alexandertheokay
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alexandertheokay
1yr ago
How do I figure out the email address attached to my account? I forgot which email address I used when I signed up.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
I also give up my seat for elderly men, so ending that phrase with women would have been incorrect.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
I give up my seat for elderly, weak, and pregnant people, but not women.
There are lots of reasons why, but the biggest reason is I want to be the kind of person that I like.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
I'm neither pro nor anti-HOA. I just want people to have their pick.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
Its very easy to find neighborhoods thay are 100% HOA controlled. If you look at a mixed development, its easy to buy a house with no line of sight to non-HOA property.
The people I sympathize with are the ones trying to find a home that isn't HOA controlled. That is very difficult if you live in a part of the country near major job centers.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
That's not a problem. The neighbor can just ignore his whining.
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
What's the problem here?
alexandertheokay
1yr ago
The problem with communal property is it is usially poorly maintained and policed by hall monitor personalities.
I like my yard. I keep it the way I want it. My neighbors do their own thing with their yard. It is different and highly personalized.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
The format of media influences its form.
Books encourage 200+ pages of material with a common theme. That is the ideal format for deep exploration of an idea.
Blogs, articles, etc are optimized for their ability to draw in drive-by readers. At best they don't reward depth, at worst they punish it.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
PayPal has "demonetized" the daily sceptic, both the business's account and the founders personal accounts he uses to receive money for his other work.
Another point for red tribe needs its own payment processors (and banks, and infrastructure, and DNS servers, and domain registration...)
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/21/paypal-demonetises-the-daily-sceptic/
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
I don't think it actually matters if it's a good movie or not. What matters is how effective the marketing team is and whether the material is acceptable in multiple major consumer markets.
It's clear that this movie has the favor of every major media outlet and social media site, so it will get "the shine" for a few months at least.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
I'm continuing to read one chapter of deathworlders every evening. I feel like it is worthy of more discussion, but when I try to find depth I come up empty. I'm starting to think it's just a fun power fantasy.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
I agree with the conservatives, but here are some attempts to steelman:
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Martha's Vineyard is obviously not equipped to handle any number of migrants. If Florida can't take them, they should have sent them to an urban center that could.
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Florida has a duty to handle it's own migrants, and Martha's Vineyard has a duty to handle it's own migrants, the cause of the disparity doesn't matter, and dumping your problems on other people is wrong.
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Migrants can be accepted anywhere, and shipping them around as a political stunt is dehumanizing.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
I don't think breeding and genetics are the future of human intelligence.
Bioengineering and AI will be the future of human intelligence, and the breeding idiots will be unable to comprehend the transition.
So... don't worry about it 😁
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
I don't have any strong feelings about native american tribes until they ask for more than they've been given.
Yeah, they got the short end of the stick, but there is no limit to the number of things they could make credible claims for.
At some point its time to write off the losses and move on, which they have no incentive to do, but damn I have no sympathy left. It's as absurd as Poland's recent request for renumeration from WWII. This stuff is history.
Big exception: If a person was discriminated against, or of their parents were discriminated against while they were children, I'm okay with one time cash compensation for that event.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
One of my in-laws is an amateur elite athlete who ran long distances before Covid. She complains of multi-day periods of physical exhaustion that she attributes to long covid. I won't comment on her mental health other than it seems fine and we aren't close.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
There is no way to report direct messages.
Also is it allowed to have a particularly inflammatory username like "BURN_NIGGERS_RAPE_NIGGERS"? Got a weird DM from him.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
Lemon Demon - The Ultimate Showdown
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
I think we found a few 😅
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
Its an old fashioned prisoner's dilemma.
If all states enforce a ban on illegal migrant labor, labor costs and employment rates go up, which benefits the working class electorate.
If any states continue to allow illegal migrant labor, they get to produce agricultural products so cheaply that the farmers in the other states might as well close up shop.
The solution, as usual, is to have a mob boss in the form of the federal government intervene. But why do that when you can get all the benefits of appearing to be against illegal labor while secretly allowing the farm lobby to keep their illegal labor?
That's my theory anyway.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
I have a nit to pick:
Blue tribe needs outgroups. If they wiped out red tribe they would turn inward to continue the conflict.
One of liberalism's great strengths is its relative comfort with endless conflict. The meme of tolerance and metaphorical warfare through the voting system allows that conflict to continue endlessly while allowing the conflicting factions to form a united front against outside threats.
Other systems built around ideological purity require an honest attempt to actually destroy the enemy, and when this is successful a new enemy needs to be found or created.
I think unending conflict may simply be human nature, and stability is learning to manage that conflict in a productive manner.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
To pile on: the sin here is deceiving the people being moved. If DeSantis' agents had said "we want to send you to an upscale New York neighborhood as a political stunt, there is probably good work up there" I wouldn't object.
Personally I love the idea of shipping illegal immigrants to blue tribe strongholds, but it has to be done ethically.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
While I generally agree with the viewpoint that "Fox is an unreliable and untrustworthy source of information," I think any organization that does not reach the same conclusion about CNN or MSNBC is showing an strong selection bias.
alexandertheokay
2yr ago
Heat is a general pattern of provoking people. It tries to inflame people so they instinctively fall into old patterns or arrange themselves along tribal lines. It is invariably, deeply emotional.
Decisions and behavior driven by emotions are inherently irrational. There may be a rational argument to support the decision or behavior, but that is an after-the-fact rationalization.
Reason is cold because emotion is hot. They are opposite ends of a spectrum, and that carries through into the culturally accepted metaphor.
That worked, thanks!
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