BANNED USER: Persistent culture warring and petty antagonism
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
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User ID: 1266
Banned by: @Amadan
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I had no idea rail and air deregulation happened under Carter, not to mention home brewing. Thought that was later (and earlier, for brewing)
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Watched a few, it's fine (other than the way he says longyau every goddamn time). Guess it wasn't the sort of food I was interested in--they haven't done much lamb, although that one northern cumin one really helped me figure that method out.
On your original question, it sounds like you might have hyped it up a bit yourself on the hour and a half drive lol. I suffer a lot of that with curries--getting frustrated because it's good but not anything special.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I tried watching that channel for a while, and bounced pretty quickly for some reason. Not sure why: the methods are decent and the presentation is high quality.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Anyone who disagrees with those posts can reply with either evidence to the contrary or just their personal opinion. And unlike on reddit it will not lead to <deleted posts> and the mods locking the entire thread because "y'all can't behave. It's basic human decency. Do better"
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
That the mods are responsible for selectively enforcing the "no violence, waging, or even discussing the culture war" rules to bring /r/communism_memes users into the sub.
Quoting naraburns:
HarryPotter5777 does most of the modding (which is not much) but this appears to be more a small extension of their moderation of other communities.
It's the standard reddit power-jannie entryist story.
Most likely route is child protective services investigation for giving children dangerous and problematic books after your kid takes one to a show and tell. Like what would happen if they brought porn or Mein Kampf today.
If it sounds absurd, remember how CPS taking people's children for using the "wrong pronouns" was absurd last year, and now it's law.
Are you saying that's less likely than things that are already happening? Do you think all the rhetoric about "schools saving children from christo-fascist cults" is just talk? Parents having an old paper copy of Dr Seuss books is already passed around as a "red flag dog whistle" on the teaching and library subreddits
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
It's hard to keep track when figures are changing that fast. 69k passes any pre-2020 sanity check.
Thanks for promoting me to look it up: I'd had no idea heroin deaths were actually down and crack is coming back, since we only hear about opioids now.
the number of estimated US drug deaths rounds up at two significant figures to 69,000
In 2021 there were 107,000 drug overdose deaths in the united states https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
In 2020 it was 92,000. Your number of 69,000 is only a thousandish off of 2018's total of 70,630, so maybe it was an early estimate from then?
That's a 55% increase over your figure, and also a 52% increase in drug overdose deaths in only 5 years.
Edit: ah, maybe you were looking at just the fentanyl deaths, which by themselves were about 69,000 in 2020. They were up to 80,000 the next year.
Haha, it's been that way for ages. Last year there were people saying that there was no crime increase in 2020, the 30% increase was just random statistical noise and Scott was making it all up https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/vn40ma/what_caused_the_2020_homicide_spike/ie5ct2u/
And of course ranting about the fucking pigs deserved their bricks which somehow never triggered the new mods' culture war detectors.
It's been a long time coming, and was preventable at every step if the obvious subversives had been purged instead of being handed the keys. Don't make that mistake again.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
How is Z-lib compared to libgen? I've always used the latter, but their search is pretty bad and there's a lot of low quality dupes of everything.
Thing that would have seemed impossible and absurd even last year happens, people get temporarily upset, change nothing. Everyone gets used to it, desperately copes that "this is the high water mark," and goes on with their lives.
Then something even worse happens and the process starts all over again. This is how the last decade has gone. And this is how the next decade will go. And the one after that and the one after that.
I don't really see the point of even talking about it unless it's building actionable solutions.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I hadn't even heard of half of these. Isn't Prodigy a drum and bass band?
Is there just a lot of studio money pouring into star trek after the movies? I always thought Enterprise dying early killed off the TV shows
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Wait, the effect also supposedly happens to poor white children, but it's caused by racism but white children can't experience rac--
Are people just so well trained that their brains immediately crimestop the most obvious chain of thought here?
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I should have saved you guys openly saying that the light hand was there to encourage engagement until you thought you had enough of an audience to keep the place going. How else are people supposed to read that other than adding the obvious "then we can crack down and shape the contributors however we want"?
Alas, dissolving the people and electing another is not a realistic option here
The same day, there was a call from President Manuel Azaña to Companys, President of the Generalitat. During the conversation, it was cut by the operator, who said that the lines should be used for more important purposes than a mere talk between presidents.[12] For some time, Republican authorities had been suspecting that anarcho-syndicalists controlled all official telephone conversations...
The common reducto complaint about leftist censorship is "you wouldn't censor a phone call between two people just because you didn't like what they were saying!" The answer of course being "yes, just like last time they had the power to do it. Because letting your enemies talk is as dangerous as allowing them guns. The censorship and monitoring division of the phone department must be controlled by loyalists"
The fighting between stalinists and trotskyites continues to this day on the article's talk page, as expected from Wikipedia.
Do you know where to buy actual muesli or toasted oat-based cereal any more? All my local stores stopped carrying the last one they had, and now the only marginally edible cereals are that horrible raisin bran stuff packed with as much sweetener as kids' Sugar Puffs.
I guess it fell victim to the successive wave of fads against carbs and grains
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I still don't really understand why it's so popular. The ads look absolutely surreal and uncanny, like that moustached guy who looks like he just found out he can identify as a 12 year old witch for dorm assignment.
Are people just really nostalgic for having never gotten a real Harry Potter game?
Is gundam strictly anti-war? I'm not all that familiar with it, but the bits I caught looked like the traditional Japanese "war is the worst thing in the world except all the things that are worse... Like foreigners in your country" moral
Is there really no random stuff in there? Even aside from the obvious quality contribution reports, 70+% of the posts are totally unobjectionable
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I'd actually not remembered the 92-16 drop being that large, tbh. Guess it was crossing the magic 0 threshold to "whites more likely" that made the recent one larger in my memory.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
A 4 year drop almost as great as the one that previously took 24 years is an example of "going woke slowly, then all at once," yes.
As ancient as "please read literally any other book" seems now, some senior NYT people simply never got off the 2015 "Gryffindors for Hillary!" train. They overslept and missed the stop all the cool junior staffers got off at.
Lagging cultural updates seems a more likely explanation than this being some watershed cultural moment caused by a retvrn to fundamental principles of journalism.
(I'm sure someone's already written about this, but there's an essay in how much of fandom is now about tearing down the last popular thing and denouncing it as problematic to show how cutting edge you are. Weaponizing "eww, that was so six months ago" fashion-bullying was huge for the cultural revolution.)
Indian. (But I'd love to try thai, since the only restaurant within a hundred miles just microwaves all their stuff.)
Think I've got it though. I'd switched from a standard slow cook that was giving wonderful roasted-flavor to the faster and easier to batch-cook base gravy method, and it wasn't nearly as good for a while.
Finally figured out the point of layering spices so you get both fresh flavour and the slow-roasted taste. The one tonight was excellent, just blew my head off a bit too much. Last things I need are that smoky flavor and a few missing whole spices.
Every time I butcher an animal now all the bones go in the pressure cooker with some old onions and veg, to make either a base gravy or a stew base (do the indians not use bones except for one-pot bone-in stuff?). 2-3 shoulders get diced & pre-cooked immediately rather than wrapped, then put in freezer portions along with the gravy.
Makes it much easier to do big batch cooking without having way too much of one curry, and keeping it flexible for flavour and heat level.
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