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MotteInTheEye
2d ago
Human societies are much richer than just "reproducing pairs" and gender is expressed . Tearing down the structures of existing society has been a long term project of the left, for which project the politics of transexuality is but the most recent of many tools.
anon_
2d ago
Thinking back on the vast majority of the interactions I've had in the last week or two, I can't think of that many in which it did matter. The clerk at the store, the other parents at the park, coworkers, friends. If it wasn't easy to tell which were biologically fe/male, I don't think it would have made my life that much harder.
Society is built on reproducing pairs, which is an inexorable function of biology -- but not a ton of day to day life impinges on that.
anon_
2d ago
Eh. OTOH, the widespread adoption of body-worn cameras has been a nearly unalloyed good (a rare culture-war thing!). It's reduced excessive force, it's vindicated cases w/ justified use of force and it's shed light that neither totalizing view was remotely correct.
I'm not sure we would have gotten them in an alternate timeline without that national conversation.
anon_
2d ago
But the progressive activist is only happy with that status quo to the extent that they think there's enough goodwill to push it further.
The activist that has to fundraise needs a live conflict. They can't take yes for answer
Hence Dave Chapelle's admonition to the LGBT coalition that they ought to cash their chips in and go home before the crap out.
DenpaEnthusiast
2d ago
What I meant for option 2 was pay it back yourself instead of getting the money from the customer. While it is true that banks will pay overdrafts initially, the customer is still ultimately on the hook for the money. The bank doesn't say "we paid that for you, don't worry about it". They say "we paid that for you as a loan, now you need to give us the money we sent". Which is option 3.
Conveniently forgetting, or desperately whitewashing, that Blue Checks were treated as the last word in authoritative sources, regularly cited in arguments, and used as "shut up" debate stoppers when A quoted "well Blue Check Z said..." and that was it.
I honestly was not in any communities where a blue check was considered anything other than an indicator of Twitter prestige. I truly can't remember people citing Blue Check said so-and-so with the same authority as a Wikipedia article on the topic.
To me blue checks had the same valence as CNN covering a bridge collapse and cutting away to, say, a gangster rapper and asking him to react. Entertaining but also worthless. But maybe I wasn't paying enough attention.
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hydroacetylene
2d ago
Oh please, Zelensky will run like a frightened hog and live in exile somewhere he can access his swiss bank account and Ukrainian ultranats can't get at him.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
2d ago
Assigned by what? By "qualia" are you referring to anything you've ever experienced? If so, how do you know you've experienced qualia?
If the first color quale you ever experienced was "assigned" to red, and the second to blue, and then one day they magically switched, would you notice a difference?
If no, why do we care about "qualia"?
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
2d ago
the diagonal plunge is easy to get used to
I envy your neuroplasticity.
SubstackNecron
2d ago
system has not solved men abusing women. It has not solved rape. It has not solved sexual harassment or coercion
Crime in the first world is the lowest it has ever been at any point in history. You are in less danger over the last 20 years than any other person in the history of the world, for the most part by a significant margin.
So is the Times deliberately sabotaging peace on the Korean peninsula just to hurt Trump? I have no way of knowing, but the timing is a hell of a coincidence.
Isn't a much better question to ask if the Trump administration sabotaged the process on their own by authorizing a mission that killed three civilians and then mutilated their bodies so that they wouldn't be discovered? A mission that, judging by nothing serious happening due to its failure, clearly wasn't that important in the first place? Because I'm much, much more inclined to blame military/security state overreach than I am the people reporting on it. Nobody had to authorize this mission. Nobody had to give them rules of engagement that apparently left no room for even a moment to determine whether the people they spotted were security personnel or fishermen. If peace was really such an important goal (which to be clear, I don't think it is, either for this or the previous Trump administration), why do something so stupidly provocative in the first place?
So, what, a pathogen keyed to ethnic genetic markers? Or maybe something that goes for corn or wheat, cause a famine?
This is more of a musing/fantasy than a rational thought. I am mainly of the opinion that actual civil war is very unlikely as it would require sacrifice and effort from a population that has shown time and time again it is unwilling to do those things (The population in question is that of the USA not of one tribe).
It was women. Always the women. Radlib tumblr progressive-lites whose grand queen was JK Rowling.
Then the trans issue grew into the cause de jour, and suddenly being a moral crusader became sharing female spaces to bearded AGP transexuals.
Most liberal women were not onboard with that, and so quietly left... and were replaced by said BAGPTs.
BAGPTS are histrionic, drama-queen lolcows that rot any organization they join from within. As brown vanguardism destroyed academia and politics from within by replacing Jewish human capital with Islamists, so did the woke censorate lose its feminine inviolability. The individual women who lost out on positions within woke organizations to intersectionality's apex predator no longer contributed their social capital to wokism. Thus, decline into farce and irrelevance.
ahobata
2d ago
The girl in the video is adamant that he was accompanied by a male at first, and that the sister only showed up later on.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Your modus ponens is my modus tollens, though: if the vibes don't match the stats, then either the vibes are wrong or the stats are wrong/irrelevant.
For example, looking specifically at that patent page, do you really believe that innovation from 2010 to 2020 was 2x or 3x the innovation between 1870 and 1990?
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
2d ago
Descent may be harder to fake and easier to test for though, at least at low resolutions.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
2d ago
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I'm playing (have just defeated the owlmoth thing
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the early areas somewhat lack distinctive personality
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the whole trap/consumable mechanic, so far, feels insufficiently impactful to waste precious middle-aged neurons on developing muscle memory for
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BGMs feel more ambient, while HK had some songs that stuck in my mind
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I agree with the sentiment below that many enemies are pointlessly damage-spongey (looking at you, red ant tribe).
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So far the driving plot feels too similar to HK, what with
the collapsing bug kingdom suffering from a mind control zombie plague that the protagonist has some mysterious existential connection to .
On the other hand, things that I feel are an improvement over the predecessor:
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The graphics and level design feel more polished. HK had some areas that looked pretty monotonous.
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Every boss fight so far has been great: they are unique, inventive, and the difficulty feels fair. HK suffered from the problem that a lot of the bosses were just finicky - you needed to learn the exact timing and hitboxes for their attacks so that you could get out of the way and strike back, but the mechanic would often just be "dodge this massive club swing by between 1 and 4 pixels and then run towards the enemy to get in a hit".
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It has doubled down on HK's strength of having an endearingly quirky NPC cast with funny fantasy-language exclamations and songs announcing their presence.
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I found the FOMO (what if some other set of powerups would have trivialised this boss?) of HK's knapsack-based badge/upgrade system to be more annoying than anything. The new one has less of that (though that might just be because so far I have found hardly any optional powerups that feel meaningful).
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I'm obviously not far enough in yet, but the narration of the main story feels more tight.
One thing worth noting is that I tried to play the game with my recently-acquired Switch controller (having been a keyboard gamer all my life, but finally folding because of some games requiring omnidirectional movement/aiming), but went back to keyboard after the first few bosses which immediately gave me a massive power spike. I am not sure the controls were optimised for gamepads.
SnapDragon
2d ago
Hmm, not quite sure I understand the question? If you have all your memories (including those of reading this post) but are seeing chaos, then you basically DO know you're a Boltzmann Brain. You can know for sure one way, but not the other. So in a Boltzmann Brain universe, the vast majority of "you"s would know you were in one, but some tiny fraction of "you"s would mistakenly think you weren't (matching your current experience).
Stellula
2d ago
Zelensky has too much sunk cost. If he ends the war, and loses ground, there's a good chance he doesn't live for very long afterwards.
ThisIsSin
Liberty has an anti-privilege bias
2d ago
Are the gays truly the most corrosive element in society that deserves uniquely lethal treatment?
No- for DreadJim, that would be women, and the reason they don't get lethal treatment (though they may be beaten into submission) is simply that they're more useful alive.
He's literally just a feminist with the valence switched (that's what "kill all men" means- when they tell you who they are, believe them). It's not intellectually sophisticated. The fact we permit and encourage unironic expressions of one but not the other is the underlying problem of the modern age, yes (and the fact that it's useful to certain power structures to maintain this state of affairs is as disgusting as slavery), but this is the "peepee poopoo" version of criticizing it.
Making babies is not optional for civilization.
Raising new workers is more expensive than it was in the past and the current markets thus can't support the production of more people. This is to some degree artificial (enclosure is not an elite thing this time, as it's currently perpetrated by slightly over half the demos), but every single human being in Western society is selected for based on how well they can boss slaves around more than anything else, and some of our solution is simply to increase society's reliance on slavery.
That the slaves in the modern era are powered by lightning and fossil fuel is not particularly material when you're comparing across other civilizations, whose unpaid labor was generally of the human variety.
You move in the direction of the needle, which helps.
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