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astrolabia
6m ago
This is amazing, it's like Borges' Library of Babel.
I think if I were Amazon, I think I'd have a hard time drawing a line between actual content and low-effort slop. Though honestly that sounds like a great use for LLMs.
sun_the_second
11m ago
I prompted Deepseek with:
In your criticism, be direct and even-handed, do not provide boilerplate politeness and compliments.
and it replied dryly enough, although don't quote me on the quality of its advice.
Pynewacket
15m ago
in your estimation, do you think this party will remain small for the foreseeable future?
GBRK
17m ago
-- It's not clear how accepting white south africans who want to leave South Africa into the United States can possibly be a bad thing for South Africa.
But it is? I'm extremely pro-immigration because immigration is imperialism. It hoovers up people self-selected for being ambitious and hardworking from other countries, thereby strengthening our nation and weakening our rivals at the exact same time. Academia might claim that immigration claim actually benefits both countries because of remittances, but that's just a classic case of privileging legible measures of contribution (in this case, the accounting value of remittances) over real, but illegible benefits (all the ways people improve their communities my living in them.)
To be clear, this church is full of racists and hypocrites. To believe only white people emigration hurts source countries indicates a massive level of paternalism and contempt for nonwhite peoples, while at the same time believing Afrikaners aren't deserving of humanitarian treatment is of course just pro facie racist against Afrikaners. But the specific argument they're making here isn't entirely wrong.
Quantumfreakonomics
18m ago
This is just how institutional Christianity talks nowadays. When Pope Francis changed the catechism to be against capital punishment, he didn’t say, “executions are a sin,” he said, “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.”
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
19m ago
Firstly, women feel a social and interpersonal pressure to have sex they don't want. Like they need a good reason not to have sex with someone.
Related to the first... Badgering women into having sex with you after they've said no is apparently fine in some people's minds.
Its an interesting sort of "relation" between the two. Im not particularly worried about the badgering because you dont need a reason. Basically. The more liberal lykurg just saw this as a character flaw. Today, I doubt both that women in general can stop being so agreeable, and that its entirely flawed. Still, "intimidating guys out of talking my daughter into things" feels like a desperate last resort. I still think the agreeable instinct can at least be directed away from people you first met in the bar that evening, and failing that, Id try to keep them in safe circumstances.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
30m ago
The issue here (if I understand correctly) isn't people from work calling for no good reason, it's "Jan from the tax relief department" calling the number to try to scam you. I get 6 or so of the latter type of calls every day, though thankfully not at night so they wouldn't wake me up.
benmmurphy
40m ago
The enforcement/investigation for KYC/AML looks like a 4th amendment violation or at least looks like its structured to do something that would be a 4th amendment violation if the government directly did the thing.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
43m ago
Children of mothers who converted to Judaism are Jewish, by Jewish law.
Skulldrinker
46m ago
I've fed prose I've already written into it to make refinements or check for quality. I just wish you could get it to stop glazing everything put in front of it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
47m ago
It is perhaps more accurate to consider the pre- and post-Mao CCP as entities that share continuity but otherwise represents a break
In which case you have precious little precedent to demonstrate that it is necessary to guarantee reasonable standards of living to rule China.
Yup!
Edit: to clarify, I mean all the Tinker threads are.
ChickenOverlord
49m ago
The closest I can think of is the widow's mite. An old widow offering what little she had is considered more morally right than a wealthy man giving tons out of his abundance (but still keeping tons for himself). Luke 21:1-4
1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
49m ago
It's a little strange, then, that in the 2000 years of Christianity we've had no shortage of executing and imprisoning criminals.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
49m ago
The “mineral deal” is basically just a shuck that allows Trump to give Ukraine security guarantees in a way that he can plausibly sell to his own base.
Not to his own base. To Putin. The idea of the deal actually extends back to the late Biden administration.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
51m ago
At least people are finally catching on to the ultimate “Always has been.”
When I am Weaker Than You, I ask You for Freedom because that is according to Your Principles; when I am Stronger than You, I take away Your Freedom because that is according to My Principles.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
52m ago
They can in fact fudge anything that isnt legal writ, and sometimes also not stuff youll notice within a week or so of buying it. Asking question can help when youre buying something like insurance, which was your example above, but for most stuff its "as seen".
Refusing to engage with salesmen opens one up to a different sort of self-scam
"The salesman himself is radioactive" seems like a different thing that youre tacking on there. But if youre selectively ignoring the supermajority of what they say, that is "cynical suspicion" by any reasonable use of the word.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
54m ago
which is why the business declared bankruptcy multiple times during the largest multi-decade property boom in history
You know, there was an episode of the Apprentice where he explained exactly how this worked. The companies which held the real estate never declared bankruptcy.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
56m ago
There's been a weird narrative push here lately to blame Christianity for the worst parts of leftism (see the similar "akshally Communism comes from Christianity" upthread).
I've been blowing that horn for years. Because it's true. Like leftism, Christianity lauds the wretched and denigrate the strong or wealthy. Like leftism, Christianity insists that good people take all the shit they are given without striking back (and in doing so thus empowers bad people!).
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
57m ago
It's not going to show up right away and it's not going to show up for everyone. It's going to take time and it's going to be on the margins. White hatred isn't special, white adjacent contains everyone eventually.
But this same argument will be used against Alawites and Palestinians and Hutus.
We've seen the right use rhetorical judo anti semitism against the left. This will be next.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1hr ago
This is so viscerally disgusting to me, it's almost amazing the way the Trump administration has managed to expose the hypocrisy at the heart of the refugee resettlement NGOs and cause them to undermine their entire raison d'etre
Except they didn't. People are already making excuses for them. The Afrikaners jumped the line so it would be immoral to help them. The Afrikaners aren't actually oppressed so it would be immoral to help them when so many actually oppressed are. The Afrikaners aren't actually the reason, it's the suspension of the refugee program. And so on. People don't update. The head of the program could probably state outright "We'd rather shut down than help these goddamn white devils" and the people who supported them would still support them. Sure, those of us who were already suspicious see this as a great reveal, but it doesn't make anyone change sides.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1hr ago
I'm not a bot (cry_emoji, cry_emoji)!
I posted it, but the mods need to manually approve it. I think you can get there with a direct link:
https://www.themotte.org/post/1916/tinker-tuesday-for-may-13-2025
Not gonna lie, a bot would make things a lot easier for me.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1hr ago
Humans are quite comfortable with mass murder.
Depends on what side of the spear they're on.
I don't even know what you are responding to.
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