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TitaniumButterfly
6m ago
a "right" is a human construct.
The United States is based on the idea that rights are bestowed by our Creator, but then I suppose Singer probably doesn't subscribe to that model.
Grant_us_eyes
6m ago
TLDR: A number of women are now going online and complaining that the majority of men are unattractive/ugly('chopped men'). The pushback from some of the more spicy internet content creators is that the women complaining about this are all mid, and have no space to talk.
Sadly, this isn't a new opinion. I've seen a number of threads in popular reddit forums(I know, I know) that have voiced similar opinions, that when going out in public, they never see men that they find attractive.
Assuming this is all done in good faith, it's a demonstration of just how women and men are different. I can go out in public and I'm going to see plenty of women I find cute, attractive, appealing, classy, and whatnot. That women don't have a similar mindset is, well, depressing, more than anything.
Rov_Scam
8m ago
This is the kind of thing that AI should theoretically be good at, since members of congress and their dates of birth aren't too hard to find. Actual AI, however, seems to have a hard time with this. Gemini is evidently only capable of repeating what was already published as an article, so if there isn't some website that specifically says what the average was in, say, 1995, then it can't figure it out. Deepseek is slightly better in that it actually gives the answer, though it gives contradictory results within the same prompt. Based on the crappy results I did get, it seems like the Democratic average age has consistently been a couple years higher than the Republican average age for some time.
phosphorus2
14m ago
Singerians who think that babies do not have more of an intrinsic right to life than other mammals of similar cognitive capabilities.
seems like a very short term view to have. maybe you can argue that a baby is currently as cognitively capable as a gorilla, but within a year or two there is no comparison, a toddler that babbles dwarfs the gorilla in this realm. do you / singer not take this into account?
does peter singer even believe in intrinsic rights? utilitarianism is not really a rights based philosophy. if singer can be summed up as "actions should be judged by their consequences in terms of maximizing the satisfaction of interests and minimizing suffering", its not immideatly clear why or how rights are needed except for expediency.
even the idea of an "intrinsic right" is somewhat of an oxymoron. a "right" is a human construct. how can a human construct be intrinsic?
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
15m ago
Fair point, good input.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
17m ago
They've already demonstrated bad faith by maliciously not enforcing the law in just the prior administration. We would need some kind of signal that they were serious about departing from this practice, or any statutory promises about future enforcement are worthless.
lagrangian
19m ago
not with Catholic women. I think the issue is my heterodoxy.
Sounds right to me. Either don't bring it up until date two/three, or pick different women (, or find Jesus).
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
22m ago
Edited my comment to be more clear.
This was ~30 mins around midnight after the voting stations closed and after every major news organization had called the election against him.
Like the election was over, he had lost. His odds were <1% because every major newspaper had come out and said "we are calling it, Carney has won". But then the boys rallied and moved the needle for a bit.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
26m ago
TIL that "convict a woman of a crime carrying a maximum sentence of life in prison" is a synonym of the word "ask."
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
28m ago
As so often, attack precedes defense.
I actually think drones have been a bigger win for Ukraine than Russia.
The longer a Russian attack takes and the further into Ukrainian lines they get, more and more drones get vectored onto their attacking troops. And it's hard to suppress them, so every Russian attack inevitably gets bogged down. They cannot for the life of them generate a breakthrough.
Otherwise, spot on analysis.
HughCaulk
31m ago
Great beginning to the post. I agree that with decaying pro-social institutions in the west there is a massive movement towards dropping out, and not working hard to maintain the status-quo of society. The economy seems rigged against specific demographics and jobs specifically (while making others on ez mode like software devs and crypto entrepreneurs).
Huge quibble with the post: all the blackpill “women won’t fuck me” crying is total bullshit. Women are easier at the moment than they’ve ever been. Women literally medically augment themselves (with birth control) so that sex has no consequence, and many modern liberals treat it as lightly as scratching an itch.
If you feel this way, this is a YOU problem, plain and simple. I know so many >30 yr old halfway balding dudes with desk jobs who are banging new girls every week. Even better, it’s a skill that can be learned, not just something innate that you’re born with.
How often do you work out? Are you in respectable shape? Do you live in a populated area? Can you hold a normal conversation? How many girls do you approach, or even just talk to in real life per week?
I absolutely hate this mentality. It’s communism for pussy. Blackpill turbo-online men want to be able to do nothing, not work on themselves at all, and be guaranteed sex and a mate. Sounds like some Marxist who barely tries at their dead end wage slave job and is complaining about the wealth gap and wants gibs and wealth redistribution.
Stop whining and start working on yourself. You’ll thank me later. I know some people get off on self-pity, but chances you’ll get off on pussy 10x more if you give it a shot.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
31m ago
At one point, Pierre Poilievre's odds of winning went from <1% to 5% for ~30 mins after every major news organization had called the election against him
Was that before or after the tariff spat? There was a point where it seemed like Poilievre had the election in the bag, and it would be weird for his chances to be so low.
Also, even if it was afterwards, it's not necessarily as stupid as you make it out to be. Polls are used to shape opinion as much as they're used to measure it. There's a reason why parties do internal polling.
According to Polymarket Eric Adams has a slim but present chance of holding his seat.
While in general I think betting markets are a useful(ish) signal. They are ludicrously irrational when it comes to political odds.
I am not a gambler by nature, so I haven't dabbled, but both the Trump v Kamala and the recent Canadian Election had essentially free money bets available during the election hysteria.
At one point very briefly, Pierre Poilievre's odds of winning went from <1% to 5% for ~30 mins around midnight after the voting stations closed and after every major news organization had called the election against him. The reason? "Poilievre bros" were "rallying" and "holding the line against the lib-tards". They were literally throwing money away, I regretted not having an account in that moment.
TitaniumButterfly
38m ago
It’s the woman who is inconvenienced by having another person strapped to her circulatory system, so she has an excuse to get away with murder.
You mean after she (in 99.5% of cases) voluntarily did the one specific thing that creates people?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
39m ago
So does something like half of MAGA, which makes it kind of awkward for this entire argument.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
42m ago
Truthfully, that was kind of a rhetorical question because I believe in and fully agree with everything you just said.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
48m ago
That's not a very Elite Human Capital take. Suffice to say, Europe is not America, and if you try transferring American cultural mores there (which is exactly what this policy is), you're might have a bad time (though it's also not guaranteed).
Skibboleth
It's never 4D Chess
51m ago
I truly don't understand how everyone hates immigrants and not also the traitorous Americans who enable them??
The business gentry is the heart of the GOP and has zero interest in immigration enforcement via cracking down on employers. Enough politicians are uninterested in dealing with political fallout from the economic shock of rapidly expelling ten million workers. The average nativist voter doesn't think about this that hard.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
59m ago
Many blue states have passed laws making abortions legal at any point in pregnancy. I see no evidence of any backlash to that.
Hadad
1hr ago
I agree, it'd be great if they didn't. Unfortunately, we've had multiple administrations fill the nation with illegals, who contribute to the electoral power of the very administrations that do this, and they then dodge (with help) the legal means of deporting them.
It'd be lovely if I could make Democrats stop, but I can't. So instead, I'm going for the fixes that are actually possible.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
1hr ago
Very good post. May we all return to a state where we understand that rights best go to the strong, that is, freedom of speech is best utilized and most valuable when used by those who would speak their mind anyways.
Also, this is partially a roundabout way of saying, glad to see you back, hope your break went well!
Tree
1hr ago
There is and stubbornly remains some class of people who think the solution to the problem is to intend to one-box, but then to become a two-boxer after Omega has made its prediction.
I do think that strat works for Kavka's toxin puzzle, though. I don’t know about other people, but I am entirely capable of entertaining a single, limited, stupid thought for a moment, without simultaneously considering higher-level contradicting thoughts.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1hr ago
Or maybe administrations should not try to bind their successors by extralegal means, because the fact that it is difficult is a feature not a bug.
I don't agree that the Trump administration is engaged in unusual thuggishness, but whether they are or they aren't, they shouldn't.
PutAHelmetOn
Recovering Quokka
1hr ago
Assuming (for the sake of this question) that the end goal of this administration is to establish a type of authoritarianism where people are kidnapped and disappeared because of vocal opposition to the regime, what should be the response by the opposition that would want to prevent that?
Maybe this is just my biased right-wing brain thinking, but my answer is the 2nd amendment. Government needs the ability to do violence, but it needs the people's overwhelming force to keep it aligned.
Private individuals should arm themselves. Officially, the opposition should expand private militia. If the government doesn't allow this, then the authoritarianism has already been established.
From within the movement, it sure doesn't feel like it. I did say that it only counts by the outgroup-definition of bad faith, and called it a "third option".
From without, as someone who wants to know ideal behaviour for dealing with the group, the game-theoretic incentives are identical: "don't make deals with things that aren't going to honour those deals". For the outgroup, the rest is gravy; this question of "will X honour deals" is 99% of what it wants to know, because it determines whether it should make terms (and avoid a needless civil war) or fight (and avoid exploitation). That answer rests solely on the result, not the process. The rest is interesting anthropological information, but they're your outgroup; it's not like you matter to them as people.
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