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Forgotpassword
20d ago
Yeah I'm not particularly Holocaust passionate and definitely was aware of the lampshade thing.
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22d ago
If the alternative under my own stewardship is essentially complete societal collapse, I'd give it some thought. I know black South Africans/expats who preferred conditions under Apartheid. This stuff all presupposes that the natural state of human society is affluent middle-tier Western Democracy, not that it takes serious work and effort to establish and maintain such a thing.
Forgotpassword
26d ago
He did seem to have better days during the campaign. Obviously a question if that was an 'average day' and the better days were the 99th percentile ones, but also a presidential debate probably not the best place for a person in his situaation.
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30d ago
I can't speak for every Republican (I'm not even American, so my exposure to them is extremely limited), but my perspective is that even after conceding that it is better for a given person to not feel discomfort with their gender identity, I still think it's better to convince them to accept their discomfort, rather than for them to modify their body.
Yeah I broadly agree with this.
If a magical pill existed that instantly flipped somebody's gender in a full, non-reversible way I'd be not against an adult who's deeply convinced of their gender identity being incorrect for the body they're born with. Or if in our society all people wearing a blue hat were treated 100% as a woman, and red hat 100% as a man, and somebody wishing to change their hat. But right now it's a ton of surgery, expense and treatment to create something that's a distant facsimile of a man or a woman that doesn't seem to lead to meaningful improvement of the underlying psychological issues whilst creating a bunch of externalities
Forgotpassword
1mo ago
Or just facilitate some sort of remote work arrangement with occasional site visits for that much.
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1mo ago
I thought the Malaysia one was considered probably a suicide now?
Forgotpassword
1mo ago
Golden Visa in Australia is like 3.7M USD and gets quite a bit of interest. You're underrating how many cashed up people there are in the world who want an escape lever.
Forgotpassword
1mo ago
no 'exits' or huge bonusses with park job
That applies to a vanishingly small % of the private workforce, though.
Forgotpassword
1mo ago
Bisexuality/potential homoeroticism gigantically icks most heterosexual women when they sense it in men. Therefore even allowing a bit of potential overtures towards it is generally not a great idea socially.
Also permissible homosexuality creates this weird inverse bell curve matter with physical contact with fellow men in which most guys do not want to communicate any potential homoeroticism. Whilst societies in which homosexuality is just totally outside of the overton window permit a lot more physical affection between men, since there isn't the underlying. I've spent a bunch of time in the Middle East and homosexuality being literally illegal opens the door to a lot more 'queer behavior' between platonic male friends.
Great example of this is the Khabib Nurmagomedov bathtub photo that got bandied around a lot by Conor McGregor before their fight. https://preview.redd.it/g3d6ooc3ml4e1.jpeg?width=640&auto=webp&s=b966fe8b972399f327580b3f35bf60322079e68d
To Western eyes it's staggeringly homoerotic, to Dagestani eyes homosexuality is verboten so it's not 'sus'.
Forgotpassword
1mo ago
Also it'd be a matter of time till some sort of mild violence kicked off between locals and US administrators at which point the wailing would be immense.
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2mo ago
I had no particular knowledge of the case coming into the article, felt it was weird that it was a female/male duo perpetrating (especially when the article had the female party be very hands on with the violence and whatnot) then it dawned on me.
Forgotpassword
2mo ago
I feel like the 'solo queue' experience in a 5v5 game is almost perfectly calibrated to give the right ratio of controlling your own destiny and being able to blame your teammates in order to be addictive. If it's 1v1 and you suck, you suck and you get handled and you likely drop the game (Common issue for fighting games). If it's large team v team, it's hard to really get attached to the win/loss element since you're likely not capable of doing enough to single-handedly swing things.
Forgotpassword
2mo ago
Not sure where to raise this, but some of the deadnaming/gender recognition stuff is insane.
I was bingeing True Crime and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_murders pronouns/identities have been retroactively changed for a Murderer who post-crime decided to transition, which just feels weird to me
Forgotpassword
2mo ago
Even if hardware becomes significantly cheaper, I am not sure that it would become economically competitive at things like fruit-picking any time in the near future. It's just really cheap to hire a third world indentured servant to pick the fruit, rather than buying a robot. Now the Uber drivers and so on, sure. I feel bad for them and I hope that they are planning post-AI careers. Self-driving cars are still limited in some ways, and there is no way I would trust one to drive me 100 miles on the highway, but at least now they can usually roam a city effectively. But there are many jobs where it's hard for me to imagine AI becoming economically competitive against humans any time in the near future.
Ironically I'd probably trust an AI car more on the highway than in an urban area. Higher speed, but far less complexity and random variables compared to a Pedestrian & Obstacle rich area.
Forgotpassword
2mo ago
Also like 10,000 fairly durable easily stored items a lot easier to get around an embargo than millions of liters of oil
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2mo ago
Personally I'd rather take longer on the Train (assuming no random homeless enemy encounters) than driving for a commute at a reasonable ratio, since the former means I can use my various devices and don't have to deal with parking/the continued existence of my vehicle when returning home
Forgotpassword
2mo ago
And even if Jan 6th was successful in the sense that the protestors say... occupied the Capitol was it going to actually accomplish anything? It's not like there's a mystical control zone inside DC that enables full autocratic control if occupied by peasants of your affiliation
Forgotpassword
2mo ago
Do they specifically need the PHD? Like I don't know details but unless they're expecting the Lawyers to have done novel research into pharmaceuticals that feels like overkill to acquaint themselves with the industry.
Forgotpassword
2mo ago
Yeah but what's the cost of training them versus firing them and hiring fresh at market rate?
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2mo ago
True, but it doesn't really tap their welfare system and there's no longterm path to citizenship.
If the prevailing Western Democracies operated under similar principles of 'we will pay you well for your service but you cannot bring your sprawling extended family along and plonk them on pensions/medicare/welfare' the whole system would work better.
Forgotpassword
3mo ago
Yeah. I was raised in a family with pleasant pet dogs and I'm broadly pro-dog, but having been to parts of the world where dogs are either working animals or mangy strays I can understand why there's an aversion.
Forgotpassword
3mo ago
Honestly having run into some Persons of Public Transport who were cheerfully trying to get people to watch the youtube video or enjoy the music they were max-volume blasting I don't think they were even necessarily 'malicious'. Still doesn't stop it being annoying.
Forgotpassword
3mo ago
I like dogs but I perfectly understand why people would not like dogs, and therefore my dogs remain in classically dog-appropriate spaces. Also insane when people try to equivocate this issue with children/babies when one is a stage of development that literally everybody went through.
Forgotpassword
3mo ago
I think there's a difference between 'I am scandalizing the public by not wearing a hat' and 'here is a random non-human lifeform'. I grew up with dogs, I like dogs and yet the amount of random overstepping by dog owners I see these days is insane. You're injecting a potentially-dangerous animal into random situations, causing a hygiene issue and some people are allowed to just not like dogs. Plus any leeway given on this issue will just automatically trickle down into the yappiest and pitbullest of varietals.
And entering some of these fields feels like the equivalent of 'Feel like you disagree with the tenets of Islam? Become a Koranic scholar and argue with Muftis all day' in which the consensus and shared assumptions that fields like Gender Research are built on essentially originate from a series of value judgements than underpin all contemplation.
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