NaN
4hr ago
They actually don't know what a woman is.
Who are them which you mean? Are they in the room with us right now?
If you mean the LGBT* movement, I think you will find that they have plenty of cis-female members and allies. Surely these would know what it means to be a woman?
If you mean m2f trans people, you might be right that their idea of what a woman is might be different from the median idea of womanhood expressed by ciswomen in systematic ways. For example, it might be that for your warhammer nerd, rather than being driven to pursue some high platonic ideal of womanhood centered around social connections and care work has autogynophilia -- the thought of having boobs turns her on. Not that I find anything wrong with that. By contrast, I would expect there to be an anti-correlation between being trans and being unconditionally asexual, because if you are a man driven to do care work, that is a totally valid occupation for men today, and if you are a woman wanting to fix car engines, that is likewise fine. (Giant caveat here is that as a cis-by-default, I might not get people for whom gender is a big deal. Presumably, there are trans people for whom their transness is completely divorced from anything sexual, who knew that people were using the wrong pronouns for them based on the role models of men and women they observed at age eight, long before they even learned what the naughty bits were and how they worked.) Still, the autogynophile conception of woman has some significant intersection with the cis conception, I think. People being attracted to you and engaging in costly signaling to persuade you to have sex with them is not a universal experience of womanhood, but still a rather defining one, I imagine.
If we propose that any definition of womanhood should at least encompass all the adult female humans who have not explicitly rejected that label, then that definition of womanhood will by necessity be very broad. Sure, it will encompass the kind stay-at-home mum as a central example, but it will also include Margret Thatcher, car mechanics, butch lesbians, your odd XX warhammer nerd, nymphomaniacs, dominas, ruthless businesswomen, and so on. It would be really bad style to tell that car mechanic that she is not feminine enough to deserve the label woman. And once that is accepted, I think it would also be bad style to police the conduct of trans-women more restrictively. "Yes, Tina is a woman despite being a warhammer nerd, but you see, she was born with a uterus. You were not, so you will need to try to find a more suitable hobby before calling yourself a woman."
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Off the top of my head- you're leaving out Desantis, Hawley, Abbott, Cruz, Youngkin, Rubio, and Noem as conventional presidential candidates who could easily win over Trump's anointment.
I do not think the record of Republican governance proves this claim at all well, but nonetheless the default expectation seems persistent.
Governor Desantis of Florida achieved a record budget surplus for the state in 2022.
He's had a budget surplus literally every year he's in office.. INCLUDING the years kneecapped by Covid.
His budget this year is literally titled Focus on Fiscal Responsibility, with a ton of tax cuts involved BECAUSE the state has been so fiscally successful.
The state has 120 BILLION dollars in reserves.
Government spending in Florida actually DECREASED from 2020-2022 (it has increased since, mind).
Can you show me a SINGLE State in the Union that is primarily run by Democrats and has done something remotely similar?
Or are we still doing the very tempting but fallacious thing where we assume ONLY the Federal level party represents the whole?
HughCaulk
4hr ago
Ok then do “young married couples” payments, 25-35 yrs old + 10 years for 2+ kids.
No need to get all autistic-ragey about it…
All my peers are worried about financial pressure and difficulties with having kids. Falling birthrate is a problem, so do subsidies?
cjet79
4hr ago
I've been reading the murderbot series after watching a few episodes of the show and deciding I liked it and didn't want to wait.
Bartender_Venator
4hr ago
Bars/pubs with an older clientele tend to be regulars who mostly all know each other, instead of small groups of young people there to talk with their friends. Same thing in the US, at least in terms of being welcoming. I once dipped into Chicago neighbourhood dive to charge my phone, and an old lady came over with a shot and said "now, son, we don't like to see people sitting alone here, less they want to." Spent two hours yukking it up with the old-timers telling me about the good old union welding days.
anon_
4hr ago
That’s true, Congress has so much power when they write clearly that they don’t dare do so.
ulyssessword
5hr ago
Maybe it's just a skill issue, but I didn't get the joke.
How would you go from their comment (as written) to "it was self deprecating to link the really religious to the socially retarded" (as they explained downthread.)?
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
5hr ago
But it's not a binary, it's not as simple as one party being the "responsible adults" and the other party being spendthrifts. Unless you are an ancap, almost everyone will agree that some level of defense spending and social welfare is necessary, or at least desirable, and everyone has some threshold at which it's excessive, and then we start getting into favorite or least favorite programs and Russell's Conjugations.
Neither party is ever going to be happy and get everything it wants. I would rather neither of us precommit to maximal defection. So you actually think the responsible thing to do is make unpopular budget choices, but you refuse to do it because you're afraid your party will suffer for it and the other party will enjoy the benefits? Yet you reject bipartisanship.
This is prompted by repeated claims here by a number of posters that MAGA should disapprove of Trump due to his fiscal irresponsibility and the fact that his budget bill results in considerable deficit spending.
Any MAGA who honestly believed that Trump was serious about reducing the deficit and thought this was a good thing should presumably be reconsidering their position. If you never cared about that, then sure, you're consistent in supporting Trump for other reasons. OTOH, if you were one of those who was against deficit spending, and now that it's clear Trump played you, the MAGAs switching to "This was the plan all along and it's good" strike me as merely the worst sort of defectors. If Trump announces a new Smaller Prettier Bill tomorrow that in fact reduces the deficit, will deficit spending suddenly be something to oppose again?
ulyssessword
5hr ago
Probably because she thinks that's the stronger argument?
Generally, pro-abortion arguments are for at-will abortion, not for medically-required ones. Many ostensible bans on abortion contain exceptions for the health of the mother (and for some crimes committed against them), but those laws aren't what the activists are trying to promote.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5hr ago
Furthermore you've got specific laws against obstruction of Congressional proceedings, and threatening officials. Not sure if the J6 people were charged with those in particular.
They were charged with "obstruction of an official proceeding", which is a fairly new crime created by the Sarbanes-Oxley act. You may recall that Sarbanes-Oxley was about financial stuff -- the official title is "Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act". The application here was a stretch, and one the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against, though prosecutors were trying again with some defendants when Trump rudely interrupted them.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5hr ago
What do you mean my degrees are more aligned to the targets? Are you saying the BLM riots were more severe and destabilizing than J6?
Yes, definitely.
TitaniumButterfly
5hr ago
"Life being worth living" suggests that there is a person who would appreciate that life.
This is not implied within a non-secular context. Indeed it's pretty commonplace for us that we'll only be able to fully appreciate our lives in retrospect, in the light of our expanded consciousnesses in the resurrection.
Debate is out on whether the nascent brain activity of a fetus counts as a person.
Does the brain activity of someone in deep sleep count as a person? Is there a moral issue with killing them?
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
5hr ago
I made my response multiple choice. Pick as you please:
A) Magic. The gathering, I mean. The cards speak to me in tongues man has forgotten - but our genes remember. And my neighbour Gene is happy to translate for me.
B) Because human perception of time is linear so things aren't ruined until they are?
C) Are you hoping that disproving my jovial rebuttal of the 'gaslighting kids is funny' argument will convince me transing kids is a good idea? Because it won't.
D) All of the above.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5hr ago
I would hesitate to use targeted advertising as evidence for any particular trend.
Does Mr. Boyle have some special insight into the art world?
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
5hr ago
anti_dan
5hr ago
How would you explain to an autistic teenage boy the differences between boy people and girl people? In a way that provides useful guidance and doesn't make T seem like a normal thing for any boy who isn't obsessed with sports? In a way that let's them successfully navigate the differences?
Well, #1 I'd make him do some sports. That's the easiest way for any teen to get on the path of appreciating the differences between men and woman. That girl who was good at tag? Guess what, when you both at 15 shes no good anymore. Even the slow boys are beating her. And physical activities involving even a modicum of contact like basketball? Forget it. Its not just that she can barely jump by comparison, its that any man that does even a little physical activity can just move her. And, its actually scary in many ways, because you will be afraid that you are going to break her. Which you could easily do on accident.
Eupraxia
Shut up and quantify
6hr ago
…Where are you getting your numbers from? I simply cannot believe that support for criminalization of homosexuality approaches 1 in 5, let alone support for construction crane conversion therapy. By my observation, the anti-LGBT crowd generally don’t desire to go on the offensive, they just want to be left alone.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
6hr ago
I fed your comment into Gemini 2.5 Pro, and it came up with an incredibly insightful answer meant to be shared with these supposedly struggling men. Unfortunately, the majority opinion here frowns on reproducing AI output, so I'll be uncharacteristically catty and keep it to myself. Anyone curious can copy and paste for the same result, I'd presume.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
6hr ago
Alongside a re-read of Reverend Insanity, at o3's suggestion, I'm halfway through The Outside by Ada Hoffman.
The core conceit of the novel should be like crack to me. AI Gods? Said Gods fighting against eldritch abominations? Sign me the fuck up, I had independently considered writing my own novel along those lines before finding this one.
Unfortunately, the real deal is incredibly mid. The protagonist is a capital-A Autistic genius woman, written by an autistic female author, who hasn't heard of "show, don't tell".
If I have to read another line about her sensory issues and inability to function in normal or posthuman society, I'll lose it.
Beyond that, the pace is achingly slow, and the prose not very tight for the most part.
I'd call it a 6/10 novel, barely worth reading. I'm just out of the kind of hard scifi I normally enjoy, they just don't write those fast enough.
Grant_us_eyes
6hr ago
I was about to say that I've never used AI, but then I realized that would be a lie - I've used AI before to put together a long string of fluffy bullshit for work in order to save myself the aggravation of putting together said fluffy bullshit.
...and I will likely use it again this week to, yet again, put together a few paragraphs of fluffy bullshit to appease the MBA types in my office.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
Anyone know any games, roleplaying or otherwise, which end up encouraging real/historical tactics? Or generalize those tactics to the magic or tech or whatever makes the setting unique.
I was playing D:OS2 this weekend and found myself thinking, "wow, all these spear-wielding magisters have zero incentive to form up and fight in ranks." It's a chaotic free-for-all.
Being left alone is clearly not an option. I would speculate the number of people who want to criminalize homosexuality is increasing as a result of being exposed to it more often. I certainly have moved away from a libertarian position for those reasons.
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