PropagandaOfTheDude
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PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Twitter's API has been throttling lately. Just keep hitting refresh periodically.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
and also I guessed by the end of the first Mistborn trilogy that the author was a Mormon without knowing anything about him
What prompted that?
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
It’s informative, relevant to the news du jour, written well and gratuitously sourced.
It's context for the complaints that I see sometimes about egregiously bad solicitations from Trump organizations.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
That is: adults were banned from taking vaccines until the FDA had satisfactorily hemmed and hawed over the trials
Entities were banned from testing people for COVID-19 while the CDC spent weeks coming up with and distributing their own, broken test mechanisms.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
What should I do if I got Janitor Duty but the post was "Deleted by author"?
Oops, found the conversation below.
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
Six years ago, Sarah A. Hoyt coined "roll hard left and die".
Years ago, watching science fiction magazines and newspapers of various sorts come and go, I identified a process I called “roll hard left and die.”
When a magazine or a newspaper or any news or entertainment media was in real trouble, they went hard, hard left, then died.
It took me a little while to realize this was a sane strategy. In a field completely controlled by the left, when you knew that your job was in peril be it through missmanagement or whatever, your last hope was to go incredibly hard left, so you could blame the failure on ideology. And instead of not being able to find a job, you found yourself lionized by all the “right” (left) “thinking people.” New jobs were assured.
In his December 15th newsletter, Josh Barro wrote the following about Elon Musk:
Some people are spinning out baroque theories of what the underlying business strategy is, but my strong feeling is that there isn’t one. I think what’s happened is that Musk has greatly overpaid for this company, he’s not running it in a way that’s likely to produce financial returns that come close to justifying the price he paid, and leaning into the idea that he is serving a great social mission (vanquishing the proprietors of the “woke mind virus” who were trying to destroy our society) helps him feel better about the unpleasant business position he’s gotten himself into.
If you’re going to lose money, it’s best to feel like you’re losing it for a cause [...]
The difference here is that I can't see Musk's root motivation as "not being able to find a job" when all is said and done.
And if that's the case, it makes me reconsider how much of "roll hard left and die" really does boil down to Hoyt's lifeboat theory, and how much is "losing money for a cause".
PropagandaOfTheDude
1yr ago
For the leg workout: split squat, or split squat, or split squat.
How are deadlifts on your back?
PropagandaOfTheDude
2yr ago
Dysphoria is not the issue; gender is. Remove gender entirely from the equation, then there is nothing for dysphoria to latch on to.
What would you remove from the equations for weight and muscle dysphorias?
PropagandaOfTheDude
2yr ago
For the LacklustreFriend link for September 12... This is the posted link:
https://www.themotte.org/comment/4770?context=3&sort=best#context
It renders the destination page, but at the top of the page, with no highlighting of the specific AAQC post. This is what the relevant AAQC post's "Context" link links to:
https://www.themotte.org/post/56/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/4770?context=8#context
The link takes me to a page where the relevant post is in the window and highlighted in blue. All of the AAQC links here seem to use the first format.
PropagandaOfTheDude
2yr ago
What's the occult significance of the hedgehog?
PropagandaOfTheDude
2yr ago
So the current tour has stuff like "Velvet Elvis" and "Dog Eat Dog"?
I noticed years ago that a lot of his non-parody songs ended up as "random stream of conciousness" lyrics. It felt like the constraints of parody forced him to work harder, with better results.
Back in the Old Country, in AskSocialScience, there was a recent question asking about the "growing number of POC nazis and white supremacists", and I have to assume that for the poster this is isomorphic to the question of "why are Latinos voting for Republican candidates?"
PropagandaOfTheDude
2yr ago
dogwhistling username reference to Known Bigot Orson Scott Card
What's the reference?
PropagandaOfTheDude
2yr ago
It's sort of like the Wii's "Go Vacation"?
PropagandaOfTheDude
2yr ago
Just no pixel-by-pixel scrolling banners, please. Some sub-reddits have them, and they chew up CPU.
One example that I recall was that the classical liberal "You don't like gay marriage? Don't get gay married!" has turned into punitive attacks on cake decorators.
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