domain:parrhesia.co
Supah_Schmendrick
2d ago
What, does the recent repeal of Roe v. Wade not count? The “Blue Tribe” had pinned a huge policy platform of abortion on it, and it was totally undone
So in this giant Red win meant...that Blues no longer got to unilaterally dominate national policy. This is not comparable to Obergefell (or Roe in the original instance). Blue wins mean they get to override Red preferences everywhere. Red wins mean they get plausible cover to try and eake out a separate existence in some places. These are not the same.
It sounds like what you actually want is not the freedom to do as you wish, but the power to coerce others, and particularly to deny the other what they want.
Yes, this is what Blue tribe gets when they "win."
But wanting specifically to exert your power over another is something different. Its envy, or at least, is rooted in the same. Envy is seeing what someone else has, hating them for it, and wanting to destroy it. It’s bringing someone low because you can’t stand seeing them up.
What a coincidentally perfect distillation of major leftist legal doctrine.
Crowstep
2d ago
John McWhorter suggested that we conjugate verbs differently depending on whether we're using the singular they or the plural they. They (Alice and Bob) go, they (Alice) goes. It's a good suggestion, doubt it'll catch on though.
Incidentally, yesterday I encountered the most annoying use of the singular they I've ever seen in real life. My colleague is going on maternity leave and I'm covering some work for her. On my annual review, my boss referred to this colleague as 'they'. As in 'Crowstep will cover his colleague's work, while they are on maternity leave'.
I sort of get it, in that 'colleague' is a gender neutral term. But this person has a name, which everyone reading this document knows, and she's going on maternity leave for God's sake!
hydroacetylene
2d ago
there are no white poor performance countries
Argentina, Colombia, Moldova, Ukraine, are all poorer than Russia, which itself is not conventionally considered a ‘high performer’. Indeed, thé entirety of the Balkans generates little ambition in its denizens except to leave the Balkans, and the nice white parts of Latin America are still nothing to write home about.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
And when you look under the hood, a lot of it is about laundering handouts to the middle class in the class sense, if not in the material sense. It’s downstream of the class entitlement to a middle class lifestyle without much hard work, from holding a college degree.
Don’t get me wrong, lots of people do this too. Notably seniors. But it is mathematically impossible for everyone to be entitled to an above average standard of living.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
2d ago
It is possible that fatal overdoses are reduced, which would allow the individual in question to overdose in the future again.
This strikes me as profoundly true.
It is possible that SIS increases the number of people who get addicted to drugs
I can see this being true, but can also see it not being true. Unsure.
I would also caution in believing that the three items in your list can exist simultaneously - although there is no physical reason that they cannot, there are political reasons they will not, and that is much harder to change.
They almost certainly will not exist. Voters hate paying for things. I hope we get institutionalization though, I am seeing the tides of public opinion shift on these as everyone gets sick of addicts ruining downtowns/parks/transit.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
Sweet Sejenus
2d ago
Wish I could find the original example, but nevertheless, here is the gist:
At its shortest, sum it up as “There’s a reason there’s such a demographic split between readers of mil sci-fi and readers of romantasy.”
I find the common disconnect between this obvious statement, and the equally obvious corollary that it indicates real differences between women and men that play themselves out in the real world, to be humorous. Maybe I’m the only one!
A longer description:
In general, male writers writing for a predominantly male audience write battle scenes that focus heavily on externals. The protagonist, in some fashion, displays earned talent in both personal combat and, if he is the leader of some force, overall tactical acumen. There will be descriptions, good or bad, of actual battle tactics such as flanking, ambush, etc. There is often a pre-battle planning scene that mostly focuses on nuts and bolts, maybe some political wrangling. If the protagonist’s friends or loved ones are involved, the primary concern is that they be best positioned to aid the chances of victory, despite the protagonist’s personal feelings towards them. The battle will be won or lost on the basis of plausible military outcomes. Overall, while the scene includes interior glimpses of the protagonist, the topic is the battle and its aftermath.
In general, female writers writing for a predominantly female audience write battle scenes that focus heavily on internals. The protagonist, in some fashion, displays innate, generally effortless or nearly so, talents that she naturally possesses. That is, if she is a great swordswoman or brilliant tactician, it is not generally a result of a training period of grueling effort. If she does engage in training, it simply improves her already significant natural gifts. In general, her talents will not be shown, but merely told. Because of this, there will not be any significant emphasis on the actual cut and thrust of the battle itself. The scenes involving the battle will primarily focus on the protagonist’s interiority, frequently including thoughts about whether she prefers the handsome and powerful general or the handsome and powerful mercenary captain. The battle will be won off camera, and the aftermath will again, mostly feature the protagonist’s emotional state. Overall, while the scene includes glimpses of the battle and its aftermath, the topic is the interior state of the protagonist.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Women hate Lauren now-Bezos because she’s a homewrecking harlot, what’s new?
Zephyr
2d ago
So we don’t actually know that they reduce overdoses either. There is a plausible mechanism for them to do so, but there are also a few mechanisms in which they could not.
- It is possible that fatal overdoses are reduced, which would allow the individual in question to overdose in the future again.
- It is possible that SIS increases the number of people who get addicted to drugs (in BC in particular, there is an ongoing controversy where safe supply drugs are sold to get funds for fentanyl, which leads to more people having drugs than would otherwise; although I realize this is not quite the same thing as SIS, the SIS are responsible for the distribution of the safe supply, so I think the consequences apply here too).
I would also caution in believing that the three items in your list can exist simultaneously - although there is no physical reason that they cannot, there are political reasons they will not, and that is much harder to change.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
2d ago
No, what @iprayiam3 is talking about predates Christianity by atleast a thousand years its the main driver of conflict in half the great greek tragedies as well as the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
2d ago
Men submit to their partner's control over their social lives to keep the peace. "Happy wife, happy life". They are "happy" not because they are grateful their wives are taking on this "burden" for them, but because submitting to their wives' control in this regard avoids conflict. Men are expected to give up their social lives and prioritize their wives.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In practice, feminist journalists always want highly successful men to marry women like themselves.
In practice, it seems like feminist journalists get angsty and critical no matter who highly successful men marry. If Bezos had married a feminist journalist she’d be writing angsty op Ed’s about it.
It's a bit of an extended discussion, but at the bottom of this comment I wrote:
The US started supporting Israel after their victory in the six-day war showcased their value as a military power in a region broadly aligned with the Soviets. By the time of the oil embargo keeping Israel on their side during the cold war felt like the right bet to decision makers in the US. You may think they were wrong, but that they thought this was the correct choice seems more plausible than that they were being controlled by a shadowy cabal who had between 67 and 73 achieved total control of the government.
To which the response was:
There is nothing shadowy about the cabal, it's blatant.
I did ask @RandomRanger a little later on to clarify his position:
I mean, maybe I'm being autistic and interpreting too literally your earlier claim that
I don't know how it's possible for the word ZOG to be problematized like it's some crazy, loopy theory when in the case of the US, it's literally true.
but again, if the position is that all US interests are subordinate to Israeli interests and have been since the mid 20th century, then Israel wouldn't face any threats at all (or at the very least, far fewer). Is what I just described your position, or have I misinterpreted it?
But received no response. He's welcome of course to jump in and make his stance on the topic clear, until then, draw your own conclusion; my interpretation is that if he doesn't think Israel is twisting the US' arm, it's only because Israel already owns the US government.
charlesf
2d ago
I've taken hallucinogens many, many times in my life. Mostly LSD when younger, shifting more toward mushrooms as I've gotten older, to entirely mushrooms now in my late 40s. Its the only 'hard' drug I use any more, usually 1-2 times a month on the weekend. Your report sounds like a small amount tbh, mostly based on your ability to actually record the experience. Higher doses absolutely shoot your attention span. The inconsistency of natural mushrooms is a real thing. I'm lucky to have had the same source for a long time now, but even then the same weight batch to batch has noticeable variations in strength. Taking it in a clinical setting sounds frankly horrific. I'm accustomed enough to using psilocybin that I can perform a wide range of tasks while tripping and have never had anything close to a bad trip, and I wouldn't do it in that setting ever. I live on a farm in the country. My primary activity on mushrooms is playing in the fields with my dogs. I think people refer to spiritual or mystical experiences on hallucinogens because we lack other language to describe the experience. I find trying to describe it in words very difficult, like its a category of experience that can't effectively be spoken or written about. I feel this exact same way about the effects of meditation over the long term. We just don't have vocabulary for it in English. As far as enlightenment/ego death/loss of the self experiences, most of the people I've know that have these, and I've also had many personally, are already engaged in this pursuit outside of their psilocybin use. Generally through various forms of meditation practice. Hallucinogens alone generally don't trigger these in my experience, with the massive exception of DMT, which I don't really recommend for beginners. DMT will absolutely slam into the user with ego-death/loss of the illusory self, and though temporary, you don't know that at the time. Its a class apart from other hallucinogens massively altering your thought processes and sensory perceptions.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
2d ago
Why would you use this though? I can understand not wanting to do hormonal birth control, but thats not the only option. Im generally open to natural law argumentation, I just dont see why they would treat cycle timing differently from condoms or especially pulling out. The only relevant distinguishing factor is that, as a certain dissident rightist said, the days you cant are the ones youll want it most. I could see any combination of this being good/bad if it does/doesnt cause people to fail, but its not the argument any exception-makers seem to go with.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2d ago
it seems obvious to me why the US would want to be allied with Israel
Far from obvious to me. What would you say they're getting out of it?
As far as I'm concerned, Iran should be treated as a pariah as long as it refuses to behave like a civilized country.
What's so uncivilized about them? I keep hearing complaints of "sponsoring terrorism" but plenty of civilized countries like to play that game.
ZanarkandAbesFan
2d ago
I get the idea of using inclusive language in the UI, but I'm confused by what they mean when they start talking about how to name classes and other programming constructs. Am I somehow missing hordes of developers using racial epithets in their variable names?
Owlify
2d ago
I love MLP too. A bit offtopic, but are you into reading MLP fanfiction by any chance?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2d ago
I only had a skim, but couldn't find the part about arm-twisting.
aceventura
2d ago
Israel is literally twisting the US's arm to do it's bidding, or that they believe the US leadership holds an ideology resulting in their support of Israel even against the interests of Americans?
Both, from what I've seen on Twitter, but the latter is explained by invoking a conspiracy that Zionist Jews control the US government.
Even if there are prominent Jews in the administration, it seems obvious to me why the US would want to be allied with Israel and why, by extension, it would not want Iran to have nuclear weapons. As far as I'm concerned, Iran should be treated as a pariah as long as it refuses to behave like a civilized country. There's nothing stopping it from normalizing relations with the US and Israel and thus significantly improving the lives of its citizens.
charlesf
2d ago
Kratom provides a kinda-sorta opiate-like buzz the very first few times its used that taper off pretty fast and generally stop around the 3rd-4th use. It is a fantastic pain reliever though, and a godsend for people with chronic pain who cant get medical pain management from a doctor. The pain relief doesn't go away with repeated use like the buzz does.
There is a predictable profile for the people we see who have problems with kratom (I volunteer at a local rehab). They are opiate addicts, usually heroin, pretty deep into it. They get off dope but are struggling with terrible withdrawal. They learn that in the cultures that kratom is native too people use it to get off dope, that it blunts the withdrawal symptoms. This is true, its great for this. Then, the first time they use it they get sorta opiate-like buzz and a lightbulb goes off in their heads: "I've found a loophole! I can keep getting high! I'll still pass my drug tests!" But as mentioned the psychoactive effects fade very fast. This can temporarily be countered by taking more, so they move from the capsules to the liquid extracts then the more concentrated extracts. Still by the end of the first week the buzz is entirely gone. It still offers relief from withdrawal but thats not why they're using it now. This stuff got them high once, why isn't it working anymore? This is where the huge amounts of money kick in. The individual bottles of the concentrated extract cost $20 each or so and they're taking 5-10 a day chasing that buzz that isn't coming back. Way more than they ever spent on heroin (which has been dirt cheap for a while now) Many go back to dope at this point. We see a lot of ODs at this point; having been clean for a while, even just 1 month sometimes, is enough to reset their opiate tolerance but they still dose based on their previous habit, which is now too much.
Kratom is a very effective treatment for pain. Its also very good as alleviating withdrawal, but those first few doses that provide a ersatz high for recovering addicts ruins this use case for some people leading to the observations in the above post.
Crowstep
2d ago
Hence the joke about battle writing in women’s fantasy novels vs. men’s fantasy novels.
I'm curious, what's the joke?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
2d ago
Personally, I couldn't care less how "weird" this seems in the first place, as long as the treatments work. The human body is weird and unintuitive in the first place.
I care about weirdness because its a sign were missing something. This kind of weirdness is not about violating how we expect things to work, you could substitute most properties for "recreational" and it would still be weird. So I dont think it matters whether the body is intutive. By analogy, the current best proof of the four colour theorem works by proving all graphs countain one of 633 possible configurations, and brute-force checking that each of them is reducible in a certain sense, which they all are. You dont need to know anything about mathematics to see that there might be more going on there.
Well, ECT and transcranial magnetic stimulation use no drugs at all
Thats certainly interesting. Even after years of reading Scott, I still had the impression that after the SSRIs, its maybe MAOIs and then nothing. Its still interesting that its only recreational drugs so far. I think cerebrolysin was supposed to be that, but it doesnt seem like that went anywhere.
I can't speak to academic cheating with confidence, but I can about videogames. First, there are more opportunities as time passes as more and more players get into online games so the whole number is going to go up. This matters b/c these are all potential customers of the next part of the problem. Its never been easier to cheat at online games. Used to be, back on the 00s, it was much harder. You either needed to be a programmer yourself with knowledge of the game engine and build your own hacks, or you needed to know the right people or be part of fairly insular online communities, the Warez scene probably being the most prolific. There was a lot of overlap between the game cracking/piracy scene and the online game cheats scene, both of which were almost never just stumbled upon by normies. Now that much larger numbers of people play these very competitive games, they are large enough to constitute a customer base worth trying to get the attention of. People are also much more comfortable with paying over various apps now, so its much easier to sell to them. Prices are wildly variable with the specific game, but for anywhere from $10 to $200 you can get a download link to a fully contained .exe that you run with the game, there is a relatively user friendly interface, and you money buys not just the download of the exe, but also updates as the sellers of the cheat engines try to stay one step ahead of the game devs and other anti-cheat service providers like VAC. In addition, the people using the engines are much, much sloppier with using them, not even bothering to try to hide it most of the time. To accommodate this the same groups that sell the cheats also sell various ban-evasion packages, helping you make new accounts, teaching you how to use a VPN etc, or in many cases just selling you a pre-made, clean account to get right back at it. A few more infamous ones over the years have also had inside people at the game studio who would just remove the bans for money. Money changed everything with videogame cheating. I don't think any of this applies to online chess, which is its own strange world.
More options
Context Copy link