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FistfullOfCrows
8hr ago
What will it do for old style abortions, frankly they might become illegal. You don't want it in your body? Fine. But you don't get to kill it. And you don't get to weasel out of raising it.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8hr ago
This remind me of a thought i had watching the most recent superman movie. DC's Earth dodged a bullet when Kal'El was found by a conservative midwestern couple as opposed to literally anyone one else. As much as James Gunn, the people of Metropolis, and to some extent theMotte like to sneer at Smallville, Smallville is arguably the reason that Superman is a force for good instead of an existential threat.
Supah_Schmendrick
8hr ago
Why say he was never on Epstein's plane when we know he was on Epstein's plane?
Because people lie when you accuse them of something that makes them look bad. It's practically a universal response.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
8hr ago
I am only surprised that you can actually buy it on Amazon, rather than having to go to some more obscure mail-order site.
That reviewer deserves the "they hated him because he told them the truth" award if anyone does. Unfortunately, just going by the famous page I linked above, it doesn't really do a good job of teaching the correct usage of dirty words either.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
8hr ago
Are you accusing me of being a worse version of Scott?
If you are, I can't fault you haha. I live in the shadow of giants, and try to grow in the space between their toes.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
8hr ago
Very high salary, ironclad employment security, lifelong employment, clear delineation between work and rest, etc
God, I wish that were me. Or true of most British doctors. At least the WLB is better in psych.
That's a pretty thoughtful comment, and I think it makes eminent sense.
MadMonzer
Pedo! Pedo! Pedo! Out! Out! Out!
8hr ago
"The Feds" aren't a unitary actor here. The point of Wickard etc. is that Congress can regulate anything as long as it does so as part of a coherent scheme which mostly regulates interstate commerce. If Trump tries to punish states and municipalities which boycott Israel, it will be a statutory interpretation case about whether Congress did or not.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
9hr ago
No need for it to be involuntary, just allow the degens to sterilize themselves.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
9hr ago
Hmm.. How would that work? If they're self-hosting, then are they executing all the server-side code themselves and also mirroring the content?
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
9hr ago
Thank you. That seems quite sensible
You can be a software dev in a small 100% male company in Eastern Europe that has a chat channel for sharing porn.
I suppose they need additional perks to make up for the low salary haha.
wayfarer
9hr ago
But I was under the impression that these uses were more for logistics than for combat
Genuinely unsure, but combat use was a thing, see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_(Wehrmacht)
It was withdrawn to France in November 1941 and its 17,000 horses were handed over to infantry divisions.
so I don't want to give the defense too much credit
definitely, it was overall poor showing in many ways, but admittedly "being simultaneously invaded by two foes with at least twice their population each" was hard to overcome
And it was not at "planning to charge tanks with cavalry" levels, cavalry against tanks was closer to "use anti-tank guns, relocate, repeat" or "cut down infantry with mobile cavalry while hilariously poorly mobile early tanks are uselessly stuck somewhere else". And if it would be Germany vs Poland + maybe France etc there was some chance.
Supah_Schmendrick
9hr ago
This is true for American citizens, but the fact that we're even considering applying it to non-citizens shows just how much the concept of "citizenship" has decayed. It also, incidentally, shows how little anyone actually means it when they say America is a "creedal" or "propositional" nation. If citizenship is not a matter of ethnic belonging (i.e. an intersection of familial and cultural ties), it must then be ideological, which necessarily means exercising discretion and control over the ideologies of people allowed in or, at the minimum, allowed the rights and duties of citizenship.
As I've quoted before, GK Chesterton wrote about how this used to work in America, before our imperial phase:
The Spanish Inquisition may have been admittedly Inquisitorial; but the Spanish Inquisition could not be merely Spanish. Such a Spaniard, even when he was narrower than his own creed, had to be broader than his own empire. He might burn a philosopher because he was heterodox; but he must accept a barbarian because he was orthodox. And we see, even in modern times, that the same Church which is blamed for making sages heretics is also blamed for making savages priests. Now, in a much vaguer and more evolutionary fashion, there is something of the same idea at the back of the great American experiment; the experiment of a democracy of diverse races which has been compared to a melting-pot. But even that metaphor implies that the pot itself is of a certain shape and a certain substance; a pretty solid substance. The melting-pot must not melt. The original shape was trace on the lines of Jeffersonian democracy; and it will remain in that shape until it becomes shapeless. America invites all men to become citizens; but it implies the dogma that there is such a thing as citizenship. Only, so far as its primary ideal is concerned, its exclusiveness is religious because it is not racial. The missionary can condemn a cannibal, precisely because he cannot condemn a Sandwich Islander. And in something of the same spirit the American may exclude a polygamist, precisely because he cannot exclude a Turk.
"What I saw in America" 1912, pgs. 8-9 (boldface added for emphasis).
To be more specific, IIRC aftermath of what was used in German propaganda was case of Polish cavalry demolishing German infantry with an actual charge and in turn being demolished by German tanks that arrived later.
BTW, Germany also had frontline cavalry units in WW II.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
9hr ago
My take on this is that the US is somewhat unique in being a nation founded on a proposition rather than blood, soil, or some historical what-have-you. To that end, i believe it is in the US's interest as a nation to vet those it let's in on the basis of whether or not the are "on board" with that proposition.
Free speech is a human right, residence in the United States is a privilege.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
9hr ago
That is an interesting question: to what extent is "suicide watch" in a prison actually taken seriously, versus as a rubber-stamped "well, we tried" box to feel better about ourselves without substantially changing things. It's a somewhat dark thought, but I guess not surprising.
roystgnr
9hr ago
IIRC there were still literally millions of horses used by both the Nazis and the Soviets in WWII, and the Nazi invasion of the USSR used more horses than trucks.
But I was under the impression that these uses were more for logistics than for combat, which would make a lot more sense to me. "We're low on oil; we shouldn't forgo transports whose fuel literally grows right out of the ground", yes. "Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred, But this time they had, A Good feeling about it", no, right?
Or maybe I'm completely wrong. The Nazis took Poland in 5 weeks, so I don't want to give the defense too much credit, but digging into the details it really looks like "using horse-mounted cavalry, even against mechanized infantry" wasn't a problem, it just wasn't good enough to overcome "being simultaneously invaded by two foes with at least twice their population each".
gattsuru
9hr ago
At one side, he says those things LLMs can do are only "tricks, interesting and impressive moves that fall short of the massive changes the biggest firms in Silicon Valley are promising", at the other, he does specifically challenge whether AI "can translate, diagnose, teach, write poetry, code, etc." (and then chess, and saying that they have reasoning).
Dissolve the definitions, and what's left? Are LLMs competent if they can only do tricks that cause no massive changes? Are they incompetent if it only gets 95% of difficult test questions right and sometimes you have to swap models to deal with a new programming language? Would competence require 100% correctness on all possible questions in a field (literally, "The problem with hallucination is not the rate at which it happens but that it happens at all")?
I'm sure deBoer's trying to squeeze something out, but is there any space that Mounk would possibly agree with him, here? Not just in the question of what a specific real-world experiment's results would be, but even what a real-world experiment would need to look like?
That's probably not perfectly charitable -- I'll admit I really don't like deBoer, and there's probably a better discussion I could have about how his "labor adaptation, regulatory structure, political economy" actually goes if I didn't think the man lying. But I don't think it's a wrong claim, and I don't think it's an unfair criticism of the story he's trying to tell.
While I don’t doubt your take on your friends is correct, there’s a much misunderstood rise of the “right wing hippie” over the last ten years.
The biggest crunchy hippie I know, who’s a huge enthusiast of yoga and has been on the wellness & spirituality kick as long as I’ve known her, is pregnant with her third child in three years, raises chickens in her rural town that she escaped to during covid, and owns several firearms. She 100% voted for Trump and loathes democrats and you’d likely never suspect a thing if you met her.
Same with me; I assume most people just assume I’m a grown up ex-hipster elder millennial who loves slamming craft brews and is somewhat Reddit-coded (barf).
But I am straight up to the right of Franco, 100% Bukele-pilled gringo.
A lot of people got very good at hiding their power level. Basically no one outside my closest friends know anything in detail about my personal & political beliefs, hiding them became second nature during the great awokening.
Almost every person in my wider social circle would be absolutely scandalized if they knew what I believed in. People just assume because I’m smart, courteous and well spoke and I keep my cards close to my best that I agree with them.
NewCharlesInCharge
9hr ago
Having gone through the permanent resident process for my wife, there were a lot of things that were potentially disqualifying that would have been protected activities for citizens. Being a member of the Communist party*, advocating for the overthrow of the American government, etc.
Does permanent resident status confer the right to participate in those activities that could have prevented you from getting that status in the first place?
* This came up and it seemed like not a big deal if the situation was "everyone has to participate in communist activities in China."
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
9hr ago
Maybe. But it did produce this behind the scenes gem. And if Lynch blowing his top on a producer nagging him to make his work more mass market doesn't endear the work to you, it probably is best you move on.
Corvos
9hr ago
One negative review begins:
I have no objections to the content. It is very important to learn how the correct usage of dirty words. However, you must be aware that this book will not improve your pronunciation.
I genuinely can't believe this is a real book.
Rov_Scam
9hr ago
Giving a bone to the truth while slipping in falsehoods and lies is a staple of getting away with a cover-up to begin with, we would expect the official documents to conflict.
Which of the statements I made above do you think are falsehoods?
Why are they lying about the "raw footage" that was clearly edited? Why did the Trump admin officials continually claim there was a list that they were gonna be releasing beforehand?
Because Trump tells his base what he wants to hear and doesn't expect to have his feet held to the fire. He knew damn well all along that there wasn't any evidence that would satisfy whatever wild fantasies his base harbors, so he figured he could make empty promises and then forget about them when it came time to deliver. Except he hired morons like Pam Bondi who might actually be true believers and who like him don't know when to shut up, and all of the sudden people were actually expecting him to release stuff that would blow the case wide open, and the whole thing has turned into quicksand where the more Trump tries to wriggle out the deeper he sinks.
Honestly, I don't really give a shit about Trump's role in the whole thing. Believe me, there's nothing I'd like more than for his entire presidency to be destroyed, but I don't see any actual evidence of malfeasance. I think Trump has a reflex where he tries to automatically put as much distance between himself and anything he thinks will hurt him, to the point where he never stops to consider that there may be definitive contradictory evidence. Then again, maybe he just has a horrible memory. It was the same thing with the Billy Bush pussy tape, where he initially claimed to his staff that he wasn't worried about it because it never happened, and then the tape came out. This is a guy who said that of course he didn't rape E. Jean Carroll because she wasn't hot enough for him to be interested in, only to mistake her for his wife in a photograph. If you're going to ask me for a logical explanation of why Donald Trump or certain people in his administration do things, I don't have an answer for you.
I just don't extend that same level of skepticism to anything that came out before January of this year. Previous administrations, including the first Trump administration, seem to have been run, at least at the "deep state" level, by professionals who largely knew what they were doing. I don't have any reason to believe that the Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility was, in 2019 and 2020, filled with partisan hacks looking to effect a coverup. I have no evidence that such is the case even now. I haven't seen any "official" evidence that contradicts any unofficial evidence of the same caliber. If you want to argue that something is incorrect, then I welcome your argument. But you can't just dismiss everything out of hand because you don't like the people in charge.
thejdizzler
9hr ago
Don't know why I'm stumbling on this post from /u/satirizedoor now a year later and nearly two years after the original post that I made. I still call myself vegan, but I do eat oysters now. I have come to find most vegans, including my past self, as annoying as you: there is a lack of real reflection as to what the goals of the movement are, and if the individual actions that vegans advocate are actually effective at accomplishing those goals. Total cessation of animal suffering is as impossible as it would be totalitarian (some vegans advocate for GMOing away all predators). Some amount of meat eating will always be part of human culture, and is frankly, indistinguishable and perhaps better than what goes on in the wild. My problem in reality is with industrial factory farming. It would be far better for these animals and the planet if we merely advocated for reduction in meat consumption, but that position isn't really justifiable outside of utilitarianism. Most people are not utilitarian I think, which makes it difficult to advocate for a position that fails on consequentialist/deontological grounds. The fact is that some people don't think animals have moral worth, while others do. There's very little ability to reason across that line, despite pretty good scientific evidence that most farm animals do have some rudimentary reasoning and emotional abilities equivalent to that of a small child. To vegans like myself, this evidence is helpful but rather superfluous. My beliefs about animal consciousness come from personal interactions I've had with animals. For those who aren't vegan, evidence of reasoning and/emotional reactions isn't sufficient evidence of consciousness or moral worth. Being able to solve puzzles or display emotions isn't very good evidence that there's something going on inside of another creature.
I'm still convinced that veganism isn't harmful for performance, at least in endurance sports. Plenty of endurance athletes at the highest levels are at least mostly vegan. However, I think that performance enhancement is a different question that I don't think has really been settled scientifically. There are without a doubt certain plant-based substances that are performance enhancers (beet juice), but I don't think this says anything about the efficacy of the diet as a whole. A cycling YouTuber that I vaguely follow, Dylan Johnson is vegan for recovery reasons, as plant-based diets are apparently much less pro-inflammatory than meat-based diets. I can't say I'm fully convinced by this: I think the real culprit in inflammation may be macronutrient ratios. Diets high in fat, which many vegans also have, seem to be particularly pro-inflammatory, at least in animal models. There's also good evidence that high protein consumption is linked to decreases in lifespan, but again this isn't exclusive to meat-eating populations.
I am more shocked by how skewed most user's idea of a healthy body weight is. I'm closer to 160 now, but a 150 with a height of 6' put me at a very normal BMI of 20. I recognize that this weight makes it very difficult to be a strongman, but that's not my goal, nor the goal of most Americans. It is an absurd position to tell me that I am a twig or emaciated at that weight when I am well within the bounds of a healthy BMI.
NewCharlesInCharge
9hr ago
Localhost:1881
Substack is just processing the Referrer header in the HTTP request that browsers will send when users click a link.
So, someone has links to your Substack on a locally hosted page. Maybe one of our own viewing a locally hosted version of The Motte?
Heck yea, sign me up
WFT X premium subscription cancelleD!!!
More seriously, I think the fact that it's willing to do straight up smut, and seemingly the AI images too will do NSFW, this is certainly a big step in that direction in the arms race. But also it's still AI slop in the end. The second thing that stood out to me in the story was that it was —em—dashes— for days.
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