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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3m ago
Look at that! A Mottezin in the wild! Could be my first time seeing the actual visage of anyone here.
The guy Paul Scharre's constant rapport-seeking rise in intonation was distracting so I ended up reading the transcript, but thanks for the vid!
Rex
16m ago
I’m nearly certain that I’m the only person here that has actually been to a REE processing plant. And while I don’t work in that industry, I’m adjacent to it.
I kind of think people are blowing this out of proportion. It will be painful for some. I doubt 99.9% of people notice. For reasons stated below.
2D3D
20m ago
On the contrary, I believe that it is the fact that dicks don't actually need to be cut off that is the cause of the modern trans movements problems. Autogynephiliacs like Andrea Long Chu get to pretend they're one of the girls while openly discussing how much they want their dicks to be shoved into lesbians. The celebration of the dicked in the realm of the dickless is the precise shear point that drives many LGB and ACTUAL T people away from the Queer+ crowd.
As such I openly proclaim myself an obligate trans maximalist. Are you trans? Great! Heres some painkillers and a knife. Chop it off and live your life as the woman your dysphoria say you are! It is a costless exercise for dysphorics because the penis is a reminder of their eternal trauma for being in the wrong body, PER THEIR OWN STATEMENTS.
A man wants to be socialized and go into girls spaces? Then fucking BE a 'social girl'. Be the girliest fucking femboy, giggling at boys and wearing thigh highs and spreading bussy to get topped by Chad. But don't pretend singing Golden from memory and dreaming of eat pray loving through your dissatisfied thirties means you get the womens-reserved corner spot. Game devs in the west exploded in female representation, but only because men got to pretend to be women without needing any effort other than growing hair long.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
24m ago
If I’m going to use hard cash to buy smut, it’s going to be in singles.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
27m ago
Interestingly, at least this particular freeze frame does not actually register as particularly aggressive to me - I just read it as something like "triumphant expectation", like he thinks he just made a winning point in an argument and is waiting for me to concede.
Hm, interesting. I get an intense sense of aggression from that stare, far more than I've ever gotten from any other youtube personality I've ever watched.
I got the same sense of unexpected aggression from the handful of Jordan Peterson clips I have watched. My feeling there was that he perpetually talked with a tension that sounded like a professional middle class father who was five seconds away from slapping his son so hard that he would fly across the room.
Hm, I guess you could see that in some of his clips, but I've enjoyed his longform lectures quite a bit, where he just sounds like a confident professor than a scold. Politics are the worst thing that ever happened to Peterson, and he would have been much better off as a person just remaining quiet about Canadian law and being a quirky psychology professor a little bit too into Jungian archetypes. He was much better as an academic than a surrogate father.
I think there are leftists with the same sort of aggression that appeal to young leftist viewers; intensity appeals to politically-inclined people. And I know of a lot of right-wing influencers with a softer style. But just like Twitter rewards clapbacks, the algorithms reward intensity and anger.
2D3D
29m ago
What I find fascinating is Nate Silvers total excommunication from the Left because he dared challenge the orthodoxy about polling favoring eternal progressivism, and his polling baby has been butchered into an ABC-owned politics focused The View with slightly less irritating panelists. David Shor nearly got excommunicated as well because he dared suggest that violent protests like the Floyd riots weren't helpful. Shor genuflected and abased himself by saying his findings were harmful, Silver stood his ground. It is unsurprising that Silver maintains a grudge against his moralizing peers.
hydroacetylene
32m ago
Everyone learned about Bessie Coleman in school and a negligible number of people think she’s not worth celebrating/learning about.
2D3D
35m ago
Blue tribers hedge so they can retreat and use tone defense. 'I was never aggressive and I never actually said that thing so your hostility is proof of your intellectual inferiority in being unable to muster a defense on the grounds of discussion'. That is why two liberal debate shows seem like people taking turns to smugly condescend to each other (or to others) rather than two people having an argument on the same topic. Just watch any Ezra Klein video to see that in action.
anti_dan
37m ago
Well the question is whether the court will indeed slap them down right now.
My point is that if you adopt the medical board framing, you basically give away the cow to anyone who wants it.
anti_dan
38m ago
Its not absurd. This profession is people talking in a room. The state, under the guise of medicine, is regulating the content of those words.
veqq
40m ago
Yes. But I bought a 14 room place for $20k. There's a central courtyard ringed by various rooms, one side's dilapidated but the others are ok. I put garage doors on the street facing rooms and rent them out to small businesses.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
40m ago
Nah. It’s mämmi and we embrace it.
2D3D
47m ago
Rare earth refining is a regulatory issue on heavy metal contamination for groundwater and waste disposal, which is itself critical to even perform the refining in the first place due to the circular recycling of outputs to generate usable high purity rare earths. You can't just Abundance permitwaive your way to rare earth mastery, you need a whole ecosystem of internal processes to even get something useful to begin with. Rare earths are a definitional misnomer because the elements are everywhere, but what IS rare is the critical processing mass necessary to even get something usable for modern high end technology.
I think what is highly underappreciated is how differentiated rare earth streams actually are. A single refiner can't actually just take in any raw material and convert it to intermediate rare earths, it requires significant chemical injection at many stages of the industrial separation process before it can be refined for intermediate stage. Rare earths is actually a humongously heterogenous process, so institutional knowledge is not 1-1 transferrable across different types of rare earths. Thats not to include all the corrosion effects that happen at transportation stages between facilities which require networked facilities with clear logistics between them. Chinese investments in clean tech and workers safety isn't because they valued human life, its because the usable material at the end of the process is useless if Wangs wang is inside the smelter. This is why you can't do either western permitwaiving or third world bodywasting to get a REE facility spun up at all, let alone quickly or economically viably.
What makes Chinas REE export ban so troubling is that China isn't actually losing out that much economically from it - as OP stated, REE isn't actually that expensive on a unit cost basis. However for receiving so little direct pain this causes huge downstream problems for other manufacturers elsewhere. This is frankly a repeat of the recycling debacle which ended the economic viability of shipping recyclable materials to China for processing, except the economic effects are more directly felt.
Stockpiling for rare earths is also a dead end. End output metals like neodynium etc are oxygen and moisture sensitive, so stockpiling is normally in terms of intermediate products... which still need refiners after that. WW2 saw fighter engines produced by the thousand, but honestly the more relevant example is WW1, where phosphate import restrictions forced Germany to develop the Haber process to continue arms manufacturing. I'm sure there are smart dicks at DARPA who are trying to find materials that can overcome REE or other foreign dependencies, but if it turns out chips and magnets really are only manufacturable in certain locations and reshoring is impossible then honestly the world can turn really ugly really fast.
FlyingLionWithABook
Has a C. S. Lewis quote for that.
1hr ago
We had a $1,000 bill, it had Grover Cleveland's face on it. We also used to have a $5,000 bill (James Madison) and a $10,000 bill (Salmon P. Chase, the Treasury Secretary that introduced the modern day banknote). They were all made to be used by big banks to facilitate interbank transactions, and in the 1960s they were discontinued because we didn't need to move bills around to move money between banks anymore. I wonder how difficult it would be to bring them back?
quiet_NaN
1hr ago
Obviously the broadcast spectrum is in limited supply and has to be regulated somehow. In times when the number of channels which could be transmitted were sharply limited, I can also see why the government wanted some control over content rather than leasing frequencies to the highest bidder.
This is also where public service broadcasters (like the BBC in the UK or ARD in Germany) come from: if you only can carry one or two radio or TV stations, then letting some private company transmit would give them a lot of power over public opinion. On the other hand, you also do not want the broadcaster to be beholden to the government. Hence these semi-independent structures which are funded through (often unpopular) mandatory fees payed by the citizens. By contrast, there was never a bottleneck with newspapers, because any kiosk could easily stock dozens of them.
While a whopping 16% of Americans still get their TV signal OTA (in Germany, the number is 3%), the state of the art technology to get video to the consumer is the internet. 90% of US households have broadband internet access. The only thing left for the regulators to do is to enforce some basic net neutrality (i.e. consumers pay for bandwidth, their ISPs does not get to bully content providers for preferential treatment) and let the court system handle illegal content.
All this OTA and cable stuff with complex rules around it, as well as European mandatory fee broadcasters and licensing requirements for streamers feels incredible archaic to me. Like squabbling over government mandates related to horse-drawn mail coaches when cars and the interstate network exist.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1hr ago
Oh, i missed that, although I'm not sure it matters to my thoughts on it.
Hieronymus
1hr ago
At one point I hoped that open source, decentralized social media would be more resistant to censorship. Apparently some of its pioneers had the same dream. It seems crazy naïve now.
Bingbong
1hr ago
A furnished bedroom with private bathroom for 2 in a central location $5-7.
Per night? I assume that's not the rate to buy.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
1hr ago
I think the one with Scott is referring to the fact that in some of his leaked private correspondence he once said "HBD is probably partially correct or at least very non-provably not-correct". Her wording is stretched to the point of being false, though; "scientist" means "one who does science", not "one who believes science".
lurker
1hr ago
Well, it's like the problems of video games in recent years. They think theres a larger audience out there they can get but their current one is so toxic it's preventing them from getting it. Thus you have the choice of ditching your old users and hoping the new bigger userbase gets on board or slowly dying with your old users.
Bluesky is a profit driven company so of course they have to take the risk of more users and thus higher profits over guaranteed slow death.
Shrike
1hr ago
Obviously the best solution for the US is to bring all of these capabilities in-house (to one degree or another) but the funniest solution would just be to say "these Chinese have made their ruling, let them enforce it" and then buy secondhand from India, same way the Russians have been getting around our sanctions.
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
1hr ago
This is a better take on the Palisades fire than my take.
And my general point still stands.
Men are very imprintable sexually, you just need to make then orgasm to the “correct” images, thoughts, and experiences enough times, in addition to removing whatever sexual hangups they have towards women.
With this in mind, it’s pretty obvious why Christian conversion therapy doesn’t work.
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