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Tenaz
19m ago
I'm onto my fifth try at a litRPG. It's progressing at a crawl, maybe 50 words per day on average as I squeeze in time after my job.
I have so many fun ideas for big fights, dramatic character developments, etc. but the pacing is really suffering as I flit straight from one big thing to the next. There needs to be downtime, I just don't find it interesting to write or think the result is very good.
Supah_Schmendrick
23m ago
Kinda, but that itself was viewed as evidence of misogyny. Contemporaneous examples: The Guardian, CNN, Time.
Tiber727
24m ago
Double checking my memory, and not really seeing much of that. More that the perception created of him was that he was only cared about women in order to check a box.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
32m ago
And now you've updated your priors in the opposite direction, right?
"It's difficult to predict when the Riot Party will riot" might not be as much of an update as you're looking for.
responding with their own molotov cocktail against norms and conventions, Joe Biden.
You seem to be joking here but have you already forgotten those psychotic blanket pardons?
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
38m ago
struck down Roe v. Wade
Interesting question of where to set the clock and what counts as grace, given how atrocious the original decision was.
Where, exactly, is the punchback from that one? Jane's revenge?
Yeah, response was much more muted than I expected.
The malicious compliance/indeterminate regulation (choose your charity level) has probably killed a few high-risk people.
where's the liberal defection in response to Desantis and Abbott sending busloads of illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard or other liberal strongholds?
LOL. Moving on-
Are the moderates leaving the site and losing interest, and all that's left is the bitterest remnant?
Probably, yes. Alternatives aren't fairing much better in my experience though.
Why was faith in our institutions so high 50 years ago?
70 years ago, yes: post-war optimism, being the main country that mattered and wasn't wrecked, fairly strong sense of national unity. 50 years ago it was already declining.
Do you really think the government or New York Times were that much more honest with the plebs in the 70s than they are in the 2020s?
Distinct lack of alternatives. Information control works if you manage it; it's much, much harder to manage now. Harder to hide the sneering contempt and the high/low cultural differences.
And if not, is faith in flawed institutions nevertheless adaptive for a society?
Define "flawed." All models are imperfect; some are useful.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
48m ago
I don't know how things are in the US, but in Europe companies pay premium for non-third-worlders. Now, the "premium" might still add up to chump change, but it might still be worth it depending on your situation.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
57m ago
No, it was sexism. "Binders" was used to imply that he wants to "bind" women.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
57m ago
How much stock should we put in that? Plenty of whistleblowers in other contexts have turned out to be shady self-promoters, and I've honestly come to mostly disregard them without further evidence: Rebekah Jones seems to have pretty thoroughly shown herself as untrustworthy. On the other hand, I can think of examples that brought evidence and have demonstrably paid for their choices -- Manning and Snowden come to mind first.
Tiber727
1hr ago
I remember that. Though I think it was less about sexism and more going back to the sounding like an out-of-touch manager. "How do I talk about women? Talk about binders of resumes!"
Didn't get a lot done regarding Substack integration, but addressed a few bugs that were bothering me:
- Apparently Twitter avatar URLs expire after some time. Either that, or some people I follow changed them (though I haven't noticed any difference), so I had to update them if any difference is detected.
- "Starring" / adding a Tweet to favorites also cascaded to all it's responses, kinda defeating the purpose. Fixed, but introduced a new bug where "starred" quotes and retweets aren't rendered properly.
- Paragraphs / endlines failed to render properly when viewing Twitter directly over the API.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
Supah_Schmendrick
1hr ago
Civil War was obviously very bad, but things recovered and the nation got stronger over the next 50 years.
I mean, kinda? The south went from one of the richest regions in the world with major influence over the federal government to basically being an internal colony which was systematically shut out of power until the Wilson administration.
You can argue that this was a good thing, or necessary in order to expunge slavery, but there's no denying that it happened.
You're welcome, but it's not entirely to my credit. I reserve the right to keep giving you shit about "three years AFTER" from now until the end of time
Feel free. Like I said the first time, my bets / opinions on Musk are not based on expertise, and I hope I didn't come off as pretending that they are. In fact, part of my shtick nowadays is proving the superiority of Vibe Analysis over deliberate reasoning, so I suppose my ignorance only works to prove my point here.
I'd put maybe 33% odds on them sending an unmanned (save for Optimus androids) one-way ship or two in the 2029 launch window, albeit probably to crash on arrival.
Well, if you want to bet, I'll be more than happy to give you 3:1 odds on this one. Even if it's smooth sailing from here on out, I don't know if they'll make a go for it. No one asked him to go to Mars, it's Elon's own personal dream, there's no money in it. OTOH he does have a contract for going to the moon, and his investors might want to see a better return on Starlink, and the things that have to be achieved before he gets beyond LEO make it so that "smooth sailing" is far from guaranteed. I want to see how that orbital refuelling works out, and if it handles boil-off well enough that it doesn't turn out they underestimated the amount of necessary launches by a factor of 2-3x.
Finally, there's the competition and the political risks. If Bezos swipes the moon from under Elon, the investors could very well say they're done here. If the competition can provide a tolerable alternative for Starlink, at least for the Pentagon, and the Dems win the next election, they'll stop at nothing to fuck him over.
Supah_Schmendrick
1hr ago
Not just about voting procedure - that argument was itself a proxy for a large number of other policy fights over, e.g. getting rid of the nobility's exemption from most taxes, reform of the Gabelle and internal trade barriers, abolishment of mandatory tithes to the church/forced labor on church lands, conspiracizing about food hoarding, proto-socialistic agitators in Paris, etc.
TitaniumButterfly
1hr ago
I think a more interesting question is how many men have sons who also reproduce. Read somewhere that due to stochasticity the genetic contribution of almost all men has been wiped out within about five generations.
Supah_Schmendrick
1hr ago
If France had been able to overcome people worrying about formal procedures in 1785 they could very well have avoided the revolution.
This...does not accord with really anything I've read on the early French Revolution, and I would be very interested to hear what you mean by this.
Supah_Schmendrick
1hr ago
JFK (a different type of charming scoundrel, still deified by Democrats today)
Which is odd, considering that JFK's main political policies were cutting taxes on the rich, beefing up military spending based on lies, and bungling regime-change adventurism.
Contrastingly, JFK's main rival, Richard Nixon, re-instituted wage and price controls and founded the EPA.
Supah_Schmendrick
1hr ago
To the left, he was like an out-of-touch manager who couldn't empathize with the working class at all.
The democrats also, in one of the most brazen acts of political gaslighting I think I've ever seen, somehow managed to turn Romney's own efforts at sex-based affirmative action into evidence of his sexism.
Supah_Schmendrick
1hr ago
Previous administrations had the decency to do corruption under a mantle of plausible deniability.
Errrrrr..... this stuff dates back to at least the Clinton administration, e.g. the Lincoln bedroom affairs, the Chinese campaign funds scandal, and the Marc Rich pardon, inter alia, and likely before - I'm just not as knowledgeable about the Bush I, Reagan, etc. presidencies.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1hr ago
Russia started the war with the invasion of Crimea (an action which, all claims to contrary, involved clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces and thus clearly constitutes an offensive invasion of a sovereign state's territory), and the war was then escalated with the filibuster action in Eastern Ukraine by Strelkov and co, without which the protests in Eastern Ukraine would in all likelihood not have escalated to the status of military action.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1hr ago
Lay off the ad hominem, please.
I understand that dealing with SS is frustrating to say the least. You’ve still got to follow the civility rules. Take a one-day break.
wingdingspringking
2hr ago
I think a lot of people (myself included) are mostly worried about Trump's economic policies. The ballooning deficit with no real attempt at austerity is certainly a major issue, but that has been discussed in other comments, so I'll focus on two other ones; tariffs and monetary policy.
The tariffs in and of themselves are not a major issue, but the uncertainty around how they are implemented (and the speed at which they are altered) is. One of the primary things that has made the US a major world player economically is stability. When things become unstable, businesses (and people in general) circle the wagons, stop investing in riskier things, and stop spending. While this all might seem very abstract, there are a lot of concrete examples on this one. The most salient for the average person is the fact that you can no longer reliably mail things to the US. But in the long term, disruption of industrial supply lines is likely to cause a much larger problem, especially in terms of inflation.
The other piece of this is monetary policy, and Trump's attempt to directly control the federal reserve. The reason for the federal reserve's independence is that lowering interest rates is very useful for short term political gain, a fact that Trump seems quite aware of. But in the medium term, the combination of increasing the money supply, putting supply constraints on the whole economy via import duties, and heavy deficit spending is likely to cause large amounts of inflation. And that, more than anything else, is what worries me about the current administration.
No_one
2hr ago
Russia didn't use false flag attacks to stage a coup in Ukraine, disenfranchise their substantial Russian minority and started a civil war.
Ukrainian nationalists weren't getting support & cover from Russians.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
2hr ago
Since many people wrote about all my other thoughts:
J6 showed that he was not committed to a peaceful transfer of power.
J6 showed for the X time that Democrats cry foul when someone else does what they do.
J6 was actually mostly peaceful in a way the BLM riots never were.
Trump mostly told everyone to relax.
This is kind of the point of the post you’re replying to - the truth changes on political perceptions.
It was indeed about Romney's alleged sexism, as the linked Wikipedia states:
Romney was accused of dehumanizing women by using a synecdoche, whether intentionally or not, that related women to a binder of resumes. This was highlighted as evidence of his alleged casual misogyny. Naturally, neglecting to emphasize the distinct Wonderfulness of each and every woman (only women as a whole) while bragging about how you discriminate against men in favor of women will be held up as evidence of your misogyny. It's not evidence of misandry, however, because giving hiring preferences toward women is the bare minimum in not being a completely awful human being. Plus, he doesn’t deserve credit for the DEI attempt, since everyone knows that hiring more women and non-Asian minorities improves businesses so even a greedy misogynistic pale stale male would prefer women and minorities in hiring.
Romney bragging about pro-female affirmative action—and getting hoist by his own petard because of it—provided another amusing example of the epic_handshake.jpg between conservatives and progressives when it comes to women’s Wonderfulness and Lives Mattering More, where they just sometimes haggle over how much more (and in what ways) while conservatives drive the progressive speed limit.
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