sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
22hr ago
Or when the richest cities in the richest country that ever was saw people people shitting and smoking fent on the streets and spent billions on them to make sure they had a clean place to smoke their fent.
sarker
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1d ago
Diogenes did it in bad faith.
sarker
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1d ago
I love the drums as a musical instrument and several times I tried to learn them, including one attempt with in person classes. I couldn't stick to practicing with the lame drum pad, so I bought a used edrum kit on Craigslist thinking that the realistic sound would be more enjoyable. It was, and I continued with a few online lessons with the kit, but I didn't enjoy the lessons all that much and one day I sat on the throne and wondered why I was even bothering to do this and what I hoped to achieve. I couldn't really come up with an answer and I never touched the kit again.
I think it's hard to learn an instrument unless you intend to play with people (or you're an Asian kid on that grind) and I didn't have anyone to play with.
There must be other hobbies like this in my past, but I usually obsessively get rid of stuff I'm not using so they don't come to mind - although the kit is still in the house.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
Ironic detachment is strictly a postmodernist invention.
sarker
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3d ago
the final startup wave seems to have completed
As Zhou Enlai (didn't) say, it's too early to tell.
There's three startups founded in the past five years in the first ten entries of this list of biggest unicorns (and this is a little unfair because there's two subsidiaries of established companies and one vape manufacturer in the top ten).
sarker
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4d ago
HRC is being pulled in two different directions: one, to maximize an estimate of the number of reported trans people; two, to maximize the number of trans murders.
Correct, as I noted in my original post.
However, HRC's estimate of the number of trans people in the country is the lowest I could easily find.
sarker
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4d ago
That doesn't pass the smell test.
Then you must accept either a much higher number of trans homicide victims (surely HRC has squeezed all the blood from that stone) or much lower number of trans people in the country. Thing is, I went through the trouble of scrolling a little further down Google, and HRC itself estimates 1.6M trans people 13+ in the US. So we're looking at a homicide rate of 1.2 homicides per 100k (apologies, I fucked up the math in the original post, corrected) if we simply take the HRC's numbers at face value. About 1.6M is the lowest estimate I could find on the front page.
To match the genpop homicide victimization rate, you'd need there to be only about 260k trans people in the US. And this isn't even counting the "gender expansive".
sarker
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5d ago
So what you're saying is, if Satan didn't rebel you'd think he was high agency?
Whose instructions did Cyrus, your high agency wunderkind, follow? Or is the top dog the only one in the chain with no agency, and all the goons high agency?
Since the day after the last Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, 2023, at least 36 transgender and gender-expansive people have been killed in the U.S.
Let's do some back of the envelope math. Let's say that constitutes 18 trans and gender expensive killings per year.
There are apparently 3M trans people age 13 and older in the USA. 1% of the population seems high to me, but this is the top Google result so I presume it's an estimate that pro-trans people would find credible.
Let's ignore the gender expansive category for now.
18 / 3M = 0.14 0.6 homicides per 100k [math error fixed]
CDC reports 6.8 homicides per 100k Americans in the general population.
What are we even talking about?
Paradoxically, inflating the number of trans people may be useful for certain public policy goals, but it simultaneously dilutes the apparent epidemic of violence against them.
sarker
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5d ago
Have we wrapped around to "agency is doing as you're told"? Running and telling Father about the rebellion is worse than what Artembares' son did.
Those who were cruel to the young Cyrus were luckier if he forgot them. The son of Artembares, he displayed not agency but weakness. He chose the game to start, he chose Cyrus, then he hesitated, he lacked the courage to commit, he tried to change horses midstream and wound up all wet. Rather than abide by the rules that he and his peers had organized together, rather than live in the world conjured by their own collective will, he tried to run to his daddy and get bailed out. He’s lucky if he was simply forgotten when Cyrus was Great King.
Why? How great would Cyrus have been if he operated simply on lizard brain tit for tat?
When the Armenians rebel against their master the Medes, the Medes send Cyrus to pacify them. Cyrus wins, but the Prince of Armenia argues that Cyrus should spare the life of his father the king, because this will be so over-the-top unexpectedly nice that his father will be a more grateful and helpful vassal than anyone else Cyrus could put in his place. Cyrus agrees and the Armenians are loyal to him forever.
The difference between a great king and your common Crip is that the great king understands that there's more to life than getting even.
Not to mention that choosing to rebel is also a choice. Better to reign in hell, etc etc.
sarker
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10d ago
Would you rather that the smoke alarm silently run down its battery?
sarker
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11d ago
Seems easily fixable by having the windows open inwards.
sarker
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12d ago
It was, iirc, a single «pair».
sarker
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13d ago
Avi Loeb is somewhat famous for banging the ET drum for years at this point. No idea about this particular object though.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
14d ago
If the doors intersect:
- Open bathroom door
- Close bathroom door
- Open shower door
- Close shower door
- Shower
- Open shower door
- Close shower door
- Open bathroom door
- Close bathroom door
If they don't:
- Open bathroom door
- Close shower door
- Shower - no need to close bathroom door if nobody else is in the house
- Open shower door
- Close bathroom door - shower door can be left open for improved ventilation of the shower
It's that easy.
sarker
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14d ago
I've got a shower door that opens into the bathroom door and it really fucking sucks. Even when I'm alone I need to do way more operations to get in and out of the shower/bathroom.
sarker
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14d ago
punishing unliscensed practitioners is a key aspect of any regulatory regime involving licensing.
Of course, this is the opposite of the tweet you quoted. He's talking about the cost of the license functioning as a mechanism to keep the licensed in line. You, and the North Carolina board, are talking about the licensing guild functioning as a mechanism to keep the unlicensed in line.
sarker
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16d ago
It's easy enough to just multiply it out if you forgot the formula.
sarker
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19d ago
The telegraph link is paywalled.
Was the dossier primarily about the Trump interview? I'm seeing some mentions that it also discussed trans issues, but all the headlines are about the Trump interview. Example:
BBC boss and head of news quit after criticism of Trump documentary edit
sarker
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19d ago
What's infantile about "kid"?
"Puppy" and "dog" don't even mean the same thing. Feel free to attempt a revival of "whelp" though.
sarker
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21d ago
My examples, and the examples that stodgy prescriptivists mostly complain about, all involve a blurring of meanings, which in 99% of cases entails blurring of thought (both as cause and then again as consequence).
What is the blurring of meaning in a sign at the supermarket saying "10 items or less?"
it became possible to express MORE thoughts because the language became more specific.
What thoughts is it possible to express now that "corn" refers to a specific new world crop rather than to all grains that were impossible to express before?
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22d ago
The first two points? They're just how LLMs work. The third is utter nonsense.
The first point is not how any production LLM has been trained for years now. Post training is not next token prediction.
sarker
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22d ago
This might be your bubble.
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