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
the budget request gears much of that funding toward “effectively managing irregular migration along the Southwest border”
Someone deserves an award for coining "irregular migration." It can be effortlessly slipped in as a synonym for "illegal immigration" while completely inverting the meaning and intent. Word games really are power's best servant.
There's very little evidence that could be more convincing than what we got in the 90s at the last peak of wokism, with Clinton's soulja moment and everyone renouncing the extremists.
And look where that got us in the long run. Every retreat is tactical to prepare for a new attack, every denunciation is just cover for "don't talk about it, but then do while in office,"
You can call out the peak of the wave, but it will only be a local maximum. I won't believe there's no new wave coming until I can see nothing but flat, frozen ocean to the horizon in every direction.
Safety of food left sitting out after cooking doesn't depend on anything the farmer did, it's all local bacteria growth.
A lot of American buffet and deli food sits at basically room temperature all day, and while I don't eat it, if people were getting sick you'd expect a lot more lawsuits. I guess the real question is do you trust that it's only been sitting out today, rather than every day this week?
Rice sitting even covered in a fridge for a few days can end up with red and blue mold, or other lovely things. It's amazing how quickly it goes off.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Channeling moldbug, people won't see the bank as uncool without a concerted effort to smear it as uncool, which people mistake for an organic uncoolness factor after decades of "activism."
Similar to people expecting a wave of youth reaction because "teens naturally rebel against authority," when in reality the media and education industries can and have just flipped the switch from "rebellion is cool" to "total conformity is cool."
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Oh hired, duh, and asking for cashable checks vs using direct deposit. I need a finishing school for retards.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
get a bank account before getting hired, since "just cut me a check" signals low class.
Wait, is that backwards?
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I've stalked people since the reddit site and remember the arguments they used to make. There were plenty of people making those arguments "here" in 2021, and there needs to be some process to address old arguments without allowing a temporal motte and bailey.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Jesus, are those stickbuilt things really up to 12 storeys now? We're going to have a lot of deaths when one of those burns. Or are they only 6-7 wood above concrete?
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Didn't ZeroHP Lovecraft have a story about that? Or was it one of the others in his crowd? "We're really hoping to promote you, but we have to promote a woman. Do you understand?"
This just seems like the argument that "there is no such thing as unbiased reporting, so you can't criticize blatant truth-hostile activism from modern journalists", but applied to biasing AI.
The AI said one set of things before it was biased. Then a cadre of San Francisco radicals pushed bias-increasing buttons until it was biased to never say anything that tiny group of people ever disagreed with, and now it says only that set of things in a blatantly stilted way, ridden with sloppy manual overrides. Do you really believe there is no difference between those states?
All those figures about wood are for burning one body at a time for traditional funeral practices, which is very inefficient. From a few large animals I had to cremate rather than bury, it seems like you can burn quite a few for the price of one, but who knows how far that scales?
Edit: the incinerations during the UK foot and mouth outbreak are probably our best guide here. You'll never believe how many animals were burned--it's a little on the snout. It's possible they were using literal tons of diesel, but it's at least something to research.
I've always been on the lookout for decent mass cremation info, but never came across anything useful--even India during Covid never did "mass cremation" as in "multiple bodies per pyre." Doing it in open air rather than in a regenerative furnace is going to significantly increase the amount of wood needed--"some brush and petrol" sets off all my bullshit detectors.
I do think the "cooking people in their own fat" thing is patently ridiculous. If nothing else very low temperature cremation would leave enormous quantities of unburned bone to rebury, rather defeating the point of the whole operation. (But hey, it's something we could dig for!)
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Really? It looked pretty bad to me. Maybe everyone just gets used to every new bullshit thing that happens, and the previous bullshit doesn't look as bad by comparison.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
If voting power is going to be weighted by voting the way the mods want, why not just make it so only the mods can vote? It's the same thing with fewer steps.
I was always struck by the very sympathetic racial criticism from the narrator when Bilbo was caught by the trolls. Let me see if I can find it.
Edit: it was from chapter 12 and only referenced the troll incident
"The most that can be said for the dwarves is this: they intended to pay Bilbo really handsomely for his services; they had brought him to do a nasty job for them, and they did not mind the poor little fellow doing it if he would; but they would all have done their best to get him out of trouble, if he got into it, as they did in the case of the trolls at the beginning of their adventures before they had any particular reasons for being grateful to him. There it is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don’t expect too much.”
It's a little more backhanded than I remember lol
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
a socio-political milieu that tends to downplay the issues and concerns of African Americans and at worst actively rejects their legitimacy
I'm trying to figure out what decade this could last be said about the US, where those issues and concerns have been aggressively "centered" in all media, every educational institution, and all government policies for decades.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Had to think for a minute, was FTB the ironically named "free thought blogs(?)" site? Ashamed I recognized all the other acronyms...
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I don't know why someone would lie on an anonymous survey. Really strange.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Joining AP Human Geography in the joke "padding out your 5 scores" category.
(critical theory) that in fact is rarely taught below the graduate level...
To succeed on the pilot AP African American Studies test, students will have to understand the concept of intersectionality, a way of looking at discrimination through overlapping racial and gender identities, and know that while it was written about by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw—a leading thinker on critical race theory
Those absolute scumfuck liars. What else can you possibly say about the CRT gaslighting campaign at this point?
the history of the reparations movement and Black Lives Matter activism
Oh boy, I wonder what the "research" on those will be about.
in-depth lessons on the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast and medical programs, often seen as taboo topics to cover in class because critics historically smeared the group as violent and communist.
Of fucking course.
And just quoting them is banworthy, apparently. Looks like I was on the list.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
A childhood friend's family freezer had packages of beef labeled by name, which they always thought was hilarious. (I usually stick with date, with tag# in the log if I need to look it up.)
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Remember, sometimes when they want to finish a hit piece with "X did not reply to requests for comments at press time", they literally just called the person's office outside of business hours 5 minutes before releasing the article, making the claim technically true. There's been some drama on twitter about this, with journos coming down on the side of "you can't call it a lie!"
To be fair, every one of the scammers who targets my elderly dad is either indian or mexican, so it wouldn't swing the balance that far back. Whenever they call while I'm over I get to learn some fantastic retro racial slurs from the 60s.
But, like, how many people scammed out of a hundred bucks is worth one 7-11 clerk executed in cold blood even after giving up the cash, or being lit on fire with gasoline or having bleach poured down her throat?
A lot of the anger at the media for not covering this stuff isn't the scale so much as the sheer hideous and callous evil of it, which they ignore to chase made up stories about white frat bros lighting a chick's hijab on fire.
The financial crimes equivalent would be the whole media totally ignoring Bernie Madoff in favor of writing a thousand pieces about some white bartender who was rumored to have under-reported his tips to the IRS, which I think people would get equally upset about.
It'll take me a while to come up with a full response, but it starts with wildly gesturing at the "latest news about fusion power" being almost as misleading as their race and sex coverage.
I've seen plainly wrong information from associated press reports copy-pasted hundreds of times across different media outlets that just rearranged the sentences and added some fluff. Google "first with 25 mm shells, then a few hours later with ammunition twice that size" for a basic, non-culture-war example of copy-pasted bullshit repeated by every trusted news source. (Some intern at the AP got "50 caliber" mixed up with "50mm." I only remember because I went "wait, the coast guard have 2" guns now?", searched, and found every article serving the same pasta.)
That kind of thing happens all the time, but it only really gets noticed or called out when it's something Conservatives Pounce on: race, sex, gays, guns, etc. For things like biology, history, or climatology almost nobody notices except a few depressed scientists (and surely Hanania should have added guns and "the climate crisis" to the insanity topics list!)
Thanks for all the info, looks like I've got a bunch of reading to do.
You switched from square to cubic meters halfway through there, but 2ha= 20000m^2, x15 gives us 300k, so the pit would have to be two and a third time's as deep as those in the UK. Seems within reason.
If there are chunks of bone just laying around, why is nobody digging these sites? We can reconstruct the details of massacres from ten thousand years ago, why is nobody trying to do the same here while evidence is still easy to gather?
The idea that it would be "disrespectful" is ridiculous if there are body parts laying on the surface unburied. Surely someone should be willing to fix that, right?
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