SteveKirk
1hr ago
Washington State literally passed this fucking law last year, stop lying to our faces that it's not happening (and also it's good)
SteveKirk
10hr ago
we had a professor banned from teaching first-year mandatory courses because he donated to the Republican party in 2012,
Do you have a link for this? I want to use it next time the "there's no discrimination, conservatives are just too stupid for academia" card gets played.
Always check the sub overlap thing, whatever it's called (and if it still works with the API restrictions). Neoliberal users are basically just the political wing of /r/traaaaaansIRL_egg-crackers.
Focus on winning the election, focus on telling people what they want to hear and hide behind the carpet all of the progressive electoral poison pills. After you’re in power, you can go back to those points.
If there isn't a name for this there needs to be. The sneering condescension and treating voters as pawns to be manipulated, and expecting them to never figure it out no matter how many times you lie to them, as if they're video game NPCs who can't see you stealing if you stick a bucket on their heads.
And hey, to my discredit I thought it was working for them again right up until 2am on election night.
Dont you mean the "alleged Waukesha holiday parade incident caused by an SUV"?
The headlines for that were beyond parody. I wonder if all the arguments are still on the wiki talk page, or stuck in an archive. There was a level of shamelessness in the propaganda reached in 2020-2022 that seems almost unreal now, like a fever dream.
Chesa Boudin didn't have a machine of his own and they gave him an entire department at UC Berkeley after his disastrous recall loss. A department specifically made for creating propaganda for his policies that the voters rejected.
There's a larger machine at work, much greater than the petty personal ones individual politicians can build. There's a chance she gets nothing, but I expect they'll at least give her a nonprofit doing $10000/plate "rich women's issues" dinners. That was her key demo, and they need to send the signal that they take care of their own.
Yes, I honestly can't blame them given how hard we've leaned into menacing banjo music intensifies to goad this exact sort of ovaryaction, see "your face, my mace" etc.
I know, but I've spent the last decade joining in on the "hey ATF, my dog shoots first" thing, and I really hate the "lol you're crazy for hallucinating all those things I said" gaslighting tactic.
Even if they're immoral for doing it, I'm not going to mock someone for taking things I said in jest (steely unironic intent) seriously.
Water is a universal solvent, it's normal to have all sorts of shit dissolved in it, depending what rocks are in the aquifer. Mine has so much iron you can pick up the used sand filter with a magnet.
Iirc it wasn't a big deal in the old days before effective pumps, because people mostly lived off surface water of various kinds (where it has little contact with the bedrock and the worst you can get is, uh, cholera). But even natural spring water can be full of sulphur, lead, copper, mercury, arsenic, radium, oil, methane, etc.
SteveKirk
6d ago
we already do engage in a fair bit of "affirmative action" moderating.
Wasn't this strenuously denied for years and claims of it were met with accusations of being paranoid conspiracy theorists?
who wrote in the government system messages such as: “Trump sign no entry per leadership.”
What a brilliant way to make a paper trail that's less deniable than whistleblowing that would be dismissed as "claims without evidence." If your boss doesn't overrule you, he's nailed himself she/her has nailed herself.
To be fair though I wouldn't want to be knocking at Trump houses in a Florida swamp going "Hi, this is FEMA. Before you ask, yes these are level 4 plates, but I'm out of spares so please don't aim for the cracked bits"
SteveKirk
6d ago
Yeah in retrospect it actually doesn't seem great vs "literally just brush your teeth", but at least it was better for getting a measured dose.
I just like sprites more than 3d models, maybe that's weird. Plus it means my next PC build can be a 9800x3d with the same GTX 970 I've had for 6 years.
SteveKirk
6d ago
Jesus, glad you got lucky. Is your bathroom fan on a timer that runs for hours a day? That was code for my place, but disabled it right away.
Having a washer and dryer in the house rather than a shed sounds like a lot of trouble. I'd never even thought about dealing with lint in an interior.
I wouldn't think so, because in the absolute worst case it shows the feds' old 1.5 limit was dangerously close to or exceeding the harmful-effects level, and ideally it should have all been filtered if possible. Give people the optimal topical dose through toothpaste.
(One reason I'm skeptical of any harm at <=1.5 doses is that the initial introduction of fluoridation should have had a pretty big and rapid -IQ signal, but... Could it have been drowned out by the fynn effect, which was peaking around the same time?)
Factorio is single monitor and so easy on the GPU you could multi-task it with the imaginary girls until pretty far in the late game, I'd have thought.
As late as the 70s it probably would have been a few 10s of thousands, although that's with the benefit of hindsight knowing which obscure academics to target. Now... Being realistic it would spiral out of control unless you were very lucky or had enough top-down organization (which would make violence redundant in the first place, and is obviously what the NRX crew is aiming for. Good luck to them.)
Like Hannah Arendt said about nuclear war, it can only be a rational response against a future worse than human extinction.
(and @jeroboam) I was using it in the general sense of "uncorrected for demographics because everyone knows you're only supposed to use proxies". It's not specifically blacks because the studies come from all over the world. Rural/urban demographics in every country are a unique complicated mess to untangle and don't respond well to a simple "correcting for income." The kitchen-sink "self-sufficiency index" in that one paper is a good example.
The exciting parts of these studies were the natural experiments with existing ppm differences with (ideally) no correlation to demographics. Unless Sweden banished all retards to the Speckle-Tooth Mountains sometime in the 1700s.
I think he started walking it back with "correction: I do not want wrong left wing ideas such as 'Yglesias should be fired from Vox' to gain pow--wait no!"
Bad model I'd argue, ignores agency of public officials.
Consider parallel: "terrorist attacks are random and happen at a certain rate. If a huge terrorist attack happens and the state seizes enormous powers, then starts warning about another looming terrorist attack right as they attempt to justify invading another country/win re-election, the dice roll probably just came up 20 again by coincidence."
Pandemics are now "in the tool kit" the same way the "terrorism alert level" warnings at every bus station were in 2003. And deliberate release/false-flags aside, "are we in a pandemic/at risk of terrorist attack" is itself a political decision: see the difference between choosing "we must fight monkeypox stigma and not let it change our behavior" vs "we must close the bathhouses for two weeks (forever) to slow the spread"
Afraid I don't remember the specifics (last looked at the evidence years ago, in the spirit of "honest reassessment of all widely-mocked right wing conspiracy theories"), but iirc there were Sailer Confounders on the IQ loss, and I wasn't convinced.
But yeah, I think putting literally any medication in the water supply is foolish. We try not to do it with livestock these days because you have no idea what dosage is actually being given. The same people who don't brush their teeth are likely to drink nothing but cola rather than tap water. And if you up the concentration to dose those people, you will absolutely give Water-Chugging Georg skeletal fluorisis.
When I was little kids got bottles of fluoride tablets from the county health department, which seems like a better option.
I don't remember ransomware hitting a power plant specifically, but didn't an east coast gas pipeline network get shut down by one? It's definitely not inconceivable if scammers are willing to paint a big enough target on themselves, or aren't quite aware of what fish they've got on the hook (because they hit the off-site power-sales and distribution office, not the computers for the actual control rods or something)
If you read Foucault and his descendants, all "scientific knowledge" is socially constructed. Think of Power as an OSI layer between "reality" and "our understanding of reality", with the actual existence of immutable reality left deliberately ambiguous.
It's not that some things are "socially constructed" and others are "real", even if it's used that way tactically ("Science Is Real! No, your science is a socially constructed artifact of the cisheteropatriarchy"). It's that all our methods of understanding go through a filter of social power/biopower/whatever.
It's a very clever definitional superweapon.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXd0TunXoAASp0t?format=jpg one of his more famous quotes, but I forgot he said "wrong" instead of bad. It was a delightful preview of 2020.
Well, this entire red-hot and starting to backfire economy is propped up by the laptop class looting federal money to subsidize their lifestyle spending. There's nothing else propping up demand, so if Trump kicks the chair out I suspect we're in for a crash just in time for 2028.
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