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CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
19m ago
Nothing happened in the world today. Anyways..
He could have acted like most people would when confronted in that scenario; taking his feet off the seat and spending the remainder of his journey being resentful at the woman and the conductor, before forgetting about the incident within an hour of leaving the train.
Instead he decided to cover his embarrassment at being called out for his prole behaviour by immediately escalating into racebaiting. His Rosa Parks act doesn't fool me and I'm pretty sure most of his fellow travelers (heh) were thinking 'just shut up and get off the train dude, I've got places to be'.
While I hate Karens (and the woman in the video looks insufferable), I don't have any sympathy for him at all. He's contributing to the tragedy of the commons and pearl clutching when called out. The seats are plastic precisely because people act as he does, lowering comfort for all travelers and contributing to more cars on the road driven by people who are not public transport enjoyers.
ulyssessword
23m ago
Reasonably limited, like "we should only go after people who are inciting violence", but that's not representative of what's actually happened (i.e. the Right certainly hasn't limited itself to just that); or
Make it one or two (but not 20 or 30) steps broader, and that's pretty much it. I haven't seen the Right get anyone fired for cracking their knuckles, or because a relative used a slur, or they donated to a currently-unfavored cause that Obama supported at the time (maybe flip that one), or they wore a shirt with anime characters on it.
I don't think I stuck to your four-year window, but yes, it is different. I'm not arguing against Right-wing cancel culture because it's mild enough to ignore, unlike the Left-wing version.
09milk
27m ago
Numerous well-designed studies have indicated that pregnant mothers exposed to acetaminophen have children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), at higher rates than children of pregnant mothers who were not exposed to acetaminophen
Correlation? Likely. Causation? I don't think so.
I suspect Paracetamol use during pregnancy can be correlated to social economic class, which will correlate to better chance of diagnosis.
LateMechanic
31m ago
Well, are there many examples of people who bounced back into other (non-independent) jobs after being canceled by the mob? I think Roseanne and Gina Carano never worked again except for some Daily Wire stuff? But part of this is just definitional I guess, where I'm suggesting that a cancellation means it's more serious than a one-time 'eye of sauron' moment of fury. In your post you said Bari Weiss was canceled, but that was just a story about her getting 'dogpiled on twitter' for a tweet a year after she joined NYT, and then she eventually ended up resigning from NYT 2.5 years after that for other reasons. I just wouldn't define that as a cancellation in even a weak way.
I think you're right about the institutional power. Wikipedia is an underappreciated tool here where the skew can range from slight to major, and it really functions as a kind of 'final say' on people's stories.
striker
1hr ago
This distinction is a good one, and also shows why the whole free speech argument is a death spiral. There is no freedom of speech. There is just the idea of freedom of speech.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
1hr ago
I'm reasonably convinced that this is nonsense, and even if it weren't, paracetamol is the safest analgesic in pregnancy.
For one, usage was widespread since the 50s/60s, and there was no massive spike in autism diagnoses till the diagnostic criteria was later updated/made laxxer.
You can look at this post from Cremieux, but the single most damming evidence against is the fact that sibling comparisons didn't find increased risk of autism.
LateMechanic
1hr ago
Yep exactly, the regular broadcast Fox stations just do regular down-the-middle local news like ABC/NBC. Fox News channel is completely different & separate, set up as a cable channel for exactly this reason (avoiding FCC regulation).
LateMechanic
1hr ago
By contrast, with Kimmel it was directly the head of the FCC applying the pressure, not MAGAs cancelling their Disney+ to make them fire Kimmel.
I think it was actually mainly a twitter mob here as well. At 9-10am on wednesday there were already angry re-posts of the prior night's kimmel monologue, signal boosted by Elon to millions of views. So Kimmel was basically already the target of the day, for people who had been having a lot of success against their targets over the previous few days. That's why Benny Johnson had the FCC chair Carr on and why they were discussing Kimmel, which got posted that afternoon right before the affiliates announced they were cutting Kimmel.
Everyone who has told a more simplistic story about it being obviously due to a gangster FCC chair threatening ABC, or Nexstar having ulterior motives trying to butter up the administration, seems to ignore this part of the story that the outrage was already well under way on wednesday. (unless I got the timeline wrong myself)
Botond173
1hr ago
The liberal will look around and see endless amounts of people using rhetoric that is wholly inconsistent with their actions, especially over time, and be puzzled. How could these people just lie when we're all trying to solve the same problem?
What exactly are you referring to here please?
striker
1hr ago
I’m not following. Can you elaborate? Meme how? Functional to dysfunctional autism how? Who are the natural enemies? Who are the psychopaths?
flitter
2hr ago
I was thinking that a game could present more author Text, while literary criticism can only offer alternatives through ambiguity.
I've had trouble understanding literary criticism before, so I intuitively see the additional text of a video game as more real (and therefore different) from literary implications. On reflection seems there's less difference than I thought
Do Europeans actually believe in a recognizable Christianity, though?
I once attended a Sunday church service in St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh. It was...a light crowd. I went back hours later to see it as a museum exhibit, and it was much livelier.
Cool building I guess.
stolen_brawnze
I am the way Sia says "batteries" in that one song.
2hr ago
Lots of people saw resurrected Jesus before Paul.
Heck, Paul was still killing Christians for a while after Jesus had already disappeared into heaven behind a cloud.
DiscourseMagnus
3hr ago
It won't be.
HonoriaWinchester
3hr ago
...uh...TW: Contains linked and quoted mockery of celebrity and celeb-adjacent deaths.
I'm reminded of Bob Rivers' "I Can't Ski Babe." Also "Oh God, I'm an Ocean Buoy."
Well it's hard when you're flyin' and you're sluggin' on a bottle
Flyin' in a plane that's an experimental model
Reached for Jim Beam but instead I grabbed the throttle...
Personally I'm a fan of both original songs (I liked oldies as a kid), and John Denver in general...which only makes these funnier IMO.
(Investigation found the latter was spreading misinformation, too! Like yes he did have multiple DUIs and was legally not allowed to fly at the time of the crash, but the autopsy found no sign of alcohol or other drugs. The problem was the difficulty of switching fuel tanks. That said, as an initial reaction, given the context it was a reasonable suspicion.)
(Sonny) I loved you and you dumped me
(Cher) I told you to watch out for trees!
:D
Juice walkin'
Yes indeed
I'm hopin'
He'll never be
Out stalkin'
His ex-wife number 3!Hello, 911? This is Mrs. Simpson.
Oh...yes, Mrs. Simpson, what is it now?
...this was mostly just a nostalgia trip for me, but yeah this was all on radio rather than TV.
I mentioned elsewhere how I was raised that freedom of speech was more important than anything...that was partly due to the times, and that and exposure to the above type of thing on radio have shaped my worldview. In my culture, mockery of celebrity and celeb-adjacent deaths isn't shocking and I probably wouldn't notice it much. (Celeb-adjacent does feel "worse" to me, like the celeb chose to pursue attention but their family mostly didn't...)
Totalitarianit
3hr ago
If the lady was being a Karen by demanding he sit properly in a mostly open train, then I'm inclined to side with the Jussie Smollet clone despite his annoying behavior. I find his race-baiting and lack of compliance in the video to be one of the most aggravating things on the planet, but that would take a backseat if it turned out this lady took it upon herself to call out something that is technically a rule so she can derive some sense of power, all while the train car only had 4 people in it.
If I were a betting man, my money would be on the in-between scenario or Alex 'Jussie' O'Keefe spreading himself out a little too comfortably in a crowded train and telling everyone around him to fuck off. Hopefully there's a surveillance video or another onlooker with a phone recording that will have another angle and more context. The frustrating part is that it's such a miniscule disagreement in the grand scheme of things, but people have to prepare themselves for half of the country to react as if Jussie junior barely survived an attempted public lynching.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
3hr ago
A slow news week feels nice after the last while. I for one am happy that this is the controversy of the week.
Forty-Bot
3hr ago
Recruitment pitch to all of you young programmers stuck in FAANG limbo- go look outside to those clunky old manufacturing, transportation, energy, and industrial companies. They are desperate for good embedded systems engineers, and you can do some fantastically cool shit that will actually make measurable differences in the average person's life.
It's also possible to work in embedded at a contractor where nothing you do will have any impact on anyone outside the company and their direct customers :)
HonoriaWinchester
4hr ago
Great point!
This part
When the government denies your entry into a higher paying market, you are being told you aren't worth that.
is kinda what people are responding to with, "But a country is not an economic zone." Like: "It's not that you aren't worth access to that higher paying market. It's just that you are part of a different community, rather than that one."
HonoriaWinchester
4hr ago
He was in denial about his love for the other servant and hers for him (they could have married and had a happy life, but no); he was in denial about his employer's support for the Nazis. When he finally realized the depth of his sacrifices (see: other servant's love for him), he told himself they were justified because he had given good service to a great man (a stereotypical "blockheaded aristo" who had supported the Nazis along with the abdicator king).
(Looking it up after writing the above: Miss Kenton; Edward VIII.)
Quantumfreakonomics
4hr ago
If they have secret actually-good evidence, then I invite them to show it. From what I’ve seen, the evidence presented has all the classic red flags:
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No proposed causal mechanism
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a plausible non-causal mechanism (pain and inflammation would be correlated both with Tylenol use and poor fetal health).
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tiny effect sizes.
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effects collapse when confounders are controlled (via sibling studies in this case).
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
4hr ago
I remain convinced that it's Peak Fiction, and certainly in my Top 3 Novels. Go for it dude!
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
4hr ago
I presume you overlooked the fact that
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
4hr ago
A new Jussie Smollet case? Another Nurse Karen versus black kids on rental bikes?
Former 'The Bear' writer handcuffed on train after alleged complaint from white woman
Alex O'Keefe is a writer for FX's The Bear and a former speechwriter for Elizabeth Warren. He's also black. On September 18 he was apparently arrested and taken off an MTA train when a white woman told him to correct his posture and he refused.
At least, that's how it's reported on Black Enterprise, which obviously has the most inflammatory version. Most other news sites, such ABC (above) and Newsweek ('The Bear' Writer Arrested on Train After Complaint From White Woman) also seem to be describing what at first glance is a pretty egregious case of "White Karen sics cops on a black man for being uppity." So egregious that I was immediately suspicious. I mean, really? A white woman just points her finger and has a black man arrested for his "posture"? In 2025, in the Bronx?
Well, reading the ABC and Newsweek articles, there are a few additional details.
Police responded to a complaint of a 31-year-old "disorderly passenger" on a train at Fordham Metro-North station in the Bronx when "a conductor reported a passenger occupying two seats had refused to remove his feet from one of the seats," according to authorities.
According to the MTA rules of conduct stated on its website, riders are subject to a $50 fine for occupying more than one seat by lying down or placing their feet up. If a rider ignores a violation notice from an officer, they are subject to being ejected, the rules state.
"When he continued to refuse to exit, delaying service for several hundred other riders for six minutes, the passenger involved was handcuffed and removed from the train, where he was issued a summons for disorderly conduct, a violation, without further incident at approximately 1048 hours, and allowed to board the next train to complete his trip." MTA police told ABC News in a statement.
So he was not actually arrested - he was cuffed and "detained," then allowed to board the next train.
Supposedly one of the woman's friends said "You’re not the minority anymore.”
There is plenty here to make this another scissors incident. I have watched enough bodycam footage on YouTube to imagine it going several ways. Maybe Karen really was being a bitch and didn't like seeing a black guy "manspreading." The cops arrive in authoritarian asshole mode, O'Keefe protests, winds up cuffed and taken off the train.
Alternatively, O'Keefe was spreading himself across two seats, the old lady wanted to sit in one of them, O'Keefe decides no white lady is going to make him move, and when the cops arrive and ask him to please move his feet, he goes into Aggrieved Asshole mode.
Or something in-between. I have seen variations of both these scenarios play out. I doubt this will blow up into a huge story since O'Keefe wasn't actually arrested, but I have definitely seen it in several places now, in some cases described as a near-lynching and something something Trump.
The woman's friend saying "You’re not the minority anymore” is one of those details that strikes me as so on the nose (remember "This is MAGA country"?) that I just don't know what to think. Is it fabricated? Did someone really decide to offer up the perfect soundbite like that? Or was it in the context of a longer exchange between her and O'Keefe (a context conveniently omitted in all reporting)?
At the point I'm at, I think the only thing that was mentioned was thatevery Venerable was a supreme grandmaster - not that it was a hard requirement to cross into the ninth rank, although in retrospect it would be a reasonable assumption. In particular, I saw the scene of Red Lotus immediately after ascending and I do not recall anything other than the tribulation being mentioned.
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