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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2hr ago
It's also called "whole word". Amusingly, the Wikipedia page on it currently starts with a little editorializing in the opposite direction that you'd expect for Wikipedia:
Whole language is a philosophy of reading and a discredited[8] educational method originally developed for teaching literacy in English to young children.
"Discredited" dates back to May 2022. The citation goes here, which is clearly a biased source.
There's another citation to Jordan Peterson:
"You don't use whole word learning unless you're absolutely bloody clueless"
NewCharlesInCharge
2hr ago
I mean someone working on the site’s codebase, presumably with all the necessary credentials.
It makes for very short iteration times to run dev code locally connected to the prod database. That’s how we work on the front end code at Meta.
But I have no clue how people work on the code here.
FistfullOfCrows
3hr ago
Where to even start, the government used its tendrils in twitter and youtube/google/facebook to do its damndest censoring right wing voices/ gaslighitng the public about the origin of covid. They entirely suporessed biden's son's laptop shenanigans and the corrupt dealings with Borisma.
These mother fuckers tried to unperson and ruin Alex Jones. Hilldawg is still not in prison for the e-mail server and use of the state apparatus to try and paint Trump as a Putin controlled puppet.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
3hr ago
My take which I will double down is that I come out of what he makes feeling joy, twin peaks has a charm, the bad things for me serve as a backdrop that let me enjoy that, this is a very normie take.
I am nearly on episode 7 of Twin peaks, David Lynch the actor is very fun to watch too. All the attempts to state what the show really is about are very valid, he wanted people to have their own interpretations. I will watch fire walk wth me post season 2. I would want to hear @TowardsPanna s take on Lynch since he too meditates a lot and would have a very interesting perception because of that.
What other shows or movies capture the same thing. My recent favorite directors are Joachim Trier whose work is mostly modern day scandi land slice of life dramas and robert eggers who makes movies that celebrate the folklore of Europe with decadent environments. I think I may be interested in reading good murder mysteries now after watching the show instead of surfing
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3hr ago
I am fairly sure that even Bryan Caplan, when he makes his case against education, is not referring to primary education but to secondary (high school level) and post-secondary education. There is little doubt, IMO, that most people simply will not learn to read and write unless actually taught, and there are better (phonics) and worse (whole word) ways of teaching reading English. Same goes for arithmetic, though I suspect less so. Part of Freddie's "Education Doesn't Work 2.0" article is weaker than that; it is basically claiming education does work to larn you stuff but not to make you smarter, and thus doesn't change your relative position in society. Of course, even granting Freddie's thesis, this becomes false if Mississippi is doing the right thing and Illinois and Wisconsin are not; if that's true the Mississippi students will change position relative to Illinois and Wisconsin students.
Freddie does go on to say that no educational interventions work, and the Mississippi experience argues against that. But most of his evidence concerns older students. And it's quite likely the interventions he's referring to don't work. The reductio of the claim that educational interventions don't work is the claim that not teaching at all works as well as teaching, and that is clearly false -- but it does not mean that lesser claims are not true.
FistfullOfCrows
3hr ago
I'm frankly disappointed in Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Going back on their initial mockery of climate change; keeping their mouths shut on the frankly ridiculous clown world tier state of dems/ zombie Bidden. Where were they for the four years of nonstop gaslighting and censorship we endured?
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
If you mainly feel with your thoughts you probably have alexithymia, a surprisingly common condition
Why are we medicalizing this? It's common and not disabling. People should just go through life this way. It's 'normal human variation' not a 'condition'.
We medicalize way too much normal human variation. ADHD people should just... not become accountants and use the reminder/note taking functions in their phones instead of taking amphetamines. The mildly autistic should stop calling it that. Etc, etc. You don't need special accommodations for every human variation. Maybe just accept that not everything is for you.
Throwaway05
3hr ago
Okay, not a train. That's an asshole thing to do. If you're going to commit suicide, don't involve other people.
This is surprisingly hard to do. Someone needs to find the body and unless you plan carefully this can easily be a random bystander or group of random bystanders (and planning carefully is hard when you are suicidal).
Usually EMS and healthcare get involved and seeing someone who has committed suicide can be deeply harmful (especially if it's gruesome like a gunshot to the head). Often they'll have to run a code on the body even if it's clearly dead which is....awful.
Then you have to think about the family and friends of the deceased. Having a close contact or family commit suicide is a risk factor for suicide it hurts people around you in a way that just dying doesn't.
haroldbkny
3hr ago
I've never understood Parker and Stone when it comes to their politics, or at least not over the last 13 years since they moved on from their early episode libertarian leanings. Why have they gone easy on leftists so much since the rise of wokeness (note: I haven't consistently watched the last few seasons of South Park, so I may be wrong about recent years. But I remember them soft balling progressives from 2013 through 2017ish), and repeatedly claim that Trump is the worst person ever, then turn around and awkwardly claim they're Republicans. And most of the episodes I've seen of South Park over the last 5 years just seem so random and incoherent. I almost feel like they don't really have any convictions, don't really understand the current issues, and are just randomly throwing whatever elements they feel like together in episodes, while trying to pass it off as relevant political commentary.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I think the blue tribe ideological reason for not teaching reading don't have much to do with the idea that it's racist. It's an ideological fixation with teachers always being right. Teachers don't like phonics and self-proclaimed education experts say it shouldn't work- these things may be related, but they're both there and they're both more important than whether it actually works. To these people 'educating kids' isn't really the point of public schools- although it's ideal- public schools exist to spend an ever-increasing amount of money, provide jobs for college educated women, and separate kids from their parents. It's unsurprising that red states who care more about the kids learning than about using the public schools for evil can close the gap rapidly when discovering techniques that work.
Friedliche DeBoer (of the South African Boers perhaps?)
No, DeBoer is just Dutch for the farmer(the South African Boers were originally named this to refer to their supporting themselves by farming, in contrast to east india company employees). It's not a particularly uncommon surname and Dutch names are scattered throughout the US white population from either small waves of immigration or original settlement.
Throwaway05
3hr ago
Absolutely yes!
People have so much more variety in the way they view the world than you might imagine based on the fact that most people end up doing more or less the same things.
It gets super interesting in the case of legitimate pathology like personality disorders and speaks to some interesting things about the human condition (ex: true sociopaths with zero anxiety. They really aren't human, and it tells a bit about what anxiety is for).
As you note nearly everyone here is not normal at all and has features like super high ability to decouple, and a common fail state for people like us is to assume people with low ability to decouple aren't actually intelligent.
Another fun one is the way different cultures and native language speakers interact with the world can result in some foreignness. The results are generally mostly recognizable societies but a lot of Russians, Asians, Middle Easterners etc just experience the world in a way that is unexpectedly foreign.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3hr ago
I think for three years I watched Robby Suave at The Hill tee off on the Teacher's Union for fighting against phonics based teaching, despite all the science and decades of outcomes showing that whole language teaching is a miserable failure. But teachers hate it, because it's rote and boring, and they insist on narcissistically avoiding all unpleasant aspects of their job. Despite being responsible for the education of our next generation. So their union fights phonics based teacher curriculums tooth and nail.
At least that's what Robby's reporting showed consistently over the years. It was a bit of a hobby horse for him, and an area where his libertarian brain really found a nit to pick with the "trust the science" blue team.
The point I'm drifting towards is that this is really a proxy battle against teachers. The profession is overrun with activist LARPing as educators, their union is controlled by a lesbian activist, and to whatever degree education is occurring, it's haphazard and inertial based on decades of diminishing institutional knowledge. It's a low pay, highly political profession, and increasingly only true believers are attracted and willing to stay in the profession. The ones that treat the trials and tribulations of the profession as a test of faith for their activism are the only ones that thrive.
wayfarer
3hr ago
oh, so this time it was intentional joke
(you would be surprised how many people actually believe it)
marinuso
3hr ago
she's earned the right to kill herself.
She's always had it, and never lost it. This was part of my point. It's the official approval that I disapprove of.
If you care to criticize this, then just about nothing in psychiatry remains standing.
This is not the way in which I meant it. By outsiders I meant the general public, society as a whole, not her psychiatrists, who I'm sure knew what they were doing and tried their best. Because even if I grant that this was the right decision in this particular individual case, I still oppose it because of the example that it sets.
The picture that is shown is of a (physically at least) healthy 29-year-old, who has people who care about her. When someone like that commits suicide, it should not get a societal stamp of approval. Let alone that we should do it for her. This will cause the societal norm around suicide to shift.
I think that we shouldn't be giving the general public the idea that society approves of just stepping out of life if you're not feeling it. I grant you that that's not actually what happened in this case. But that is what it looks like. You know what the fancy words mean, but remember that to a layman, "depression" means "not feeling it".
And in fact, I've just found another depressed 29 year old woman who was euthanized. I forgot the name of the first one, googled "euthanized depressed 29 year old" and immediately found another. This made me go and look up the statistics. Here they are, in Dutch, but summarizing: in 2014 there were 14 cases of euthanasia for purely psychiatric reasons. This is the first year for which there is data, so presumably the first year this was even done. By 2024 this had grown to 219. Line go up fairly quickly.
Meanwhile, there were 1819 "traditional" suicides in 2024. So by now, for every ten suicides we're adding an eleventh. More than that.
This really looks to me like official approval causing the social norms to shift, in turn causing the psychiatrists too (who are after all also part of society) to be more free in granting approvals, causing the norm to shift further.
Good for them.
I haven't read the others, but as I recall Freddie's position is explicitly that, yes, there are better and worse teaching methods, and that teaching can and sometimes does improve. And that's good! More kids can read when teaching improves! But to the extent that the improvements are important and sustainable, everyone else will pick up on it fast enough, and then everyone will be back in their relative positions again, but now with more people able to read (again: good and worth doing).
The test for that is whether in a decade, (assuming people still care how many kids can read and haven't just switched to voice interfaces for a large chunk of the population) Mississippi ends up exactly where you would expect them to be, based on their demographics. They already have to adjust for demographics to look really impressive. Tenth is good, but not groundbreaking.
You can also get programs that are good but not sustainable, like KIPP. It's sort of sustainable, because New York schools in general are able to absorb all the burnt out teachers leaving there, and supply a constant stream of new, talented, excited teachers. But it's not sustainable at scale, you can't just replace all the normal schools in a state with KIPP schools, because in addition to teacher burnout, you have to have family buy in, which is a limited resource. I suppose whatever Mississippi is doing is reasonably sustainable, or they would have flamed out by now.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
4hr ago
I think I binged Twin Peaks maybe 3 or 4 years ago when it was on Netflix? Then rented Fire Walk With Me on Amazon, and purchased the bluray for The Return.
You really feel the gap where Lynch wasn't involved in season 2, but when he comes back he absolutely fills the show with a presence you couldn't put your finger on, but could feel the absence of. Then The Return cranks that quality up to 11 and is a massive impressionistic mind fuck.
I've seen analysis that try to distill was Twin Peaks, and especially The Return, are "really" about. And then I've seen the rebuttal where you need to shut the fuck up and let the feelings and impressions the show creates wash over you. Don't try to reason what it's about, intuit it.
I really should watch Twin Peaks again, it's probably one of my favorite shows of all time that I felt I got the most out of. And you're right, it's spiritual message is very much looking into the darkness of the world and choosing love anyways.
NYTReader
4hr ago
This guy summed up a lot of my internal thoughts though.
The "anti-vaxxers" and “conspiracy theorists” were not "right about everything".
Apart from Biden's senility, what other low-hanging fruit were there from the administration? South Park didn't attack Dems per se, but it did mock Dem-adjacent policies. And what other show makes fun of fat black women?
MAGA and its menagerie of spokespersons are, unfortunately, cartoonishly easy to lampoon. There are "serious" right-wing intellectuals on Twitter and Substack, but these people are not represented as the public face of MAGA.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
4hr ago
I'm not sure that literally not understanding the meaning of words (like silence) qualifies as the same type of stupid as not keeping up to date with mountains of caselaw. Dude literally insisted he was going to keep silent as he proceeded to just keep talking anyways, while repeating that he was being silent along the way. That's just retarded, not legal. If anything it's the poor cop that got hung up on mountains of case law. Supposedly he was supposed to re-mirandize the suspect after the suspect, by a technical definition, "reinitiated" the encounter.
Okay, not a train. That's an asshole thing to do. If you're going to commit suicide, don't involve other people.
I included it because it's the stereotypical thing to do (at least around here), but thinking a bit further, it's probably that way because when someone does it, everyone in the train knows. Probably most people have been on a train that's been delayed because of a train suicide. Other methods of suicide don't get that attention.
I do absolutely think we shouldn't be offering assisted suicide to people who are physically capable of unassisted suicide.
stuckinbathroom
5hr ago
Now a number of liberal commentators ranging from Friedliche DeBoer … to Steve Sailer
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self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
5hr ago
I say the question is moot. It is not that hard to kill yourself, if you are able-bodied and motivated. The only places in the planet where it becomes nigh-impossible are strict prisons, or an in-patient suicide unit.
The terminally ill usually aren't able bodied, and lack the option of taking the quick way out most of the time.
Even without a positive right to demand that others kill you, there is room for a negative right to stop people from preventing you from seeking assistance in that regard.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
5hr ago
Thank you for taking the time to write such a thoughtful reply. An AAQC report is the least I can do.
I agree that we disagree on some fundamental values. The policy I've envisioned is a compromised one, a version that is sanded down to increase its political palatability. I have more extreme views, I believe we should allow anyone who is of sane mind to opt for euthanasia (with massive caveats that they need to demonstrate their sanity and show that they aren't making that decision on a whim). However, I must hasten to point out that my policy recommendation isn't meant to be disingenuous, rather, it is a system I would genuinely be content with. If we had it in place, I wouldn't immediately switch to lobbying for suicide booths next to every bus stop.
but the one I like better is "if someone's going to die, you might as well grant them control over the method".
We're all going to die! I might be a transhumanist, one that considers living for a quadrillion years as software running on the carefully rationed Hawking radiation from a black hole in the post-stelliferous era to be a nice retirement, but even I don't think we can live for literally forever. Heat Death is likely to be a bitch.
Putting those aspirational stretch goals aside, we are really all going to die. The terminal stage of illness just makes that expiry date more... obvious. It becomes less of a hypothetical end to the story of your life, and more of a realization that the novel is about to end, there aren't many pages to flip.
Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada have all had assisted dying for 1-2 decades and do not "pressure vulnerable populations into premature death" and serve as good evidence.
As I've noted elsewhere, Switzerland has had assisted dying since 1941. All but nonagerians don't remember a time before some form of legal euthanasia. That is multiple generations, and they are a functional and wealthy society where the elderly seem quite content.
I consider this to be a very strong existence proof that a society can stably accept euthanasia without devolving in the directions many fear.
You bring up the Dutch report, and I'd say on the whole the Netherlands offers moderate evidence against a slippery slope. This study summation from 2009, though dated, states there is no slippery slope almost word for word, though in the decade and a half since rates have doubled again (the trend overall is definitely not exponential and has reversed itself at times).
I was recently challenged by iprayiam to prove that 5% of all deaths being MAID is an acceptable state of affairs. Interrogating it , I found out I was wrong, but wrong in the direction of underestimating the potential proportion of deaths that would likely be unproblematic candidates. And I mean going by your stricter definition, restricting ourselves to the terminally ill.
Humans have got a good thing going. Most of the usual causes of death in human history are largely irrelevant in the West. Heart attacks used to be nigh universally fatal, half the kids used to die in childhood. Now, we've dealt with that, but still have to deal with chronic disease which stubbornly resists our best efforts.
My own figures of 20-30% are hardly perfect, but they're certainly closer to plausible figures for people undergoing rather unseemly and painful deaths. They came from a strong hunch, and it's clear that working in medicine makes that gut feeling more accurate.
Now that I know more accurate values, I can see a plausible case for much higher rates.
Note those requirements. While technically more expansive than strictly terminal cases, in practice it seems pretty similar. Physicians are instructed not to encourage it, only to permit it, trust is high, and the requirement that it is "unbearable with no prospect of improvement" and "no reasonable alternative" is pretty strong. No prospect of improvement and unbearable! This is not the language of an elective suicide right. Also, "the general structure of the Dutch health care system is unique. The Dutch general practitioner is the pivot of primary care in the Netherlands
I will have to look into it, but this gives me the strong impression that their system is quite similar to the British one. I can only hope their GPs are paid better and work fewer hours.
Now, the report conflates assisted dying with terminal death care, but there is some cause of worry: institutions declaring it a right without distinction, that anyone disagreeing is against that right rather than a reasonable moral viewpoint, and explicitly stating that social change is happening. It's moral regulatory capture of a sort?
I disagree with this framing. All regulators tend to have some degree of moral consensus (or at least a majority vote). This fact only comes to conscious awareness when you face the fact that the regulators disagree with your own opinions, and then desire representation. I would expect that the final report is likely the outcome of internal deliberation, and usually internal dissent is squashed (bad) or consensus achieved. We don't know, there might be true euthanasia maximalist in there who are annoyed that they didn't get their way. I doubt most systems are like the US Supreme Court, in the sense that dissenting opinions are prominently featured in the final output, it not the verdict.
Belgium also displays something interesting: an increasingly large group with a "polypathology" justification: a combinations of conditions that are not sufficient on their own but combined are bad enough to qualify. That's something to keep an eye on.
I don't see a cause for concern? It seems quite clear to me that a person with, say, moderate dementia + moderate COPD + moderate arthritis can have a quality of life that's as awful as someone with a really bad case of any of the above. Multiple factors can work together to reduce QALY/DALY. When you get old enough, just about everything starts breaking down, it's a race to see which one kills you. Even the young can draw the short straw.
[I will pause here since I'm traveling right now, but I would ask that you hold off on replying since I intend to add a lot more to my reply. Unless you really want to, in which case don't let me stop you!]
throwaway20230125
5hr ago
The only time I can recall seeing them is on the tolled express lane of I-85 in Georgia.
But like how much is too much MAID, is 10% too much? Is 50% too much? Define what your limit is.
Does the amount of death attributed to MAID even matter? If 96% of MAID recipients have a terminal illness, why do you care?
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